Friday, November 20, 2009

FOTO FRIDAY
"Macro"
This weeks challenge was really fun. I like taking pictures in macro. The first two pictures John took this summer of a hawk in our front yard. If you look close at the picture you can see the rain drops on his feathers.




Can you guess what the next two pictures are?


Its pop in a bottle!
I was sitting at the computer checking my email and drinking a pop. When I looked over and it had fizz bubbles and I thought it would be cool to take a picture of.




The next two are pictures of our cat Carlow. He was laying on the bed with his tongue sticking out. I thought he looked cute.





I took this last picture when we were doing the "Berry" challenge.

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Sunday, November 15, 2009

The Circus!
We went to the Circus last week!! I had never been to the circus and thought it would be fun. We went with Johns Mom, Dad, and Brother. I think we all had a good time...
These are the only pictures that were not fuzzy. There was a lot of movement and lights making it hard to get a good picture.





Friday, November 13, 2009


FOTO FRIDAY!!
November 13th
"LEAVES"
Our first picture is actually of a lady bug but there was a leaf behind her so we thought we would use it as a leaf picture.


This picture is a pretty maple leaf. My Gramma and I used to collect pretty colored leaves in the fall and make place mats and bookmarks with them. This leaf reminds me of those times.


Our last picture was harder to capture than I thought it would be. It took us awhile but we got one that wasn't too bad. I just wish the bright part didn't show as much.

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Friday, November 06, 2009

Foto Friday
"Dress Up"
November 6
This is are pet "chicken" cat.




Sorry for the lack of imagination and pictures, It has been a very busy week. Next week is "Leaves"

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Friday, October 30, 2009

FOTO FRIDAY
October 30th
"MOTION"
We have been doing a little bit of demolition at our house recently.(If you look at Moms blog shes got pictures!) We were cutting up a tree that needed to go and thought it would be a good opportunity for some "Motion" pictures. The first two pictures are John and a chainsaw.






We didn't want to let another week go without putting another mushy picture of the two of us... So here we are! We played with the settings on our camera till we got what we thought was cool!

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Friday, October 23, 2009

FOTO FRIDAY!!
October 23
"BERRIES"
This weeks foto Friday was a little tricky.
We finally found some berries...here are our pictures.
The first picture we aren't sure what kind of berries they are. Mom pointed them out to us. (Thanks Mom)

These berries are on the burning bush at the side of our house.
The berries below I call "choke berries". I think they are actually called "choke cherries" but I think they look more like berries.

I'm sure everyone knows what the last berry is. Yummy red raspberries. I think these are my favorite kind of berry besides strawberries and blueberries.


This was a yummy topic this week!!


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Friday, October 16, 2009

FOTO FRIDAY
OCTOBER 16, 2009
WE DID NOT HAVE MUCH TIME THIS WEEK, IT IS GETTING TO BE THE BUSY SEASON AT WORK,LOTS OF HOURS. SO HERE ARE SOME....
"SELF PORTRAITS"

BERRIES ARE NEXT WEEK, SO MAYBE WE WILL GET SOME FRESH PHOTO'S

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Thursday, October 15, 2009

John and I carved our pumpkins this week. I couldn't wait any longer.
I really wanted to try out a new pattern. It was really hard and I only did the fish part of it...the rest was too detailed and I don't have enough patience. I think they came out really well.
They look cool!
I don't think they will last till Halloween but thats ok because we have two other bigger pumpkins to carve.







Monday, October 12, 2009

TRICK OR TREAT?!?!
I found this hat at Target. I couldn't resist it.
Carlow was not at all impressed with it or pleased that he had to wear it. I on the other hand thought it was funny.
We went trick or treating at Moms door...she did not have a treat for him...She will most likely get a trick from him later!! : )
Now if I could just get Chilly to hold still long enough to try it on her...



Friday, October 09, 2009

PHOTO FRIDAY
OCTOBER 9,2009
HELLO TO ALL THE PHOTO FRIDAY BLOGGERS
After talking we (John and Amanda) have decided
to do this as a husband/wife combo. I hope no one minds, but we do everything together so the camera gets passed between us all the time.
These are some of our photos that we have taken of

WATER

The Falls (Canada -maid of the mist)
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Acre Lake, PA.
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Ocean City, Maryland
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HAVE A GREAT DAY!
p.s. wendy thanks for telling us about this

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

LOOK HOW CUTE THEY ARE!!
Carlow is finally letting me hold him a little more. He doesnt like to be held all that much. I am working on that. Chilly on the other hand is very eager to be held. I am suprised at how friendly she has been. We thought it would take her a while to get used to us..(thats what the books said). But she was eating out of our hands the first night and we were holding her the second night.




Sunday, September 20, 2009

Meet Chilly
Newest member of the family


Chilly is a chinchilla, about three months. We got her from friends(thank you Brian,Jen and boys).

Monday, August 31, 2009

New Toy!!
Who needs fancy toys when you can play with a paper bag!!
One paper bag = Hours of fun
(for John and Carlow!)






Sunday, August 30, 2009

A Day of Fun!!
We went to Conley's today. They have a "waterpark" which consists of two slides. It was still fun and we enjoyed ourselves. The first picture is Keith beside the slide and John coming off the slide. The second picture is John as he came out of the second slide which is very steep. J.J. found that if you have a "Butler County Family Fun Card" (which you can print online) admission is BOGO. Which I think is a little more reasonable.
We had a good time.





Sunday, August 23, 2009

Meet the newest member of the Zombeck family!
We decided to call him Carlow. We got him from John's sister TT and that is where she went to college. So we thought it kinda fit. So far so good... we were worried that he would spray in the house...but so far he just sniffed around those areas. As long as he doesn't spray and John can live with him for a few weeks till he goes to the allergist he is here to stay!! He figured out the kitty door in our bedroom really quick... he was in and out all night. Its hard to get a good picture of him cause he just doesn't hold still long enough!





He is a sweetheart!!


Thursday, August 20, 2009

VACATION TIME AGAIN!!
We went on a short vacation this time... only overnight. We went to the Cleveland Zoo. I wanted to see the hippo but they said he was retired and no longer on exibit. I was disappointed. John got to feed some birds nectar. We also went to the history museum, John Glenn NASA Center, and the Akron Zoo. We squeezed in a good bit in our 2 days.
Cleveland Zoo

Cleveland History Museum


Akron Zoo

Sunday, August 16, 2009

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US!
We went out to dinner for our birthdays! We got dressed up and went to Lidia's in Pittsburgh. J.J. and Keith came with us and we all had a good time!
Can't wait to go back.