I would like to take this moment to thank The Academy

oh wait!! wrong award...

In all seriousness, I have been remissed in acknowledging my dear blogging pal Pam (Twenty Little Piggies) and accepting the blogging honor that she awarded me last week.

How cool is that?? And from one of my dearest blogging pals that I am truly hoping I get to meet IRL (maybe on the MckCruise)!

It is now my turn to pass the baton, so to speak.

And the award goes to....

Stephanie (Confessions of a Nursing Student)

Harper (Harper's Waste of Space)

How do you take such spectacular photographs of your smashingly handsome boys utilizing splendid post production techniques?

hahahahahahaha.....

Ok, so that's not exactly the question that many of you asked in the comments of several of my recent posts....but you did question my camera and my software for post production, so you asked and I will share!

Thanks to Daddy Buck....I am shooting with a Canon Rebel Xsi with an 8gb memory card. It is superb!!

I use Picasa3 (free photography editing software from Google) for all of my editing and post production techiniques. I will be honest in saying that not many photographs that you have seen posted on this blog since December have been SOOC (straight out of camera). Most all of them have undergone some sort of post production. The techiniques I utilize the most are sharpening the edges, saturating the color, warming the temperature, cropping and angling.

And just for kicks....one last question that cracks me up!! Are those the "real" feet of your family in your header??

The header is temporaraily gone for the Easter season (though the "feet" picture can still be found on our blog button on the right sidebar), but YES, those are our real feet. It is a picture that was taken by our photographer during our first family professional photo shoot back in October. I had to also convince my grandmother IRL that they were the feet of myself, Daddy Buck and the boys. Why is that so hard to believe and better yet....why would I have a picture of other peoples' feet posted on my blog or scattered throughout my home?!

Any more burning questions? I am here to oblige the readers....

sea of green...

Happy St. Patrick's Day









Last Saturday we attended our city's St. Patrick's Day parade. We took our nieces (I thought I would share a few pictures of them too and hopefully they will be online and see themselves) with us so they could see their parents riding in the parade. Aside from the off and on rain for the entire 3 hours of the parade, we had a fantastic time!

"Not Me!" Monday

Nope! Not me! None of these occurrences really occurred in our family during the past week...

I DID NOT find myself filled with apprehension and anxiety one evening this week when Daddy Buck announced, at that very moment, that we were becoming a sippy cup-free house and proceeded to throw all of the prized sippy cups in the trash can. Turns out, that my feelings of apprehension and anxiety were warranted because the morning and bedtime routines for the following 2-3 days were filled with whining and moaning, a couple of tantrums and several recitings of, "that's not fair! I'm ready to be a grown-up so I can have my drink in the den"!














This IS NOT an actual text messaging conversation between Daddy Buck and I...






Me: tell me that I did not notice your coffee mug on the counter in the bathroom after I already reminded you of it once this morning



Daddy Buck: Not Me Friday







Me: lol...i have nothing left to say because that was really funny!







For more "Not Me!" Monday humor, visit here...

i heart faces ~ week 10

The weekly Monday i Y faces post/contest has become quite an addiction for me. It is has become an outlet for showing off, what I believe to be, good pictures of my boys, practicing what amateur photography skills that I might possess, tweeking post production in my photographs, and viewing excellent close-up photography.

This week's theme.... GREEN!!

This was a difficult selection for me, seeing as we attended our city's large St. Patrick's Day parade on Saturday and you can bet your bottom {green} dollar that I took many pictures! However, in the running count of i Y faces entries, it is definitely Buck-a-roo's turn to shine and I believe this picture does that without a doubt.

I am green with envy for those big gray-blue eyes and that tan bridge of the nose (oh, and the green Budweiser cap that was his favorite "catch" of the day at the parade)...

For more wonderful green-themed face shots, visit i Y faces here...

Flashback Friday

Weather permitting, we are headed to our 2nd annual St. Patrick's Day parade tomorrow morning. The boys had a blast last year and this should follow suit once more.

Today, I thought I would flashback to this time, last year...

Because they everyone's shirt still fits, we will be wearing the same attirethis year in our pictures as last year (just all looking one year older)! In today's economy....why not, right??

Happy Friday....Friday the 13th, that is!!

Contest winner announced!

Remember this picture.....

and my first ever blog contest that I posted on Monday??

There were two correct answers; the first being....

Woolverton Girl said...
That looks like Super W! Cute picture! Kids are so fun, aren't they!!
March 9, 2009 9:20 AM

Congratulations to Vanessa at The Woolverton Guys and Girl for being the first commenter with the correct answer.

The show is Super Why! It comes on PBS. It is a terrific animated cartoon that my boys truly enjoy. It teaches them to put letter together to construct words and words together to construct sentences and sentences together to construct a story!