Courtney's Photography

Here are a few of Courtney's photos. I really think she has a talent and a good eye to be able to photograph a subject it in a way that makes you see the object in a totally different light. She can see beauty in things that most people just walk right past and don't ever take the time to notice.

Painting the House

The girls decided they were tired of their bedroom and bathroom colors. They had the colors for about five years, so I wasn't really too surprised they wanted a change. The twins helped me paint their room. I left the room for a few minutes and when I came back, this is what I found. Ha! Teach me to leave the twins alone in a room with a bucket of paint and rollers!

Texas Blue Bonnets

It is quite typical for Houstonians to head out to Brenham and Chappel Hill, Texas this time of year to see the beautiful sea of blue bonnets. Unfortunately this year, due to lack of rain, there were very few flowers. We still enjoyed finding a few and of course stopping in at the Blue Bell Ice Cream Factory for a large scoop of, I have to say, the best ice cream in the United States!

Typically, this is what a blue bonnet field looks like this time of year... all you can see for miles is a sea of beautiful blue!

As you will see in the pictures towards the end of this post, the fields were green and dry. There were hardly any flowers this year. The flowers we did find were almost lavender in color.

Cute little Tipper legs!

Give the teenagers each a camera and away they go! The girls took some of these photos on the blog post. I am really impressed with their abilities. Nice job ladies!

There were no fields of blue bonnets this year...just dry cracked land for miles and miles.

Tiffany's Field Trip to the Nursery

Tiffany's Preschool class is learning about plants and bugs this week. They had their field trip at a local nursery. The kids enjoyed learning how seeds became plants and viewing a lot of fruit and vegetables plants. At the end of the tour, each child got to plant a watermelon seed. (which I must add, Tiffany's finally sprouted yesterday! Talk about a happy gal!) After planting the seed, the tour guide opened a bag of lady bugs for the children to see and to put a few on their plants. Holy moly, was that a bad idea! Lady bugs, lady bugs everywhere and lots of little girls saying "EW! EW!". The lady bugs were in the kid's hair, shirts, shorts, shoes, arm pits, etc. It was great fun!

Our tree hugger...

Standing by the orange trees.

Learning about mint leaves.

Watermelon seed planted and ready to go home!

Victoria's Freshman Year Shotput and Discus Varsity Season

Victoria was placed on Varsity about mid-season. She was SO excited! At the beginning of the season she had set a goal to throw far enough to make it onto Varsity. We were all thrilled for her when she came home with her great news! She went to Districts and did not place but beat her Personal Best Records! What a great way to end the season. Way to go Tori.

Click to enlarge...see the shotput mid-air in the pic? And in the next pic too? (Nice photos Ron!)

Did I mention those shots are 8 lbs each?

Victoria's Art

Victoria worked on a few Texan piece of art this year. This one was one of my favorites. It was done on a scratch board. I liked this piece. Notice the shooting star at the top?

The flash was obviously picked up on the cow. Do your best to enjoy!

Ron's Birthday!

For Ron's birthday this year we had chicken instead of red velvet cake. Only kidding, he requested peach pie (or was it blueberry honey?). However, I thought it would be tasty to try a new peach cobbler recipe. Unfortunately, it was awful. Next year I think we will just stick with cake. All of us thought the cobbler looked like chicken breasts... Ron and his little women. HAPPY BIRTHDAY RON! We love you! xoxo