More Pictures of Peru

First I'd like to say, to those of you who gave me suggestions for a new blog name, THANK YOU!!! I had a very hard time choosing which one it was going to be, so hard in fact, that I did the "pick it out of a hat" thing. I, as you can see, picked "Looking Through My Lens". I hope you don't mind, but I actually changed it a bit, to "A Look...". Thank you so much for your ideas, I really like this title better then my first one. :)

Second, I thought you should see some more pictures from Peru. Sooo, here are a few random pictures from the "million" that we have. Enjoy! (Note: I am not sure if these pictures were taken by Mom/me or from someone else who went on the trip. We have all the pictures from everyone mixed together. So therefore, this post is "a look through many peoples lenses".)

::The mountain that we saw everyday::
This is the mountain that you could see when you stood in camp looking towards the entrance. This is also the mountain that we climbed! :)

::One of the towns we past through to get to Trujillo ::
(I believe anyway, it could be Trujillo, I can't remember)

::Working on the wall::
This is what we went to do along with other smaller things.

::Working on the walkway and flowerbeds::
One of the girls/ladies projects was to weed the flower beds and plant some new flowers in it. :)

::View of the mountains::
I think Mom took this picture while we were climbing the mountain

::Taxi rides::
One of my most interesting memories of Peru was the one night coming home from the Youth Meeting at the Stilwells church. There were six of us girls stuffed into a taxi (one up front and five in the back), which would have been exciting in normal traffic (normal for them I mean, which is getting to front even if you have to drive between two cars with only an inch between you and the other cars...), but this taxi driver and the other one that was driving with some of the boys decided to RACE!! There were several times I was certain we'd rash, but yes, it was very exciting in that very insane kind of way. :)

::The ruins that were a couple miles (I'm guessing) from the camp::
On the last day that we were in Peru we were able to go see some ruin sites. They were pretty neat.

::An overview of many of the people working::
Top right, guys laying bricks. Top left guys brushing off bricks. Bottom right, guys/girls sifting out stones from sand. Bottom left, making mortar.
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For anyone who wants to see more pictures of the wedding that I helped with you can go to my Mom's blog HERE.

I Need Your Help!

As the title says, I need your help! I was thinking that I desperately need a new title for my blog...I know you all agree. Because I love photography, and I usually only post pictures, I thought I should give it a "photographyish"/"cameraish" name.

But as you can see, I am NOT good at making up names/titles, so therefore I am asking for your help in thinking some up. I would love to hear what you think...:) And, who knows, the title you thought up might just be the one I really like!

This past Saturday I was able to help Mom take pictures for a wedding. It was pretty neat being the "assistant photographer". I had fun taking pictures on the side:). Here is a picture of one that I took (since I wasn't the main photographer I tried to get pictures that Mom wouldn't have time to get, so I got many of the flowers).

Blue

Since blue is such a pretty color, I thought I'd go around the house and take a picture of all the blue things that I could find.

The first thing I saw was this blue vase in the kitchen

After taking the picture of the vase Mom pointed out that there was a blue jay outside, so I took a picture because, of course, a blue jay is BLUE too!

A card we got in the mail a few days ago :)

Books are wonderful aren't they??? Especially when they're blue!

Water bottle

Some things I found on my desk. My notebook, bracelet, flashlight and pen

Pottery that holds a votive candle

And a candle

Soccer

Soccer season is here, already been going on and almost over and I have not played one game of soccer since we were in Peru. :(

Binder Zoo

On Tuesday we went to Binder Zoo...here's some pictures of some of the amazing creatures that God made!!!A handsome peacock showing off in front of one of the females.

We got as many people on and in the car that we could!

The giraffes amazing, long, blue tongue.

Look at the perfect stripes on the zebra!

A close up of the giraffes spots.
We were able to feed and pet the giraffes...it was so fun to see the kids so excited!

There were three babies born this year. Here are two of them.

Lydia and I stayed together pretty much the whole day.

The wolves were beautiful!

A close up of one of the peacocks. I love the deep blue...and the feathers coming off its head are very interesting.

Aren't God's creatures beautiful, unique and just simply amazing!?

Kal-Haven Trail (Bike Hike)

Saturday we packed up our bikes and set out to the Kal-Haven trail. We went with several families from church and spent the afternoon riding our bikes down the trail, and then came back to eat a potluck supper. We were all (well, all but the younger kids...they have so much energy!) very tired and ready to eat after riding for about 3 and half hours.

Me, Sarah and Lydia before we started.

The girls (most anyway)

Dad on the trail. The trail used to be a railroad bed. Now it works great for biking because it is so flat. :)

The kids having fun after they got back from riding. :)

Em and I after our ride. We were very tired. :)

The kids, again having fun with anything they can find.

Lydia and Em after supper

Betsy and Bonnie (notice their matching Inca Cola shirts from Peru)

I loved the sheet we were sitting on so, I took a picture of it. :)

Weekend Happenings

First I'd like to say that sometimes I feel like we actually live on a (very) small farm. With our neighbors cattle behind our house, the chickens, cats and kittens...all we need is a dog and a barn:). The cattle have only been out in this pasture for a few days, but if they are out much longer it will start smelling like a farm around here too.Here are some of the cattle behind our house.

On of our cats (this past winter) scratching on the chicken coop.

Kittens - two weeks old. We have 12 of them.

And some of the chickens.


S'mores Anyone?

Friday evening we grilled some chicken over the fire for supper and then ate around the fire. After we finished we got some marshmallows and roasted those until it started raining and we went inside to eat them.

Ever had peanut butter on your s'more? It is really good!! You must try it next time!

Silver Beach Carousel

Saturday we went to the beach and decided to stop in to see the new (I think it's pretty new anyway) carousel.

Having fun in front of the mirrors. :)

That's us up there, and over there...and everywhere!

Heather and I at the beach.

Looking at the..."thing". I'm not sure what it was.

Heather's lovely blue hat...kind of.

Trillium Season Is Here...

...and every year at this time we take a trip down the railroad bed to see the hundreds of beautiful trilliums. :) And of course this year was no exception, so Mom, Dad and I (Heather was not home) took walk last evening.

(yes, very aware that there is suppose to be a "the" in front of "glory"...oops!)

These are two old pieces of wood that were once apart of the railroad track.

When You See This Picture...

...what is the first word that comes to your mind???