First Home Run

Thomas hit his very first home run at his game on Saturday. He was SO excited. As were we!

Here it is. The hit.

Creative Cage

One of the things Thomas loves about Dale and Wanda's house is all of the neat stuff he can make with all kinds of tools. He was pretty proud of this cage and wanted me to photograph him in it. So I did.

Cousin Love

I couldn't decide which of these three shots I liked the best, so I'm posting the whole series. Jonathan LOVES Mason and Mason is so good with him!

Confetti Egg Fun

I know Easter was a couple weeks ago but now that I've posted my bluebonnet pics, I'm going back and looking through my photos from that weekend. There are some really great shots so I'll probably be posting them all week. :-) Landry and Thomas were having a blast in this shot smashing confetti eggs on Mason's head.

Bluebonnet Thomas

One last bluebonnet pic to share, unless I get really desperate later and need a pic to post. :-)

Horses!!

Grandpa and the Boys

David's parents were visiting last weekend and went with us to Ennis. I love this pic of the three of them.

Donkey

This donkey was in the same field as the horses from a couple days ago. He was really friendly and walked right up and let the boys pet him. He didn't like the shutter sound on my camera though. :-)

Pose and then...

First you pose nicely with your brother in a beautiful field of bluebonnets by the lake.
Then you turn around and tackle him. Love my boys!!!

Bluebonnet Snack

Bluebonnet Field

Bluebonnet Boys

We went to the Bluebonnet Festival in Ennis over the weekend. The bluebonnets were gorgeous. My only complaint? The sun was shining too bright! I'm so picky now I'd rather photograph them (boys and flowers) on cloudy days. :-)

Snake Master

I'm disappointed in both of these exposures but am posting them because interaction between Jonathan and the snake is too perfect. The only question I have is, which of these two is your favorite?

Bluebonnet

Bluebonnets

On Friday, we attempted our first bluebonnet shots of the season. I'm pretty pleased with the results but am going to try some more at the Ennis Bluebonnet Festival this weekend.

Eight Greats and The Greatest

A shot of my grandma and her eight great-grandchildren.

Snake Shadow

Since Lisa posted a water reflection pic today, I decided to go ahead and post this shot of a snake in the water at the zoo. Can you tell that I did not have my circular polarizer on today? See all the reflections? I don't mind them in this shot. Just wanted to point out that I KNOW. ;-)

Brick Egg

There are at least 300 other pictures I took over the last few days that are really neat and that I need to spend some time deciding what to post. For now, I'm going to post this image that tickled me during the egg hunt at my grandmother's house. Just thought it was a cute place to "hide" an egg.

Easter Umbrellas

We were in Lubbock for Easter but the Easter Bunny found the boys and brought them these cool umbrellas along with some other neat things. Thomas' is a pirate umbrella and Jonathan got a frog one.

Eagle

If I were a little less lazy, I might try getting rid of the faint wire lines in this shot. I was able to mostly get them to disappear just by the way I shot it, but not completely. Still like this view of the cool eagle.

Stagecoach Cousins

My nephews Mason and Palmer were visiting over the weekend. We had a lot of fun with them. I have many more good shots to share over the next few days/weeks, but for starters here's a shot of all four boys on a stagecoach at the zoo.

Bored Defender

What do you do when you're team is doing really well offensively and you're stuck playing defender for one really long quarter?

First you practice your whistling.

Then you stretch it out.

Then you notice your mother photographing you, give her a dirty look, and hold your hand up so she'll STOP. But she doesn't.

Then you do a little dance and kick some dirt around.

Then you decide you might as well practice your batting for t-ball.

I'm pretty sure that one would have been a home run.

Goalie

He played goalie for the first time all season on Saturday. He made two good saves and didn't allow any goals and was very proud of himself about it. As he should be!

Our Little Soccer Player

Just look at him going for that ball, and he got it. He's finally understanding and PLAYING soccer! Woo hoo!

Wagon Wheel

Windmill Motion

Another example from my photography class pictures. It was very hard to capture the windmill in motion. I couldn't get a slow enough shutter speed even with the aperture stopped down all the way, which by the way also showed me that my sensor is REALLY dirty. ;-) I finally put my ND filter on my lens and was able to capture the motion in the second shot.

Three Different Sunsets?

Nope. Just one boring one that I changed my white balance settings on to try to make it look more interesting.

Daylight Fluorescent WB

Cool White Fluorescent WB

Cloudy WB

What's your favorite?

Fence

Took this shot at my photography class field trip to Cedar Hill State Park. I'm working on various ways to convert to black and white. Got a new Photoshop Elements book and am learning some new techniques.

Dinnertime Clothes

While eating dinner the other night, Jonathan decided it was the right time to try to take his shirt off, but he only got it so far.

After he pulled the shirt back down, I liked the messy hair and cute expression.

Big Boots

Hey there Pardner! Them's some mighty big shoes yer tryin' to fill!!!