July 27, 2011

week in the life - day 2

"If you reach for the stars all you get are the stars, but we've found a whole new spin. If you reach for the heavens you get the stars thrown in." - from Mary Poppins' "Anything Can Happen"

I kept 78 pictures for day 2.

I wasn't as good at writing details down on paper today. But, for this post I realized I could go back to my pictures and look at the time stamp on my photos. I'm taking enough through out the day that I can even fill in the blanks for when I wasn't taking pictures.

Tuesday, July 26
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1) 7:48am - woke up to seeing these cute little feet in our bed, 2) Daniel starts working between 8 and 8:30, a sight I often wake up to, 3) 9:02 - time I actually got out of bed, 4) our living room first thing in the morning - not getting much better, 5) my messy desk is actually messier, 6) the kitchen is better than the morning before, but still needs more work - started cleaning the kitchen at 9:15, 7) Ethan received these building blocks for his first birthday and he still plays with them every once in a while, 8) often the first thing Emma does in the morning is play her DS, 9) 10:20am - still cleaning the kitchen, just loaded up the dishwasher.
Photobucket10) just before 11am - just finished cleaning the kitchen and made a pot of coffee for Daniel, 11) 11am - kids are eating their breakfast/lunch of left over spaghetti, plain w/ garlic salt, 12) 11:20am - eating my late breakfast of Almond Honey Bunches of Oats w/ banana and almond milk, 13) 11:20am - sitting down to check email and my daily morning blog checks, first up is always Becky Higgins because I'm always hopeful for new product sneak peeks, 14) 12pm - dishwasher is done, 15) 12:54 - left over pasta sauce, but no spaghetti so I made us pasta for lunch, 16) Daniel working thru the day - the top right corner of his computer screen is a movie or show, 17) you will often find lots of dirty dishes or remnants of what he eats on his desk, 18) 1:30 - the kids watching one of their favorite shows on Qubo - The Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog.
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19) we started the fan early today, 20) 1:51pm - only 77 degrees? feels warmer, 21) kids lounging around - I love when they lie next to each other "peacefully", 22) 3:23pm - poor little Ethan had a splinter on the bottom of his foot - Daniel trying to remove it, 23) 3:59pm - Emma practicing her "under water swimming", 24) 6:42pm - singing Happy Birthday to Gracie who turned seven today, 25) we have lots of pictures like this taken through the years - these girls are best friends, 26) 7:19pm - just arrived at the OC Performing Arts Center to see Mary Poppins! Grace's birthday gift, just us girls, 27) 7:33 - just before the show started, 28) 1:02am - moving Ethan back to his bed for the night, 29) bed time.

Filling in the blanks:

- From the time I got on the computer to check email/blogs I started working on this project, placing Monday's photos in a collage and uploading them to my blog. I spent way too long on it, but I think I was also trying to figure out how to best organize the post. I think its worth it though because I will use my blog to refer to for info once I start putting this project together next week.
- Ethan and Daddy picked up dinner from Pei Wei. Daddy says Ethan had three servings of his favorite, Chicken Fried Rice, and even had ice cream after. Ethan cried because he missed us.
- Mary Poppins was probably over at 10:15. We spent quite a bit of time at the souvenier stand trying to figure out what Emma wanted. She really wanted the umbrella, but it was expensive and I couldn't see spending $40 on an umbrella, especially when she has been so snotty with us lately. She got a very cute shirt that says "Practically Perfect" and a tote bag that says "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" (hope I spelled that right). She was very happy with her purchase in the end.
- We got home just before midnight. Emma ate pasta because she was hungry again and then went to sleep very quickly.
- Ethan was in his own bed when we got home, but wandered to our bed before I went to bed.

July 26, 2011

week in the life - day 1

The first day for my Week in the Life project went well, though at times it was a bit overwhelming. The hardest part was paying attention to time and trying to record what we were doing and when. It wasn't that unusual that I had my camera on hand the whole day, taking it with me to the library, Target, Sprouts... It was a little more unusual that I would take a picture of the ice cream cones being handed to me through a McDonalds drive thru window or that I was photographing peaches in Sprouts.

Monday, July 25
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I used my DSLR for all shots except the one of me driving. I would have liked to use my 50mm more, but I found I wanted to get wider shots to show my surroundings so I used my 24-70 the most.

I have 88 photos for the day, after deleting the non-keepers. I don't know how I'm going to pare down what I'm showing here...

I took most of the photos. Emma took a couple of me. I need to pull out the tripod and use the self timer more.

I went in wanting to get a shot of myself in the morning. I'll ask Daniel to take a couple of these for me as the week goes. I also want to get a shot of the living room, kitchen and my desk every day - to show how the mess gets worse or better!

I wish I had taken a clock shot at the beginning of my day as well as at the end. I'd like to do this every day for the rest of the week. I also like the idea of taking a snapshot of the weather/temp on my phone each day.

I completely missed bed time last night with the kids. Need to zone in on that. Last night I think I was just exhausted and I was also cramming to get a photo order in for some clients.

An interesting experience over all. I'm excited to see the whole thing at the end!

July 25, 2011

week in the life





I'm am starting something new today, Ali Edwards' "Week In The Life" project. For one whole week, beginning today, I will be documenting our every day lives through lots of pictures and note-keeping from hour to hour. In the end I will have this awesome glimpse of what our lives look like day in and day out. I'll be printing the week in my first ever Shutterfly book as well.

Know how I started the day in pictures? With a picture of me still in bed. Yep, and I look fantastic let me tell ya! But that's the kind of stuff I'll be capturing. Also taking a daily pic of our living room, kitchen, and my desk. Scary, but keeping it real.

I am SUPER excited. Never mind that I have a hundred billion other things I "should" be doing, this is important for my family. I'm so excited to give this to them and maybe make a yearly tradition of it.

So good luck to me! Have a great week everyone!

July 6, 2011

the weekend lens

Second weekend of summer vacation -
4th of July and a four day weekend for Daniel. There was a good mix of getting stuff done around the house and having fun.

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Friday morning - Daniel came to swim class with us. The kids were excited all week that Daddy would be there on Friday. It was also the first time either one jumped off a diving board. Both were terrified, but they lived to tell. They'll do it again.

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late Friday afternoon - Daniel had it with the heat and bought a pool. I knew it was going to go on our patio. I did not know it would be set up four feet from our door. I also still don't understand why it wasn't set up about 6 feet to the left...

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Friday night - I'm afraid armor will not help little Kung Zhu in an arena surrounded by dinosaurs. Sorry Kung Zhu.

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Saturday afternoon - Another mystery to me... Set up pool and THEN remove the patio's fiber glass covering. Hmmmm??? And yep, one slat decided to puncture the pool cover. I'll take that over puncturing the pool that is holding 900 gallons of water 4 FEET AWAY FROM OUR BACKDOOR. Daddy did have a captive audience, that's for sure.

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late Saturday afternoon - Progress is definitely being made in removing cement.

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Sunday afternoon - July 3rd was just nice. And my husband got a haircut. Yay!

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Monday morning, 4th of July - Woke up to find this beauty on our kitchen table. Seriously, the most perfectly shaped beautiful pumpkin, in JULY!!! We didn't intentionally plant pumpkins, but Daniel found something growing a few months back in our backyard where he was clearing weeds. So he planted it and here we are! Now what to do with it...

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Monday morning, 4th of July - Had to buy a flag pole for the first ever flag we have put up! Flag belonged to my family growing up.

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Monday night, 4th of July - Per tradition, the Gallagher and Lee families celebrated the evening with good food and fireworks. The fireworks that surrounded our house, big and small, were amazing. It was awesome. Good times.