Project 365

We were out of town for almost two weeks in March. Lillian, Evelyn and I visited my parents while Andrew literally traveled around the world to the Philippines and India for work. Andrew accompanied me and the girls on a road trip to Illinios and then left from there for his international trip. After a nice long visit with my family my mom drove back to Dallas with me and the girls. Both road trips went pretty well (thanks in part to the portable DVD player) but the traveling combined with the fact that my hard drive died while we were away all contributed to me getting behind on posting my Project 365 pictures. Now it is the end of June and although I have gotten way behind with posting to the blog I still keep taking pictures. (I have missed a lot of picture taking days too.) In an attempt to get a little bit caught up I have posted a 365 Album for the pictures I took in March: http://gallery.me.com/agoetz/100385

Here is a slideshow of my favorite unpublished pictures from the month of February...

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While donning the crown they gave her at Mother's Day out Lillian looks on as she "helps" mommy make cupcakes for her upcoming birthday party.

Nana and Poppy flew out to visit and celebrate Poppy's and Lillian's Birthday. Here is the soon to be birthday girl with the birthday Poppy at one of our favorite Tex-Mex restaurants Matt's Rancho Martinez!

Playing together at a new park.

Today I didn't actually take pictures. Instead I put together a simple slide show of my favorite pictures taken on my "Shooting From the Hip" day. The little boy you see in the slide show is our neighborhood friend Santi. I love how some of his pictures turned out. In the last slide his mother is serving out ice cream to the kids. Lillian keeps asking me when we are going back for another visit!

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Lillian loves to pick dandelions for mommy while we are on our walks! 

I used Andrew's iPhone to get this shot since I forgot my camera today. (Shoot with what you got). We are dining at the Mongolian Grill. 

Today I tried out a technique called "shooting from the hip." Literally you just carry your camera around, point at things that look interesting and shoot a photo at about waist level without looking through the viewfinder. It was recommended on a photography blog for people like me who are looking to try something different and fun. I plan to post more pictures from this day soon...there were a lot that I really liked! 

This picture was taken for the invitations to Lillian's upcoming birthday party. I used my computer to take this picture because I knew it would be the easiest way to get Lillian to cooperate with the pose. And here is a thumbnail of the invite.

Evelyn is saying "I'm so mad!" (Ah but do I detect a little smile?)

On Valentine's Day we had the MOMs Club playgroup over for a mini-party. This picture is of the twins, Mason and Dax looking at a Curious George book together. I really like how it turned out but I also wanted to include a photo Lillian and Daddy celebrating Valentines Day in the morning before he went to work so here it is...