38: Superbowl Sunday

Today was Superbowl Sunday. I'm not into football, so I went shopping with Elizabeth to buy birthday presents for Edward, and to get our weekly supplies. It was GREAT! There was no one about. I got great parking spaces, and there were no idiots in the stores. The only drawback was that there were also no checkout clerks around. I actually had to find someone and ask to check out in Toys-R-Us! It was worth it though. I wish there was a superbowl every weekend. Next year I'm going to the mall! Unless the Steelers are in it. They are my husbands team, so if they are in it I will probably watch with him. This year the New Orleans Saints won, and I gather they have never won it before, so they were fairly chuffed!

37: Every 6 Weeks

Time to get my roots touched up! I go every 6 weeks. I have red and blond highlights on my dark brown hair. I always like the way it looks, and I often get compliments on it. I'm thinking of going completely dark at some point though, for a change. I recently saw a picture of my sister with very dark hair, and I really liked it, so I think I might give it a try. I'm going to wait until I have to let these highlights grow out first though, which will be the next time I'm pregnant, which hopefully won't be too far in the future :)

36: Tools of the Trade

It's my husband's birthday on Monday. Today I wrapped the presents I've got him. I'm not going to say what they are, just in case he happens to read this! I also made a card for the kids to give him today, and had Elizabeth write in it and draw a picture. Edward left his mark too. I used the new photocard paper I got last month, and it worked really well. I'm looking forward to making more cards with it.

35: Raindrops on Windows

I took this through the windscreen of my car while I was waiting at a stop light. I really like how the raindrops are in focus and the headlights and traffic light are out of focus in the background. I had to focus manually for this shot, as the auto-focus kept wanting to focus on something through the windscreen, not the raindrops that were on it.

34: Hot Off the Press

I just published my first book of photographs using blurb, and the first copy arrived in the mail today. I was so excited, and it turned out even better than I expected! I flipped through it with a big smile on my face the whole time :D

I'm going to try and sell copies directly from blurb. I sent a email to all my friends and family, and I posted a link on Facebook, Twitter and StumbleUpon. I don't realistically expect to sell many copies, probably only a few to family. I really do think it's a good book though. Unfortunately the price is a little high, because it's print-on-demand. There's not much I can do about that though.

Backyard Treas...

By TracyLynn Seeger

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I'm going to order a hardback copy for myself, then this one and another softback copy will go to my parents and nannie as gifts. I was originally planning to give this as gifts to everyone for Christmas last year, but I ran out of time to get it done.

My next project is to put together a yearbook of the kids for last year. I do this every year, and again keep one copy for myself and give copies as gifts to my parents and nannie. I also have another secret project planned that I'm not going to go into detail about, just in case a certain someone happens to read this :)

33: Happy Groundhog Day!

Today is Groundhog Day, and when I got up this morning I found this poster. My husband is originally from Pittsburgh, so he takes Groundhog Day quite seriously. A couple of years ago he built a big working model of the groundhog coming out of his hole!

He also made a cake last night, but it's not finished yet. He's going to put a little model of a groundhog on it. It already has the shadow on it. As I've mentioned before, he loves cooking and baking. He always makes the cakes for the kids' birthdays.

32: Jesus Loves the Children

I co-oped at Elizabeth's preschool again today. I am doing two days this week, as I was the last person to sign up, and ended up with whatever days were left. We had a fun day. In this picture, their teacher is telling them the story of how Jesus loved the children, and told the disciples not to keep them from him, but to become more like them (Matthew 19). She used the whiteboard to draw the scene, and the kids were totally engrossed! Mind you, they were also engrossed when she read them "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs' too :)

This isn't actually the picture I had planned to post today. Edward developed an ear infection during the night, so I had to take him to the pediatrician this morning. I had planned to take a picture of him in the waiting room, or waiting in the examination room, but I totally forgot. He hated the whole experience! He cried when the nurse weighed him, he cried when she took his temperature, and he tried to get away when the doctor was trying to look in his ears. I think he thought he was going to get a shot! In fact, he was supposed to get one tomorrow. The kids have an appointment to get their H1N1 booster shots tomorrow, but now he can't have his. It's probably just as well, they both hate getting shots, so at least now I'll only have to deal with one hysterical child!