Birthday Cake #2

On his actual birthday, we were home alone. His party wasn't until the following weekend so I offered to make cupcakes. He wanted a real cake and helped decorate it. And snack on it. :-)

He's getting good at this blowing out the candles thing.

Huggin' Bros

They were wrestling/hugging on the floor and Grandma's when I snapped this pic.

Bad Auto

It sure is nice to know your camera! I was feeling lazy that morning and put my camera on Auto to take this shot of Grandma and Thomas. Auto was definitely fooled. Thought Barb particularly would enjoy seeing the differences since she's got a new DLSR and is learning how to use it. And my apologies to Grandma for posting a pic of her in her robe. You're still beautiful!
The snow outside totally threw off the meter and completely overexposed the image when I used Auto.

So I put it on Manual, exposed for the background (the snow outside) and voila. Well, except for the glare in Thomas' glasses and the cheesy grin. :-)

BTW, I took this photo because Thomas was giving Grandma the birdhouse he'd gotten for Christmas from my parents. He painted it and took it to Lubbock to show everyone. While there, he decided Grandma would enjoy having it and gave it to her.

Education Building

Actually I'm not sure this is still the Education building, think I might have heard something about a new one being built, but it was when I was there and I spent MANY hours inside. But that's beside the point. I don't like the new colors they put on it. Might look ok when all the lights on campus match, but the colors are too cool for what I consider the Carol of Lights.

Carol of Lights, part 3

For fun, thought I'd try zooming during the exposure.

Carol of Lights, part 2

Since my minor was Earth Science, I took many classes in this building right here. Miss it.

Carol of Lights

This next series of shots were taken at the Carol of Lights at Texas Tech. Nice to go back home, with a tripod, to try to capture it. Can't tell you how many times I walked across this field into those three buildings...particularly the middle one.