Day Twenty

Contrast...

After Ava's bath today I sat her on the couch to get her dressed.  The lighting was pretty good considering it as overcast so I grabbed my camera.  I love the contrast between her skin and the towel.

and then I had to add this close up.

Day Nineteen

My life needs color...

It has been unusually warm and sunny the past few days and it's supposed to last through the week.  I thought it's so nice so maybe some outdoor shots are in order.  I peered out the windows trying to find inspiration and everything was dead and colorless.  The only color seem to be the blue sky.

I thought to myself there has to be something out there; some glimmer of color.  I stepped out onto our back porch and there is was.  The wind chime has a beautiful glass butterfly designed disk hanging off of it.  I have tried to capture it before but it's normally so windy that I can't get a good shot.  Today however there isn't much wind so I snatched the opportunity. The thing I love most is that is captures each of my favorite colors. 

 

 

I was also very excited that the screen behind the wind chime created natural texture to the photos.  Sometimes we have to really search deep to find something colorful in our life but it's nice to know that it's always there; we just have to open our eyes a little wider to see it.

 

Day Eighteen

Foofa cures all...well at least yo gabba gabba does.

Sometimes we all have those moments where we are tired and just need some downtime.  Ava has been cutting molars and has been more tired than usual.  Today dinner was a little later than usual and she was bordering melt down mode so we had to think quick.  It was apparent that she really just needed to settle and relax a bit.  Well that only means one thing in this house and that's Yo Gabba Gabba.  It is Ava's favorite TV show and thanks to Christmas she now has three DVDs of it.

Let me tell you that this show has an instant calming effect on Ava.  I put in one of her DVD's, sat her in her PBK chair, and handed her foofa and she was happy.  Foofa is a miniature stuffed animal version of one of the characters.  Today it was all about Foofa.

Ava knows how to relax and chill like no ones business.

We are Family!!

The latest I heart faces photo challenge is we are family.  I don't have a great photo of all of us but I love this photo of Aaron and Ava.  It's not a perfect photo as far as photography standards go but it captured a great moment.  It's definitely one of my favorite photos of Ava and her Daddy ♥

Day Seventeen

Playful Sundays...

Sunday's are the perfect days for relaxing at home and doing as close to nothing as possible.  We like to spend Sundays sleeping in, playing with Ava, and maybe watching a movie or two.  When the weather is nicer we like to throw in going to the park but today was cold and rainy.  We did however go out for Mexican for dinner...yum yum.  I, of course, forgot my camera and did not get any pictures while we were there.  I had it all ready to go sitting next to my bag and never put it in...ugh.  So here are some pictures of playtime with Ava today after dinner.

Top pick..

 
another great close up

and then of course the action shot.  If you can't tell she has one shoe on and one off.  This girl and her shoes :)  I find that when playing with a little one the best possible place to be is on the ground.  It's all about being on their level...it's the most fun.

Day Sixteen

Please feed me...

Ava always has the audience of at least one of our two dogs during each meal.  They lay there hoping and praying that she will drop (or throw) them a treat.  Now unless Ava really likes what she is eating she is MORE THAN happy to share.  Here is a picture of her audience during lunch time today.

Last night we were up super late as you may have been able to tell by my extra posts but to keep myself occupied I was doing some photoshop tutorials.  I was playing with the basics like altering the effect with minor color balance and curve changes.  I also played some with various textures and veils which I have really done in a few months.  Here are a few of my late night projects. 

 

 

 

Photoshop is addicting...I will accomplish one look and then see what else I can do.  I find it fun to take one photo and try to come up with variations of that same photo.  Sometimes it doesn't always work and what looks great with one photo will look horrible with another but sometimes you come up with something awesome so the experimenting is totally worth it.

The runners up!!

Ok so I'm bored and going through the photos in my 365 folder and figure there are some that should still be shared for the sake of sharing.