Halloween 2008

On Saturday, against my better judgement I went out with Lauri and Norah for our first subdivision Haloween Parade. I only say "against my better judgement" because I'd come down with the flu on Friday. And just as I started to feel a tiny bit better, we went out and walked around in the cold, windy, michigan weather for an hour or so... But I wouldn't have missed it for the world! Here are few pictures that I managed to grab (after ALOT of photoshop that is, I shouldn't be shooting in Manual mode when I'm feeling that sick... Lesson learned)

Some would call this child abuse...

Then it was time for Norah's first UM vs MSU game... Luckily she won't remember this one...


P.S. Eric, I promise your pictures will be done soon... Norah pulled rank this time

7 months

Today was Norah's 7 month birthday! We celebrated by going out with a whole bunch of family! Well, not really. We did go out with family tonight, but it was for my Grandma's Birthday. We went to a nice Italian restaurant and we had a great time. The wait staff was excellent, and so was the food. Everyone had a great time. Hopefully my Dad will have some pictures to blog soon from that. But as for our big 7 month old, here are a few pictures from today as well.

Senior Pictures

Today my Brother-in-Law came over my Parent's house (aka Jim Shields Photography Studio) to get his senior pictures taken. It was my first real shot at using the studio lights. Lots of fun. Even more still to learn. But after the formal yearbook shot (the boring part), and a few more studio shots (me getting to play with the studio lights and telling my "assistant" what I wanted to do :) ), then we headed out into the woods near my Parent's house for some outdoor shots. I was going to try and edit the files on my computer today but I'm having some technical issues that need to get sorted out, so my Dad was kind enough to pick a few and edit them quickly so we could get them online. I'm pretty happy with how they're starting to look. What do you think?

Amongst all the typical graffiti, there were actually some really cool pieces of art out there.

Family Day!

Today we got to take our first family trip to the Cider mill! We took advantage of one of the few days we've had together without a wedding, and for a while we thought that Norah was going to sleep through the entire thing. Luckily she woke up and we all had a great time.

Here are a few pictures from the day (I recently got a whole bunch of new photoshop stuff to play with, so all of these pictures are experiments with some of these new techniques. I think I still need to play around with it a little more, but it was fun to try new things)

Here are a couple of shots of a new Cap, Scarf, and Mitten set that Norah got from one of my college roomates (Kelly S.) Norah absolutely LOVES them! She loves how cozy they are, how well they keep her warm, and how fuzzy they taste (I know I would've thought they tasted like Superman ice cream too...). Yup we're at the stage were we have to taste EVERYTHING. I'm not sure why she was making this face in the first picture, but it was cracking me up. Thanks again Kelly!