Day 222 of my 365 day challenge

Day 222 of my 365 day challenge: I know I have done a few barn photos, and I dont get sick of it..I love old barns, they are so unique and awesome looking. I had fun editing this and just loved the low clouds looming over the top of it...Looks so much like Washington if you ask me :)

Day 221 of my 365 day challenge

Day 221 of my 365 day challenge: I had a choice today to do another snow picture or something else, I decided to do something a little different, since how I have taken quite a few snow pics over the last couple of weeks. I thought it would be cool to take a picture of some broken glass outside with the light shining on it...here is my photo! :)

Day 220 of my 365 day challenge

Day 220 of my 365 day challenge: Holy smokes....we have been pounded with snow today..and I LOVE IT!!!! This pic that I took is our tree out in our back yard...this was taken this afternoon, now we have an extra 3 inches and its still comin down...I love our Tulip tree out back...I think after this snow is gone, we are going to do some pruning, its starting to hang pretty low..lol! Here is my pic for the day!

Day 219 of my 365 day challenge

Day 219 of my 365 day challenge: Today has been a busy day for my husband and I, we have been painting our bathroom and bedroom and installing wood flooring...it would only fit to take a pic of something that I am doing today...Like Painting :) Here is my pic for today! :) Oh, and I NEVER thought that my hubby would be the one to pic Violet out...I LOVE!!! :)

Day 218 of my 365 day challenge

Day 218 of my 365 day challenge: Today was my daughters birthday..BIG 3...Man does time sure fly, Im sure all you parents feel the same way. Well she is absolutely in LOVE with SpongeBob, so of course this year she wanted her birthday party to be all spongebob...lol, so cute! We had a blast today, and she was a busy bee all day long, her party wasnt until 4:30, so as you can imagine it was killing her to eat her cake and open her presents. Seeing spongebob everywhere just made her day for sure!! Happy birthday my Princess....Here is my photo for today.

Day 217 of my 365 day challenge

Day 217 of my 365 day challenge: I had an errand to run today and decided to take a back road here in my town and saw a cool old mailbox covered with snow...I thought it would make for a cool picture :) I am a HUGE sucker for antique/vintage items...and this mailbox definitely looks vintage!!

Day 216 of my 365 day challenge

Day 216 of my 365 day challenge: My husband and I went for a drive up a long windy road towards Arlington and my eye caught the most beautiful barn and what made it even better is that it was covered in snow and the Evergreen trees had just enough snow on them to make this picture look so awesome/wintery! I had to take a pic of it today. Here is my photo! :)

Day 215 of my 365 day challenge

Day 215 of my 365 day challenge: I love this picture because you can see the red leaves under the snow....I thought it would really pop out with the contrast of the two :) Here is my photo for day 215...150 days to go..woohoo! :)

Day 214 of my 365 day challenge

Day 214 of my 365 day challenge: I was looking out at the snow in our yard with the sun shining on it and it was so beautiful and sparkly that I thought it would be different and unique to take a picture of it close up...I just think its so awesome to see the snowflakes up close, they look like small crystals.

Day 213 of my 365 day challenge

Day 213 of my 365 day challenge: Im lovin the snow and so I am taking advantage of it with my picture challenge. I thought I would take a picture of the snow on our little holly tree that has grown so much over the last year! :) Happy New year FB peeps!!

Day 212 of my 365 day challenge

Day 212 of my 365 day challenge: I was a bit surprised to drive out of our small town today covered in snow and only 5 miles out towards Lake Stevens and Marysville, there is no snow whatsoever....I love living here and seeing a white winter wonderland :) I wanted to show the snow on the trees....so awesome and pretty frozen now, since how its in the low 20s mid day today!!

Day 211 of my 365 day challenge

Day 211 of my 365 day challenge: For my photo for the day I am posting a pic of my brother with his fiance. Every month I am posting a new pic for them, they just found out they are having a boy..WOOHOO, his name will be Jackson Daniel. Here is them announcing the baby's name. 20 weeks along!

