Week 2

Here we are again with another installment of the 52 Weeks Project. And, again, it's technically not week 2, but actually week 3. I can see that this is becoming a pattern.

We headed outside today to give Quinn his first experience with snow. In summary, he hated it. He did fine until I thought it would make a really cute picture if all three of us were laying in the snow making snow angels. I instructed Will where to go, made a spot for myself and then plunked little Angel Quinn down and flapped his arms and legs a couple times. And that's precisely when he started bawling. Oops! Charlie snapped a picture anyway, which looked totally weird and so I deleted it. So all that for nothin'. Poor Quinn. After that, I tried to show him how fun it was but there was no going back. Charlie took him inside and Will and I stayed outside and played.

I always dread going out to play in the snow. First of all, I HATE being cold. Second, it's so much work to get myself and two kids bundled up for such a short time. I know, I'm lazy. But every time I get out there, I'm glad I did. We ended up having a blast! We chased each other and had a snowball fight. Then we decided it would be really fun to go down the slide and land in a big pile of snow. Will had a brilliant idea that we could throw snowballs at the person who was going down the slide. We took turns sliding and pelting each other with snowballs.Will and I agreed that we should really do this more often.

Week 1

I have been inspired by my super talented and sweet friend Kelly Gorney to take on the 52 Weeks project. Since I'm often the one behind the camera, I have tons of pictures of everyone else with my kids, but few of myself. It's time to do something about that! So every week in 2011, I will stick myself in front of the camera with my boys. A lot of times I get caught up in thinking that everything has to be perfect in order to take on a project like this. I'm not a gifted photographer, my house is not spotless, I don't have a closet full of super cute clothes to wear for our pictures - I could go on and on. In attempt to give a giant middle finger to my crippling perfectionism, I'm doing it anyway! And without further ado....

*drum roll please*

Waa waaaaa *muted trumpets*

I can explain. First of all, this was taken on Sunday, which I realize this is technically week two and normally would have caused me to ditch the whole thing for all of 2011 because I missed the first week by a day. (You think I'm kidding?) So... there is a victory in that. Second, we were all sick last week. Poor Quinn had an ear infection, sinus infection and green ooze seeping from his bloodshot eyes. He was just miserable, but still managed to stay smiling and happy. He is such a little trooper. My throat felt like I swallowed a pool ball wrapped with barbed wire that sprouted vines up to my ears. Not pretty, as you can see I have documented here. I was still determined to stick with this though so we gathered in the one clean room in the entire house, set up the camera and kept it real. At least there is room for improvement, right?