54/365 Strike a pose.

Such a beautiful girl. 

She's as happy as I am that I am officially caught up with this project.

51/365 Getting Frustrated.

She had been screaming at me to pick her up, then turned her head to huff and puff.

49/365 Pretty Girl!

Thank you Trish for the super cute hat! 

Bailey approves. <3

41/365 Cooking for Mommy

36/365 Playtime, Mail time, and Almost Bedtime

As I got the boys ready for bed tonight,

Bailey sat on the floor playing with Collin's mailbox. 

It was at this point I realized I had not taken a single photo all day.

Very rare for me..

Unfortunately, with her movement I could not get this shot w/o the on cam flash.

Even with the bedroom light on. 

Here is my "typical" snapshot, SOOC..

Blah....

34/365 Go Packers, Lose Steelers, and posted one day late.

I was way too lazy to post this last night. 

I've been just taking snapshots the past few days.

This one was even taken in Auto.

I very rarely shoot in auto.. 

My hubby is beyond excited for the big game.

He is a huge Green Bay fan.

And is quickly corrupting our children into being cheeseheads as well. 

31/365 One month done, Eleven to go

I was just not feeling this project today.

Since the beginning my goal has been to not use any of my snapshots for this project. 

I wanted to actually think about each photo. 

My children were awfully sweet today,

This one especially.

She has taken such an interest in her brothers cars and trucks over the past months.

Today she pushed this one all over the house, 

crawling right behind it.

While I did manage to snap 92 quick pics today, 

This one just explained my day, my month, my life perfectly.

It's all about the kids.

29/365 Runny nose, Teething, & Still Angelic.

At least while asleep. 

Poor Bailey is still cutting her 5th and 6th tooth.

The 5th is out, just not all the way.

And the 6th will pop any day now.

I hope. 

For a girl who's never shown signs of teething,

these two are causing one hell of a nightmare.

Especially for a mom who's never dealt with teething symptoms.

Yet, despite the loud, whiny, clingy day,

She is still my sleeping beauty.

25/365 Arts & Crafts, & Sibling Fun

Thomas stayed home today.

I braced myself for a day of fighting over toys, 

and extreme noise.

Instead of it starting right away, I found this.

Thomas had asked for the box of arts & crafts,

and since I can (mostly) trust the boys, 

I let them have it. 

I did not expect to find all three of them coloring so peacefully.

22/365 Party Prepping, Cookie Baking, & Actually Getting Along

With Collin's party less than 24 hours away, 

we've been prepping.

We changed it from appetizers to all desserts.

Who knew desserts would be so much cheaper?

Especially if you do the baking yourself.

While the youngest napped,

the boys and I baked Chocolate Chip cookies,

Peanut Butter Cookies, 

made Peanut Butter Bars,

and chilled the oatmeal cookie dough.

We were a bit upset when Bailey awoken before the oatmeal cookies were in the oven.

We were all shocked when rolling these cookies,

and placing them on the cookie sheet,

turned out to be the best part of the day. 

Yes, she stole many balls of dough off the cookie sheet. 

Yes she annoyed her brothers.

But they spent so much time giggling, laughing, and just getting along

that it just didn't matter.

This photo may be no where near technically correct,

but it is one of my absolute favorites for this year already.

16/365 Delicate, Curls, & All Girl

After having two boys,

of course I was thrilled to get a little girl.

Especially one I knew would be fair skinned, blonde, with big blue eyes.

Seeing her grow is already amazing.

So very much like her big brothers,

yet delicately girly at the same time. 

At 15 months, 2 weeks her hair is still really short.

Much more than the boys at this age, 

so I can't complain.

In the tub the little big in the back reaches down to mid shoulder blade.

But when dry, 

it forms the most perfect, girly, curl.

15/365, Blue Eye, Eyelashes, & Reversed 50mm

I just recently learned I can reverse my 50mm to get macro shots.

Of course I had to try right away.

Snapped photos of everything from my lens on my cell phone,

to Bailey's itty bitty eye.

Of course, considering my eye sight sucks, 

and having to move closer and further back

 to focus on whatever I want to take a picture of,

makes taking a photo of a very hyper 15 month old, 

a bit tough. 

12/365 Cold, Snow, & Stuck Inside

It snowed. Again.

It snowed a lot. Again. 

30 fresh inches fell over the night of the 11th 

and well into late morning of the 12th.

School closed,

plows couldn't make it up the hill.

Neighbors shoveled out the circle

at our (dead) end of the street.

And the kids watched.

Together, without a fight,

with their hats on,

waiting to go out and play.

3/365 Sweetness, Cuteness, & Indecisiveness

Took photo's of Collin for his third birthday which is fast approaching,

Bailey wanted in on the action.

Now Mommy can't choose..

Welcome!

After seeing my pal Trish's new blog here, I felt inspired. Again. Trish has a habit of doing this to me. Ah, just call me a sheep or a copy cat or whatever. I have been wanting to do a 365 project for the past 1-2 years, but always seem to forget on the first of the year.

If you are planning on doing a 365 project this year, I'd love to follow you as well as add your button to my side bar, just leave me a comment on this here post, which I will get an email telling me, and let me know where I can find your button. I need the support and motivation to stick with this!

Well, I'm looking forward to seeing you all in 2011. Wow, 2011! Can't believe another year is fast approaching...

For this first welcome post, I will leave you with a peak of what's to come:

 See ya' in 2010!