Monkey Man's birthday party

Pictures from munchkin man's first birthday party... He ate ALL of the cake that you will see later on here... and somehow did not throw up. I haven't got a clue where he put it all, but man he sure did love it! Enjoy the pictures, courtesy of my Dad.

The Birthday boy arriving at the party

Me, John, Erica, Stephanie and Wyatt

Auntie Erica and John

Waiting patiently for the cake...

Singing happy birthday to the munchkin!

hmm... I'm not so sure about this mommy...

Can I really eat it?

Why don't you try it first mommy?

mmmmm.... sweeet!

DIG IN!!

rubbing it in that he has cake to the other kids...

Holy Crap! Where did the second cake come from???

mmmm... I like chocolate!

yummy cake!!!

More pictures!

Sugar coma...

hmmm... I know if I get rid of this there is more cake... but how?

I know! Put it behind me... no one will EVER know and I can get to the rest of the cake!

mmmm! Too bad it's time to clean up :-(

Bathing in the sink

Hmmmm... what can I get into now?

Check out my tool bench!

Hi! How are you Aunt C??

coming soon

Pics coming soon of the monkey man... he's one now! I just can't believe it!

more edits...

More editing...

This pic came from my cellphone. Sleeping at the day after Thanksgiving shopping

In the hospital

The eyes are green here!

First time at the pool

Trying for the soft focus picture

Should I have colored in the sky also?

First bath

Just a funny one

Baby's First Christmas

My very first edited photo...

Thanks to my wonderful brother, I have found a program to edit pictures! Here are my first two attempts. Susan, I hope that you like them!

Nightmares and swimming

Well, the munchkin had his first nightmare this weekend... talk about terrifying mommy! He woke up around 11 and was INCONSOLABLE! I went to change him, cause he was OUT when we got home, so I just put him down in his clothes, and when he would look over at his crib he would start screaming. It was this horrible bloodcurdling scream. When I picked him up he was literally trying to climb up my head to get out of the room. We had to take him downstairs just to get him dressed. It took him at least 2 hours to really calm down. That was the worst I have ever felt, because not only did I not really know what was going on, there wasn't a thing I could do about it.

Ah well... I suppose that it will be the first in a long line of firsts that are hard for mommy. (Well, I guess shots were the first, but this was the scariest)

We also went swimming this weekend, and mommy and daddy played with the new camera! I'll post some pics when I get home, I don't have them here with me! The monky man loves the water though! He doesn't like the floats -- he'd rather be free with us holding him, but he does like to swim. :-)

Hope you are having a great day!

More Photography Practice...

My photography class met early this week for our class to take pictures around town. Here are some pictures of small town America for you to enjoy! I had a blast taking pics this week, although it was somewhat difficult since I prefer portraits as opposed to landscapes.

The cross on the top of the steeple of the church where I got married.

Some random tree branches. I was playing with the depth of field on these two pics.

A street lamp and a sign for one of the businesses on the square.

An unusual perspective of one of the business signs here.

The front of our new courthouse.

Pretty self wxplanatory... But I was practicing using negative space.

More depth of field practice.

The steeple of the church where I got married.

Trying for that blurry look with adjusting the DOF.

Well, I hope you enjoy these pics. Critique me, please! I wanna know what I am doing that is good and what needs improvement!

John's Brrthday Party

For anyone who is in the area and sees this, the munchkin will be one soon! ACK!!!

Anyhow, we are going to party on 3/28/09 at the Bobcat Den at 3:00. Come see our monkey man dunk his head in cake :-) :-) :-).