24 posts tagged “photography”
Show us the best picture you took in 2006.
Submitted by Captured Moments.
I love it and don't know why. It was just one of those point and *click* shots as I was walking down the porch steps.
This is just a sample of what I have to sift through to find decent shots of J.
Nice out today, so I took the kid out for a few.
*coughcoughcough*
I'm living on a strict diet of water and cough drops lately. Not that tastey.
So, yesterday we took the boys to see Santa. J played shy at first, but got over it pretty quick like. Walmart took pictures, and then I took a couple of my own as well. I planned on just taking my memory card back and printing them at the photo lab, but when I got back there and put it in the computer, all that came up was these little boxes of fuzz. I started to freak out thinking something was wrong with my camera or card, but then I realized I'd taken the pictures in RAW and their computer doesn't read RAW. Good job, Nicole. I'll learn to look before I shoot one of these days.
After we got home I buzzed Tyler's head, but he wouldn't let me shave his beard off. My husband officially looks like 'That Creepy Neighbor Guy' with a buzzed head and big bushy beard. Don't ask me why.
Last night was Tyler's work Christmas party. Boring as usual, but the place that caters is AWESOME. Seriously, I eat so much that I'm stuffed, but I still want to go back for more because it is THAT good. Tyler won a little Santa cookie jar during their little gift exchange thing. It's actually kind of cute.
When his work party was over we picked the boys up and went over to a friend's house. Several of the guys Tyler works get together and play poker. Nothing too thrilling there either, but it was kind of nice to be out of the house for a bit.
My mom and sister watched P while I buzzed Tyler's head (J was sleeping) and when I went down to drop J off before the Christmas party, Mom told me she thinks P may be teething. I'd noticed him drooling a lot, and she said he fussed the whole time he was there and the only thing that calmed him was chewing on his or my sister's fingers. PLEASE DO NOT LET HIM BE TEETHING! First of all, he's too young :( and second of all, I don't know if I could handle going straight from colic to teething. I might just snap.
We found Santa. Don't know why the picture of P is so blurry.
P turned 2 months last Wednesday. I cannot believe how time has flown. It seems like just yesterday I was heading through the hospital door with enough crap in my arms they thought I was permanently moving in. And now he's all smiling and growing and ... *sigh*
Today he had his 2 month shots, and he handled them like a pro. As with J before, I could not hold him during the actual process, Tyler had to. J and I sat across the room, both of us fighting tears when P started screaming after the first shot. J turned to me and said, "Hurts Peyton!" with tears in his eyes. What a big bro!
His next appointment is the 29th at 3 months. I'm curious about his weight gain. The first month he was gaining about half a pound a week, but from week 4 to week 6 he only gained about 4 ounces, so I'm curious to see if he's continued with the slow weight gain or not.
The colic seems to be slowly getting better. For the most part he sleeps decent at night, and has long content periods during the day. Today I even had him cackling before his shots. It's so nice to see him smiling and laughing after nearly two months of pure screaming. He's even starting to let me cuddle him now. I can't even begin to tell you how hard it is to cuddle a screaming, rigid-bodied baby.
I'm kind of sad that we haven't had any professional pictures of P done yet. As much as I love taking pictures, I'd like to have at least one set of professionals to compare with J's. But money is just so tight this time of year (whose idea was it to make property taxes due 5 days before Christmas?!) and so they'll have to wait a bit longer. I feel bad because with J money was tight but I still managed to get pro pictures taken every few months the first year and every six months after that. We haven't had any professional pictures done since April with my Smile Savers plan ran out at Sears.
In other news, J and I made a Christmas countdown chain yesterday. I'm not sure how much he understands about Christmas, so I'm doing what I can to get him all excited about it. We're going to make a tree topper and door hanging, too, as soon as I get some new markers and glue. I thought I had all of this stuff hanging around, but apparently not.
I have so very little Christmas shopping done that it's not even funny. I've got a V-Smile, Hot Wheels set, and Christmas jammies for J, a Bod body spray set for my cousin, and that's it. Tyler's older two nephews are getting wood letters to paint, and other than that I don't even know what to get anyone. Money is super tight, as mentioned, so no one is getting anything too spectacular. I wanted to do homemade gifts, but I didn't get started as early as I wanted to.
Tyler missed work last night with the flu, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that no one else gets it. J and I have both been sniffly for days, but that's as far as it has gone.
