Sunday, January 23, 2011

new "portraits"

So last week I decided to be creative and take some pictures of the girls around our neighborhood. It was over 40 degrees, the warmest day we'd had in a while, so we got dressed and went for it. I didn't get any good ones of them together, but they did pretty well individually. Oh and they made up their own poses for the most part. They didn't like many of my ideas. :)
Then I tried for the first time to enhance the colors a little bit on our super low-grade photo program, it was pretty fun! and it really made a difference, changing them from a dull winter day to a little more bright and exciting.
So here are my masterpieces! The first ones are by our neighbors' fence.


I like her expression best in this one. That's my Katelyn!

let me remind you they came up with their own poses!



Then we went to this sweet old garage door on a shed on the outskirts of town- so cool and thanks Melanie for the tip! You can see on some of these I enhanced that blue a little more than others! :)
she really wanted her boots to show :)
another of whitney's poses. to be fair, it was quite cold in the shade. 40 degrees or less.
love these next two!



our last location, I had to tell them to laugh to get them to smile because they were tired of it, so this is what I got!

overall, I'm very happy with the results. I have tried taking pictures of them myself in the past, but this time I learned that location and color enhancing really do make a difference!
Now I just need to learn to shoot better and not get the ugly concrete floor or random edge of my neighbors' house in the picture. :)

Monday, January 17, 2011

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

sharing a room!

We are now the proud owners of BUNK BEDS!!
Thank you Grandma and Grandpa Murray!

The girls have wanted these for a while, and Eric and I decided it was time for them to start sharing a room.
We are NOT pregnant right now though!
I just wanted to put them together before they started thinking they DESERVED their own rooms or something. And so far it's been GREAT! I keep waiting for the excitement and new-ness to wear off, and for them to realize that they got gypped out of their own rooms.... but we have actually had LESS fighting this week than we did before (no more "get out of my room!") and Whitney has actually been sleeping BETTER (she has only come into our room once out of the last 8 nights- before it was like half the time) and we made Whitney's old room into our "library", it's perfect!
They have stayed up a few times talking, but honestly that's the best part about having a sister, isn't it?? So I'm really happy they can now enjoy giggling at night together.
We love the new bunkbeds and this new phase of Katelyn and Whitney's lives :)