I Heart Faces: Texture

I heart faces has another challenge this week- Texture. I wasn't sure how I would go about this because I don't know how to use photo shop just yet. So I'm looking through my photos and I come across this one. I took this of my niece while we were mushroom hunting. Love how the trees are surrounding her. She is blurry but it's still a great picture! I can't wait until we can do some hunting this year! :) Not the greatest of photos, trust me I have a ton of texture photos just not very many with someones face incorporated in it.

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Best Face Photo

This week is I Heart Faces 1st Birthday!!! And by celebrating, the contest this week is "Best Face Photo". The photo has to be taken sometime in December 2009 or January 2010! I've been looking forward to this challenge for a while! Ever since I took this picture I knew it was the one I wanted to enter! I love it! I took this December 31, 2009. This is my niece, Emma. She is the most beautiful little girl ever! :) I just love taking photos of her!

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Happy Birthday I Heart Faces!

I am submitting this photo into the I Heart Faces logo photo contest. By entering, I am granting I Heart Faces LLC permission to consider my photo for use in the marketing and promotion of their website.

I Heart Faces

This week, i ♥ faces, is having a contest that includes 5 photos of which has to include their logo somewhere in the photo..edited or actually in the photo! Enjoy!

1st Entry

2nd Entry:

Our husky pulling my son around on his sled..don't worry my husband had the dog on a leash. Ha!

3rd Entry

4th Entry:
I thought I did a pretty good job with this one. My son loves to dump water onto himself. So why not have i ♥ faces fall with the water. I thougth it was pretty cool.

5th Entry:
Same with this one.

“I am submitting this photo into the I Heart Faces logo photo contest. By entering, I am granting I Heart Faces LLC permission to consider my photo for use in the marketing and promotion of their website.”

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I ♥ Faces: Hilarious Outtakes

This is the last week for this years challenge at I Heart Faces. Next year starts a whole new series of challenges! Can't wait! So I do have four outtakes that I am submitting! I think they are pretty hilarious! Most of them of course are of my son! Enjoy!

My first entry is of my son, Tristan, this is his new face that he always does to us! So funny.

#2. Tristan loves bath time! Especially splashing the water! I took this right before my lap got all wet! haha! Such a silly boy!

#3. This is my niece, Addison, she's such a silly girl! She always gives me the cheesiest smiles. Every once in a while I catch a nice one! :)

#4. So when Tristan was younger, well lets say around 6 months or so, he disliked anything on his head, touching his ears, etc. So this is him trying to pull his hoodie off. His expression cracks me up! Love it! :)

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Merry Christmas!!

Hope everyone had a great Christmas!! We sure did! Christmas Eve I made our Christmas dinner.. and it was so good!! I will be showing you our Christmas in photos and also explaining what each picture is! So enjoy!! :) And have a Happy New Year!


These are the cookie dough truffles I made! and they are delicious..especially if you like cookie dough! I will post the recipe at the end of this blog!

My Christmas cookies!

Corn bread that we had for our Christmas Eve dinner! We also had asparagus!

A yummy beef tenderloin that I made. It was delicious!

Tristan opening a present Christmas Eve. Jake told me a tradition they did when they were younger. Him and his brother would always open a present Christmas Eve and it would always be pjs! So I thought we could start that tradition also! :)

Here is what Santa got Tristan! And he of course got a few other gifts! :)

Tristan making a silly face.

What my husband got me for Christmas!

After our Christmas we went to Jake's moms house for Christmas! We had an awesome dinner of seafood! Yum! I didn't get too many pictures while we were there. But this is their tree! It was beautiful! :)

Cookie Dough Truffles:
Ingredients:

1/2 c butter, softened

3/4 c packed brown sugar

1 tsp. vanilla extract

2 c all-purpose flour

1 can (14oz) sweetened condensed milk

1/2 c mini semisweet chocolate chips

1/2 c chopped walnuts (I did not use any)

1 1/2 lb semisweet candy coating, chopped

Directions:

1. In a large bowl, cream the butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the vanilla. Gradually add the flour, alternately with milk, beating well after each addition. Stir in te chocolate chips and walnuts. Shape into 1-in balls. place on waxed paper-lined baking shts. Loosely cover and refrigerate for 1-2 hours or until firm.

2. In a microwave-safe bowl, melt candy coating; stir until smooth. Dip balls in coating, allowing excess to drip off; place on waxed paper-lined baking shts. Refrigerate until firm, about 15 min. If desired, remelt remaining candy coating and drizzle over candies. Store in refrigerator.

I Heart Faces: Pet week

This week's theme for I Heart Faces is Pets! I have so many pictures I would love to post of my pets but sadly I can only choose one! I had a hard time choosing one too. But this is what I came up with! This is Sparky. He is a Siberian Husky and he's 5 months old. I just love his blue eyes!

I do have several cute photos of my dappled dachshund, named Dewey, that I wanted to post, but I guess that will have to be another entry! :)

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I Heart Faces: Sweet Dreams

This weeks theme for I Heart Faces is "Sweet Dreams". Such a great theme! I love it! I had a couple choices of photos to choose from of my son..but I ended up with a pretty good one. He was about 5months old when this was taken. When he couldn't walk or crawl..he loved his jumper! Oh my word..he would jump until he fell asleep...literally. Ha! So here is Tristan fast asleep in his jumper. He did this quite often too! Some people have to drive their children around the block for them to fall asleep but we just had to put him in his jumper. :)

Here is a video of him jumping like crazy..sorry it's not a very good video..I think I took it with my phone. But it is still really cute!

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