Yikes...another lazy day

Oh boy did today ever fly by!! I did not get anything done except clean off my computer desk and 2 loads of laundry!! I had A LOT of things that needed to be done....I just didn't do them. I hate when I do that b/c then I feel bad....like I wasted the day.

Guess I will have to do double tomorrow!

I received my new program...photoshop CS4 yesterday....now I am soooo excited to use it. But I have to wait until we get a new pc....our Dell that we have had for about 7 yrs died (which it was a piece of crap so it will not be missed..lol) and my laptop doesn't have enough memory on it to load the program. We are expecting some insurance checks this week (from hail damage on our vehicles) and as soon as they come I am getting a brand new HP desktop with a 20in monitor!! I can't wait....I feel like a little kid at Christmas.

Here is a pic for today! I wanted the waterfall in the pic so cropping really wasn't an option but I felt like the pic was too dark...so I did a color pop action in PS elements and I think it made it look a lot better!

I can't wait to start posting pics with CS4...it amazes me what you can do with it!

Update on babies

The babies are 9 days old today!! They should be opening their eyes any day now! They are little butterballs.....so cute.....and soooo fat...lol!!

Here is a pic

I love to hold them...they will just cuddle in my hand....they are so soft. Can't wait til they start hopping around.

Lazy Saturday

Well I haven't felt well the last few days so I got to sleep in for a little while today....didn't get out of bed until 9:30.....didn't get dressed until 4:00 :)

I have a sinus infection so I haven't been able to sleep very well for the last few nights.....my meds are finally kicking in and I am starting to feel better finally!

Trace had a scrimmage at 5:00 tonight....I was so proud of him! He had 2 interceptions, one of them he ran back 60 yards for a touchdown. He had several blocks and tackles too. He played almost the entire time on offense and defense. He did not have a very good year last year so I really didn't think that he was going to go out again....but I am glad that he decided to give it another try.

On Thurs I had two photo shoots for newborns....it was soooo much fun!! I LOVE babies....it makes me wish I could have another one...lol! I can't wait to get my photography blog up and running and I will post photos there. I am really hoping this turns out to be a good business venture for me.

Speaking of photos.....i took this Weds night of Trinity....I LOVE this pic!! This is probably one of my all time favorites of her!!

She is really hard to get pics of...she always looks away from the camera and she never sits still...lol!!

Almost forgot

I almost forgot to post a snapshot from today. I received a new lens today that I had ordered so I was very excited to open it up and start snapping pictures. Trinity was the only one around so I just started taking pics of her from all angles....she was watching I Carly...so she didn't move...lol.This pic I just cropped and added some color back into her face.

Tomorrow morning I am going to shoot my first baby. I was scheduled to do it today but we had to reschedule for tomorrow. I am really excited and nervous! I can't wait to see how they turn out and what neat things I can do!

4 Days old

The 2 remaining babies are 4 days old now. They are getting quite fat. When they were born they were naked and now they have some fuzz....it is so soft.....it feels like velvet!! In about 6 more days they will open their eyes.

I took these pics today with a new lens, so they are better than the last ones!

This is Oreo, the daddy, he is a sweetheart, thought I would post a pic of him! The baby that didn't make it would have looked like him :(

New venture for me!

I am very excited to announce that I am taking on a new hobby (hopefully more)...Photography! I have always loved photography and now I am hoping to take that love to a new level. I have a long way to go before I can say I am a professional...but I feel like I can say that I am above average...lol!

I have really been working hard in photoshop and recently purchased the newest version cs4.....I can't wait to start playing with it!

There are soooo many things that you can do in photoshop....it just amazes me!

I will probably be starting a photography blog soon to post the pics from my sessions. And hopefully I will get skilled enought to design my own templates and actions and would love to share them with other beginner photographers!! Speaking of sessions, I already have 3 babies lined out for this week! I am so excited!!

I have decided (in light of my new hobby) to start posting a "snapshot of the day" photo on here. It will not be a "professional" pic...but just a snap shot of one of my kids, flowers, sunsets, etc. I will post a before and after photoshop pic.

This is the first one...this is Trenton in my friends backyard....this is a pretty simple one.

I felt like this wasn't a bad shot to begin with...but the color was a little blah...so I wanted to make it pop a little! This was done in elements (I haven't received my cs4 yet) and only took me a couple of minutes.

Let me know what you think!! Can't wait to get really going with this....I will actually be doing something I love!

Sad day at the Canaan house

We lost one of our babies this morning. I have been waking up in the middle of the night and checking on them, but they had always been fine. Last night when I woke up I decided not to go and check on them, I just rolled over and went back to sleep. I woke up this morning and went in to check on them and the white one was barely moving, I picked it up and it was pretty cold. So I decided to wrap it up in some towels to try and warm it up. I also called a local lady that I know that runs an organization called creature concerns, she came over to see if she could help. We put it on a heating pad and she tried to bottle feed it. Our efforts were simply not enough, or came too late. The poor little baby quietly passed on. I cried. The kids do not know yet, they had already gone to church. I will have to give them the bad news when they get home....I am not looking forward to it.

A Tale of Two Rabbits

Well I bought the boys two rabbits in the spring, I bought Trace one so he could show it in 4H and decided to get the other 2 boys one to share so they wouldn't bother Trace's rabbit. I let them pick out which ones they wanted and when we checked out they sexed them...of course they picked a male and a female! They were just babies so I asked how long we had until they would mate...we were told they couldn't have babies until they were between 8mos and 1 yr.

On Thurs I had to go out of town for the day. About 11:30 I get a call from Dustin that there are 3 baby rabbits in the cage...I about died!! They are only 6 mos old!! So now we have 3 baby rabbits, 2 are black and one is white with black spots. I had never seen baby rabbits before...they are really cute for as naked as they are.

Maisy, the mom, seems to be taking good care of them so far. They are about 72 hrs old now. The boys LOVE them. I really think this will be a good experience for them to be able to watch the babies grow up....I hope they all survive though! I will take pics along the journey and post the here.

Here are the pics from the day they were born and yesterday.

Returning with a new look!

WOW....it has been a while! We had a very busy spring and summer, but now that school has started again we are back in a routine and I plan on having more time to update regularly!
All 3 boys played on different traveling baseball teams this summer, so we were BUSY!! Dustin also took over the Cardinal baseball organization, so that made me his secretary (as he calls me)....lol. We were on the go 5 nights a week to ball games. The month of June went by really fast....and was a total blur! But we made it through!
In July we went to Colorado to see my sister Brandy, the weather there was beautiful! We missed the record high temp in Alva (some say it was 114 and some will tell you it was 117) either way it was HOT and we missed it. We were enjoying the 80 degree weather in CO, in the evening it was in the 70's. We took the kids to the zoo, childrens museum, elich gardens, and a baseball game (the Braves, our favorite team, was playing the Rockies). We cooked out almost every evening at my sisters house...it was really nice and relaxing!! When we got back to OK...we did not want to do anything...lol!
But now the weather is cooling off, school has started, and football is getting ready to start, we are ready to FALL!!