{the paper mama}

I know that I posted these pictures before this month, but I just love them.

I am entering the first one in The Paper Mama photo challenge this week --
since it is {okay, one of} my Favorite photos from August

{the paper mama}

This weeks photo challenge from
The Paper Mama is
Furry Friend

{the paper mama}

Because I planned on taking pictures of eyes this week, you can easily guess that I didn't take even one... Not one. But that is okay, since I was not at all lacking any ~
As you might recall in

in your eyes
in your eyes, part 2
and
in your eyes, part 3

After taking into account all the nice comments and opinions everyone gave, I narrowed it down to two. Which is great, but I need only one...
{sigh}
I still couldn't decide. So, since Mike doesn't read my blog, I briefly explained my dilemma -- and just showed him the choices.
Yep. You guessed it --
He picked the two I was stuck between!
Yay?
and since football was on, and that was all I could get out of him, I ended up choosing this one of the baby

This weeks photo challenge from
The Paper Mama
Eyes






I also decided this week to enter in the i heart faces

photo challenge for Eyes ~

{you capture}

I read somewhere that the color of a Hydrangea depends on the type of soil you have. I don't know how it works, but I think it's great that ours are all different ~
I am not even sure how they survive in all this FOG
but I am glad they do

ah-hmm {cough, cough}
especially since I think I killed almost everything in my container garden on the roof...

White

Blue

Purple

in your eyes, part 3

I did not plan on part 3.
I guess I just underestimated just how many eye photos I had.
I have been going though all of my Picasa Albums and keep finding more and more.
I want to join in The Paper Mama Photo Challenge for next week when the challenge is Eyes

I first told you about it in my post
in your eyes
and again in the post
in your eyes, part 2
and even I can't believe I have enough pictures for part 3!

These first few are all from January 2010
-- and my awesome new camera!

Let's not leave out Liberty Hognhog!

September 2010

October 2010

January 2011

April 2011

June 2011

I am worried about taking more this week, only because I will have more to choose from!

Let me know which one you think I should enter in the challenge ~

in your eyes, part 2

Did you know that your eye color continues to change? While I don't have scientific facts to back up my statement, I do have a picture (or two) that might be able to show it.
Until I had my own baby, I always thought that once a baby's eyes changed soon after they were born, that was the color they'd always be.
Who knew?
Paige was born with blue/gray eyes. She had blue/gray eyes until she was about a year old and then they turned light brown. They were a sort of amber color for a long while, but now they are more hazel.
DJ's eyes were dark, but then turned blue right away. Like blue. Over the last couple of years he is getting hazel around his iris and his blue has lightened up a little.
Kelly's eyes were also dark, but stayed pretty dark. Now they are lightening up. They are lighting up a lot. Not quite as amber as Paige, but enough that she runs from the mirror telling me that her eyes are "hazel now".
Mikey was born blue. Blue.

You might remember that I enjoy entering my photos in 

The Paper Mama Photo Challenge 

(I was even a Favorite for Sparkle!) 

and so I was planning on entering again next week 

when the challenge will be 

Eyes.

I happen to have a few pictures that I have taken of the kids
and their eyes.
I like taking pictures of there eyes.
No, don't know why.
I started looking through my Picasa Albums to see what I had for the challenge and found that I had too many choices! I've decided to share some of them, in hope that I can narrow it down a bit -- and well, I just like sharing  pictures of my kids.
This is part 2... it started off
in your eyes

DJ {needed a haircut} in November 2008

Both of my sweet girls at Easter
2009

And here is the whole crew -- a month before Mikey was born!

My 2nd Blue Eyed Boy ~

and then The Mama got a new camera....

Oh, wait... how did that sneak in?

I am still looking through the old photos, so yes -- there will most likely be an 

in your eyes, part 3! 

Make sure to check out

in your eyes

and let me know what you think ~

in your eyes

I love taking pictures of the kids eyes!

I like taking pictures
of their toes too, well, at least I did when they were babies...
So yeah, I guess that makes sense why I don't have as many toe pictures as I do of their eyes. Baby toes are cute, Tween toes, not so much.

This one you might have seen before. I took it in 2004 of DJ. I blew it up to an 11x14, framed it, and had it in their playroom. I think it's from my first digital camera --





This one is of Paige in 2007, making fun of me -- because I was trying to take pictures of her eyes.

Kelly Anne at the pool July 2007

and her first black eye in 2008

(thanks Paige)

and with DJ

Paige showing me her eyes again in August 2008
(goofy chick)

and my sleeping baby girl in September '08

Well, if you have been wondering why I am posting all these eye photos, I am planning on entering

The Paper Mama Photo Challenge 

next week when the theme will be 

Eyes

Because I like taking pictures of the kids eyes -- I happen to have a few of them...
and after spending a little time looking through some of my Picasa Albums
I still have no idea which one I want to enter in the challenge!
I intend to try and take a few between now and the contest, but I am still looking through old ones -- and so my next post will probably be
in your eyes, part 2

Please, let me know if there is one that you think I should use, or even a comment letting me know I should keep looking.

Here is even one of me! It was one of my first profile pictures on Facebook ~

{i heart faces}

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