Day 215: April 7, 2012

The kids and I went to a friend's baby's first birthday party and she made the cutest cupcakes!  They were tasty to boot :)

Day 205: March 28, 2012

Grace won this jar of Skittles at a rainbow birthday party by being the closest to guess how many candies were in the jar.  Tasty prize!

Day 192: March 15, 2012

Insanely good chocolate frosting.

Day 188: March 11, 2012

I waited for David to be out of town to make Friendship Stew since he's not a fan.  It makes a ton so the kids and I eat it twice a day for about four days to finish it up which gets a little old, but cooking once for 8 meals is a bonus!  Here's Friendship Stew served preschool style.

Day 137: January 20, 2012

David stopped by home for less than 24 hours between work trips which meant that we were able to have root beer floats and have family board game night!

Day 126: January 9, 2012

I decided to try taking some macro shots of a kiwi before I ate it for lunch today.  Yum!

Day 14: September 19, 2011

One of the reasons I wanted to start up my Project 365 again was to force myself to have my camera out more often for mundane moments like this one.  Ethan helped me do our big can/bottle return (we only go once every few months) and as a reward got to pick out a doughnut to enjoy at home with Mommy.  He chose a chocolate drizzled maple bar...that's my boy!  This was taken in the dark kitchen at 8:30am at ISO 3200.

December 13: Day 340

I baked four dozen eggnog cookies late Monday night to take to the MOPS cookie swap Tuesday morning. I hadn't taken my photo of the day yet and I liked the shadows the cookies made on the cooling racks.

Photo Stats:
Exposure: 1/200 sec
Aperture: f/2.5
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO: 1250
Flash: Off Camera with Softbox

November 10: Day 307

The almighty apple. My family only likes the red varieties and so I'm the only one enjoying the green Granny Smiths that were on sale this week. Too bad for them!

Photo Stats:
Exposure: 1/160 sec
Aperture: f/2.5
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO: 1600
Flash: Off

August 23: Day 228

Tonight we kicked off our MOPS year with an ice cream sundae social at the park. Both kids had a fantastic time playing with their friends they haven't seen in a while and got fantastically dirty and sticky. A total success.

Photo Stats:
Exposure: 1/200 sec
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 45 mm
ISO: 1600
Flash: Off

August 13: Day 218

We had a fun night playing games and eating ice cream sundaes with our friends Pat and Katie. I was going to take a photo of one of the board games we were playing, but the first one was a card game and the second one was way too complicated to photograph. Ice cream it was.

Photo Stats:
Exposure: 1/100 sec
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 54 mm
ISO: 1600
Flash: Off

August 8: Day 213

We celebrated David's 30th birthday with a boys video game weekend (which the kids and I did not attend) and some pizza and coconut cream pie (which we most definitely attended!). I lit 30 candles on his birthday pie and he managed to blow them all out in one try. Pretty impressive.

Photo Stats:
Exposure: 1/100 sec
Aperture: f/2.2
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO: 200
Flash: Off

August 7: Day 212

My Mom made these martinis for us to enjoy after the kids went to bed. They're called Diamonds & Dice and they are YUMMY!

Photo Stats:
Exposure: 1/100 sec
Aperture: f/2.2
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO: 800
Flash: Off

August 5: Day 210

Bought some raspberries and blackberry honey from the farmers market which went quite nicely with some plain yogurt. Yummy!

Photo Stats:
Exposure: 1/200 sec
Aperture: f/3.2
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO: 200
Flash: Off

July 26: Day 200

Today is my husband's 30th birthday! We celebrated by going out to dinner at the Macaroni Grill in Boise where he got a free slice of chocolate cake. Happy Birthday Sweetie!

Photo Stats:
Exposure: 1/100 sec
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 67 mm
ISO: 1600
Flash: Off

June 8: Day 152

We had a picnic on the patio for dinner before getting chased inside by raindrops. Grace had chicken nuggets and Ethan had a peanut butter and honey sandwich. Both of them had strawberry banana yogurt that I made money buying this week. It expires on June 11th but they'll eat it before then. What they won't eat I put in the freezer for a frozen yogurt treat!

Photo Stats:
Exposure: 1/200 sec
Aperture: f/3.2
Focal Length: 60 mm
ISO: 100
Flash: Off

May 19: Day 132

I'm still not feeling good thanks to my darling son sharing his rotavirus with me. Since I spent most of the day on the couch in my pajamas I didn't exactly get creative when I picked up my camera at dinnertime. I do have to wonder though, why is Campbells chicken noodle soup so yellow? When I make homemade chicken noodle soup (which tastes 100 times better by the way) it is nowhere near this yellow. Food dye?

Photo Stats:
Exposure: 1/60 sec
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length:50 mm
ISO: 1600
Flash: Off

May 9: Day 122

My fantastic husband grilled this yummy salmon for our Mothers Day feast this year. The salmon was grilled on a cedar plank with the yummiest salmon rub ever and topped with lemon, lime, and orange slices. It's a little taste of heaven.

Photo Stats:
Exposure: 1/200 sec
Aperture: f/4.5
Focal Length:47 mm
ISO: 100
Flash: Off

April 11: Day 94

I hate taking photos at night. I was going to take a photo of the board game we played tonight and totally forgot, so once again I was stuck with roaming the house at 10pm with my camera in hand trying to find some inspiration. I walked through the house three times before I got the idea to open the refrigerator. Aha! Yogurt! So there you have it.

Photo Stats:
Exposure: 1/100 sec
Aperture: f/2.0
Focal Length: 50mm
ISO: 100
Flash: Off

March 7: Day 59

Tonight we hosted our 9th Annual Oscar party, complete with all the traditional food: brokkies (sp?), hummus & homemade tortilla chips, brownies, licorice, popcorn, and fruit. Instead of chocolate covered strawberries I made some world class lemon bars. Mmmmm. If you didn't make it to the party you totally missed out!

Photo Stats:
Exposure: 1/100 sec
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 66 mm
ISO: 400
Flash: Off