7/365: Playing in Mommy's Shoes Sunshine

I hopped in the shower and 10 minutes later when I got out this is what I saw in front of my closet.  Yes, Miss Em had a fun time getting into Mommy's shoes.

Playing in Mommy's Shoes Sunshine:

I had a little bit of clean-up, but took the opportunity to purge and ended up getting rid of 7 pairs of shoes!

6/365: Doodling at Panera Sunshine

We took the kids out to Panera for breakfast and Daddy and McGee enjoyed some doodling time while we girls finished eating.

5/365:Strike A Pose Sunshine

My 4-year old niece Addie is always ready to strike a pose whenever I have the camera out.  It makes me laugh looking at this image of her because as the boys are running around crazy up and down the hallways, she was running around with them, saw my camera out and immediately stopped and struck her typical photo pose - I just adore the tilt of her head and smile!  Boys and girls are so different!

4/365: "Bomb" Timer Sunshine

Enjoying our last week with Daddy and McGee off on Winter Break we had a picnic lunch at the park today.  Miss Em was having a hard time eating her sandwich so Daddy whipped out his cell phone and started the "timer" which has been our new program for getting them to finish their food.  McGee was all done eating but didn't go play because he was too excited wanting to see Daddy's "Bomb" go off - the graphic on the cell phone of a bomb that blows up when the time is up.  You can see Miss Em wasn't as thrilled with the scenario, but she did finish her sandwich!

"Bomb" Timer Sunshine:

3/365: Time with Grandma Sunshine

I was out of town today and didn't  have my camera, but if I had....I would have taken a picture of my almost 90 year old grandma as she and I went out for a roast beef sandwich and milkshake.  As it was, I'll have to settle for taking a picture of this older picture of Grandma from my FB page to signify the ray of sunshine spending time alone with my grandma brought into my life today.  Since having kids it seems we never get a chance for any 1-on-1 time without distraction and hearing is quite difficult for her sometimes so conversation amidst the background noise of children can be challenging as well.  Today though it was just her and me.

Time with Grandma Sunshine:

Also as a sidenote - my normal PC nabbed a yucky virus a couple of days before Christmas and it's been so hard not being able to download my Christmas photos, edit anything and all those other things so important to a photographer! :)  The PC has been cleared, but now we have the fun task of installing all of our software again and hoping we can restore all of our pictures!  That said, I can't wait to finally dig in and review our holiday photos and actually edit a photo again instead of shooting in JPEG and posting unedited images.  Just thought I'd let you in on the "fun" that is going on here in our house in regards to the computer - can I just say that people who created viruses are just plain MEAN???!!!

2/365: Lasting Gifts Sunshine

McGee and I bought some dog and cat toys to donate to the local animal shelter earlier last month and when he, Emily and I took them to the shelter he asked if we had Christmas gifts for Callie & Ben (our own canines).  I said we didn't and he insisted we go into the shelter's gift shop and buy the dogs Christmas presents.  He picked out a blue platypus type squeaky toy for Ben and you can see here how long it has lasted.  It may not have lasted long before it's innards were destroyed, but Ben sure did love the job of dissecting!

The little black patent-leather shoes Miss Em is wearing as her "tap shoes" have had the opposite life of the blue platypus toy...they were in fact MY shoes when I was just a little girl and have enjoyed a looong life!  Miss Em loves to wear them and will be sad in the next couple of months when she finally outgrows them.  

Lasting Gifts Sunshine:

1/365: New Beginnings Sunshine - 2012

I failed.  I failed at my daily posting of all 365 Rays of Sunshine for 2011.

Fortunately I am given another chance for a new beginning here in 2012.  With my computer virus stricken and unusable for at least another few days, I will do my best to shoot in JPEG and post straight out of the camera (SOOC) shots these first few days of 2012.  Today we enjoyed a fun and relaxed family day - I love this shot of my son laughing with me - hoping 2012 will be a year filled with lots of laughter for our family!

1/365: New Beginnings Sunshine