You Capture: Little Cute Babies

This week's You Capture is pretty easy for me, since we have a little, cute baby right in our house. :-)

Here's our little roly poly 8 week old baby boy. He's so alert now!


Nom, nom, tasty fingers!


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You Capture: technology

Not much creativity here, this is all I got! You can find more You Capture here.

You Capture: the letter L

Here are my captures of the letter L, and you can find more here.

Leaves in the kids' gravel box.


Legos, of course! These are Buttercup's. (Incidentally, I used the incandescent setting on the camera and the colors came out much better.)


Large belly.

You Capture: warmth

Doesn't she look warm and cozy? You can find more You Capture here.

You Capture: cold

Last week we got a little bit of snow. We probably won't get any more until next year, which is kind of sad (snow is so pretty and fun to play with!), but actually not so sad (it makes driving tricky! and it's COLD!). The kids sure like it though. :-)

You Capture: Red

This week's You Capture assignment is Red. We have a lot of red things at our house, but our swirly energy efficient light bulbs made all of my red objects come out orange-ish red in the pictures. Any idea how to fix that??

Here is the best of the orange-red pictures:


And here's the best one that I took outside:

You Capture: everyday things

Here are my favorite pictures of everyday things for this week's You Capture.

Afternoon coffee in my favorite mug:



















Oliver's beat up, worn, "dirty job" shoes:















The toad that made a temporary home in Oliver's beat up, worn, "dirty job" shoes:














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You Capture: Summer

This week's You Capture theme: SUMMER! Yay! Ahh, I love summertime. I love the sun, swimming, playing outside with the hose, etc. I even like getting sweaty and dirty. (I guess it's no wonder that my kids know how to have a good time outside!) :-)

Here are some of my favorite pictures from our summery adventures this week.

Playing in the creek:




























Pretty toes + flip flops (thanks, Mom!):














Buttercup figuring out how to spray water with the hose:














Oliver decorating the driveway with chalk and sidewalk paint:














A field in a neighboring town:














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You Capture: Play

This week's You Capture assignment is: Play.

Both kids have been sick this week, so we've been laying low, but here are a couple of pictures of them playing in the rocks the other day.

You Capture: Black and white

This week's You Capture assignment: black and white photos. We went to a different creek earlier this week and that's where I took these pictures.

Oliver carefully carrying the fish that his aunt caught for him!










































This is Buttercup's "Oh no, you did NOT!" face. Ha ha!

You Capture: America

This week's You Capture assignment is: America. At first I was planning to take photos of watermelon, farms, McDonald's (ha!), or things that symbolized how I feel about my country, but I ended up taking this one picture the other morning while my hubby cut grass.

I think this one sums it up best. My happy 3 year old boy (who just happened to be wearing his flag shirt!), hanging out in a tree on a sunny summer morning. Perfect! :-)

You Capture: Green

For this week's You Capture assignment, we got to choose between photographing 1) chairs, 2) hands, or 3) green.

I had a really tough time with this assignment! I couldn't decide on what I wanted to do, and my camera wasn't cooperating (thanks to me tampering with it, oops!), but by chance I ended up with 3 "green" pictures.

Here's Oliver, wearing shorts in his favorite color (green!), playing on a playscape.














I really like this picture. I'm not sure how the crepe myrtles in front ended up fuzzy while the background is in focus, but I like it!














And this picture didn't come out too well because I was too far away, but I like it anyway! It's not too often that I get to take a (sort of) closeup picture of a baby deer. :-)

You Capture: Get down low

This week's You Capture assignment: get down low.

I'm trying to use different features on my digital camera, and, while the pictures didn't come out quite the way I hoped, I had fun experimenting and hope to get better with time! Here's what I captured during our adventures this week:

Tadpoles in the creek.














A tadpole that my sweet son caught to show his baby sister.














A big John Deere tractor.














A tall tree.


















My beautiful baby girl, playing in the pool.