I will leave the images all here – they aren’t going anywhere. I love the record of half the year! And I will do some thinking through the next little while to decide if I will start up a new project in  2009!

Thanks you BIG TIME to all of you who have followed along and commented and shared my every day. Please continue to read the biz blog and see what new things I’m up to! And maybe I’ll be creative enough to think of  a new project for the new year. Share your ideas if you have them!

I’ve done very well with the project by continuing to take images every day [I've missed a couple here and there but made up for it the next day] – only they didn’t come off my camera right away and then they are put on hold while i work on business items. I realize I’m very backlogged and that is a very overwhelming feeling. I WANT to do them but other things are taking priority. I’ve not made the project a priority for more than a month now. And that makes me so so sad.

For the past few days I’ve been trying to decide if I should stop the project or continue with it, knowing that I have so much work to get done to get it back on track. But I’ve already taken all the pictures – that’s not the problem, it’s just getting them uploaded. So I’ve done half of the requirement already – why would I give up on that?

I realize it’s going to take some doing to get caught up, and I plan to. So hang in there with me.  I think I’ve devised a plan…

Starting today – I will get my images posted daily again. I will try so hard to make this work. And as I have time [which may not be for awhile yet] I will go back and fill in all the days that I’ve yet to process and post. I will backdate them so they’ll continue to go in order. You’ll need backtrack to see them since they won’t pop up as new. But by year’s end – I hope to be all caught up and complete.

This was a goal I had set for myself before the new year even began. I started it out so well and stuck with it through some hard times. It would be really foolish of me to come this far and quit now. I can’t make promises. Today it sounds so good to try to keep it going but tomorrow that could be so different and I lose sight of it again.

I’ll try.

I captured this gem of my sweet girl while working on some different pet photography techniques. It wasn’t exactly what I was going for but it turned out so nice anyway. I just love her! And those eyes melt me.

I just love my puppies! Those faces are so irresistable. They’ve become good friends – though you might not know it with all the open mouth and teeth flaring wrestling going on around here! Casey is already bigger than Ruby and he’s not even 6 months old yet!

James and I treated ourselves to some ice cream treats tonight. So yummy!

Sometimes I think my kitten forgets that the bugs are on the other side of the glass. That doesn’t keep her from trying though. Especially in the evening when the dogs go outside and I turn on the deck light, the bugs swarm and little Miss Millie goes a little kitty psycho! It’s amazing how high she can jump!

Connor has been begging for tennis rackets ever since we moved into the house and the courts were just a couple blocks down the road. I had been putting it off, honestly, I know nothing about the sport. RFinally, he got his rackets and we went down to play. It was steaming hot in the mid day sun but he played like a champ! He wants to take lessons. I’m sure he’ll do great!

The days of making forts in the house were so fun! My kids do it pretty regularly, much more common in the dreary winter months but today it was just so warm and Dillan felt like being indoors. He took ALL the cushions from the couch – all 18 of them – and made a fort. He rearranged it several times and then all of a sudden he was just out. I guess fort construction is really hard work!

This is a new project I’m starting, taking pictures in the rear view mirrors. Life looks different when you’re looking back. This was a test shot so I could see how to position my camera [I was stopped] to capture just what I wanted in the mirror. This was a trip to the grocery store.

Dillan has needed a new bike for awhile now. He had Connor’s hand-me-down which was already well used and Dillan put it through it’s paces as well. He picked out this spiffy ne bike that just fits him so well!