Guest judge: Melissa from: Hi, Baby, chose the top 5 this week! Please go check out her blog! And, thank her for guest judging!

And, congrats to Melissa for making the favorites for I Heart Faces: Shades!!!

Now, on to the top 5 chosen by Melissa:

•   1st: A Picture in Time is this weeks winner winner chicken dinner! (Just a quick side note: A Picture in Time was Ashley’s winner last week for water!)

Why Melissa chose this photo: “i love the delicate sweetness of this photo. it is such a simple capture and edit that says so much.”

Congrats! Please feel free to grab a “fact: I’m awesome … #1 winner” button below. Because: you ARE awesome! And, thank you SO much for participating!

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• 2nd: A Year in Photos

• 3rd: It’s a Wonderful Life.

• 4th: 525,600 Minutes

• 5th: Happy Gnome

Congrats to the top 5 winners! Great job, and please feel free to grab the top 5 button below! You’re all awesome!

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The Paper Mama’s favorite photos (in no particular order):

• They Call Me Mama 

• It’s a Beautiful Life

• A Minute Captured

•   A Picture in Time

• Photographic Data

• Knee Deep in Momma-Hood

Although I did not pick the winner this week, I did want to share my favorites. So hard to choose! If you’re one of my favorites you are more than welcome to grab a “Paper mama hearts me” button below!
 

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And, just for fun… Melissa and I both have a couple of honorable mentions:

• Harper’s Happenings

• Our Two Little Sprouts

• Frugal For My Friends:

• The Daily Wyatt

• House of Emery

Winners so far:
– Absolute Favorite: … Flat Yeast Bread …
– Buddies: … Not Always a Perfect Picture …
– Water: … A Picture in Time …
– Orange: … A Picture in Time …

Please check out this weeks photo challenge: “Flower“

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Brit from Mister Blue Eyes! Congrats mama! I will e-mail you your gift certificate for SLW Designs!

The numbers have been reset! Help me get in the top 10! I ♥ you!

First off:
My guest post on Coffee with a Canine is up! Yay! Such a cute blog. Here’s the link.

Second: Photo Roulette!
From: 3rd folder, 25th photo.

3rd: My mom has our baby for the weekend…. Ummmm. I’m excited and nervous all at once. We’ll see how my night goes. I’ll probably just worry the whole time. Oh well.

4th: Photo winners have been chosen! Yay! I’ll post them tomorrow morning along with the next photo challenge: Flowers. This is judged by Mandy!

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Well, this Monday will be Mike’s and my 2 year marriage anniversary. And, shortly after this… September 7th will be 8 years together. I’m SLOWLY working getting my wedding page done. So many photos I love from my wedding photographer, Craig Mitchelldyer.

But, this is not what I’m sharing today. We had a photobooth at our wedding. Yay! It was so fun. The weird part was that Mike and I never ended up taking a photo together in the booth! It was a crazy fun wedding. 🙂 Here are just a few of my fave photo booth shots from August 23rd, 2008:

AND, welcome all new friends from New Friend Friday!!!

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This weeks Thursday’s Three was inspired by the change and growth my group of girlfriends and I have gone through. We’ve all known each other for years now. I didn’t think it was even possible, but I enjoy and care for my girlfriends more and more with each passing year.

We’ve all been through a lot together: Friends passing, silly fights, miscarriages, my little birth incident, and MUCH more. I feel like we have grown even closer with all of us getting married and having babies and buying houses… doing big girl stuff!

Our priorities have changed. We’ve really grown up. I mean, just look at my photos. I see little bits and snippets of my friends in the background, but I’m focusing my camera on their children. They are SUPER cute kids!

A couple of my girls have blogs: Cositas Bellas and KB Squared.

Thursday’s Three: Growth

1) I really love this great little growth chart. I would be totally ok with this hanging in my living room! I know it’s a battle I probably wont win but, I’m trying SO hard to keep the babyish/girlyish stuff out of my living space as much as I can. Ha! I know it will eventually become impossible in my tiny home! 😀 Sigh… Another thing to save my money for. 😀 Please visit Studio 1AM and buy on for me, uhhhh you!

3) Moby Monthiversaries onesies. I’ve seen lots of mommies take photos of their babies in different numbered onesies each month. I never ended up doing this. But, I would have liked to. These are very cute! They have little whales on them. Cute. Go check out the Argyle Violets shop on Etsy.

Don’t forget to check out the Paper Lady’s Thursday’s Three: Growth.

And, just a little reminder:
– Photo challenge: Orange. Ends Today!!!
– Giveaway for custom digital cards ends tomorrow!

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