Layouts

I really need to go to bed but I wanted to post a couple of layouts since I haven't in a while. I haven't partly because I haven't been making any. I did want to post Adreana's layout so Marleny could see how much Adreana liked her party. I think she was a bit worried about the success so this should confirm that she is a top party planner! Anyway enough talk.. here goes:

And mine, One of my girl with my old camera. I enjoy going out and taking pictures with her so much. And she is so thoughtful already and thinks about each picture. I am going to have to show you some of her soon.

Benjamin's 4 yr old pictures

So I finally posted our past month. With homeschool and life I haven't gotten a chance but I know that some of you were waiting patiently for pictures of the capes I made for Benjamin's Birthday. Well yesterday I had the brilliant idea of hiring my kids as models. We watched Project runway recently together and so I used that as an example of what models do. They wear what the photographer says and do as she wants, if they want to get payed. So for $5 my beautiful kids posed for me. Adreana did everything as she was supposed to. Benjamin did better than normal (see post below about our school pictures). Anyway here are the results in storyboards. I am learning how to work with actions therefore the storyboards. Don't quite get it yet but working on it...

We added some gems to Adreana's crown. The reason she picked this instead of the butterfly.

So not smiling in all of them but better... don't you think. He doesn't like the B on the other side of his cape. He is trying to take it off in that one picture. I will probably take it off myself after I get a decent picture of it.

And my sweet girl modeling the cape for me. She is a princess and a super star and super girl all in one. I love this little girl. She had to take pics to show brother how it is done and she did a fine job of it. Thanks chiquitina!

So anyway please don't call the authorities on me but I needed to get Benjamin's 4 yr old pictures and I couldn't figure out how to do it! A mom's got to do what a mom's got to do! Hope you enjoyed our BIG kids!

First day of school pictures

Another year of homeschooling has started for our family and as has become tradition we got our first day of school pictures on the bench in front of our house. Adreana did great and as usual smiled nicely but Benjamin... well see for yourselves...

My beautiful girl

I love her smile.

A bit blurry but this smile is so her I just had to keep it.

Our first try. This has become my most captured pose.

A pitiful pose.

His response when I said he needed to look up: "I don't want you to take a picture of my face." and swiftly showed me his back.

When I made him show me his face. Another pitiful face.

And there you have it. Our school pictures. Maybe next year he will let me take a picture of his face.

Super Hero Birthday!

For Benjamin this year we had the hardest time deciding between a dinosaur party and a super hero party. In the end the super hero party won out. At first he wanted a super hero party with a dinosaur cake but in the end he chose a spiderman cake.


I made the capes and the piñata so I opted to get the cake at Walmart. Yes, I made the green gob... or kriptonite! After our fiasco with the honey jar last year at Adreana's party I decided to make it myself.

For games we had tag (because the birthday boy requested it). Benjamin was the tagger and after he tagged someone they became part of his team. We also played a kriptonite pass (hot potatoe with a glow stick) The kids loved both of them. We had tons of fruit and candy and cake.

Edited to add: I forgot to add the kids picked the "brand" to put on their capes. The boys all picked lightning flashes and all the girls but Adreana picked butterflies. Adreana picked a princess crown. The also made masks.

Baby sitting

We got to babysit a friends cute baby and I decided to take some pictures while I had the chance. Her mom hasn't seen them so I hope she likes them :)!

A cute story... I told Benjamin we were taking the baby home to take care of her and he was delighted. Both Adreana and Benjamin "helped" tons with the baby. They helped entertain her and found baby safe toys we could clean for her. They hugged her and kissed her and held her until she had had enough. Benjamin even wanted to take a nap with her. Then they came and picked her up. He cried! I think he thought we were going to keep her. When they left he kept telling me... "mama, I want a baby of our very own." Such a sweet baby boy I have. I keep telling him I will find more we can babysit since we aren't getting one of our very own, so if you have one give me a call.