Tyler has to make up the work he missed on Friday night, which sucks, but necessary. His Christmas party at work is this weekend, and I'm actually excited. Weird, I know, but the place they have cater is amazing. I could care less about the rest of the party as long as they keep having the same place cater. Tyler wants to go out to his buddy's afterwards to play cards, but I will probably end up back home with the boys. I'm still not comfortable leaving P with anyone for too long, and since my sister will probably babysit and she's not too comfortable trying to take care of P during his fussy periods ... it is better that I skip the poker playing.
A P picture and then I'm out. It is a lovely angle, I know, but I had to be fast to catch the smile. He's a quick little bug.
Show us something blue.
Let me preface by saying that I in no way consider myself a professional photographer, or even good. I'm so far from it it makes me sad.
That said, as most know, a few weeks ago I did some family pictures for a friend (K). They turned out decent ... I still don't like them, but she was very pleased with them. That same day I took her pictures, my sister-in-law took her sister's pictures. This friend's sister (J) was less than pleased with the pictures my SIL took, and the only reason she had SIL take them was because SIL has a digital camera and J did not. Following so far?
Well, the friend I took the pictures for (K) showed the pictures to her sister (J) and to SIL. SIL and J were then talking, and J made the comment that she "didn't know Nicole had the fancy equipment to make pictures look like that." To which my SIL replied that yeah, "she worked a long time to make them look like that," and that if she had a camera like mine hers would have turned out like the ones I took.
... Thanks.
The best part? I found this all out from SIL herself. She actually told me about their little conversation, and then acted surprised when I was insulted.
I guess it is my fault, though. SIL showed up at K's that day I was doing the pictures and I was sitting there showing K different things with the pictures on my laptop. I showed her how I could make them black and white, etc.
This is one of the biggest reasons that I dislike being around my SIL. Seriously, she can find even the smallest things to make me feel bad about myself about. She's a passive-aggressive *****. *sigh* I honestly don't know why I still let her get to me like she does. She does it to feel better about herself, and I know that, but I can't let these things go sometimes.
In other news, I sooo had this conversation today:
Them: So I was talking to Kay and I told her about Peyton's tummy problems and crying.
Me: Oh?
Them: I told her you were nursing, and she said that it was almost impossible for him to be allergic to that. She said that there's basically an exchange going on between baby and mom, so that the milk is perfected for him.
Me: Yeah ...
Them: So, like, when you were nursing Jonathan you were making Jonathan milk, and when you were nursing Peyton you were making Peyton milk.
Me: Okay ...
Them: But now that you're mostly pumping, are you like making generic milk?
Me: So ... what ... like Best Choice Boob Juice?
I love life.
One more thing ... if you want to exchange Xmas cards, I need your address before Friday. Email or private message me. I'm making one trip to the post office for these cards and that's it ;) :P
I'b sick. Well, getting there anyway. J's been sniffly for days and now all of a sudden I can't breathe and my throat hurts. This will mark the second time since I had P that I've been sick. What's up with that crap?
Yesterday J and I put up the Christmas tree. It's pretty sad looking at the moment. It's got lights and garland, but that's it. Tyler and I never have bought any ornaments, just some glass balls that I don't want to put up and have J break. I'm gonna have to get a few. I figure I'll get four for J and one for P and from here on out get them each a new one every year. And, of course, J and I need to make a few as well. Growing up about 75% of the ornaments on our tree were made by my sisters and me and I think it made our tree feel more special because of it.
I'm not sure how much about Christmas and Santa J is understanding yet, but right after we got the tree all up and lit he looked at me and asked where the presents were. I think I'll make a paper chain to help him count down the days left. I can't believe it is that close already. Where did the year go?!
One of these days I'll learn to trust my instincts. I picked up the Impact 1GB SD card Walmart had on their Black Friday sales for $13.87. Something told me to be careful and keep the packaging for it just in case it didn't work, especially since I'd never heard of the brand before. Well, I ended up throwing the packing away before I tried it out and sure enough ... it doesn't work in my computer. It works in my camera, but when I put it in my computer and click on the drive, it tells me to put a disk in. I can hook my camera up to my computer and get the pictures, but I had my laptop special ordered with the SD drive so I wouldn't HAVE to do that. Yes, I realize that I'm just a whiner.
On the other hand, my external hard drive seems to work so far *knock on wood* My aunt's mom dropped it off this morning, so I haven't had a chance to do much tinkering around with it yet. But it hooked up just fine and I haven't found any glitches or problems yet.
If possible, I think Peyton adores Jonathan already. Tyler and I have to work to get him to smile, but J just has to be where he can see him and P starts smiling. He will watch every move J makes. I took some cute pictures of the two of them last night, but I forgot to reset my camera setting so they are all blurry/fuzzy.
