Wednesday, August 7, 2013

I'm AAAAALIIIIIIVEEEEEE!!!!!

Hi all...or those of you who are left!  :)  I think this is officially the longest I've gone without posting on my blog.

I've been shooting and posting on Facebook but not on here!  I got a little behind and got a little overwhelemed.  The more behind I got the more overwhelmed I got and then it was just too much.  But I can't "not" post them.  With the exception of the one Valentine's Day post, I haven't posted any of my pictures since January...and there are a LOT from January to now.

So I figured out a solution.  I loaded ALL of my images from January to July in one album for those who want to see them.  There are a lot but the girls have a grown a lot (Haylee is taller than me now) and lots of our summer activities, including a week at the lake.  We took a second week trip to another lake but I didn't take pictures there as the colors are so drab and icky!

Anywho...here is the January to July 2013 Ziggy Life album

and here is the run down of when they were taken and what we were doing...

1-33 ~ 1-5-2013 ~ Nugget & I at Magic Mountain theme park

34-46 ~ 2-13-2013 ~ Kids at the park then my new Cheeky Lime Livy camera bag which I LOVE LOVE

47-54 ~ 2-14-2013 ~ Valentines Day (sorry for the repeat of the flowers)

55-25 ~ 2-15-2013 ~ Nugget before school looking cute

59-94 ~ 2-25-2013 ~ A Day in the Ziggy Life

95-104 ~ 2-26-2013 ~ Easy crock pot recipe

105-107 ~ 4-25-2013 ~ Kool Aid hair

108-119 ~ 4-26-2013 ~ The Bigs at Jack in the Box

120-170 ~ 5-7-2013 ~ A walk with Nugget & the 1st time I used Michelle Kane's new Half Light action set that I also LOVE LOVE LOVE!

171-182 ~ 5-17-2013 ~ Just some flowers in front of Haylee's school while I waited for the bell to ring

183-248 ~ 5-26-2013 ~ Memorial Day BBQ

249-289 ~ 6-6-2013 ~ Nugget's walking field trip to the grocery store, library, fire department & the park

290-349 ~ 6-11-2013 ~ Buena Vista Lake

350-364 ~ 6-17-2013 Coco's for lunch

365-386 ~ Swimming at my friends pool

SO...that puts me almost up to date!  AND...I have some BIG news!!!!!!!!!!  But you'll have to wait for the next post to find out what it is!  :)

Phew...even though I know it's not the best way to share my recent pictures, it's better than not sharing them at all.  Thanks to those of you who look and I will be keeping up to date so that I never get behind like this again. I MISS blogging and I miss the good quality here vs the crappy quality on Facebook!  The girls go back to school on the 13th so I'll FINALLY have some time to myself again to keep up on my blog!

Hope everyone has had a wonderful summer!

Okay...I decided to share my BIG NEWS with a crappy cell phone cell phone picture...

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YEP...you're NOT seeing things...I upgraded to the Canon 5D Mark III and OMG...no words for how amazing this camera is, what a HUGE upgrade it is from my Canon Classic 5D and how utterly happy I am with it!  The ISO upgrade is INSANE and I LOVE how it handles the grain.  The new AF system is HEAVEN.  I was worried it would be too many AF points to toggle since I toggle every.single picture I take.  But nope, Canon worked it so well that it makes it super easy and super fast to toggle a single AF point.  I have to toggle a single point vs zones because I shoot with such large apertures.  My focus has to be spot on or the picture has to go in the trash bin!  The FPS are crazy fast for a full frame sensor with so many MPs. I like that I can record my images on a CF card & a SD card as backup.  The shutter is MUCH quieter than my classic and they changed the handle a bit so it feels SO much better in my hands.  I can grip it so much better now which is great since I do not use a camera strap. And the battery grip is amazing!  So...there are no words that will ever describe how over the moon I am about this camera.  I've been shooting with the Classic 5D for 3 years and this was SO worth the wait!

So after this post, ALL pictures will be from my new baby.  I'm editing some pictures from a pool/water park type place I took the girls the day after I got it!  Yay!

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Valentines Day Part 1...

