All You Need Is Love~ Picture the Holidays ~ December Daily

December 3rd prompt is:
Love is at the top of the list when it comes to the meaning of the holiday season. Love of family, of friends, of ourselves. Love for the Earth, love of the Devine, love for humanity, love of the ages. They say that love is all you need and in so many ways, they are exactly right!


Today, focus on love. Feel it. Be it. Capture it. Share it.

Very fitting since today is our 17th wedding anniversary!
I did cheat a little though. Instead of using a photo I took on the 3rd. I am using one I took on November 29th cause I've never captured or seen anything like it. And guess what it is a HEART!!!

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Can you see it? Do you notice anything else? If you look close there is a cross in the center of it made from the Hydrangea stem. Of course it's not in the literal "T" formation but still, its a cross!

French Lick Part 1

This will be an overloaded post with photos. And I'm doing it in two parts.
We as a whole family went down to French Lick November 25th and stayed the night. That is the first time since Mike & I have been married that we all went somewhere on vacation together. The kids were super excited and Friday when we got up, all Josie kept asking was if it was time to leave yet.
I'll let the photos do most of the talking.

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First we all went to eat at the French Lick Winery. Their pizza was really good as was their cherry wine!

Riley was not at all interested in me taking a photo of him. All he was concerned about was when we got to go swimming.

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Of course I had to take some photos.

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And of course I had to play with some textures as well when I was editing these.

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On our way back into the hotel.

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Michelle wanted to walk the kids around at dark so they could see all of the lights. So Michelle, I and Mike took them for a walk, while everyone else hit the casino.

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When we came back in, Mrs Clause was there getting ready to read the kids a book.

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While Michelle took Josie & Kayla to listen to Mrs Clause read a book, Mike, Riley & I went for a walk to check out all the decorations and for me to get some photos.

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Michelle's not around so we can get him to act silly for the camera and actually get a smiling photo!

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Love that you can see all the reflection of myself and the building in these balls.

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Photo by Riley

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Michelle and Kayla are in the bottom left corner.

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Finally they get to so swimming. The pool was very warm!

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After the pool, we went back and took our showers. The kids were hungry so we took them down for ice cream. Josie was plumb tuckered out. She fell asleep on me while we were standing in line for her ice cream and root beer. So Mommy had to eat the ice cream and Daddy drunk the root beer.  Poor baby!

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Riley was starving and ate all of his ice cream.

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Rick came back to put the kids to bed, so Michelle could go gambling. Mike went back to the room with Josie so I could go gamble. But not until I went to Denny's to get him something to eat. He'd visited Jack and Coke while we were swimming and had the munchies!

Well that's it for Part 1! Hopefully Part 2 will come in the next few days or so. I just took too many darn photos! :-)
Until then!!!

Silly Girl ~ Bloomington, Indiana ~ Dreams Do Come True Photography

Josie is starting to part of the time not want me to take photos of her. Luckily it is few and far between, but this was one such night, she didn't want Mommy to play with her camera.

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Hiding behind the hand, works!

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Hiding behind the washcloth works!

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Until you take them both away, and then you get a great big belly laugh!