Julia's Birthday- July 7

Better late than never.  On July 7th Julia celebrated her twelfth birthday.  We were in Florida so I never got around to posting.

On her birthday we had planned a pool party with my aunt, my sister's family, and a friend's family. Julia spent the night with my sister the night before and came home not feeling very well.  We ended up canceling her party and just had my sister over to our rental.  

Fortunately Julia felt better the next day.  We went to Downtown Disney in Orlando for the day with my niece.  We started off at T-Rex.  The kids loved it!  We walked around awhile and met one of my FB friends. 

On our way back to Palm Coast we stopped and saw Dallas' sister.  The kids were excited.  They had not see her in a year.

All and all Julia had a good day.  It was nice being with family  for her 

birthday.  Hard to believe she is 12.  We are so thankful to be her parents!

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Day 61

"Mama said there'll be days like this
There'll be days like this mama said"

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Day 59 Repeat

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Day 58 Cool

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Day 57 Ten

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Day 56 Fun

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Day 55 Home

These boys of mine are my least cooperative models.  Today I tried bribing them with M&Ms, it didn't work.  Their idea of looking at me and mine is different.

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Day 51

First Baseball Game

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Day 50 Moment

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Day 49

This is a photo that I took in China May 2013.  I have been learning some new techniques.  It brought life to this otherwise dreary photo.

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Day 48 Admire

I admire Dallas for many reasons. One of them being he was a good sport when I asked to take his photo this afternoon.  We had moved to the front porch for a few shots and he said let's get one with Chase(our dog).  I turned around and this is what I saw. And yes he gave me permission to post it.  ISO 400, 85mm, f/2.8, 1/250

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Day 44 Old School

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Day 43 Looking Up

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Day 42 Interior

We spent the day in the interior of our car.  This was our view from the Danes Point Bridge leaving Jacksonville, Fl.

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Day 41

Cow Appreciation Day 2014 - My Herd

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Day 40 Not following the prompt

This is the scene that created us when arriving at Flagler Beach the other night for photos.  The sky was absolutely breathtaking.  As the sun set it became even more gorgeous!

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Day 39  Alive

Alyssa is alive in every sense of the word.  She keeps us on our toes every second of the day.

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Day 38 Never

I've never been able to capture a photo of all eight of my kids smiling at the same time.

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Day 37 First

Julia's first day being 12

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Day 36 On the Table

Zachary made these cakes for Julia's birthday.

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Day 34  Stars

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Day 33- Match

You have met your match.

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Day 32  K is for.....

Kristopher

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Day 31 Red and White