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I'm a stay at home mom who's found blogging to be the best way to vent rationally. I love spending time with my family. This blog is my journal, since I find journaling to be somewhat tedious, so if you visit often, just know that things will be "real."

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Monday, September 22, 2008

My Sweet Niece

My sister-in-law asked me to take some pics of her baby, my niece, McKenna. I warned her that in no way should she expect a professional, and it's a good thing because the ENTIRE photo session was taken with the ISO set at 800. Not good. I broke one of the major rules of photography. CHECK YOUR SETTINGS. Before they had come over Saturday morning I was fiddling with the settings on the camera because it was still slightly overcast, which is great if you're shooting outside, but not so great when we were planning to shoot mostly inside. And since I'm no photographer, hence no studio, I was trying to find the right settings for the light that was coming into my house. Unfortunately, I never changed it back to what it should have been. I really have no idea if the resolution is going to be good enough to enlarge to larger size photos, but we'll see. The smaller sizes look pretty good. But I'm just partial cause she's my niece and I think she's adorable!
I want to share a couple of my favorite, but go easy on me because a. I'm not a real photographer, and b. i don't have real photoshop software. Okay, that said....




The above photo I was going for an ethereal quality, because the light from my front window was streaming in. But again, always check your settings. I have learned my lesson. I suppose this looks slightly vintage-ey, but I don't think the resolution will be good enough to blow it up. I may have to make the poor girl pose again.

(Just a side note, after we picked her up to change locations, we discovered she'd peed and it had pooled underneath her. That's the chances you take when you photo a bebe naked. Poor bebe!






There is something about baby feet. There's just the cutest things to photo!





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Funny Things The Kids Say

One day Andon and I were talking about our hearts. He asked me how they worked, I gave him an explanation a 4 y r old could understand, (the only one I understand.) The very next day, I said something to Zak. Something that went along the lines of, "quit that!" or some such demand. Andon then says to me: "Mommy, listen to your heart. That's not very nice." Needless to say I felt like a complete and total toad. Just goes to show that you can always learn more from your children than you could ever teach them yourself.

While we were camping, Andon and our friend's son were sitting next to one another. Brayden who is 15 says to Andon, "I've known you since you were a baby." Andon replies, "I've known me since I was a baby too!"


Brittnee is our funny bone. The things she says sometimes are so dang funny! One day, as she was walking by Doug she says, "Hello, my good man." We both looked at her and we both began cracking up. This is how she's referred to him lately.


I was sitting on the couch taking a breather after dinner and Andon walks past me into the kitchen. He had a car in his hand and as he walked by the fridge he must have dropped it because I heard him say, "tartar sauce!" I suppose I should limit his sponge bob watching.


I was in the car with the kids coming home from Britt's tap class and she was telling me about the school BBQ that day. She mentioned that her friend got sick. I asked her what happened and she said, "Layla has lots of diseases so she had to go home." I didn't think I heard her clearly, so I repeated back, "diseases?" Britt said, "Yes, Diseases." By this time I was truly perplexed because I knew she didn't really mean disease, but I couldn't figure out what she DID mean. Then Teaghan pipes up and says, "You mean ALLERGIES?" Brittnee says, "Oh yeah, that's what it is. ALLERGIES!" I laughed heartily, the kind where your shoulders shake and your stomach hurts.


We were at the school today, and on one of the playgrounds is these cubes that turn. On them are the states and their capitols. There's quite a few of them, and they're all blue. Zakry starts playing with them and turning them all, and then I hear, "mommy, look, a car wash." I suppose the large blue cubes reminded him of the car wash we went on last week. So funny!!