It’s getting warm enough to spend time on the beach again. The girls and I wandered down on Sunday and spent some time running in and out of the water. It’s still a little cold for me but they had a great time.

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Here’s this weeks Weekend Snapshot. Between running around with the fam and rebuilding my computer, I didn’t take many photos. However, Willow and I did run down to the park on Saturday morning. The sun was out for the first time in several weekends and she enjoyed getting out of the house.

It wasn’t until I returned home and downloaded the images that I noticed the sun rays and halo effects on these images.

On Saturday night, both my young’uns were invited to a disco party for an 11 year old friend. Juniper had a grand ol’ time to very loud music, bad acoustics in the boy scout hall, flashing lights, a smoke machine and flickering necklaces. My youngest wanted to have a good time but I think she was just too little to appreciate the loud chaos that erupted. Before we (the old farts) ducked out of the party with the little one and went for a nice dinner, I took a few snaps of the disco divas in action. They came out better than I expected.

There were ten published edits of Willow on the knoll. They were all great and we (Willow and I) had a blast looking to see what each had done to ‘Willow’

Here are my top three Willow edits from the week:

My number three choice was Broken Perfection’s edit of Willow’s photo. I liked the addition of the vibrant sky. It added some color and energy to the shot.

My second favorite was from BenSpark. I thought this was down right creative and very very cute. Great shot of the sunflowers too.

And Numero Uno goes to _peteej_ who came up with this amazing edit. I’m not sure if I’d like Willow pitched out of a plane over the ocean but I know she’d have a blast. I actually showed her this photo and she got a big kick out of it. The next question she asked was when could she go jump outta  theplane!

As you can see, we have a lot of fun participating in this group. If you’d like to see more and join in the fun, jump on over to Second Shotz.

A couple of days ago I posted a mystery photo with the title Guess What I did on Saturday? For today’s Weekend Snapshot, I can reveal to all who didn’t peek at my flickr stream my Saturday activity:

The girls and I popped through the automatic car wash. I know, that sounds really exciting. Willow was having a good time watching all the brushes go past her window however, Juniper was not so interested.

The girls and I had a fun Saturday morning. Can you guess what we did by looking at this photo?

This photo is my entry into the Creative Photo contest. Be sure you check out the contest and all those who have entered.

A couple of weeks ago, I got to play Mr Mom. That was a very enlightening experience. It taught me to admire, really admire, single Mothers (and Dads too). I don’t know how they do it.

On my weekend as Mr Mom we went into the city and had a stop at the park in Birrarung Marr, Melbourne. The gals had a great time. This is my oldest gal, Juniper, attempting to do mid air splits.

Now, I’ve got to get down to creating my third Doodle for Doodle Week – the Doodle garden. Normally I do them at work but today I was in the type of meeting that requires eye contact and concentration and was unable to doodle away the time.

Well, my week of Mr Mom has concluded and we got back into our usual routine. I took Willow to the park Saturday morning and she played outside on the trampoline on Sunday afternoon. It’s been drizzling here the past 6 or 7 weekends so she was really keen to get on the trampoline and jump, jump, jump.

This evening I noticed I had 100 nice perfect Spam emails sitting in my specially prepared Spam Box. Normally I delete them without much look. However, today, I took the time to admire their beauty and comic relief value. Here’s a compilation of my top ten Spam messages today:

1. Its seems to you that your pen is too small? Help is near. – Whew! I was beginning to get worried about my little pen. You know the ol’ saying, the pen is mightier than the sword. Well, give me a damn big pen then!
2. NO STUDY needed! Buy Degree/Bacheelor/MasteerMBA certificate jvuee td – lol, Obviously no study is need. Brains are also optional. I reckon this is the perfect course for fungi.
3. Take out your secret wipon – Hrm, My wipon is so secret, I dunno if I have one. What’s a wipon?
4. Fwd. Your Pharmaacy order # 577655210 – Ah, there it is. I have been wondering where my online narcotics order had gone.
5. sibilation lavaliere – I got no idea. Any clues?
6. Immeasurable wand of pleasure – Didn’t Harry Potter have one of these? Fancy a chance for this without even going to Hogwarts!
7. RE; YOUR PAYMENT NOTIFICATION. (Federal Ministry of Finance) – Holy Cow, I’ve got relatives in Nigeria that I didn’t even know. They left me squizzillions of dollars too. cool.
8. Huge love weapon is never too much – I think this is what they were working on in Area 57.
9. This look real the Best – Sho Nuff.
10. 90% discount – No Thanks, I’m hangin’ out for the 100% discount email.

Remember, Spam can be fun if you share!

Ta!

My daughter reacting to my impersonation of her dancing and singing with her ipod.

“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.” Mary Anne Radmacher