Happy Mail.

An unexpected surprise when I got the mail today! Thanks Melissa!!

Pattern.

For We Spy, You Spy.
Our beach blanket...we decided to have a picnic lunch today :)

Cute.

I got Megs these little fake Crocs at Target today. She loves them.

Bloom.

This is the same little bud from a week or so ago. The whole plant is just about bursting with blooms. I love it...it didn't bloom at all last year!

Morning Routine.

One Silly Dad.

Two silly kids.

kissy face and a finger up the nose. what could be better?

toys r us.

Cold.

Feeling pretty cruddy today. This cold came on and hit me like a ton of bricks last night. Blah!
Hope this counts for iSpy-youSpy! :)

Mix.

Rugged.

photo taken 2/18 and edited today 2/20 using some techniques from Ree at The Pioneer Woman.com
hopefully, tuesday and wednesday pics to post shortly.

Color.

Beautiful.

Much better.

I got the kid a haircut! My camera was on the wrong setting, and the lighting was all wrong, but ya know...oh well! Oh and today is his 1/2 birthday :)

ummm yeah.....he really needs a haircut.

Peek a boo.

playing with direct light.

Sign of Spring.

Mad Skills.

His face is priceless! He was actually mad at the crayon..not me. Don't ask!

Sweet.

Movie time

Is this not the cutest thing ever?! Her leaning into him...him gently holding her hand. Uh! I wish they'd be like that all the time!

happy

Don't ask why he's wearing his hood in doors...it's his newest thing. :)

Read

Went to the library today for the first time in a LONG time!

Whaaat?

The ketchup monster strikes again!
This picture is totally blurry, but it's just too cute! I think so anyways.

Clean

Laundry pile up

Defoging

I had mentioned "defoging" sometime a week or so ago and decided to expand on it a bit after a few questions. So today here are two pictures..the first is SOC strait out of the camera.


The second is defogged in Photoshop (I have PSE5). Go to Enhance > unsharp mask and set the amount to 25; the radius to 50 and threshold to 0.


Its a suttle difference, but enough to just crisp up the whole picture.

Green Eyes

This was taken with my mom's P&S....I edited it just a tiny bit to make the eyes pop and then cropped it...the eyes really were the best part of the pic.
more to come later...

Brrr...

Breezy and cold...but at least the sun is out today.

Note about "defoging" which I mentioned a few posts back...I don't really know what defogging means, but I can tell you what it does...it seems to just sharpen up the entire picture. Maureen has her own photography business and she says she does this on every photo, even her regular snapshots. So give it a go if you haven't tried it yet. Tomorrow I'll try and post a before and after picture so you can see the difference.
Happy Friday :)