*Update* On Photography Class

Thank God the roads were good last night! It was a nice drive, and Rene just put 4 new tires on the van, and a new battery. I was good to go, besided the fact that my spedometer was broken!? So I had no idea how fast I was driving, which is a bit freaky! It's going in tomorrow to be fixed.

As for the class........AWESOME-AWESOME-AWESOME!!! It's perfect for what I need right now :) I hit Kingsway before going to NAIT since I had a few hrs to spare. I got suckered into Gymboree because I had 50.00 in gymbucks to use :) Can't make this a habit! I drove over to NAIT, and just so happened to park at the closest stall to the closest door to the classroom. It was a fluke, as some people said they walked through the entire building in order to find it! Yikes!!! There are 18 of us I believe, and our instructor has the same brand of camera as I do (Canon) so that is cool... our functions are pretty much the same, although her camera is way more pro then mine. We covered everything that I thought we would cover in the whole 5 weeks in that first class! She taught us all about: Shutter speeds, ISO, Aperture/f/stops, DOF, and Compesition. The girl sitting on one side of me had the same camera as me, so we helped eachother out, that was nice. There were all kinds of cameras in the room...even a 3.2 megapixel point and shoot! I'm giving you all this info, knowing you might not understand all that I'm saying, which is important in way. A lot of people think they can pick up a "good" camera, and "anyone" can take good pictures. This isn't really true. There is a lot to understand and know in order to correctly expose your pictures, and then there are many ways of making a picture feel right, rather then odd. So hearing someone say "Your camera takes good pictures..." while a good camera might help, you must understand how to use your camera and understand photography in order to take the awesome pictures. It is the photographer who takes the awesome shot, consistantly.

I am really excited to look at the homework, and work on it this week. Next class we move into the studio's (3 of them) where we will be working with lights, reflectors, backdrops, props, and various lenses! I can't wait....it's well worth the money, I can tell already!

I want to thank you guys for all the kind comments you have left on my blog or by email. Your support is appreciated :)

Playing with Portraits

I spent the weekend at mom and dad's...the kids were sick, so we didn't do that much. I did get a few candid pictures, and wanted to share these two. One of my cousin Elora (You may have seen her comments here :) and the other of Robin, my very single brother ;) It's nice to post some pictures that aren't of my kids...I'll give everyone a little break! lol

Avery seems to be feeling a bit better today. I took her to the Dr. who said it's just a virus. Can't treat it with antibiotics....keep giving her advil/dimetapp. Ughhh, I feel bad giving her so much of that stuff, and her poor eyes are a bit infected still. Nothing but wait it out....Jaden and I have colds, and Rene is feeling better now.

On a better note, we have officially booked a trip to the Dominican Republic! I never imagined going on such a trip when our kids were still this young, but thankfully we both have parents who are willing to keep the kids for 4 days each in April. We are going with my Aunty Leonie and Uncle Benny, and some of their family, and another couple. I can't wait to feel HOT SUN on my skin....this cold weather is driving me crazy, so a beach holiday in the near future sure helps us get through this part of the year!

I know everyone is probably so sick of hearing about this photography class I'm taking at NAIT, but tomorrow is my 1st day :) NAIT is soooo BIG, that I'm a bit nervous about finding the classroom, and parking etc.. Rene is home so that is one less thing to worry about. Nexk week will be another story! Nearly 1am, time to get some sleep... hope everyone is doing well! :)

100 things about me!

This was part of a challenge, just thought I would share. I posted it on my other blog. http://adriennephotoaday.blogspot.com/

Pictures....

Here are the pictures I tried to post last night. A whole bunch of Avery, she doesn't mind swapping "Picture Fun" for "Hand lotion and lip gloss" I found my bribe!! lol.... Jaden is still hiding from me when I take out the camera... I don't want to ruin him for life, so I just hope the phase won't last long. There is a picture in there of Avery talking on her little phone, standing on her bed, looking out the window. Honestly this girl is only 2, but going on 16!! Her side of the conversasion is always soooo funny. The other day it was HER sister, and her kids are fighting again..." She makes me laugh every day.

Sorry! What a busy week it's been....

