16 March, 2010

Costa Rica 2010 part 2

I'm not the best at candid moment shots, I'm use to telling the kids to stop what they are doing and say cheese! I'm trying harder to capture the moment but find myself getting easily distracted, sometimes it doesn't take much. So i think of good shots, just don't point the camera in that direction...something to work on! I took about 500 pictures on this trip but 490 are of the kids :) and then I took some in RAW but i cant get those off the camera....If any knows please HELP!
These were a few of the pictures from just hanging around the house. Between trips...our "downtime"

Kenny and Ralph staking out their future home
Gramma and Nana doing the same,

Riding one of Jake's horses, Brianna was holding tight and Andrew thought he was too cool

The boy loves horses, he could have rode this in circles all day. I remember the same feeling when I was a kid.
Andrew fell while playing soccer so we asked for his pathetic look....this is what we got. It comes all too natural for out little actor
This was literally a second later








Getting ready for the Big Bash...due to last years incident my camera stayed safely inside in it's case the entire night
View from the edge of the property, below is my parents rental house and way out there is San Jose
My parents amazing home...with it's new and "improved" white roof!

When Brent went missing this is where we could always find him.

Andrew and his best bud Devo


I don't know where this one is headed just thought it was cool!
Mr Macho Man and his sweetie pie sister
Every now and then I see a picture that not even words can describe, yes this is one of them!

So here how you play this game. There are two large pieces of wood with faces painted on them. Then where their mouths should be is a not so big hole. The object of the game was to throw a ten pound bean bag with one hand while holding a beer or some form of alcoholic beverage in the other. Needless to say this game got very competitive
Andrew took the side are tongue in cheek stance...followed by getting as close as you can
Ralph took the throw it really high and hope it hits something that's not moving approach.
Brent with the bite the bottom lip while his cheerleader probably has to pee stance
Bonnie preferred the walk up like it's a bowling ball stance.


Happy Birthday Bia!

10 March, 2010

My First Hand Made Outfit


The outfit actually fits better that it looks here on the model, however she was a tad grumpy because she may have been accidentally poked with a stray pin the first time she tried it on.

28 February, 2010

Andrew Hard at Work

This is how our conversation went:

Me: "Andrew I have a job for you"
Andrew: "But I'm busy"
Me: "it will be fun, I promise...I need you to take 5 rolls to each bathroom...then I'll give you a surprise!"
Andrew: reluctantly, "ok"


After the first 5 minutes, this is what I saw, the toilet paper was a race car.


20 minutes later, the toilet paper became a rocket ship



he fooled me, thought I gave him a chore but in reality he got an hour of fun, then 10 minutes of work followed by a dollar!

20 February, 2010

Brianna hard at work






I have this little budding obsession right now with shopping. Um more like Brianna clothes shopping. She is soo fun to shop for she appreciates everything girly and loves to dress up and model sometime too. On my behalf, I am a major bargain hunter, I only use coupons, my best score to date, at GAP I got her 7 tops, 1 dress and 1 pair of shorts for $2, after all my discounts the most expensive piece was $.35.


I made these pants...but unfortunately I didn't factor in her little big booty, the pants have a very low rise, she calls them her butt crack pants...I'm working on fixing that!