family pics

We attempted family photos this week for the annual Christmas card. 

I say attempt because we took them ourselves. And we took them in front of our garage. I'm not exactly sure why other than I wanted a neutral background. So here is a sneak peak.

This picture was salvaged from an overexposure fail (I accidentally moved the ISO and I am so annoyed). It's not my favorite in terms of photoshop magic, but it was such a good one of the kids, that I had to do something with it.

I'll post more later. 

Have a great Sunday!

friday favorites {instagram}

Do you use Instagram? I use it on my iPhone ALL. THE. Stinkin. TIME. I swear it makes any regular picture look fantastic. Here is a recap in instagram pics of the past few weeks. 



Our church meets in the evening on Sundays, so we usually spend the morning running errands as a family. I am always super insecure about people thinking we don't go to church. Not so much because I feel judged as much as I want people know it's important to me and a huge part of our lives. But I also don't want to get them dressed for church that early either because they might get dirty. I decided it's not worth worrying about what other people think. So here's to me letting go of what others think and letting them wear whatever they wanted to run to Lowe's last Sunday.
 

My sweet boy and I at the zoo

 

Meadow loves the merry-go-round and was especially excited that she got to ride on the dog.

Crazy and creative Saige looking beautiful no matter what she's wearing.

 

Super Reed and the mask I made quickly for his halloween costume. I was inspired by a friend who made them for her entire family. Hers looked a lot better. But as Patrick reminded me when I asked if I should start over - "It's going to just end up on the ground in the closet." I love that practical man of mine.

 

This one is for you, Mama Sharp! Meadow was super excited to open and find the cowgirl hat you sent for her birthday. She looks pretty cute, huh? 

 

And lastly, I want to tell you about my friend Blossom. She is amazing with the knitting needles and I mentioned this scarf to her after seeing it on pinterest.  Well, she made me this scarf and hat and put them in my mailbox this past week and totally surprised me. She rocks. If you're interested in purchasing one, let me know and I will get you her contact info. She has an etsy shop, Curly Giraffe, but right now she is just taking orders for the scarves so she can get specifics and not end up making ones that people don't want. Anyways, they're priced very reasonably as well and I think you would look fabulous in one!

In keeping with Wimberly tradition, we are off to the zoo again for miss Meadow's birthday WEEK.

 Happy Friday!

 

the new camera rocks

We are back from the beach. It was a fun, fast trip and as always we enjoyed hanging out with our friends, Liz and Brandon. Since we got home on Sunday, life has been non stop. Doctors visits, mommy group, birthday parties for a certain 3 year old and then planning a party for a certain first-born-daughter of mine. Saige will be 5 TOMORROW. Oh, y'all, I can hardly believe it. But more on that later.

I also enjoyed messing around with my new camera at the beach and getting reacquainted with Photoshop once I got home. These are some of my favorite shots from the weekend. 

Enjoy!

I love, love, love this final shot of my three crazies just as the sun was setting. 

Glorious weekend!

friday favorites {links}

My favorite links as of late:

• This is simply a fantastic way of looking at emails. An email charter, if you will.
• "We're drowning in email. And the many hours we spend on it are generating even more work for our friends and colleagues. We can reverse this spiral only by mutual agreement. Hence this Charter..."

• A beautiful letter written by John Piper to an insecure teenager. 
• "Introspection must give way to amazement at glory. When it does, becoming happens." Such wonderful wisdom to share with young people, ... or yourself, ... or myself! 

• Tim Challies talks here about the basis of a Christian's assurance of salvation.
• "I trust that you have come to see that our assurance of salvation must not rest in our sincerity or in anything we have done. Rather, our assurance rests entirely in the character of God, the promises of God and the completed work of Jesus Christ. We can have assurance and I pray that both you and I will find and experience it to God’s glory."

• Russell Moore wrote a letter to an unborn child that is eloquent, beautiful and brimming with truth.
• "My prayer for you is that you see how fervently you are loved. Your birth-mother loved you, or you wouldn’t be here to read this. Your parents love you, and always will, no matter what. Even more importantly, the God who formed you loves you enough to show you in your own life a picture of what he wants for all of us: to be adopted, for life, into his family."

• I found this post on Femina VERY interesting. 
• I agreed with it, but I didn't think I would at first. Definitely made me think. And made me appreciate the tool that this blog has become for me.
• And here is part 2, because it got quite a response.

• Finally, now that I got a new camera, I have found these tips particularly helpful.

Happy Friday, y'all! 

We are headed to the beach for a little R&R!