& 8"> Project 52: Week 7 & 8

I know, I’m late post­ing my Week 7 photo, but I’m sure you guys can for­give me since we’re in PACKING HELL!!!  So, here’s last week’s and this week’s, all in one post.  And this is prob­a­bly the last one I’ll post from our old house! Yay!

Here’s last week’s.  I’m doing an online pho­tog­ra­phy work­shop and was try­ing to work on get­ting a motion blur shot.  There’s so many tech­ni­cal things wrong with this photo, but I still love it and it cracks me up.  This was Tyson’s ver­sion of Cross-Country ski­ing while we were watch­ing the olympics.  In case you can’t tell, that’s two hockey sticks as skiis, and his poles are a golf club and a bat.

And for Week 8.  Bai­ley got this cute lit­tle stool that is a puz­zle with her first and mid­dle name on in.  She’s OBSESSED with tak­ing all of the let­ters off and putting them all back on top of it (and into any assort­ment of con­tain­ers as well).  She’s still not crawl­ing yet, but I’m actu­ally happy this week for that with all of the pack­ing we’ve been doing.  It’s keep­ing her out of a lot less trou­ble!

My Funny Valentines

Hope you all have a day filled with love!  Here’s our loves.  We’re so blessed to have them in our lives.

Best Buds!

Here’s Ty and his best buddy on their first day of preschool this year.  I’m SO behind on shar­ing lay­outs, so stay tuned for a bunch more!

Cred­its:

A boy and his ball

You can see the entire post over here on my Ten Tiny Toes Pho­tog­ra­phy blog.  But, I just had to share these new shots of Ty from yesterday.

Are you ready?

I *think* we’re ready.  At least I hope we are!  All that’s left for me to do is order the gro­ceries (I’m doing this online and then going to pick them up on Wednes­day I think).  All of the presents have been pur­chased and wrapped and I can­not wait to GIVE all of our gifts this year.  It’s def­i­nitely more fun than receiving!

Last Fri­day Tyson had his lit­tle Christ­mas pro­gram at preschool.  While the pro­gram con­sisted mostly of a local choir singing some songs, at the end, the kids got to join them and sing a few songs.  they were SO cute!  And Tyson did great and knew most all of the words to the songs (and I could even hear his cute lit­tle voice singing).

Here’s a lit­tle snip­pet of Rudolph the Red Nosed Rein­deer.  He get’s VERY into it about 1/3 of the way in.

Last night I was play­ing with a fun lit­tle tech­nique on how to get “shaped” bokeh.  This was a good learn­ing expe­ri­ence for me because for the first time ever, I had to man­u­ally focus.  But it was SO cool!  I’m try­ing to fig­ure out what other shapes I could do…

This was just a star­burst sort of shape

This was my attempt at a snowflake shape, but clearly, I need to work on my snowflake cut­ting skills…maybe Tyson can help me!

And last, but not least, Christ­mas tree bokeh!

So, what do you think?