Kelsey kids

Megyn

Megyn in her new little Christmas outfit

Mount Timpanogas

Beautiful view from Alison's house

Kelsey kids

Discarded Couch

It's amazing how much fun you can have on a couch when you aren't being told "NO"!!!!

UP

Last week, a kindergarten teacher called me up and asked if I would show our candy house to all four classes and talk to the students about structures and the engineering behind the candy house.  I sputtered for a moment because we hadn't committed ourselves to building one.  Derek had previously suggested we do a replica of Disney's UP house, but that is as far as we got.  I told the teacher, YES I'll do it.  With the help of a loving family, we pulled it off.  The house is ready to go to school tomorrow. 

 

 

 

 Note the garden hose by the stairs.  Staying true to the movie..

Jumping Jack

 Jack loves to jump and he comes up with some pretty good moves.  I caught this with a 1/500 second shutter speed, f8 aperature. 

 This was another low-light shot where the shutter was wide open.  You can see the blurred background which lookes almost like silk. 

Another blurred background but the light had almost gone. 

Jack

Christi took the two older kids for their piano lessons so I was left to have some fun with Jack.  We grabbed the camera and had a ball.  These 2 shots were taken in the front yard with a cloudy sky.  There wasn't a whole lot of light so I opened up my shutter to 1.2.  It threw the background out of focus, almost so it looks like fog.  I'm really getting attached to that 50mm lens. 

Kennedy

I took this picture with my 50mm lens with a wide aperature (3.2) in Christi's living room with natural lighting.  This is the room that has light coming from three directions, one of them high up for the hairlight.  It looks like a painting. 

Thanksgiving pics

Kennedy

Here's a few pictures from our Thanksgiving stay in North Carolina.  I will post more later