Snacktrays | FOOD

The last several months

we've been making snack-trays for lunch!

Basically when we're out of leftovers 

or there's not enough to go around, you make 

up a bunch of random on a tray and

call it lunch ='D

(Not to mention, they are kinda cool lookin!)

All my little siblings LOVE it when

I make these because it involves all these different

foods that you get to eat as finger food and 

we all get to share off of one tray! It is a rather fun lunch :)

Here are some of our creations!

First tray >

•Avocado ranch dip

•veggies

•Olive, Cheese and Pepperoni skewers 

•pickles

•Almond thins w/ Cream cheese
•Cantaloupe 

Second tray >

•Everything bagel bites with cream cheese

•Sliced strawberries 

•Veggies and ranch

•Almonds

•Cheese cubes

Third tray >

•Hummus + Honey mustard pretzel skins

•Watermelon, Cherries, Kiwi

•Pickles

•Vanilla wafers + banana slices

•Veggies

Fourth tray >

•Crackers + Hummus

•baby Carrots 

•Lettuce, turkey, cheese wraps

•Grapes

•Dried strawberries + Bananas

•Twizzler bites 

Fifth tray >

•Veggies + Dip

•Mini Pretzel Vienna cheese bread loafs

•Lettuce wraps w/ BBQ pulled pork

•Rice cakes cut into bites w/ Strawberry Jam

Well, I'm getting hungry now :D

Have a whimsical day,

Alaina

Nature Photography

So, Lately I've been

shooting flowers and everything green

& full of life! The camera I currently

use doesn't do very well as far as portraits go

so I'm just practicing in manual mode / playing around with

the DOF (depth of field).

Here are some of my favorites from this spring...

Ok, I know that was tons of photos but I wanted to get them

all posted :) If you couldn't tell by the

amount of photos on this post... I loved shooting all of them!

God has created such BEAUTIFUL things for us to

enjoy. Yet we often forget about those little things

and not even notice the masterpiece right before our eyes!

I never knew how beautiful this overgrown weed bush thingy ever

was because we would chop it down summer after summer... All it took 

was one summer of not chopping it down to bloom and blossom with these

lovely little pink flowers! I can't even remember how many

mornings I woke up to watch the sunrise and ended up with my camera

and I all up in the bush taking a trillion photos!!

Lets all try and notice even the tiniest, most simple masterpieces...

the world will look a lot happier if we start to notice ho much beauty we're 

surrounded by.  

God bless you & have a Whimsical day!

Alaina