February Photo A Day - Time

It's been a long week. Lots of late nights between Valentine's Day prep and the Quicken transition. So I was happy it was Friday. Especially since Monday is a holiday! Thank you, presidents!



I had a short day already because I was out in the morning accompanying Caleb's preschool class on a field trip to the zoo. In spite of that (or maybe because of that!) I was eagerly counting down to the weekend by mid afternoon.

A trip to the zoo with 1 four year old makes me tired. A trip with 34 four year olds just plain wiped me out! At least they were well  behaved kids! Those preschool teachers are doing a good job of keeping them in line!

February Photo A Day - Something New

Ooo! I'm excited for this one.

My Valentine took me to Best Buy this week for a bit of upgrading. First, we picked out Quicken.  I've been a Microsoft Money user for years, but my version is outdated and getting buggy, so it was time for an update. Apparently, Microsoft is no longer making Money, so I've switched over to Quicken.



Let me qualify this. I'm in the process of switching over. The accounts are synced up. Now to transfer the bill reminders, etc. I think I'm probably at about 50-60% complete with the transition.

And I got a new camera! Whoop whoop! I'm super excited about this baby!



It's a Sony NEX 5N, and I pretty much adore it, so far. It's compact enough to still make it convenient to use, but advanced enough to take some pretty awesome pictures (without being so advanced that I'd be lost!)

I'm not a photographer by any stretch of the imagination. But I do like to think of myself as a bit of a documentarian. I love to document things...whether it's on Facebook or my blog or with pictures. I just want to remember. So I'm pretty excited to put my busted up, taped up Nikon S-51 back on the shelf and to move on to bigger and better things with my Sony!

Happy Valentine's Day to me!

February Photo A Day - Phone

I keep a charger at work because I tend to forget to charge my phone overnight. I also have a charger in my car.



In spite of having three charges, I still occasionally forget to charge my phone at all, much to my husband's irritation.

Silly electronic leash.

February Photo A Day - Heart

It isn't a heart, but here is Caleb's Valentine for this year. Thanks for the inspiration, Pinterest!



For the record, his head wasn't cut off in the original picture, but it printed that way. Bummer! I still love it, though. :)

February Photo A Day - Blue

The most beautiful set of baby blues I've ever laid eyes on.

February Photo A Day - Inside Your Closet

One of my favorite things about this house is my closet. First of all, it's huge. Second of all, it's all mine!



I knew this house was a serious contender when I saw there were seperate closest in the master bedroom!



Honestly, one of our bedrooms in England was about the size of my closet here. There's a lot about England I miss. That tiny bedroom ain't one of those things!

February Photo A Day - Makes You Happy

Saturday was my neice's 3rd birthday party. This is Caleb and his cousin Sophia showing some love to the birthday girl, Krista!



I love how much Caleb loves his cousins! I only wish we lived closer to the rest of them!

February Photo A Day - Self Portrat

I haven't forgotten about February Photo a Day. But I have gotten a bit too busy to sit down and blog. So pardon me while I catch up on the last few days!

Here's a self-portrait from last week. Friday we took Caleb to his very first monster truck rally, which he loved! Everyone warned us about the noise, so we invested in some inexpesive hearing protection. Thank goodness we did. It WAS loud!



However, nobody warned us we'd be sitting in a cloud of noxious exhaust fumes for two hours! My eyes were burning in the beginning! I wished I had brought my onion goggles! Maybe next time!

February Photo A Day - Front Door

I'm cheating by sneaking this one in a day early. But tomorrow is going to be a long day, and I'm not sure I'll be home before 9. I turn into a pumpkin around 10, so I figured if I was going to do this at all, I better do this today!

This is the front door to the very first house we've ever owned! (You know, the one we live in now!) We typically have some ferns on the porch, but they are inside for the winter.



And then, just because that was a really boring pic, here's a picture of the front door of our house in England. When Tommy was deployed, Zeus used to spend a good portion of every night sitting by the door, whining, waiting for him to come home.



Now Zeus spends a good portion of every evening trying to get into the trash in hopes that he'll find a snack. Bad dog!

February Photo A Day - Sun

Sunrise over Gate 2 at Fort Jackson while waiting to get on post this morning.



Sheesh, I have to get to work early.

Also, not taken today, but because I love this picture for all the memories it brings back, here's a sunset off the veranda of our room on the Disney Magic on the Disney cruise we took two summers ago.



I believe we were leaving Corsica when I took this one. I took a sunrise/sunset pic almost every day on the boat. Every time I see this picture, my heart squeezes up a little missing that boat.