{My weekend in phone pictures}

The last weekend of spring break and we decided to hit the beach, Ft. Myers beach to be exact.  The weather could not have been more beautiful!  We even vistied the Edison/Ford Museum. 

Of course you have to pick Thomas Edison's nose right?  Classy kid - hey Mom take the picture now!

Hotel pools are the best for some reason - per a 10 year old!

The weather was like this ALL weekend

Low tide at the beach was perfect

Mom got to put her toes in the sand

And watch the 10 year capture hermit crabs

The water kept leaving us! 

Which made for awesome finds - seacreatures - we put him in the ocean



baby star fish are so cute! Almost as cute a little wrinkled fingers



This is what we were waiting for - the most gorgeous sunset - NO CLOUDS

hear the sizzle???  So pretty

 So that was our weekend in phone pictures.  We had a great time and I will post "real" pictures soon!

{Camera Phone Pictures}

I have to say I love taking random shots with my camera phone. Here are a few of my favorites since the beginning of the year or so.

Aaron the punk at Cracker Barrel



Spring Cleaned my linen closet

My cupcake wrapper obession

Made these for a new years eve party. LOL

They were super yummy

Got really cold in South FL so Hot Chocolate was needed

Date night with hubby at the Melting Pot

Let me out - poor kitty cat

Aaron made dinner from scratch all by himself

A scout is helpful

Helping out a scout for their Eagle Project

Out to dinner after a long day of helping others

Me and little man - yeah I can rock a braided pigtail.  LOL

Bowling Lanes

Bowling Balls

Caboose Burgers

Cat high on catnip

Ah the last night of Carvel before they closed after 38 years! :(



So that is the beginning of my new year.  So far a fun year!

{New Pictures - Practicing lots}

Ok so I have found some victims, willing participants, for my photography.  My friend Tammy allowed me to drag her around town and take some pictures. All in all I think they came out pretty good.  Here are a few of my favorite.

I am trying really hard to get to ALL manual shooting without flash, but it is taking some time and practice.  I refuse to use automatic though. :)
I also spent a wonderful Saturday afternoon just me a the lil guy.  Took him around our town just exploring, went to the park and got some really nice shots of him.  The track was his idea.  Love his sense of humor what a cool kid!  He cracks me up!

We even found this cute place that sells little mini bugers out of an old caboose!  We did the drive through.

How cute it that. Well that was a fun weekend filled with , friends, beautiful weather, lots of laughing, and over all fun times.  Until next time -
Keep Smiling,

Kim

{long time no post}

I have been crazy busy with school, work, and family. Since I last posted I have sold my Canon Rebel and purchased the Canon T2i and LOVE IT!!!!  I have begged all of my family members to let me take pictures of them to practice shooting in manual.  So far so good I have had a few brave volunteers.  I have also started a new blog, you can find it here....Newest Blog....  I love taking pictures whether with my big camera or with my phone.  This blog is dedicated to taking a picture with my cell phone at least once and day and posting it. If you would like to join me please hop over and join and post pics I will put them into the blog post the following day.  Please date your photos and offer a brief descritpion.  Well here is what I have been snapping lately.  Let me know what you think.

3D Ty

I really love this one!!!

Cute

Beautiful Family

Mommy and Daddy Love

Twins - wish this was in focus more - must keep practicing - but gives you the emotion i was looking for

Curious! 

Again wish more in focus but actually is one of my favs!  I call it Independence!

Love this one!

{Update}

So I have been on this weight loss journey for 42 weeks and I am down 52lbs.  On average I am losing 1.24 pounds a week.  Not too shabby.  I have found that I get more inspired everyday to maintain the loss.  I NEVER want to be heavy again.  It is way too hard to get rid of it as you get older.  I have a couple of new pictures to remind myself of where I came from and never want to get back to and some newer ones of where I am.  Though the newest is my NEW employee photo, therefore YUCK it does show the weight loss.  Yeah!  I have to say that I have the MOST supportive husband, son, and family/friends in general.  They are constantly giving praises and encouragement.  I have discovered that having the support of family and friends makes the fight a lot easier.  My cousin asked me just yesterday what made me want to change.  I had to sit and think about it really.  I recall it was like a light switch, I think that my health, though not bad, was the main issue.  I want to be around for my son for a very long time.  You may get hit by a bus tomorrow and that you can not control, but your health and weight is very much all you.  Getting it under control was something I had to do.  Lets face it, NO ONE wants to be fat.  Being healthy is major, major concern, but I am not going to lie, being able to fit into "normal" clothes is a huge plus!!! 
I have a pair of jeans from high school and my goal is to fit into them again.  Really I want to be less than that, but I will take that too.  If anyone out there reading this is wanting to lose weight, is losing, or has lost, please share your story.  Hearing how others have done it or are doing it will help those that want to, but are afraid!  I have been overweight for so many years; even after losing the weight I still often see myself as FAT!  Not that I am skinny, but I have come a very long way.  I feel that overweight people are often judged without being heard.  I understand that first, visual impressions, are what most people base everything on about a person.  Though really first impressions should not be about looks, but about how a person is, acts, treats you and others etc.  It saddens me that just because a person is heavier than what others think is acceptable they immediately turn the other way without getting to know them, like I said before, do you really think they WANT to be that way.  I honestly can not remember a day when I woke-up and thought, oh great I did not lose an ounce, thank God I am still fat! Often there could be medical issues etc., that without getting to know them you would never know about.  Sorry to be on my soap box, but with the recent news about a blogger stating that fat people make her uncomfortable, or something to that nature; it really made me angry.  With new shows like Mike and Molly on the air or even the wonderful shows like Ruby and Too Fat for 15; at least these shows are showing the struggle to lose weight.  The world have more people in that look like them, than "perfect" people.  Again I know this is more a rant than a true blog post, but hey it is my blog post even if no one reads it, I feel much better getting it off my chest!
I would like to wish everyone a super safe Halloween.  Until my next post, stay healthy and happy!



BEFORE



10/29/10


52LBS Lighter and 6 sizes down!

OK SO IT IS ALL ABOUT ANGLES!  LOL