Day 210 of my 365 day challenge

Day 210 of my 365 day challenge: So where we live we have gotten quite a bit of snow :) SO of course I have to take a pic of something to do with it....I found snow flakes that had landed on a spider web..I thought it was pretty cool looking!!! I think I will be showing pictures with the snow over the next few days...I love that I can get some new looks outside...A winter wonderland!

Day 209 of my 365 day challenge

Day 209 of my 365 day challenge: I think this is funny and honestly its because you dont really think about how it sometimes is difficult to think of what to photograph everyday for a year....man oh man...I was cleaning my ears, which is an addiction for me I think..lol, and thought why not throw a pile of Q tips on my bed..hahahahaha...This is what I got :) Kinda cool I thought, if you like Q tips that is...lol~this challenge can be so funny :)

Day 208 of my 365 day challenge

Day 208 of my 365 day challenge: I wanted to take a picture of some interesting looking moss that is growing up around the mountain that we live close to. I think its pretty cool looking...I found some of it hanging off a small broken branch on the side of the road..thought it would make a cool pic!

Day 207 of my 365 day challenge

Day 207 of my 365 day challenge: My husband and I took a relaxing drive today up the Mountain Loop by our house, we love doing this...we get to talk and be close and just enjoy nature. I intentionally took my camera with me knowing that I would find my picture of the day while we were out and about! Here is my photo for today, We have swam in this river during the summer and sat by the river during the cold months eating in our car watching the river flow. Here is my photo for today!

Day 206 of my 365 day challenge

Day 206 of my 365 day challenge: I wanted to take a picture of my husbands aunts christmas village that was set up at her place, in fact she had one in each room, it was very cool. This is just a small portion of her village of homes that she had up for display, its so cool looking! It was getting late...so this was the best that I got as far as my pic goes..lol! Merry Christmas to you all!!

day 205 of my 365 day challenge

day 205 of my 365 day challenge: My family and I had a great Christmas Eve, spending time with both sides of the family and enjoying the company of those we love! I am so happy and blessed to have my husband and my kids and to be able to reflect at the end of my day on good things! I wanted to do a pic of me and my hubby...I know alot of you ask for more photos of me and my life, well this is us at the end of our Christmas Eve....and we are tired...LoL, 3 kids unwrapping presents all night, White elephant gift exchange and good times and laughs. Oh and I cant forget my awesome gifts...teehee. We look a bit tired here but are very happy! Here is my photo for today..Me and my Boo! :)

Day 204 of my 365 day challenge

Day 204 of my 365 day challenge: Today was a full day of baking cookies, bars and more cookies and so I thought it would only make sense to take a pic of one kind of cookies that I made..In case you are curious from the picture what kind they are, they are....Chewy Oatmeal Cranberry White Chocolate and Walnut cookies, and I have to say yummy! :)

Day 203 of my 365 day challenge

Day 203 of my 365 day challenge: On my way home this evening from a long day being out, I thought I would take a picture of a lighted Cross, out front of a church...it wasnt quite dark and the sky had some awesome clouds and color, so I thought it would be a pretty picture. Here is my photo for the day! :)

Day 202 of my 365 day challenge

Day 202 of my 365 day challenge: Today I decided to drive by the farm I went to yesterday and thought I would get a new picture today, I thought the barn was really cool and wanted to take a picture of it. Here is my photo for today :)

Day 201 of my 365 day challenge

Day 201 of my 365 day challenge: My family and I were on our way home today from some shopping and I told my husband to take a back road to see if I could get a picture..and sure enough we came to a goat farm....It was so funny because when I got out to snap the picture, they were just standing there watching me....all of them, wondering what I was doing Im sure..lol! I thought the horns on the back goat was really cool, so this is what Im using as my photo of the day!

