At the Park...






When all the family was here we went to the park while the kids who had to be at school were at school.

Happy First Birthday!


The Baby turns one today!

Baptism


We had all of the family in town to baptize the baby.


I made prints of this picture for everyone.

Crazy Week

Well, we have had a crazy week, full of visitors and outings. It has been so much fun, but I am so tired. One of the outings we took was to go to Alki Beach and take skyline pictures of Seattle.
If I had known this one would turn out so nicely, I would have dressed the girls better.
Seattle just after sunset.

My Beautiful Stand-in




I was getting the lights and everything ready to take a picture of the baby for her baptism while she is napping. I had to use my other hostage as a stand in. She is ratty... Ratty, unbrushed hair, hot chocolate down her shirt... but really does it matter? I am just getting things set up for the REAL shoot. But of course I end up with some pictures that would be good if it weren't for the ratty child. :) (I had to bribe her with a girlscout cookie!)




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The Narrows Bridge




I went to a Photo Meetup group's event tonight. It was a sunset shoot at the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. I completely misjudged traffic and was late. As I arrived the main group of them was headed inside. I wasn't sure why, because the sun was still out, although it was a lack luster sunset.







I finally felt a little foolish not going in to join them so I did. The seating was horrible and the 2 8-tops were full. The coordinater of the event was engrossed in a conversation with another person, so I sat by myself. Sniff... Sniff... As I waited for my food (it was a order your food at the counter restaurant), I kept watching the sun go down. I finally couldn't stand it anymore and went back out and took a couple of pictures. It was very cold and I had forgotten my jacket, so I didn't go back down where I had been shooting before, where the stupid posts wouldn't be in my pictures. Oh well... I got to try a technique I had seen on a website and got a picture that I was pretty happy with.



Oh... and this one was the train. I was just having fun. The train is the blur.





My little monkey...







Lately I have seen some really fun pictures of people (adults actually) jumping beds. I decided I wanted to try to take some. We have really nice light in our bedroom and a really big bed so I told the 2 year old to jump. You would think that would be easy enough, but no. She rolled. I think we still got some cute pictures. I guess this makes up for her being left out of the snow pictures...