Reflections

Eli Reinholdtsen is a photographer and author of a book called Chasing Reflections.  I bought the ebook from CraftandVision.com where there are many ebooks. This particular one is about reflections and taking photos that make the viewer look deeper into the photo.  This site has been a source of inspiration and learning for me.  So thank you Eli for helping me see more than I thought there was when I first approached the scene.

Il y a un photographeurn et ecrivian qui vend un livre des reflexions.  C'est marveilleux parce que je vois un scene different et veux prendre un photo avec des scene different. Alors je veux direr merci a Eli Reinholdtsen.



Choose your risk

The title of the post was taken from David DuChemin's blog.  Maybe it should be titled, boys and wagons do not mix.  However I thought the first was appropriate to this situation.  What possesses a younger brother to listen to an older brother?  Why does it sound like a good idea for a younger brother to get into a wagon to "surf" when it doesn't sound like a good idea for the older brother to do it.  Unfortunately there is no reset button for this. Our dentist was willing to take a look at it on Easter.  We decided to wait and after a quick xray it was determined that he did not expose the root and therefore did not need a root canal.  However, there was a break across the middle and one up the side of his tooth and we need to have a followup check in a week and in a month to see if indeed his root is dying.  The dentist though is optomistic and we need to fix his teeth anyway.  The small break up the side may help keep the built up "filling" part of the tooth on.  Hopefully we can get five years out of this filling before needing another one.  I'm pushing hard for my kids to go into dentistry.  When you have a good dentist it's like having a diamond.  We tried a few when we got here and were unhappy.  We had a great dentist in Montana and were dissapointed with service here until our current dentist. 


before the dentist, avant le dentiste





After the dentist, apres le dentiste



Heir, Job et Isaac pense que c'est un bonne idea de se tenir dans un chariot et l'autre personne tire le chariot.  Ce n'est pas un bonne idea.  Job a casse son dent.  C'est le pacque mais notre dentiste nous dit que si nous voulons il peut voir le dents.  Nous decidons d'attrendre jusqu'a aujourd'hui.  Tout de suite c'est maitin Job et mois allons chez dentiste.  Il lui voir et decide que il peut reparer le dent et une heure apres, Job a un nouveau dent.  Je me demande "qu'est ce que les garcons ont pense?" Et je decide qu'ils n'ont pas du tout penser.  Garcons, qu'est ce que je peut faire? Je les adores.

Isaac Dances

He's hilarious.  We just crack up laughing at our own little papa smurf.

Yes, it's true, we have snow the other day.  It rained hard all night and around 6 in the morning it started snowing.  We had large beautiful fluffy white flakes.  Some were larger than a half dollar.  Within twenty minutes the ground was snowing by 7:00 it had stopped snowing but rained a little.  Last weekend they cancelled soccer games because the pitches were so covered with water (standing lakes in some of them) that the pitch needed to recover before being torn apart by 10 hours of constant battles.  The pitch this weekend was great, not only did we play Saturday but Sunday afternoon as well.  C'est vrai, nous avons du neige aujourd'hui.  C'est incroyable parce qu'ill pleut tout la nuit et commence de neige a six heures du matin.  Le weekend passe nous ne jouons pas des matches du footballe au cause de la pluie.  Les terrains de footballe sont tout mouilles et il y a une lac au tour des terrains du footballe.   Je pense qu'aujourd'hui la neige va disparaitre a midi.

My little Girl

Flying High

One of the greatest joys our kids have is jumping on the trampoline with their dad.  "Jump with us" they plead when it is not raining.  Somehow their dad can do things that I as a mother wouldn't even think of or feel in control when doing it.  I didn't grow up with a trampoline so I still feel like I have a little loss of control when I'm jumping and feel like I'm too high or there are too many kids on the trampoline. Although if I want to practice taking photos all I have to say is "let's take photos of you jumping."  Sometimes they come inside asking me to take photos of them jumping.  Win-Win situation. 

Notres enfants aiment le trampoline.  Ils ont demandes "s'il te plait, saute avec nous" quand il ne pleut pas.  Leur pere peut faire des chose que moi la mere ne peut pas faire comme saute plus haute ou saute avec beaucoup des enfants sur le trampoline.  Mais souvent j'ecoute "prends mes photo, s'il te plait."  Si je veux prendre des photos pour practique il faut que je dit, "Viens et saute sur le trampoline pour des photos."

Soul Sister

It's not often that I can use the labels memories in the making and Leslie without adding any of the kids or soccer or or or ....
This was a memory with me and my friends.  It was Starbucks, Train, Soul Sister, wine glasses, dancing with Ipods, tears and laughter, listening and talking, photos and well more photos.  It was us being us, not being moms or wives, daughters, sisters, just us.  We learned a lot about each other and I think a little about ourselves.  We are still pretty enough to have our photo taken in the elevator from some young punk and his cell phone.  We are intimidating to others in a restaurant where the average clientel has 150 lbs on us because we are all that.  We needed some sun and fun.  Lyrics have been running through my brain and whenever I see these photos they will continue.  "Your lipstick stains on the front lobe of my left side brain...Hey soul sister I don't want to miss a single thing you do"  will forever be ingrained as this weekend's theme song.

J'etais allees avec mes amies pour le week-end.  C'est un temps de rire, de pleurer, de parler.  Nous buvons du cafe et du vin.  Nous allons au restaurant pour dinner.  Nous sommes la sans enfant, sans maris, juste nous.  C'est un weekend parfait.

Hovander

Somehow March has slipped away from me.  I don't quite know how it happened but it did.  It's soccer season again and I might blink and have April and May slip past too.  Who am I kidding?  It's always soccer season and we are always busy.  There was this one afternoon that I had totally free.  It was just Job and I so we grabbed the dog, called one of Job's buddies and headed to Hovander Park.  We spent a couple of hours throwing the "bird" for Skagit and then headed home.

C'est incroyable que mars est passe et c'est presque le milleu d'avril.  Je ne sais pas comment ca passe, mais c'est vrai.  Mais c'est comme ca tous les temps.  Nous jouons le footballe presque tout l'annee est le footballe dehors a deja commence.  Une jour en mars, j'avais l'apres-midi libre et Job etait le seul enfant chez nous.  Alors j'ai telephone un ami de Job et nous avons alles au parque.Nous avons passes l'apres-midi vers un riviere avec notre chien.

Lego Robotics

So MP3 decided to start a Friday Club to use the Lego Mindstorm NXT brick.  It's free and anyone can come.  There is a group of 10 year old boys that attend.  We've only really had two meetings.  One informational meeting and one actual build a robot meeting.  I decided only to take Job because it is up his alley.  He loves Legos, robots, and programming.  He just finished a Visual Basic course and loved it.  During his "free time" he is either playing legos or programming little video games like pong.  Only Job.

Il y a club pour des enfants qui aiment des robotiques.  Ils ont utiliser des Robotiques de Legos.  Il y a un groupe des garcons de dix ans qui attendre.  C'est juste pour Job parce qu'il aime des robotiques, des Legos et des programmations informatiques.  Dans son temp libre, il joue avec des legos ou fait des programmation sur l'ordinateur.  Il est vraiment comme son pere.  Il n'avait pas un choix, il faut qu'il devien un ingenieur.