My new toy!

My first attempt at using the RAW setting on my camera
Originally uploaded by llear.

I took this using the RAW setting on my camera and then played around with it in Adobe Lightroom. It is amazing, I don't think I'll go back.

My friend's daughter

Here is a picture I took of Miss E on our walk the other day.

This is what I get when I ask my son to look at the camera!!

He really doesn't like getting his picture taken. Actually when I get my camera out he often goes running in the other direction. So this is what I'm left with.

A new pic of Jack

I have a trial of photoshop cs2 and have been playing around a little. It is so impressive, I wish I had gotten it sooner.

It's gonna be slow for a while....

It's going to be slow for a while, I just got a new laptop and I am trying not to put as many pictures on it. I have an external hard drive for my pictures, but this computer has Vista and quite frankly it a huge pain. I have to figure out all the little things that are different, but most important is the fact that a lot of my programs are not compatible with the Vista system. So if your in the market for a new computer, my suggestion is stay away from Vista and get a Mac.

Beautiful Weather

The weather has been gorgeous, so of course we've been outside everyday. This is great for the kids, not my allergies. I haven't gotten very good pictures, because I can barely see out of my bloodshot, swollen eyes, let alone get a good shot. Here is one of Jack, he really doesn't like getting his picture taken.

A beautiful baby!!

I recently took some pictures of my friends baby and this on is my favorite. She didn't take a bad picture, though.

Winter blues

I'm sort of having the winter blues when it comes to taking pictures. The lighting just isn't good, so I pulled this one out of my fall files.

New baby

I took pictures of my friends new baby last week. There are so many adorable pictures it's hard to choose just one. I love this one, though, she is so adorable.

Bathtime!!

Maddison and Jack on the mountain

Maddison and Jack on the mountain
Originally uploaded by llear.

Maddison and Jack were on the top of the mountain getting ready to go down.

Maddison, Jack and Mom

Maddison, Jack and Mom
Originally uploaded by llear.

Maddison, Jack and mom skiing at Beaver Creek. The kids ski faster than I do know.

Ben on the mountain

Ben on the mountain
Originally uploaded by llear.

We went skiing last week and had a blast. Maddison and Jack went to ski school and Ben played in the snow. Everyone had a great time!!

Looking at the Christmas Tree!!

Ben was having fun pointing out his favorite ornaments. I thought the picture would be better, but it was still a sweet moment to capture.

Serious Snowball Fight!!

More snow fun!!

More snow fun!!

YEAH!!! Snow Day!!!

I just had to put this up here, now I did get a slightly better picture for our Christmas card. For the one picture I got with all of them smiling, I had at least 150 of these. Thank God for digital!:)

Another try at photoshop!!

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Black and White of my baby

I've been trying to figure out photoshop and did a little playing. Let me know what you think.

Here I finally got a smile!!

Mr. Serious, isn't he handsome.

Ben is enjoying these last few days of warmer weather. I don't know what we are going to do when it gets too cold to play outside.

As hard as it is to believe from the looks in the picture, the kids had a blast on Halloween. We have waay tooo much candy, so I'm sure dental work is in our future.

This is my sad attempt at getting a Christmas card worthy picture of my kids.

I wish this were a better picture, but the joy on my son's face was just too great to delet it.

Ben and I were having fun taking pictures this morning, it's too bad it's rainging and the lighting sucks.

The boys are enjoying a book together. It's so nice when they get along.

Got this picture of the moon, not a very good shot, but there's something about it that I just like.

Prickly....

A little collection of my kids...

Yeah a picture of him looking at me!!!

Beauty...

Here is one of all three kids, kind a new one for me.

I got some good shots of my kids this weekend

Hello eyes....

We visited our cousins in Kansas City this weekend. They had a great time playing together.

Jack had a friend over on his birthday on Tuesday. They played outside and with his new video game.

Ben had his first day of pre-school. He really loved it, didn't even care that I left.

We had some friends over and played cards and had some drinks...they aren't all her drinks by the way.

Today I got a smile....he thought it was funny that I wanted to take pictures of him in his fireman coat.

My son has an obsession....

We had a pool party for Maddison and Jack's birthday this weekend. We were saved from the rain just long enough to have the party!

Hear is a picture of Maddison's girlfriends at the pool party we had this weekend!

1st Day of School!! This picture does not depict how excited Jack was for his first day of Kindergarten, but oh well, thought I'd post it anyway.

Sunday was my dad's 70th birthday, my mom threw him a big party and we had lots of good food. The best part was getting him some Cardinal tickets, he said he got his birthday wish before he even blew out the candles!

Bevier Homecoming!!!

We spent last week at my parents so we could go to the annual fair that they have. It was a good time, we got to see our family all week and of course ride some rides and play some games. The best part was the food, the hamburgers are famous and who can go to a fair without having a funnelcake or two.

Jack and his cousin Christian loved the bumber cars.

Jack really enjoyed playing games more than riding rides.

Maddison and her cousin Shelby rode this ride several times. It was called the Rainbow, but we called it the "Rainblow", because someone always threw up on it.

Here's a picture of one of the rides at our little fair. I thought it looked neat with the sunset behind it.