Rangers Captain marched in the parade and he came up to Jonathan, shared a high five, and then gave Jonathan his card. 
That card was all Jonathan talked about the rest of the morning. When Thomas marched by, Jonathan kept yelling at him trying to show him his card. It was pretty darn cute.
Lisa wanted to know if using the circular polarizer made a difference. Here's a shot I took without it. Do you see one?
Jonathan saying "Cheese!" while everyone else is deciding to do silly faces.
Jonathan: "What are you telling me to do instead?"
James: "Ok, Jonathan, watch and learn."
Jonathan: "Oooohhhh! Ok, I think I've got it."
Jonathan: "Is this it? Wait, whaddya mean we're going to smile pretty now?"
Four friends watching something very fascinating in the water...on St. Paddy's Day. Can you tell? :-) You're going to see more of their green clothes before we're done!
And for the second pic, what do you get when you give a waterproof digital camera to a bunch of 6-9 year olds at a swim party? Lots of shots that I had to immediately delete! :-) But I also ended up with some pretty neat ones like this.
So how was it? Moist and delicious! Was it worth it? I'm going to say...no. Especially when you consider that on the opposite end of the metroplex, and even closer to my house, I can get a big slice of red velvet cake at the Swiss Pastry Shop for about 2 bucks. I wouldn't turn one of these down, but I'm not in any hurry to have another one.
What do you get when you pay three dollars a piece for cupcakes? Well, for starters this cute box. :-)
Night photography is really fun. I would have liked to try more pictures but it was in the 30s and I was freezing!
Jonathan loves to battle with light sabers. He'll walk up to you, hand you one, and say, "Battle!" My grandma was a willing participant. How do you resist that cute two year old plea?
We discussed white balance the other night at my photography class and then went out to experiment. These were ordinary white lamps outside, but by changing the white balance to tungsten everything changes.
Our big boy turned six today. Time flies!!! And can you believe this is the ONLY picture of his cake I took at the party? I ALWAYS photograph just the cake!
It's out of order, but Thomas did get to kick off first in their game. He was very excited about that.
As soon as the game ended, Thomas HAD to show me his injury. He fell running after the ball and when he got up, did he take off running again? Nope, he stopped and checked both knees for boo-boos. I'm yelling, "You're fine! Now go get the ball!" But he had to make sure first, and then needed sympathy for it afterwards. ;-)
Doesn't this shot make you want to scream, "Kick it in the goal! It's wide open!!" It does me! He didn't score, but he didn't care. He was so happy to have had the ball at all. He dribbled about 20 feet before it was taken away and then turned around grinning at me and gave me a thumbs up.
Thomas had a breakaway at his first soccer game this season. He's never had anything like it before and if you look closely, you'll see that he's grinning from ear to ear.