On the computer that is! I have been trying to get all my pictures burned onto cd's so it frees up some space on my computer! I'm not even going to tell you how many photographs are on this thing... I'm crazy! I started the week off with some big time organizing! We went and bought 10 or so rubbermaid containers from Canadian Tire, and went through all the toys, and hauled a bunch to the Repeat Boutique. Put away some baby toys for the future, and decluttered. It feels so good to do this every year, at least once. I'm counting down the days for my photography class... I'm so excited, and can't wait to see what it's all about, how many students etc.. I think it will be really fun. I'm feeling a lot better now, knowing Rene will be home at least every other Wednesday with the kids. His boss is very understanding, thankfully (they had asked he work every wednesday now... so that threw us for a loop) We've been talking about going on a trip...and not sure where, when etc... but I think we've pretty much agreed to go back to Vegas, and see what we did not see on the last trip. We are desperately trying to get Jason and Celine to join us ;) They would be so much fun, and mentioned they wanted a holiday too. I've been working a lot on fun stuff this week too. Trying to join in on a few photography and scrapbooking challenges online :) The kids are healthy and so busy playing with all their new toys from Christmas, that it's like they don't even realize it's been almost a week since we've really been outside to play. We go for a walk to the mail, but that isn't as much fresh air as they need. Now we have this "BIG SNOW BLIZZARD" warning tonight...so it may be a few days before we can get out again. Trips to Walmart will have to do for now! :) I took a few pictures of Avery this week, here's a few of em... Jaden is anti-camera lately, unless he gets to hold it. Have a good day everyone...stay sheltered if you are in the area for this crazy weather!

ETA: Blogger is not loading pictures for me tonight.. so I'll post them in the mornnig! G'night!!

Natural Beauty

I love this picture of Avery so much, I just had to share :) Have a good Wednesday everyone!! If you are also looking at my Photo-A-Day blog...this was also posted there.

Just one to share

I just started to go through my pictures from the past month. I wanted to share this one of Jaden and Avery with their cousins Dawson and Brianna, and also Jeremy :) I just like that they are all in it....and I can't believe how BIG they are all getting! I will post many more this week!

Happy 2007 *Hi Bill*

{Inside Joke..lol}
Yes, I am finally updating my blog! This last entry has been up waaaaay too long, and I looked at Tanya's blog, WOW!!! She has dial up and has 3 or 4 entries up on me ;) (CUUUUTE Pictures btw Tanya!!!) So Christmas has come and gone....and today is New Years Day! I could sit here and reflect on 2006 but I might save that for tomorrow. So much happened and went on this past year, I was even easily convinced to get a tattoo so that I remember this year forever! I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas, and a healthy one too! My kids were feeling good over Christmas, but a few days ago they both started with high fevers...and it was 3 days of meds and they are finally feeling better. We spent the last 3 days at Rene's mom's and Bill's, and had such a nice visit. They were so good to us, and put up with my sick children! The kids really enjoyed being at their Meme's, and seeing their cousins again. My tummy is so full from her cooking, oh my goodness it was excellent.... and we really enjoyed all the poker games!! Thank you guys :) We leave Plamondon today to go back home in Whitecourt, and have a few days with Rene before he goes back to work on Thursday. I hope to get some scrapbooking done, and time to play with my new camera lens! Happy New Years to everyone, I will update with some pictures hopefully tomorrow!

*cheers*

Merry Christmas!

Wishing all of you a Merry Christmas, and a fun, healthy holidays! Here are a few pictures of me and Alix attempting to bake last night.... you must read the recipe, and see what Alix did ;) (she dumped *all* the ingrediants in together!) The hand ornament, Jaden made for me from playschool, and the little angel ornament I got from Aunty Bonita at the Girls Weekend a few years ago. I love those angels, and she brought them all the way from Guademala (sp?) Anyways, hope to see many of you this week!!!

Just to share some pictures

These pictures are from our trip to West Edmonton Mall Monday/Tuesday. We stayed in the African Room, it was very cool! We all brought our swim suits, and enjoyed the hot jacuzzi tub! I included some pictures of the kids at Jaden's Christmas concert today too. Tomorrow is already THURSDAY, yikes! This week is going by fast!!!