“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” -Nelson Mandela

Such a fun day searching for the perfect spots and an easy going model!

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“Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.” JFK

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.

“Children will not remember you for the material things you provided, but for the feeling that you cherished them.” Richard Evans

I just adore the face on the little guy below and the photo.

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My 2013 goal:  Capture, edit and print our own family moments and keep our life simple!

“From small beginnings come great things.” Proverb

“Clouds came floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”

Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet

“I am the only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.”

Helen Keller

“A FAMILY IS A PLACE WHERE PRINCIPLES ARE HAMMERED AND HONED ON THE ANVIL OF EVERYDAY LIVING” Charles Swindoll

“Children’s games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play.”

-Montaigne

In his arms I am safe and loved,

In my daddy’s arms I belong,

Nowhere else I can think of.

“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.” Freud

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Lao Tzu

This little one almost lost it’s little bird life as my husband was thinning out a tree in our backyard.  The branch would never have been cut if we had seen the nest.  It must be scary as your home crashes to the ground. Luckily, my husband caught the little bird’s eyes with his as he picked up the fallen branch to throw away.  We placed the branch up high on a table and watched for many days. She never left the nest and the beautiful thing was as another bird came back (I am guessing the “he”), he kept circling where the branch used to be for quite sometime. Buzzing all around. Finally, he found his partner and chirped away.  We never got to see the eggs hatch as one morning they packed up and found a better suited home, most likely in a tree in a different yard.