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April 6, 2013
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Color

This week’s photo challenge is color.

So here are a couple more pictures from the Portland Roadster Show.

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March 21, 2013
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Pictures from the Portland Roadster Show

Over the St. Patty’s day weekend was the Portland Roadster Show.

Tow Mater was making a guest appearance so we had to take Ian for the photo-op.

I love photographing cars. Especially old cars.

The curves and lines are amazing, and the colors are always intense.

I know nothing about cars, but I LOVE them anyway.

Here are couple of pictures from the show.

I will be posting some more from the show after we get through Ian’s birthday party this weekend.

It was great to be able to get my camera out again.

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March 19, 2013
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Lunchtime

I have been itching to push the trigger button for a while now.

Between working, blogging, homemaking, mothering, wifeing, party planning and all the other things I feel I am doing, I have not been able to do any photographing.

Don’t get me wrong, I use my camera. But recently it has been picture for this blog or of my children. Now these are valuable pictures and worth taking.

My children are adorable and I love taking pictures of them, but I miss taking other pictures.

I miss pictures with no people in them.

I have been looking for some online picture-taking incentives. what?

I need someone or something to push me into taking those shots. WordPress hots a weekly photo challenge. They give us a topic we shoot it and then blog about it. I decided to try it.

I am hoping to find other online challenges to get me out there shooting again. If you know of any, share them with me, please.

This week’s topic…Lunchtime

This month is a phonetography month, so all pictures are taken with our phones.

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This is what I eat when I forget my lunch…

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March 14, 2013
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Lego and the Barber

This post took a few days to write, mostly because I have been very busy!

Last weekend Ian and Sid went to their first ever LEGO Convention.

Baby Sid’s first LEGO convention

It wasn’t a Brickcon but Bricks Cascade convention, which was put on by the Portland LEGO User Group and Bricklandia, Inc.

of course Ian found a friend as soon as we got there

It is a smaller convention, but was still fun! They had the displays of LEGOs that people had built. Some were just from kits, but most were original.

There was a Hogwarts display by Alice Finch. It was EPIC. She has brought this piece of art to multiple conventions. A LEGO fan blog, The Brothers Brick, did an interview with her. You can see more pictures and in greater detail.

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

There was also displays from Lord of the Rings and The Wizard of OZ.

There was a whole group of tables that were just LEGO cities and had train track running around them. The trains were made from LEGOs and worked. What train track would be complete with out a LEGO Union Station here in Portland.

I loved the LEGO city displays because they involved all the minifigs set up in scenes.

Ian’s favorite was, of course, the Spiderman. Mine was this City Pool. You can’t really tell from my picture but there was a shallow and a deep end. The minifigs in the pool are submerged and there is a hot tub with moving water, well it looks like moving water. On the side of the building is a pump and filtration system.

The details people put into building these things is truly astonishing.

There was also a sectioned off area with LEGO Duplo sets for the kids to play with. After looking at one display table Ian and I spent the majority of our time there.

On Sunday we finally cut Ian’s hair!

He basically had no hair when he was born. By his second birthday he had a natural mullet. Yep, party in the back, business up front. But it had these wonderful curls.

I know, those lovely golden tresses, gone. But it was past due. They no longer had the ringlet curls in the back, it would just tangle up to be a mess. It was just out of control.

He has been asking for a Mohawk for a while now and we have talked about getting his hair cut. I wasn’t sure how he would handle it.

But he did great. We went to a barber shop and he was the only customer at the time. The barber was great and Ian liked him, so I think that helped him be comfortable.