I ♥ Faces, Balloon Theme This Week

The theme at I ♥ Faces this week is Balloons. What a fun topic! Recently I did a photo shoot with Alexis (you can see her pictures here) and we used balloons. Until . . . she accidentally let them slip away, into the sun - lol! I love this picture of her, it shows her excitement about the balloons, you can see her reflection in the purple balloon, and I caught a little solar flash of color across the balloons. We had a great time that day! To check out other balloon shots, head on over to I ♥ Faces!

A Bad Day To Be Gus

DISCLAIMER: there's a whole lot of blue and brown in these photos. I hope you're partial to blue and brown, otherwise you might want to turn back right now :).

You might be asking why it was a bad day to be Gus. (If not, that means you didn't read my title :).) A couple days prior to these photos, Mark was at the ranch doing some work and, for whatever reason, Gus kicked the trailer hitch on the jeep. Not a great move on Gus' part.

The next day we noticed limping, which continued to get worse. So, we started the process of calling in the vet, Dr. Bruey. Above you see him examining Gus' hoof.

Gus had a good bit of damage to the back of his front hoof. (There's probably a technical term for it that I don't know.) He split off a good chunk of his heel and it was twisted out to one side. As you could well imagine, Gus was not crazy about Dr. Bruey lifting and poking and prodding that section of hoof. Which leads to the above picture of Mark trying to catch Gus again :O).

Gus: Hey, Doc! Are you sure my leg's supposed to bend that way?!? Whoa, Momma!!! that hurts! (Immediately followed by some serious head-slinging by Gus!)

Gus: Well, that's a little less painful! Hey, Doc! What's that big thing sticking out of your boot?

About this time, Dr. Bruey decides some good meds would be appropriate.

You'll notice Gus' eyes start to droop. And, Dr. Bruey's little dog Tipper decided it was safe to come around.

See that big bolt cutter looking thing in the doc's boot? That's what he used to cut off the chunk of Gus' hoof that was broken. Up into the skin, not a good thing.

Before we knew it, Gus was all bandaged up and feeling no pain! Did I mention those painkiller/meds the doc gave Gus? Check this out:

and he's going . . . . . .

. . . . going . . . . .

. . . . gone!

Did you know with the proper amount of medication, you can play with a horse's mouth all you want and not get bitten? Pull on the lips, flop them back and forth, sandwich them back and forth like a clam opening and shutting its mouth, you get the general idea - lol!

Oh! Sorry, Gus!

Seriously though, Dr. Bruey was great! and Gus is feeling a lot better now. Still limping, but definitely better!

Jaslynn, What a Sweetheart!

A lot of babies have come into our lives recently. And they keep getting cuter and sweeter! Doesn't this mom look as happy as can be with her precious four month old daughter?


Jaslynn is already trying to sit up, so laying down in my basket was not her favorite thing to do that day - lol!

OK, everyone. For those of you who admired my burgundy streaks, this beautiful lady is my hairdresser, the one responsible! I wish I was brave enough to get pink streaks like she has, she looks great with pink streaks!


I have to stop here and point out the big lipstick kiss on the side of her face! You can definitely tell Jaslynn is loved - lol!

She was interested in the flowers. Isn't she adorable?

Mom and daughter both wore purple :).

Jaslynn let us lay her down on her back for a minute, so I shot a whole bunch of pictures because we knew it wouldn't last long - lol!

(And, Jaslynn wasn't really asleep. She was just pretending :O).)




We did this photo shoot two days before Halloween. Jaslynn's mom was so excited to find this little ladybug outfit. Jaslynn, on the other hand, was not excited about wearing the fleece outfit in the 84 degrees temperature - lol! Can't say as I blame her. Again, we shot fast!

Just another shot of mom's hair :).

Isn't she beautiful? And, I leave you with this thought . . . . . . . .

Fix-It Friday, Week 34, I ♥ Faces

It's Fix-It Friday at I ♥ Faces. This is the original they gave us to work with.

Here is my first edit. I used Picasa and PSCS3 to pop up the color, edit out bruises and bug bites, smooth the skin, pop the eyes, and blur the edges.

Next, I reversed the image and added a bit of solar flare, which in this particular case softened the picture a bit.

For this one I cropped in and focused on her face. In the original she had a lot of purpling around the eye. I smoothed this out in PSCS3, then used mcpactions.com's Magic Skin action.

I like to play around with settings in photoshop. I changed up the contrast and got the photo on the right.

Then I put the picture through mcpactions.com's Coloring Book, Cocoa Twist action. I love how this last one turned out! Why don't you join in the fun and post some edits of your own? To see how others interpreted this week's picture, head on over to I ♥ Faces.

Urijah - Take Two

And so began a love story.

And then, this man and this woman got married under a gazebo.

Their love resulted in this little fellow:

Three months ago I took the above photo. You can view Urijah's newborn shots here.

Fast-forward three months and this is what Urijah looks like now :).

My understanding is that Urijah was named after a well-known fighter, thus the Tapout shots :O).





Isn't that the prettiest smile you've ever seen?


We took these shots in the same gazebo Urijah's mom and dad were married in.

What a beautiful family :).



His Aunt Lindsay got him these cute little flip flops :O).


Isn't Urijah's mother beautiful?


The three of them make a fine looking family!




Glamma and Glamson :).



Thanks for letting me take Urijah's pictures! I had a great afternoon with your sweet family!