I'm getting married {again}

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I'm getting married again to the same guy! Were thinking of renewing our vows on our 10th year anniversary (next summer). This time I plan on having more than one bite of my wedding cake, taking our time with pictures, having an outdoor ceremony in a vineyard with a backyard reception, and dancing the night away with children included! Sounds dreamy, right? Let the planning begin! I was inspired by this post and here's my renewing vows board on pinterest. 

"I am my beloved and He is mine" 

Song of Solomon 6:3

Two teeth & cruising {7 months}

I failed to get a picture of the two teeth on the bottom, but honestly its a miracle any of these were captured. He is fast and on the move. In pure desperation I resorted to tantalizing him with the sock monkey to look at the camera. Yep, sock monkey works every time.

Favorites Friday: chirping birds

The birds were seriously singing yesterday morning, I felt like I was in a cartoon, a really good one! Let me tell you how big of a skip in my step those birds gave me. It was a huge skip and will add a click of the heels jump too because its the weekend.

 Its take two for the photoshoot that didn't happen last weekend because of a stomach flu I didn't see coming! Add some well needed family time and I've got myself a perfect weekend. Hope yours is too!

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Baby food jars never looked so pretty

My favorite pasta

What a door

Have a lovely one!

I'm the worst at dressing little boys

We are attending my cousin's Spring wedding and you should have seen me scramble trying to figure out how to dress my boys. I'm seriously not good at it at all, of course all the antics that go with trying to dress my five yr old in things other than t shirts don't help. Thank God for stores like children's place that give you outfit ideas, what a relief!

My secret anecdote to winter blues {guesting at Rose 'alamode}

Head over to the sweet, inspirational and fashionable Linda's blog, Rose 'alamode where you'll find some colorful replies to winter blues!

Lent experiment

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I've never felt more ready to embrace the Lent season, which may sound odd but simply I'm looking forward to a time of intentionality. Frequently I feel swept by emotions and whims which typically leads to rash decisons particularly in areas of shopping and managing time! Hopefully by halting any shopping and focusing my time it will be a fruitful period of growth and faith renewal.

I plan on partaking in this 7:14 experiement challenge too, check it out.

A dewy morning {photo tip about aperture}

I thought the japanese maple tree in our yard was particularly stunning one morning with all its drippy dew! So I snapped a few pictures with the 35mm prime (fixed lens) and played with the aperture setting (dial A on your DSLR camera). When you turn it to lower numbers, your letting more light in and creating more blur which gives the drama to a picture. Here's my examples:

iso 100,  f/1.8, 1/400

iso 100, f/2.5, 1/400

iso 100, f/3.2, 1/320

The f is the aperture setting and the fraction number is the shutter speed. As you can see the greater the aperture number goes the darker the picture becomes and the less blur in the background you achieve. The aperture number is the number I moved higher in each picture and I typically move the shutter speed lower if I raise the aperture because when you make the aperture number greater the picture gets darker so by moving the shutter speed down I let more light in through that setting. This is how you control your camera when shooting in manual. Its alot of give and take! You can give this a try just by moving your dial to the A setting on your camera and will see how you get more blur and how the image gets lighter! Have fun.