metering

After seeing so many beautiful portraits on Pioneer Woman's photography site, I decided to attempt spot metering and see what I could do. And you know what?..it's pretty cool! I was able to take pictures in full sun and not have faces in shadow. Lovin it!

she's a natural high!

I was looking through some old beach photos today trying to remember how to edit in photoshop, when I came across these beauties. (I've been too morning sick the last few months to even care about taking, let alone editing, pictures. Use it or lose it right. Well, I lost it.)

Notice any similarities?
Besides the fact that they are all taken at the beach and are of my kids?
Guessed it yet?
Abbey's feet are never touching the ground! Ever. I love it! It's just so perfectly.. Abbey. Now I need to figure out how to bottle her up so I can take a swig on those low energy days.

Because I promised my sister..

That I would update this thing before I left for Sacramento tomorrow. Here's a few pics from Brent's work retreat last weekend.

mac and cheese

Did you know that when you're pregnant Kraft mac and cheese tastes exactly like it did when you were a kid? It's amazing really. So you can consider this our announcement. Come April we're adding another one of these to our clan.

I found these old pictures today and got all homesick for Virginia. Or maybe it was just because Sarah and Abbey look so young? Why do they insist on growing up so fast!? Did I mention I'm pregnant? Hormones raging.. emotions exploding. *sigh* Wish me luck on this one.

Where did he learn THAT?

After an hour or so of giving Ty piggy back rides, Sarah fell to the ground all red faced and sweaty. Where Tyler proceeded to pounce..

find her belly button..
and dispense zerberts like a pro.
I have no idea where he learned such shenanigans. I mean, I would never blow zerberts on his soft, squishy, irresistible, perfectly round, baby tummy! It must have been Brent. Yeah, definitely Brent.

Brent's lonely birthday

After three days of dressing them up, hauling them to various parks, and great, GREAT coersion on my part, I finally got three pictures.   In our back yard.   Not in the parks.  Where I took approximately 4oo pictures trying to get the perfect shot.  Will I never learn to keep it simple?!  But here they are.  Brent celebrated his birthday all by himself this year because his wife and kids were off galavanting through Utah and Idaho.  So we left him something to remember us by. 

Lovely lovely home!

We swam..

and ate..
and fished..
and just had a good time in general with family and friends!
But we also missed Brent like crazy and are so, so, so glad to be home!