Easter pics of the kids

Sisters 004I took Cara and Amelia to Greenfield park the week before easter for photos. I think they turned out ok, Sisters 003considering the low light and the fact that I had to scan the photos in. I played around with different effects in photshop also; I’m not too sure about how that worked but I’ll let the public decide. It was difficult managing a four year old and a one year old into position for a portrait style shot, I don’t know how the professional photographers do it – I was certainly Sisters 001about to lose my mind after five minutes. I finally just let the little Sisters 002one do what she wanted while I waited for her to accidentally be in the right position. This technique does not work. Trust me. After about an hour (twenty minutes of which I spent shooting with no film in the camera – aargh!) I finally felt like I had some decent enough shots and twice as many bug bites, so we got on out of there until next year. Stay tuned, more to come as I get them scanned in, cropped and adjusted.

UPDATE: New Easter Pics in the gallery. Much better ones this time.

Four Wheel Drive

AmeliaSo I got this Jeep Cherokee a few weeks ago. It’s great – we can drive right out on the beach with it. 95 Jeep CherokeeWe had the best family time in quite a while this past Saturday. CaraIt’s so much better to just drive right up versus parking a half mile away and lugging all your gear down to the water. AmeliaThe girls had fun playing in the sand and water. It was Amelia’s first time at the beach, by the way. Cara picked up lots of shells and Amelia, well she tried to eat sand. But at least she had fun doing it. There will be much more of this sort of thing going on this summer, thanks to the Cherokee.