Still here!

But there's been a development:)  Our little man arrived 2/23 and we're just getting home and getting settled.

Your regular 365 blogging will resume shortly and I promise I've been taking lots of pics and have great things to share:)

i ♥ faces - week 8 - "Hands On" Fun

This week's challenge has to do with hands and is one of the few weeks that we can go without faces in our photos.

I had one hand photo that I have to share because it has a very touching story behind it.  A number of ladies on a photography board that I frequent wanted to do something special for Anissa Mayhew.  Anissa is a mom that suffered a fairly catastrophic stroke (two actually) and has a very long road to recovery.  Her amazing husband has been asking for help and the ladies of the photography board thought that we'd give her a hand - literally!

52 women joined in and took pictures of hands with words of encouragement on them.  This pic is my hand - self shot.

You can see the whole montage here if you like: http://davidandtracie.com/2010/01/04/the-give-anissa-a-hand-project/

You can also read more about Anissa and her family at  http://www.hope4peyton.org/

See the other hand photos at  i ♥ faces (you may even see more Anissa hands!)

Project 365: Days 45 - 50

Wow! Time is flying - I can't believe 4 days have passed since I posted the last set if pics....lots of fun things have happened...:)

Feb 12: Yea, time flew by so quickly that I totally forgot to take a pic today! We had company over for the weekend and they all arrived today so no pic.

Feb 13:  Pics from the impromptu shower.  Aunt Lee made little lolly pops with baby washcloths and bibs...too cute!

Feb 14:  There was a swarm of front loaders, tractors, and bob cats in our neighborhood working to make our roads wider than just one lane.  I'm so happy they showed but I'm sure there are some neighbors that are peeved that their freshly shoveled walks covered in large blocks of snow!

Feb 15:  My brother showed up today to start the mural for our son's room!  You can't see the walls but he'd penciled in the blocking for the mural.  The paints are ready for him to get started in the AM.

Feb 16:  The artist at work!  He spent hours - HOURS - working on that wall!  I can't believe how much time he's put into it.  We sent him home exhausted:(

Feb 17:  Lots of progress.  Poor J was burnt out and needed to get back to work so he'll have to come back to finish the last of the details (detailing the trees, putting in the grasses, drawing my owl just to name a few).  I'm sure he'll shoot me for posting this before it's done but I'm just so proud of it.  He put the Matterhorn in there for us!!!:)

Snowpocalypse 2010...

That's what they're calling the latest round of weather here in the DC area....record levels of snow according to the news lady!  We've been taking lots of pics the whole storm and I tried to pick a few of the best to share....

 

 

Project 365: Days 40 - 44

Feb 8:  I wanted to take a pic of our kitchen reno to show other folks and it happened to be the only shot I took that day so it will have to do!

Feb 9:  Again, was taking a pic for a friend of mine of the mobile that I made for our little mans room.  I know it has lots of kid unsafe things on it so it will hang far away from his reach, but it's still pretty:)

Feb 10:  People pay good money to spray this on their windows at holiday time to make things look more festive - 40 odd inches of snow and 40 mph winds and it was free!

Feb 11: Another product of the lovely winter weather we've been having around here.  I know I've posted icicles before but they've multiplied!!

i ♥ faces week 6 - "We ♥ kisses"

The theme this weeks i ♥ faces challenge, in preparation for Valentines Day, is "We ♥ Kisses".  I had three images pulled for this and it took me forever to decide on one.  I'm going with this one because it's more your traditional "kisses" expectation.

This is K and E, Mark's cousins at their wedding last summer.  K was the most beautiful bride and E's a lucky man having caught such a lovely lady!

See more kissing over at i ♥ faces!

Project 365: Days 35 - 39

So, there's a theme to the last few days worth of photos - Blizzard 2010!  

Feb 4: We'll start with the weather forecast...

Feb 5:  To the first night of snow - taken past midnight so technically this is on the 6th but I'll count it as the 5th since I hadn't gone to bed yet.

Feb 6:  The evening of the 6th as the storm broke - 34" later

Feb 7:  And Sunday, a play day for the dog!  We found a new game for Macie - search and rescue the tennis ball.  We'd toss the ball and she'd dig until she came up with it

Project 365: Days 30 - 34

Jan 30:  Kinda of ashamed of this pic.  I was half assing it just to get the pic in for the day.  It was cold and snowy outside and I really really didn't want to go out so I shot this from my front porch.  Say hello to my Autoluken Laurel which has been heavily post processed because the original was crap!

The only good thing about the image is our new watermark in the bottom right...how cool is that!?

Jan 31:  Macie decided to help with some of the tile laying.  Check out her right eye area.  She must have brushed up against Mark and picked up some mastic on her fur.

Feb 1:  Mark likes to have a beer while he works in the kitchen but today we were out of beer so he had to settle for wine.  So sad because this wine smelled divine and I can't yet have any:(  boo...

Feb 2:  You're probably getting tired of our dog...oh well.  Once the baby is her you can grow weary of him and I'll have a variety of subjects to shoot.  She loves the clothes on our floor (today was laundry day and I was folding them to put them away - i promise!).

Feb 3:  Yet more snow!  This time I did don a pair of boots and venture out of the house as far as the mailboxes at the end of the driveway!