Logan Crawling

Logan is crawling! I can't even believe it! He's only 4 months old. He's been getting up onto all fours and moving one hand or knee and lunging forward for a couple weeks now.  But last night he took multiple "steps" and went from trying to crawl to crawling.  He's obviously still a little shaky, but holy crap, he's only 4 months!  He can even almost go from the crawling position to a sitting position.  And he can't even sit up yet.  What a crazy baby!  I love his little thing he does with his feet in the beginning of the video.

Playing with Lenses

The other day we were playing with a fancy macro lens and taking pictures of our eyes.  I saw some really cool pictures online one day and have been wanting to try to duplicate them ever since.  Here's one of the photos I found online, and the website.

Obviously ours aren't quite as good, but still, I thought the pictures of our eyes were pretty cool.  The pupil looks like it has a weird texture in this first one, and the detail in the iris on the second one is kind of incredible.

Can you tell whose eye is whose? Logan didn't want to hold still for pictures, so match the eye ball to either, Me, Ryan, Lucas or Paige.

 Playing with lenses...Ha! Pun not intended at first, but now it is.

Family Pictures

We finally got out to take pictures this weekend.  I've been thinking about outfits and poses and locations for like a month now, so I was glad to get out there and finally do it.  Paige's hair looked SO cute right after I did it!  And then about 10 minutes later it was the usual mangy mess.  I'm super sad about it, but there's not a lot I can do about it now.  Oh well.  Here's proof it was cute at one point.

 We took the pictures on our own with a tripod and a remote.  We definitely had to take a lot to get good ones of all the kids looking, but I think for the most part they all turned out really well.

 We went to BoaVentura Winery to take the pictures.  They were super friendly and accommodating.  They really just wanted us to taste some wine when we were done, and I felt a little bad to disappoint them.  We'll have to take along some wine drinkers with us next time.  There was this really cool red barn that we took pictures in front of.

We took this picture as kind of an afterthought and it turned out so much cuter than I thought it would.  I love it!

 There were 3 black labs running around while we were trying to take pictures.  They kept getting into the shots and scaring the crap out of Paige so it was a little tricky at first.  They lost interest after a while, but Paige stayed scared the entire time.  Lucas loved the puppy, though, and played with it every chance he got.

 We got some really cute pictures, but I keep thinking up shots that I wish we had gotten, or things I wish I had done to fix Paige's hair.  I feel like we get better every time we do this, though.  I definitely think we'll come back to this place next year.