This made me smile

I took a break the other day from "work edits" and was going through some personal photo folders that hadn't really been touched and came across this file from September 2009. I took Ry and one of his best buddies Judah to a park down by the river in PG and just watched them with my camera while they played.

I love that God blessed me with little boys and that it takes so little to entertain them. Give them a stick and a plethora of rocks infront of some water and we're good for an hour or two! Looking back it was the highlight of my day watching those two throw rocks to see whose got the biggest splash and whose went the furthest. I'm hoping that we can steal a few more of these moments in the weeks ahead as we get ready to move.

I decided to edit these a little differently than I usually do. I tend to lean towards as natural as possible when I edit. I'm not terribly fond nor gifted to extremely edit photos, I like them to look as close to natural as possible. I will often over edit a few photos for a wedding but usually leave them alone as much as possible with some little tweaks that most probably wouldn't even notice! But I notice and I like to tweak them just a little bit. Anyways, these I tweaked more than usual and actually enjoyed how they turned out. I did leave one more natural because it was fall and the colors were GEEORGEOUSSSSS!!!

What I'm Lovin

So I wouldn't call myself a bargain hunter by any stretch of the imagination. I look for good deals when I'm shopping and am somewhat restrained with my purchases, unless it's H&M or Jacob at my favorite malls in Calgary. I lived with a closet filling shoe junkie growing up and thankfully didn't have to share a closet with her... my sister Nikki did. Nikki had like maybe 3 pairs of shoes and Jenni, well let's just say Jenni and Imelda Marcos rivalled each other for shoes. Okay maybe slight exaggeration (it's a running joke in our family)but she did have lots!

Well today Jenni would be very very proud of me - I bought shoes! My lovely amazing sister inlaw Sheila called our house last night and in the middle of her visit mentioned to Garth that there was going to be a coupon for 50% off everything at Payless Shoes. Sheila works at Payless and we often stop in and shop when we hit Calgary. So I checked out oprah.com this morning and there I saw the coupon - 50% off everything... IN THE STORE! So I printed it off at the office and called Garth, picked him up and headed out to the mall.

We power shopped and bought all our shoes in about 20 minutes (that's all the time we had before having to pick Ry up from Kindergarten). Anyways...... I still can't rival Imelda or Jenni, but I am the proud new owner of 3 pairs of shoes/boots. Woo Hoo!

So what am I lovin today? I'm lovin that I got a deal. I'm lovin that I got a new pair of winter boots (good timing due to today's dump of snow!). I'm lovin that Garth spent some money too so it wasn't just me (this is important people, I can't just be the spender- he needs to be involved too!). I'm lovin that I got a needed pair of boots, a sensible pair of shoes (check out my feet at my next wedding!) and a pair of sexy boots, yup I said sexy boots, Garth seems to like them!

And because I don't like not having a photo to post I grabbed one of today's purchase..... aren't they great? Thanks Sheila - you're my fave!