I Heart Faces - Angle Challenge

So this one I get to "kill two birds with one stone"! :) Bean will be turning 6 a week from tomorrow (I know, seriously, where have the last 6 years gone?!?!?!?!), so in honoring her birthday, I am going to post an image a day here of my sweet Bean. And, I am entering it into the "I Heart Faces - Focusing on Angles" challenge.

I would like to also post one thing that I also "love" about her with the image each day. Today, as I am typing this, she is in the family room sharing and playing with her sister Cakies. I LOVE that Bean is an incredible big sister. She is patient with her siblings, includes them in everything and is a best friend to them. I love watching the sibling relationship develop, grow and deepen more and more each day. I pray it continues for their lifetime, because I personally know that a strong relationship with a sibling (siblings in my case) is one of the best things here on earth.

So here is the shot...taken on an angle...of my little Bean in her bedroom. She asked if we could do her "6 year old session" in her room. She picked the outfits, and of course, and hairdo too! Love her independence and confidence...but I will probably write about that another day! ;)

For more cool angle shots, click on the link above!

I Heart Faces - Hands On

So, as most of you know, I have been trying to challenge myself a bit, and enter in the I Heart Faces photo challenge the past couple of weeks. It is fun. But it is most difficult to decide which picture to use! We can only pick one...ONLY ONE...seriously? LOL! But seriously, it is hard to choose. Like this week for example. It is Hands On, and is all about emotion with hands. I have too many to choose from. I LOVE hands and feet...anyone that follows knows that. Ugh! I was maybe not even going to enter because it was causing me turmoil! LOL!

So, do I enter my sweet Butter's curious chubby hands from his one year old session? Hands from the kids playing cards with grandpa? Hands of a family hugging/holding their momma's pregnant belly? Newbie hands that are so delicate that curl so tight and are so tiny those first few weeks of life?

It then hit me as to the picture I wanted to enter. It is the most emotionally filled picture that I have ever taken...at least to me. It is of my sister back in December holding my sweet niece Lillian Christine. My sister was 21 weeks pregnant and found out the day before that Lillian had passed away and had already gone to be with Jesus. I cry as I type this remembering the emotions and the feelings from that day. It is still a fresh wound that is healing. My sister is an amazing mom, and one day she will be able to hold Lillian again, and Lillian will be full of life. This picture shows her tininess. Her body fitting head to toe in my sister's hands. You can see the IV in my sister's hand, and the blood pressure cuff on the other arm, showing the signs of just laboring and delivering her sweet baby girl. My sister is an amazing person, and those of you who know her are lucky to have her in your life. She is my best friend. We have shared incredible highs and desperately low times together. I couldn't do this life without her.

...here is sweet Lily in her tiny little gown...

So there it is. That is the best picture to me to enter. No feelings of "did I choose the right one?". That is the best. The sweetest. My winner.

For more 'Hands On' shots head on over to I Heart Faces by clicking on the link above or image below!

Fix-It Friday

Over at I Heart Faces it is Fix-It-Friday. They upload a picture for us and you if you would like, to fix up and link up to their blog. I thought I would do it real quick today...not because I have nothing else to do...but I think I did it because I have SO many other things to do and this was a quick "break" for me! :) Here are a few quick fixes that I did...Please feel free to hop over to I Heart Faces and check out others "fixes"!

Here is the original image...

My fixes...what a cutie, huh?

Happy Friday! :)

I heart faces...

This is a picture from last April of my sweet Cakies dancing her little heart out at Uncle J and Aunt K's wedding. I thought it would be fun to enter this week's contest at I Heart Faces Photography. It would be fun to win, but I had more fun revisiting this picture and adding to it...the texture, the quote and making it black and white. I can't believe how much older Cakies looks now...sigh. Hope you are having a great week!

Texture Photo Challenge - I {heart} Faces Photography

So I was just talking about messing around with textures in my previous post, and stumbled upon this fun website:

And, there is a contest going on with textures. Since I had just done the previous two, I thought I would enter one of them. And, although I adore the one of Bean, I thought it would be a super cool surprise for my sister if this picture made the top ten...since she is the one that snapped it...I edited...but she did the hard work! AND, I love my little babe so much, that this picture is still one that I treasure! So, I am posting that picture again except I converted to black and white, and like it this way too! So, here it is...and here is hoping that it is picked as a winner!