366 Days of 2012 - Day 80 - March 20

Hanging on by a Brick - Day 80

Another trip to OMSI. This time a 2nd grade class field trip. Another trip through "Art of the Brick." Go see it, you'll love Lego that much more.

Josiah informs me that it is actually titled
Hanging on the Edge

366 Days of 2012 - Day 79 - March 19

African Weave - Day 79

Detail of a woven basket from my trip to Kenya.

Some days I just don't have much time to play.

366 Days of 2012 - Day 78 - Mach 18

Little green frog - Day 78

If you're tired and you squint, it looks like a little green frog. We had a break in the rain so I was playing with the raindrops. I decided to try to edit this one, but then I saw a little a frog. So I thought I'd share him with you.

366 Days of 2012 - Day 77 - March 17

Blue Balls - Day 77

Busy day. JrFLL Lego Expo at OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry) today. Was very proud of our team. Then we explored OMSI till 4. Exhausted.

Remember to watch your step in the ball room.

366 Days of 2012 - Day 76 - March 16

Masterpiece in Process - Day 76

Being a stay at home mom is never ending excitment...

366 Days of 2012 - Day 75 - March 15

Details - Day 75

Just playing inside on another rainy day.

366 Days of 2012 - Day 74 - March 14

Backlit Box - day 74

My backlit box arrived!!! I got in on the 50 for $50 deal and got myself a beauty. This picture does not do it justice. Now, where to put it...

Jr FIRST Lego League Expo - March 17

Waiting for our reviewer at Expo.  The kids chose ice cream as their snack and created their own ice cream maker out of Lego bricks (see bottom left corner).  The cool thing is that it spins on a motor just like a real one.

Team stops for a group photo, kind of.  In the background is their, "show me" board.

Review time, Josiah helps show the review how the model works. 

Expo takes place at OMSI.  So we all get in free.  This was opening day for Art of the Brick. It is a fabulous exhibit by an amazing Lego artist. 

In Jr FLL everyone is a winner.  The Lego Chefs receive their medals and take a elbow bump walk.

366 Days fo 2012 - Day 73 - March 13

White - Day 73

And God Laughs
What? Build an ark? Is that complaining I hear? Well, if you're so tired of rain... How about some snow? HAHA!

366 Days of 2012 - Day72 - March 12

Rain Drops - Day 72

It rained today.

It was raining today.
It is raining today.
It is still raining.
The rain may never end.
Time to build an ark.

366 Days of 2012 - Day 71 - March 11

Beber - Day 71

A little abstract from lunch out with friends.

366 Days of 2012 - Day 70 - March 10

Mari - Day 70

Spent the afternoon with friends celebrating the arrival of little Mari. This is a flower from her boquet.

In other news my husband is amazing. He was helping me with the scavenger hunt this evening. I love you, +Wesly Smith.

366 Days of 2012 - Day 69 - March 9

Sunshine - Day 69

Enjoying a little sunshine
They say it's going to rain tomorrow, and every day after. I've been enjoying the two days of sunshine, I will miss the sun. But it's Portland so it must rain again.

366 Days of 2012 - Day 68 - March 8

Not a pretty Shadow - Day 68

It was a beautiful day...promises of spring.

366 Days of 2012 - Day 67 - March 7

J is for Jelly Bean - Day 67

Scratching J off my +Chrysta Rae's Photography Scavenger Hunt list.
Just 25 left to go. ;o)

366 Days of 2012 - Day 66 - March 6

Waiting - Day 66

Another Portland snow storm dusting.
Just waiting for that big yellow school bus.

Then a recropped it and it looks better.

366 Days of 2012 - Day 65 - March 5

Sensitive

Mr. Sensitivity
My son's sensitive plant that he grew from a seed over a year ago. Just playing with my extention tube...

