{a moment in time}

Today my dad stopped by so I could photograph his lawnmower and after I did that I captured him, my daughter & the dogs. My dad had eye surgery last Thursday and today his eyes are only slightly red. He's looking good and he's only seeing one of everything instead of doubles...so the surgery was a success so far!! YAY!!! Below are my snaps of our time outside.

(almost a week after his surgery)

(shortly after his surgery while he was in recovery - taken w/cell phone)

{Project 365: Day 17}

I missed a day - totally spaced photographing anything but I did capture a moment today with my dad.

(My dad)

{New Do and Snaps}

"Hey Ruth. Can I cut your hair?" Sam asked innocently.

"Sure, just make me look pretty and not like a boy." Ruth said.

While the missionaries were giving Aaron a discussion lesson, Ruth comes down and states "Sam cut my hair on purpose" with a bit of a whine in her voice (trying to get her brother into trouble). 

"It's ok, I will straiten it up so you don't look silly" I say as I wisks her to the bathroom where Ruth tells me "Sam asked me if he could cut my hair, maybe I shouldn't have let him do it"

I start cutting and Ruth squeaks softly, with a tear in her eye "You won't be able to put my hair up in pony tails anymore, will you?" I shook my head and told her "No honey, it's too short now, but you will still look pretty." to which Ruth replied "I shouldn't have said "yes" to Sam"

(she was still a bit sad about her hair being short)

(but soon that sadness disappeared and she posed happily for the camera)

(I am glad she has curly hair 'cause it hides the imperfections)

While MJ is happy and cooing I decide to take a few snaps of her...She is such a happy baby, but can be cranky when she wants to be too.

(she has such long lashes)

(whose there?)

I wanted to capture a few of Ceasar and our new dog, Alex, together. They really didn't want to cooperate but I got them to do it anyways...Aren't they just too cute!!

(both a bit timid with each other still)

(sizing one another up)

(Look at me!)

{Project 365: Day 16}

(Ruth's new hair do, courtesy of her brother Sam)

{Meet Alex}

We got a new dog today, we were told he's half pug, half miniature pincher. He is about a year and a half and full of spunk and in great need of being neutered (he was FREE so I figured paying for his surgery would be a fine exchange).

Alex and Ceasar hit it off but Alex got a bit too frisky for my liking, but I am sure that will change once his "nuts" are gone. He is still a pup so he will need some obedience training but we know he's going to be easy to train just because of how well he started listening to us, (with our friend, Josh's, help), now we just need to get him into a class and neutered.

So now we have TWO cats and TWO dogs, plus 4 kiddo's too.