Photoshop discoveries....

Three buddies before.....

Since I bought my nice new camera I've been paying a lot of attention to pictures that people take and put on the internet on their blogs and I love to look at Flicker. I've oftened noticed that my pictures just don't pop like some do. I know I have a good camera - is it something I'm doing wrong? I've discovered that most pictures entered in contest or even just posted on blogs have been photoshopped....I'm just now learning the art (my camera is hard enough to figure out) but I have been playing around trying to sharpen colors and make them stand out a bit.....

After using PW Boost......

Before,

Boosted,

Before, pretty enough...

After....The greens are richer and the color of the flower is a bit more colorful...I really like more of a natural shot but it seems that whatever is in print or on the computer goes through an enhancement. I think there is definetly an art in making the picture better but not to look fake. I'm having fun working on a new form of art.

Miracles do happen.....

Saturday evening I was sitting in the living room reading and my hungry for munchies husband who I could hear rummaging through the kitchen cupboards looking for something sweet poked his head around the corner and said "I really could go for some Tollhouse Chocolate Chip cookies" which interpreted means: (You haven't made those in a long time and could you?) I said: "There's a recipe on the back of the bag." What happened next had to be recorded because anybody who knows him would not believe me unless they saw some proof - especially his kids! He thought about my response for a second and I as I peered over my reading glasses I saw a little light go off in his head....He realized - Hey maybe I can do this.....I'm thinking - no way - He doesn't even know where the mixing bowls are or the flour or the measuring spoons or most anything else that goes in that cookie recipe..... So I got out my camera:)

And this is where it all started........

"Hey! That's not the way my Home Ec teacher Mrs. Jones taught me to measure flour!)

"OH- NO- HE- DIDN"T!"

yes, he did....


"Guess I should have not said...."Give me back my camera and clean up that flour you spilled on the rug!"

Salmonella warnings didn't work.....

The finished product! - which I have to say that they are some of the best Tollhouse cookies I have ever eaten -

Is this the beginning of something new? A man in the kitchen cooking instead of looking?

Yummy!! - now off to the treadmill!!! (for about a 200 mile run!)

New Years Eve....

This year we spent New Years Eve with Travis and his family in their new gorgeous home....I didn't take enough pictures but I wanted to share some of our fun.

Triston watching a cartoon before his friend got there.....

These guys were getting into it too.....

Lots of good snacks to eat......

Not sure why I'm getting "the face" here......

Josie had the most fun trying to sneak by everyone and climb the stairs.....

Some wii dance moves to watch......

The "Backstreet Boys" are back!!

We had a lot of fun! Who says you have to get all liquored up to have a good time?....We certainly don't!! Happy New Year!!