366 Days of 2012 - Day 64 - March 4

738 of 912

Starting to come out of my fog
Feeling better today. I must be, I took 912 photos today. Now I have to go through them? Most are for that crazy +Chrysta Rae lady and her silly scavenger hunt.

366 Days of 2012 - Day 63 - March 3

Looking for Alaska

Today I was in a "still in recovery" mode. So I picked up a book that I got at Costco a few weeks back. It had the big gold seal stamped on the cover for an award in young adult lit. So it sounded right up my ally since I love YA lit. Well, the stuff were they swear needlessly, talk about sex constantly, and smoke constantly isn't really right up my ally. I thought about putting it down a couple of times, but I kind of got suckered into the storyline. The first chapter is entitled "one hundred thirty-six days before." It goes on that way "x days before." Which leaves you constantly guessing. Then "the day after," you can't believe it. Then at 180 pages or so you figure out what happened and the characters in the story figure out what happened 30 pages later. Then the author wraps it all up, ties a pretty little bow around it, and leaves you thinking maybe there was a reason it deserved that gold seal afterall. You said you didn't think you'd read another one of his books, but now you're thinking you just might put a hold on one at the library.

366 Days of 2012 - Day 62 - March 2

RX

It's strep. No wonder I've felt like crud and you've had to look at sucky pictures. :O) This is the first time I've had strep. It hurts!

366 Days of 2012 - Day 61 - March 1

Hair Art

This is an odd one, I know. But women, how many of you do this? You're washing you hair and as you do so, strands end up on your hands, so you plaster them to the wall. This prevents them from going down the drain. So after you are done in the shower, you go to clean up the wall and throw all those lovely hairs (which you wish were still on your head making you hair thicker), and discover hair art. Most days I see things like bird heads and other things I won't talk about here. But today I discovered this. I believe it's a masked bandit posing as a bride complete with veil and weapon disguised as long steamed roses. Hehe!

366 Days of 2012 - Day 60 - Feb 29

Blue and Red

Three cheers for book fairs
Today I dragged my sick self to my son's school for an hour after school. It's book fair week, and I always let the kids pick a book out. Usually, it's not a book mom would have picked. Josiah tends to choose thing about wild animals and Adaya always want some princess garbage.

So here is my son in his super styling new 3D glasses. If you look at is eyes you can see that camera action has pulled his eyes off the page and onto me. He's about to lay a heavy threat on me about not taking more photos or showing the ones I took to anyone.

366 Days of 2012 - Day 59 - Feb 28

Serious Play

It's Tuesday and the kids on the Jr First Lego League team I coach are finishing up their project. We did a little serious play activity today. This is my favorite little model that one of the kids made.

366 Days of 2012 - Day 58 - Feb 27

Snow Dusting

We got a really, really light dusting of snow last night. Then we got frost. So we had all these frosty snow flakes this morning. I decided to make a couple silly pictures for MixedMessagesMonday. This is an edited copy of the second in the series. I used layers and textures to get this look. In the corner is actually a macro image of the least frosted, best looking snow flake I captured. I would be nice to get some real snow, but I don't think that's actually in Portland's forcast for this winter.

366 Days of 2012 - Day 57 - Feb 26

Spring's Blooming

The first flowers of spring are poking through the ground.

I Took a couple texture shots when we went out to lunch today. Then added them to a few layers of this flower that I captured this afternoon. To create for you this lovely image, of the hope that spring is on its way.

366 Days of 2012 - Day 56 - Feb 24

Sick, Book, Chair, Tea

This is me. This is how I spent most of my day. Today is not a pretty day. Tea gets me through these head colds my children bring home from school. SOOC because I'm either too sick or too lazy to care.

366 Days of 2012 - Day 55 - Feb 24

Ice Cream Dreams

"When I grow up, I want to be an ice cream maker."
She doesn't actually play Blokus, she makes pictures with it. Oh to be a four year old. Also this is exactly how beautiful she is. All I did to this photo is crop out the floor and oven. The light in my kitchen this morning was perfect.