10/14/13
This
week I ran across a blog whose author was doing a 5 day project
called “embrace the camera” challenge. This involves including yourselves
in the pictures with your kids/loved ones. Mostly for posterity's
sake because let's face it, us mamas have thousands of pictures of
our kids (in my case, my kid) but barely a handful of us in the
picture with our kids.
I decided to join in on the fun. I should
mention, the blog's author referenced to
who passed
away shortly after she encouraged everybody else out there to do a
similar project.
So
each day has a theme.
Day 1: Smiles
LOL!
I love my son!
This is all the smile he could muster. We took this while waiting for
PJ and GM to get a horse up to be ridden. You see, Wiggly had a date
to ride with cousin S. Man he was super duper excited to get on with
the ride!
So we
tried a second one... LOL!
Suffice it to say, he loved the horse ride
albeit a short ride.
I
decided to modify on the project a little bit by taking a family picture
each day also. Well, I already had planned on taking a
family picture this past Monday to send to Bebe Boder but I thought
it might be fun to have a family photo op every day for 5 days.
I
also thought to include a picture of Wiggly and his Daddy every day.
This is SOOC. I love the lighting on this one. I wish I would have
stuck with this setting for our family pic but I fell victim to my
own need
to keep changing settings.
Day
2: Making memories
(a picture with you and your child doing what your
child loves to do the most)
My
son is enamored with playing with blocks these days. It is absolutely
fun to watch and listen to him create machinery with his blocks.
Our
home made combine.
Daddy
decided to join in on the fun
How
convenient!
A quick family picture followed!
Breakfast
for two is pretty much a staple in our house every morning.
Our oatmeal and raisin smiles!
Cooking
is on Daddy's daily routine.
Day
3: Every day moment
(routine part of your day)
Then
comes dishes.
Hopefully this can be a Mommy and son daily routine. For now,
it's pretty much mine.
Wiggly does help rinse about once
every other day.
Can't beat that.
I didn't
have to drag Wiggly's Daddy into this picture... thank goodness. I
was on the highest step of a stool outside, wind blowing, me sneezing
and coughing like crazy.
Usn's
all set for AWANA.
A family Wednesday night routine.
Him holding a scraper for a family op, not such a routine!
Day
4: Creative
Creative
isn't in my vocabulary. But here goes.
Our
smiling faces melded into one using the multiple exposure feature in my camera.
Multiple exposures, 3 pictures. I debated over the tree vs the sky as the
third layer.
I should have done the sky.
The other option would have been to take a picture of the tree first, then him on my
back, then the kiss.
For
posterity.
I was
glad I took my camera when we took a walk to the creek in the
afternoon. The creek is our number one outdoor all season
entertainment.
It's only fitting that we get a picture of us
together at the creek.
Our shadows
together that is.
Daddy and son moment.
Silhouette
was the only creative thing I could think of for our family. This was
probably the quickest
photo op we did of us... Daddy had food on the grill the same time we were
doing this.
Thank goodness
for
self timers with the capability of up to 9 (yes, nine!) series of
pictures in one set up. I set this up for a series of 4 in hopes of getting 2-3 good ones.
I did not however
plan for this one... my favorite out of the four.
Day
5: Faces
As
you can see, I took it literally :)
Wiggly and his Daddy and what's left of T's face.
I had
to go in to work the last day of the project.
portrait.
I put UD to work.
I
love his sleeping face.
I couldn't help but take one more for the
final day.
Had
great fun doing this project!
I need to do this more often!
AC
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