365 day photo challenge

I started a new photo challenge that is to take a picture every day of the same person. My wonderful son agreed to be my model, it make me especially happy because he does not lime to have his picture taken. I will not pot the pictures every day but at the end of the year I will make them into a video.
Last night was a great time with the neighbors, talking and sipping champagne by a fire pit. We ate yummy food and made s'mores too.

The earth moved last night

We woke up this morning, looked over the deck and this is what we saw! This is right down in front of our house . . . the face of the bluff slid out from under our deck. We are all ok and our house sits back on the deck, but it sure make the little things not so big when you see this.
Have a wonderful day!

Out with the old and in with the new

Good bye 2011 don't let the door hit you on the way out!
As we sit around a fire pit tonight talking about this year the majority of us agree this was not a great year, we all hold out hope that 2012 will be a much better year.

I am going to work on some goals for this year, I am hoping that whatever job I am suppose to be doing will come to me (as I know it will), I am excited to see where 2012 takes me. How about you?

So long 2011

As we get ready to say good bye to 2011 it is a good time to remember all the blessing we have in our lives. I feel so blessed that this year my son still enjoys me being around and helping out his FIRST robotics team. In love that we can hang out, he is such a great teenager.
Today I will spend the day cleaning so we can bring in the new year in a clean and purged place. I am all about minimizing today. So I want to have it carry over into 2012.
What are you doing today to bring in the new year?

Glass sea star

I got this beautiful hand blown sea star for Christmas and I love it. Can you see the bubbles in it? It is meant to be a candle but I do not know if I want to pour oil on it, I like it just as it is.

New red tea kettle

I love my new red tea kettle I got for Christmas. It is very unique and looks great in my kitchen.

Cookie decorating

The difference between girls decorating and boys decorating cookies. . . Boys pour every container of candy on the squeezed out frosting, no spreading or resemblance of a gingerbread man. . . Girls carefully spread frosting, think out where to place a few candies then eat the rest of the candy.