OK, so I'm
really late on getting
Masen's pictures taken for his announcements. I decided to get all the kids' pictures taken together in their Easter outfits, along with
Masen's one month old pictures. I haven't found a good photographer here in Hawaii, so I just went to Sears (there's my first mistake). I was so disappointed with how they turned out. I guess I'm just used to the mainland kids studios; I LOVE Kiddie
Kandids, and The Picture People. At least I got the disc so I can TRY to
Photoshop the images. I am new at
Photoshop, so we'll see how far I get.
This picture was cropped (totally off center). Couldn't she get the baby even looking in the right direction? And she would only take one picture of each pose, so if it didn't turn out...too bad.
This picture I
Photoshopped. It was totally off center, and the light was so bright. If anyone knows how to make a picture look "foggy" in
Photoshop CS3, PLEASE let me know how!
Cropped again.
SOOOO off center.
I had to zoom in a little on this one. I guess I should have specified I wanted a close up.
Notice the foot hanging out of the basket? It's little things like these, that drive me NUTS!
This one was probably the worst of the bunch. It would have turned out cute, but
Masen is crying. How do you
Photoshop this? I think I'll just have to chuck it.
Corynn's and
Dallin's individual pictures turned out good. Maybe the photographer just didn't work well with babies? Next time, I'm hiring a REAL professional. Anyone have any recommendations?
Another fun tradition we have is an Easter egg hunt. Usually we ask the Easter bunny to come on Friday night so we can do the egg hunt and baskets on Saturday morning. I like to keep the commercial side and the spiritual side of Easter seperate. This year though, it was raining on Saturday morning, so instead the Easter bunny came while we were at church on Sunday. It was such a sunny beautiful Hawaiian day, we did the egg hunt in the back yard. We have a tradition of having each child find one special Golden Egg that has money in it. In the beginning the Golden Egg had a quarter in, and over the years it has increased to $5. The kids know that the Golden Egg is usually hard to find, and sometimes they need clues. The only clue I would give them this year is that they needed to be VERY careful when they found the Golden Egg. Dallin wasn't being so careful when he found it and nearly got tangled in this huge spider's web.
Thankfuly, I was watching him, and yelled from across the yard that he needed to watch out. Once he saw the spider he wasn't so sure the Golden Egg was worth the risk :) After some deliberation he walked around to the other side of the bush (even though it was in our neighbors yard), and was able to snag the egg from behind. He was one determined kid.
Here is Corynn and Dallin proudly showing off their Golden Eggs. 
Here is me and Masen watching all the fun.
The Cheesecake Factory, Chris' 
Chili's, Paradise Pie
