{Emma's last two REI shoots}

She is on REI.com if you want to see her on the website!! You can tell she is getting tired of smiling in some of these!!!! :)

{Macro Monday}

{50 mm Fun}

I had a date the other day with my 50mm 1.4 lens, just me and my lens!! I am not sure why, but I rarely use this lens. This needs to change because it takes super sharp pictures. Since I have been neglecting it, I decided to walk around shooting things in my neighborhood. I had no specific plan on what I was going to take pictures of...just things that caught my eye, while I was walking around.

The little truck above was all by it lonesome on the curb...left behind by a kid who had better things to do!

A Suzuki parked under a tree.

Someone's pride and joy. A super,shiny Chevy.

An old GMC..guess I was on a vehicle theme!!

Another Chevy.

An address.

A bunch of garbage cans, perfectly lined up.

A lawn ornament that cracked me up. Lawn ornaments always make me laugh. This one is so ugly...that it is actually cute!! LOL!

Some pretty flowers.

A lone flower.

A nice window.

And a cool birdhouse with some fun Bokeh!

{Macro Monday}

{Bart Storming}

OK..so things are looking better for the Huskies this year. But really, anything would look better after last year's 0-12 record!! LOL! Yesterday they beat USC 16-13. USC was ranked third in the nation playing against Bart's huskies who had the worst record in the Pac-10. The Huskies took the lead by a field goal with 3 seconds left in the game. So then what did my husband do?? He stormed the field. My 40 year old husband stormed the field. Are 40 year old supposed to storm fields??? Hmmmm...talk about excited....he was so excited he thought he was in his 20's!!

{Boy oh Boy!}

Yay!! I got to have a shoot with a baby boy!! A nice change from doing all the baby girls!! He was such a sweetie...but he hated any of the hats..so we didn't get very many of those :)

{Under Construction}

OK...My blog is going to be under construction here for a bit!! I am reworking the background, header, picture sizes and colors so it may look all wonky when you log on because I have to do it in steps and HTML is super confusing!!! So bear with me folks..it should be looking great sometime soon!! Well that is if I can get all this HTML to cooperate with me!!!

PS..I took this picture at Greenlake for my photography course back in the spring!

{Kanye is a JACKASS!}

Even the president of the United States thinks so!! How sad is that...

"Kanye West just got the ultimate smackdown: President Barack Obama called Kanye a "jackass" for his horrible interruption of Taylor Swift's VMA speech. Tell us how you really feel! The "Presidential Burn" has got to be the worst burn of all, as one TMZ commenter so rightly noted. TMZ ran an exclusive yesterday revealing President Barack Obama's commentary. "I thought that was really inappropriate," Barack Obama reportedly said, adding, "He's a jackass" in reference to Kanye. This all went down while the President was miked up and preparing for a CNBC interview, but before he was actually on air. After saying his biting commentary, President Obama joked "Where's the pool?" TMZ commented that he was probably thinking back to when he got "busted" for killing a fly. At least this time, nobody's going to be disagreeing with him, except Kanye."

Oh Boy..this is going to get the media going!!

{Macro Monday}

{The Finished Product}

OK....this painting project has finally been completed!!! The house looks so much better!! WE love the new colors and so do all the neighbors!! I think Ian and Bart are so sick of looking at paint that they could just throw up thinking about it!!! LOL. They worked really hard to make the house look perfect. They were out there morning to night. Plus we lucked out because Paul's son, Bryce, got us a really good discount on the paint!! So Thank You to Bryce too!! :)

Ian had no problem painting the high areas. Bart, well, he was a little more of a scardey cat and was more than happy to have Ian do it. Who knew?!?!? I guess Bart has "height" issues!! Good thing he works in an office!

His lovely painting attire...kinda Klu Klux Klanish....

Bart was a masking fool. Luckily I didn't have to take part in any of this. All I had to do was get them drinks and lunch!! Easy enough!

Pretty much this picture tells it all......Ian is probably thinking....how did I get roped into painting my sister's 3400 sq ft house, that is about 40 feet high?!?!??! Plus he had just got done painting our rental a few weeks before. Such a great brother.....most of the time!No..I am kidding...we really do appreciate all the hard work Ian put into these projects!!

The gutters just hanging out drying. On one of the nights after painting, it started pouring down rain. Of course that was the night the gutters were sitting here hanging out in the backyard and not on the house. RAIN..in AUGUST. C'mon..I know this is Seattle, but c'mon!! Bart was just sick....he fretted about the paint all night. Luckily it was fine in the morning....but I did have a dream that we woke up and it had all washed off and ran down the street! LOL.

The mess that comes with working!

The 48 foot ladder we had to rent. That was fun to bring home on top of the Rover!!

Bart better watch it, Ian is starting to crack.....