Happy Valentines Day everyone!  Hope you are able to spend this day with the one you love!  We aren't real big on V-Day at the Ziggy House!  Very low key for us.  I wasn't expecting anything this year as Eric had to take a HUGE pay cut at work for now.  So when I woke up this morning, long after he left for work, I was surprised and moved to tears to see these on the table waiting for me.  Our 12th Valentines Day together and he can still surprise me!

So I did a little something special for him too but cannot post until later today so as to not ruin the surprise.  But here are my beautiful and very meaningful flowers from my husband...

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Avyree's "House" Project...

Haylee had this project in 1st grade too!  We did a log cabin.  For Avyree, we did Teepees.  She is very proud & happy with how it turned out. Here was the process

***all color images edited with Oh So Posh's Primer (from her Timeless Elegance set) & M4H's Rainbow Matte (from her brand new Keepsake set) & the B&W images were all edited using an action that was shared on Clickin Moms***

Materials...

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Prepping the trees for the foliage...

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Playing on the job...

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Prepping the base for the grass...

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Decorating...

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Decorating the trees...

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Daddy gluing the structure for the teepees...

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Trying to build her own structure (she SO has my hands/fingers)....

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Decorating her teepees...

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Goggled teepees to get decorating ideas.  Gotta love smartphones...

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Getting tired of coloring...

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Admiring her hard work...

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Confused over what one of the Indians are doing...

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She wanted the Dad, Mom & Baby to be standing in front of their teepee...

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Home made teepees...yay...

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And of course some details...

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Story behind the bull & the buffalo... Avyree wanted the bull to take down the buffalo to protect the Indians...

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The final project...supposed to be the last picture...lol!

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This was supposed to be above the pic above...lol!

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I'll be happy if there are no more projects for the rest of the year...lol! Thanks for looking & hope all is well!

Avyree lost her first tooth...

She's been very upset that she hadn't lost a tooth yet!  So she was over.the.moon about finally losing one!

Dirty Nugget hands...

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Movie time! She loves laying on the kitchen floor & watching movies on my editing TV...

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Thanks for looking.  Hope everyone is well!  :)

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Petunia the Panda...

Avyree was assigned a project over the Christmas break.  She has to build/create an animal and do a report on that animal.  She choose Panda so we built it today. She had so much fun doing the craft and is SO PROUD of how her Petunia turned out!  It was dark in dreary outside so my light wasn't great but as the life of a MWAC, we shoot away anyway!

Dreary window light...

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Details...

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Starting...

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Bed head...

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Love little hands...

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She has the.best.eyelashes!  I have long eyelashes but they aren't think and dark like hers. She got my length, her dads color & no idea who's thickness.  All I know is I.love to shoot them...

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Putting on the nose...

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Markers to make the bow...

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She was very excited to give Petunia a bow...

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One of Petunia's feet...

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Petunia bokeh...

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Coloring the grass for Petunia to sit on...

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Lily(kins) either winking at me or giving me the stink eye...

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Just about done...

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She loves.Petunia.so.much she had to kiss her...

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And here she is with her final project! She is so proud of how her project turned out! So.darn.cute...

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Thanks for looking and I hope everyone has a VERY Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and stay safe!

Nugget's class Christmas party...

Such mixed emotions when I walked into her class that horrible Friday!  I had been glued to the TV sobbing all morning.  My heart breaking for so many in Newtown, CT.  Fear that I wanted to bring my kids home and knowing I needed to let them enjoy their last day of school before the break.  They have 3 weeks off of school so this was their party Friday!  I tried to clean up my face and get rid of the red and swelling and sniffles.  Going was the best thing I could have done though.  Kids are so wonderful and have a way of putting you in the moment and making you enjoy it, without you even having to think about it!  So I left there with a smile on my face, thankfulness in my heart and grateful to have spent some time with these great kids in their classroom!

It was loud, wild, crazy and so.much.fun!  Here is some of the crazy...

Nugget with some girlfriends...

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Eating the yummy pizza...

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Trying to do the splits...lol...

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Kids artwork.  Avyree is #23...

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Secret Santa gifts...

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You have to love that her own teacher has her name spelled wrong on the board...sigh...

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Her teacher in the middle, great moms on each side of him and some really great fun kids...

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We headed to the playground for a bit to run off the party and one of Avyree's friends gave me this beautiful red leaf...

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And now the real crazy can start...

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Thanks for looking!

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