Day 200 of my 365 day challenge

Day 200 of my 365 day challenge: So I know this picture is pretty average, but I had to post it...its our little Dachshund riding my sons skateboard...lol, I had to take a pic of him....so hilarious!!! So my picture of the day is goofy, havent done one of those yet :)

Day 199 of my 365 day challenge

Day 199 of my 365 day challenge: Tonight we had the Granite falls Fire stations Truck and Paramedics vehicle drive by honking and lit up for Christmas, it was so cool....we ran outside with the kiddos and waved as they went by and Santa came up to my daughter and says Merry Christmas and her reply was: MY MOMMY SAYS I LIKE YOU.....LOL, so so funny and cute :) I had to get a pic of the firetruck, what a cute little town we live in :)

Day 198 of my 365 day challenge

Day 198 of my 365 day challenge: Today I was able to meet such a cutie pie...Talk about a doll :) It was so cute to see her and her dad getting pictures done, adorable..she definitely Luvs her daddy! I had to use one of the photos from this shoot as my photo of the day, and I picked this one, because you could just see how daddy loved his little girl, and her smile was so sweet in this picture.

Day 197 of my 365 day challenge

Day 197 of my 365 day challenge: Today I spent the day in Seattle, taking my Mom to Swedish, it was a long day to say the least, so I knew I would have to bring my camera to get my picture of the day while being up that way :) I went for a walk while I was waiting and came to a Beautiful Catholic Church and saw a statue of Mary with Baby Jesus...I loved it, and the reflection off of the stained glass was amazing. I thought this picture was fitting for Christmas :) Here is my photo for Today.

Day 196 of my 365 day challenge

Day 196 of my 365 day challenge: Today my husband and I went for a nice drive right here in Granite up Mountain loop, its so nice to live so close to the Mountains..grab a coffee and just chit chat our little hearts out! :) Some of the trees were so dang mossy and as my Daughter announced "scary" lol. I thought I would take a picture of the Moss hanging from the tree!!! Here is my photo for today! :) I cant believe I have been doing this challenge for almost 200 days now....crazy! :)

Day 195 of my 365 day challenge

Day 195 of my 365 day challenge: So, YES I had to draw my last name in the sand...lol, I might even hang it in the house :) Here is my photo for today :)

Day 194 of my 365 day challenge

Day 194 of my 365 day challenge: Today I had a photo shoot with an adorable couple...so sweet to eachother and fun to talk to and hang out with for an hour...I had to post this photo for my photo of the day...I loved it!

Day 193 of my 365 day challenge

Day 193 of my 365 day challenge: WOW, what a crazy weekend.....not much internet and scrambling to get my photos of the day up..lol, if you couldnt tell..lol! I wanted to post a picture of my kiddos gingerbread house..they are all so cute when it comes to decorating...a fun family tradition. Of course Aryana had to eat it when it was done...so you can see spots of it are missing..lol, its got a lot of blank spots due to eating along the way..heehee.

day 192 of my 365 day challenge

day 192 of my 365 day challenge: This photo was seriously the hardest for me to ever upload, as you all know my challenge is to post a pic that I take EVERY single day by Midnight, this was taken just a few minutes before midnight due to having no internet and or service at the location that my husband and I were staying at for a vacation..I was panicking to get this one, I was running from our location to starbucks to get service.  I didnt even get a chance to edit the photo etc...I will have this pic reposted on my blog edited and with a caption...I had this pic posted by exactly 11:59pm..lol

Day 191 of my 365 day challenge

Day 191 of my 365 day challenge: This was the view while on our way to Astoria....I thought it was cool! Here is my photo :)

Day 190 of my 365 challenge

Day 190 of my 365 challenge: I was surprised by my amazing husband, 18 beautiful red roses on our bed the other day...I wanted to of course take a picture of them and show how beautiful they are :) here is my photo for today!

Day 189 of my 365 day challenge

Day 189 of my 365 day challenge: Thought this old church was really cool, wanted to share it with you for my picture of the day~ here it is :)

Day 188 of my 365 day challenge

Day 188 of my 365 day challenge: Today I met the James family, I had a lot of fun spending some time with them..very cute and happy kids and the parents were awesome! I love that I meet so many cool people with my job....I thought this picture of Theresa and her husband was so sweet, had to use this as my photo for the day!

Day 187 of my 365 day challenge

Day 187 of my 365 day challenge: Tonight I thought I would take a picture of one of the birds on our Christmas tree....So pretty! :) here is my photo for today

Day 186 of my 365 day challenge

Day 186 of my 365 day challenge: I had so much fun photographing this family, the parents were adorable...I love this pic...it was a perfect day for this shoot.

