Night-time at The Big G

On Friday night, I walked across the street from my parent's house to take a few pictures. My mom said "It's dark out!"...that's what photographers (like myself) do! : ) It was very dark out (you can tell in the first picture) and there was no moon, so I had to use my tripod and play with the settings. The pictures turned out looking much lighter than it actually was - which was the point of course.

What a great day to...

What a great day to...

PLAY WITH KYLAH & KALLIE


WRITE OUTSIDE WITH CHALK


PLAY HOP-SCOTCH


BLOW BUBBLES




AND THEN CATCH THEM

there is a bubble right inside her hands!


PLAY HIDE-AND-GO-SEEK




ROLL IN THE GRASS


LET THE WIND BLOW THROUGH OUR HAIR


STOP TO LOOK AT FLOWERS


BE 'BUG HUNTERS'






GIVE AND RECEIVE HUGS


WHAT A GREAT DAY TO LOVE THEM

Back home

Makena and I are home from Garibaldi. We got home earlier this afternoon and then spent a few hours trying to catch Makena up on her homework. After being home sick all last week, she has a lot of it to do! We had a great time in Garibaldi! I have more pictures to load later, but right now I'm off to bed. Jamie and Chad were up very late (or early however you want to look at it) playing Tiger Woods golf on the Wii. Since I was sleeping (or trying to) in the living room where they were, I didn't sleep very well. : ) Oh well...the boys had fun!

Jamie is out of town now for a few days. He had to go back East for a factory visit with some customers. He will be gone again next week to a conference in Vegas. Then we leave for our cruise the week after that - can't wait!! We are going on Western Caribbean cruise - Makena wanted to go someplace warm. Jamie's mom will be joining us too. We are currently trying to plan our shore excursions. (I'm actually trying to plan for the best photo ops!)

We've delivered most of the pre-ordered Girl Scout Cookies. If you haven't gotten yours, you should be getting them soon. If anyone is interested in more, let me know. Thanks again for your support!! The girls are very excited about planning a trip to Great Wolf Lodge! Thanks for stopping by last week to pick yours up Kathy - I haven't seen you in a while! Good to actually 'talk' to you. : )

My Tulips

Jamie bought me these beautiful tulips while we were in Seattle last week. For my camera class we were supposed to take pictures by trying different or new things. I decided to use my tulips for part of the assignment.

I played with the zoom while delaying the shutter speed

and moved my camera back/forth

then I had Jamie use the hose to make 'rain'

I also played around with my white balance and aperture on several of the photos that I took downtown with Jamie. Still learning...still playing...still enjoying my new camera!

Blogging from Garibaldi

It's 10:45 pm and I'm blogging on my sister's laptop from Garibaldi. T, Chad and Makena are playing the Wii (good photos to share later) so I thought I'd take a minute to finally get some photos on the blog. I forgot to load some of the photos I took of my tulips that Jamie bought me at Pike Place Market...guess those will have to be later. I played around with settings on those.

I walked down to the pier tonight to take some night photos of the bay. Moxie came with me to help and keep me safe. I'll get those loaded when I get the tulip pictures loaded. : )

I hope everyone has a great weekend. We always enjoy our visits with Mom, Rudy and Packer...and it's nice to have T, Chad and Mia to visit with too! Jamie is out with some friends in Portland and then he'll be in Garibaldi tomorrow morning-ish. Momma's birthday is on the 2nd so we're here to celebrate with her - love you Momma!

Wednesday's Playdate

Kylah and Kallie came to have a playdate again with us Wednesday. It wasn't nice enough for us to go to the park again...but play-dough time is always fun!

"Are you listening to me Auntie?"

'Where's Kallie's hand???'

Kallie's hand is in Auntie's hand

Kallie's hand is holding Kylah's hand

then Kylah made her play-dough people hold hands

Kylah wanted to hula-hoop on the Wii Fit

and then she wanted to play the drums while Kallie watched

isn't she cute?!?

Goin' Downtown

So...Jamie talked me in to going downtown last Saturday because it was such a nice day to take pictures.

we had lunch at Kingston Grill

see Jamie & Moxie hiding from me?

I did take a bunch of pictures (go figure) for my camera class as well. The rest of them are at Amber's Photos at left menu.

Pike Place Market

Here are the pictures from Seattle last week...we went to see our accountant and then went to Seattle afterwards.

Space Needle from the truck

We had lunch at The Pike Pub - I had a beer taster, yum!

going shopping at Pike Place Market

walking around

yummy apples! Do you see the people in the reflection??

We left for Seattle around 8am and didn't get home until after 9pm...long day, but a good day. Thanks for the side trip for pictures Honey!