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Happy Birthday!

HAPPY 25TH BIRTHDAY TO MY HUSBAND!!!!  HAPPY 4TH BIRTHDAY TO OUR SON!!!!  

Our Home Just Grew By Two Feet

 

January 5th, 2010

2:04 p.m.

8 pounds 3.5 ounces

20.5" long

Christmas Dinner.

Here are the two things we contributed to the family Christmas dinner this year! :)

Chocolate Covered Mice

  We were supposed to use cherries for the body but couldn't find any with the stems (which would have made up the tail). So we used old fashioned creme drops instead and just made it work for us ;)

Roasted Brussels Sprouts
  

One more day until Christmas Eve!

Oh, Christmas tree! Oh, Christmas tree!

 

Christmas Tree Decorations

{my son's hands and foot}

{my daughter's hands and foot}

 

{tree topper}

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Our third baby {second daughter} is due January 10th!!

Do you hear the spooky music?!

It's almost that time of the year!

Nemo

The impulse.

Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.
~Robert Collier

Before & After

•SOOC




↑ Boring, huh?


•After




↑ Much better, in my opinion!

At the races.

Fix-it Friday #27

↑clickie*clickie↑



•Original



Photo credit to Awdrey of Sweet Art by Awdrey.


•My Color Edit



ACR:
-exposure
-recovery
-fill light
-blacks
-contrast
-clarity
-noise
CS3:
-cropped
-color correct
-curves
-brightened eyes
-smoothed skin
-retouched around his mouth
-dodged/burned
-boosted color
-resized
-sharpened


•My 'Fun Play' Edit





•My Chocolate B/W Edit

Fix it Friday #26

•Original





•Edit 1



Straightened
Cropped
Edited color & removed slight color casts
Sharpened eyes
Smoothed skin
Sharpened


•Edit 2



Softer edit of version one


•Edit 3



A sort of vintage effect


Photo credit to Jaclyn of The Polhamus Family blog.

Blue & Brown, Make My World Go 'Round

SOOC Sunday ~ Tiny Toesies

SOOC



Ok, so ↑that photo↑ definitely falls under the "SUCKY STRAIT OUT OF CAMERA" category. I was just trying to get a quick shot of my daughter's little foot as she napped on the couch during a visit to my parents' today. I was finally able to paint her little toe nails for the first time earlier today and wanted to grab a photo so the memory would always stay alive. But, again, that shot just plain ol' stinks *lol*


EDIT



Here's how I ended up editing it. I wanted it to look kinda 'oldish.' I like the little bit of noise that is in the photo. Sometimes grain is my friend :) Anyway. I think I'll edit it a little bit more before I print it. I love textures so I'll probably push the old feeling.

Fix it Friday #25

↑clickieclickie↑


•Original




•My Color Edit




•My B/W Edit





Photo credit to Alesha from Snapshots of Us.

If the sight of blue skies....

“If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things in nature have a message you understand, Rejoice, for your soul is alive.”

-Eleanora Duse

RIP Frank :(

Loved by us and in our home from Thursday-Sunday.
He went to that great hermit crab place in the sky earlier today.
So, another trip to Petland was needed.
Frank 2 was bought and a switch was successful.
Our son doesn't know the difference, but he likes that 'Frank' is now really active :)
Razzi is still doing really good.
We also have a Tweetie now as well.
My husband cleaned out his old aquarium and we moved them into their larger home.
We told our little boy that Frank likes having a lot of room to run and play now.

Raspberry (aka Razzi), Frank (the second) and Tweetie:
{don't mind the quality}

Thrift.

Nikon D300 camera
Nikon 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 VR lens
Manual
f/7.1
1/160ss
ISO 200