Day 185 of my 365 day challenge

Day 185 of my 365 day challenge: Today I did a brother and sister photo shoot...they were so funny with each other and definitely did there normal sibling teasing and having fun with each other....They both did this shoot for there mom for her Christmas present...I thought it was so cool of them to do that...what mom wouldnt just LOVE that for a present :) Here is my photo of the day...I thought they both looked so good in this picture and I think it is one that there Mom would love to see hanging on her wall! :)

Day 184 of my 365 day challenge

Day 184 of my 365 day challenge: I thought this was a cool shot at the beach :) Short and sweet!! lol

Day 183 of my 365 day challenge

Day 183 of my 365 day challenge: Today I photographed baby Ava, what a sweetheart and cutie :) I had to choose this photo as my pic of the day....I loved the way the bow was lit up! :) She is definitely a precious gift!

Day 182 of my 365 day challenge

Day 182 of my 365 day challenge: Tonight was our night to do some family Christmas photos in front of our Christmas tree...we have more to post later, but I had to post this one because its so dang cute :) Its Grandma and her grandaughter together...Love it!!

Day 181 of my 365 day challenge

Day 181 of my 365 day challenge: Today i did a photo shoot with Cash, who was the winner for the cutest baby in my cutest baby contest a few weeks back.....He is definitely a cutie and I am so happy to have met him finally! I wasnt sure what photo to use as my photo of the day...I finally decided on this one!

Day 180 of my 365 day challenge

Day 180 of my 365 day challenge: Today is a very special day, because my youngest son turned 12 years old today..woohoo! :) He a had blast opening his presents and eating the biggest and richest Chocolate cake I could find...it was delicious. I am so proud of my boy and cant believe its been 12 years since I first laid my eyes on his precious face! I love you Quinton Jeremiah..You sure do make me proud!! Here is my photo of the day....he is getting ready to blow out those candles!!

Day 179 of my 365 day challenge

Day 179 of my 365 day challenge: I had a photo shoot today in Oak Harbor and on my way back I decided to take a picture of the sunset...it was so pretty!!! Here is my photo for today! :)

Day 178 of my 365 day challenge

Day 178 of my 365 day challenge: Today we got our tree up, some lights up outside...all the decorations throughout the house..doing it all while the Christmas music was playin..we just love this time of year...I wanted to take a picture of our beautiful tree. I love it. If any of you are interested in this look with you kids and or your family, message me for more details...we could possibly do this look for you as well for your Christmas photos from here on out!

Day 177 of my 365 day challenge

Day 177 of my 365 day challenge: I really was at a loss of what to take as far as my picture....I have a stack of little antique books that I think are really cute...I threw them down on my table and here is what I got. Even books scattered out can look pretty cool! :)

Day 176 of my 365 day challenge

Day 176 of my 365 day challenge: I bought a very interesting bottle of wine for my hunny and I and we opened it tonight in memory of my dad...it was awesome, along with the rest of our Thanksgiving meal. I wanted to take a pic of it and our table in the background..it was a yummy feast, and a great time for me and the boys to cook and have some time together. I love Thanksgiving-Giving Thanks to God for all his blessings and for those who you can celebrate a special day with. We started it out with my family and then ended it with our own personal family...amazing day! Love you Dad!!

Day 175 of my 365 day challenge

Day 175 of my 365 day challenge: So today my family and I went to get a few things at the store...and I happened to look over and saw the most amazing Fountain Frozen over...I was like WOW...I had to get a picture of it...the only problem was that it was behind a tall iron gate and it was dark outside....so my hubby grabbed the lighting equipment and I grabbed the camera..I climbed on his shoulders and Bam...this is what I got!! Beautiful I thought and BRRR

Day 174 of my 365 day challenge

Day 174 of my 365 day challenge: Today I had to get a picture of a huge icicle out back in our yard....I cant believe how cold it is here...burrr!! Here is my photo for today :)

Day 173 of my 365 day challenge

Day 173 of my 365 day challenge: Of course today My picture of the day would have something to do with snow....I chose this as my picture because my daughter for the first time was licking the snow off her finger..lol, so so cute! Here is my photo