Egg dying par-tay

Our cousin Ava and Nonnie and Papa came over to help us dye easter eggs and make a little easter treat.There couldn't be anything quite as heavenly as rice krispy treats shaped in the form of an egg and dipped in chocolate and sprinkles. Yummy!
Waiting and waiting and waiting for the dye to dissolve.

Putting on the finishing touches.

Ta Dah!

Silly photo shoot.

FFF fun family outing and a funny face

Last weekend my family went to Peter and my home town. We went to an old mine that was the center of our town way back when. Now it is a state park and has beautiful grounds and you get to go part way down the twisty tunnel or the cave of wonders as Lily calls the mine shaft. We brought a picnic lunch and enjoyed a perfect spring day.

Lily was really quite cooperative with her annoying mother who kept making her pose.

Next to big trees.....

In the grass......

On the stairs.....notice the danger sign

We like to walk a bit on the wild side.

Picture perfect......

It is too bad about the shadows this would have been cute.

Lily got into the action this was her idea.

I think she has an eye for these things.

I wanted to wheel this wagon to my yard.

My favorite picture of the day.

And the classic I am done pose.

This may be the dinosaur roar or perhaps the dragon breathing fire.

And

This is only fair. Lily has discovered how to take pictures on my phone when she is not photographing our dog Stuey I am her next favorite subject and she wants no pretty smiling face she wants eyes crossed tongue out. She is a bit bossy, hmmmm I wonder where she gets that from. It must be her daddy.

Easter past

What a pain this post has been. I wanted to use my new found photo editing skills and thought it would be fun to take a look back. In the process of looking back I discovered an entire easter is missing from my pictures. I began searching and searching to no avail. I thought we had survived the summers computers demise without missing a single picture. I guess I was wrong. So the only place that I have easter pictures from 2007 is my blog. The good news is that after searching through all of our recovered data from the old computer I found several video clips from when Lily was a baby. She was so stinkin' cute! Anyways after two days in the making there is no editing to these pictures cause I'm kinda done feeling frustrated. My how she has she changed and is so utterly the same all at once.

Easter 2007Easter 2008


Easter 2009

Spring is teasing us

I am on spring break. Winter is back again but that just gives me more time to play with photoshop right? Last weekend was really beautiful so we went to my hometown and visited a mine. The grounds were in perfect spring bloom so I took lots of pictures.

I decided to take a photo editing class before taking my next digiscrap class. I've only taken 2 of the 6 lessons so far and at first I thought maybe I'm not cut out for this but after the second lesson I decided this could be fun! I have lots more to learn but here is my start at photo editing.

Before

After

Where have I been......

I have been neglecting my poor blog and my poor camera for that matter, but I have this new obsession. It started because I tried to take an online photography class, because I am not the kind of person to sit down with a manual and figure it out. So I found this website through another blogger mama and I was all set to take a class. The bad news is the class sold out in 5 minutes and I was never even able to log onto the website. (Must be a good class I'll be trying again in July.) Since I wasn't going to part with a largish chunk of change to take my class I decided to explore other classes and found a beginning digi scrap class and dove in head first. I have been wading around in photoshop figuring things out on my own. Sometimes I have wanted to throw my beloved laptop across the room. The class was super easy because I had been mucking around for months. I found easier ways to do just about everything I have tried and found things I had no idea were possible. I am so ecstatic and ready to forge forward and take the second class. I am sure that this is where you will find me on my Easter vacation.

These two layouts are the fruits of my class.

There were four altogether but these are my favorite.

Now I need to take some new pictures so I have new material before my next class. My little one better get well soon so I can take her out and annoy her with my camera.

If your interested here is the website I bought my class from.

Happy St. Pattys Day

Happy St. Patricks Day

From one goofball to another

Ar-tast-tic

What is better than some more fun with our friends....

Free reign of all the art supplies one could ask for

Nothing was off limits nothing one couldn't touch

Just pure fun.

We all had a turn at the easle.

Lily

Sofia

Oscar.
Oscar paints with style.Maya
Table o' sand.
And James leave it to my daughter to find the only train in an art studio.

Just want to bang on my drums all day.

I did say all day.
Peek-a-boo
Had lots of fun. Can't wait for next time.