Like Mimi?

I've discovered over the last few months I can't use my old 35mm around Kayli or Ashie. Everytime someone takes a picture they squeal - "Let me see, Let me see" and expect the picture to pop up in the preview window in the back of the camera.

I found myself wondering what in the world did we do before we had digital cameras. There are at least 300 pictures, at least 1000 before the computer crashed, stored on my computer. Thank goodness I had saved everything on disks.

I didn't really start taking lots of pictures until I started working at the paper and I'll admit I took advantage of the fact I could pay for the camera and use the paper's film and pay for some of the processing. The motto was - film and processing is cheap, shoot the same picture many different ways. I learned to be a really good photographer, but now I want to look at taking photos more seriously and I've realized I want to go back to that 35mm with the finish rubbed off, that I carried day in and day out while taking pictures every single day. I also want to look at doing a class on self-portraits.

So watch out ya'll, I'm going to be playing with my camera a whole lot more so there's probably going to be a heck of a lot more pictures of the girls.

Ashie's Play - Zach and Lena

Well, it was no surprise to any of us that the Ashie Girl loved drama camp this summer. She's been singing songs from Annie and The Sound of Music since she was but a little mite and then came High School Musical and Hannah Montana. It was always a treat to carry the girl shopping, we'd be in the middle of a store and all of a sudden she would belt out a song, way too old for her child size body. People turned around from all over a store to look at the little girl riding along in her stroller singing for everyone.
That child never had a shy bone in her body - that is until she got on stage for a beauty contest.
So at the end of the first week she asked me to come to her play - Zach and Lena. She was dressed as a Forest Fairy. The play was cute, but although the leading actress must as been Lena, I thought my little Forest Fairy was the hit of the show.