PFP Philly Workshop

I was lucky enough to attend the Pixel Fairy Princess Philly Workshop last weekend. I was very excited and very nervous to attend. We have a great camera that Dan knows how to use but I do not. I didn't even know the lingo....FStop, aperture, etc.....????? So, that morning as Debbie aka PFP talked I started to have palpitations. How was I going to keep up? Well with the help of the amazing Pixel Fairy Princess I did keep up and I learned something along the way. I had an amazing time with some old friends and I made some new friends too.

Kate was the one who introduced me to the Pixel fairy Princess blog. I am inspired by Kate's photography skills and wanted to learn more myself. So I decided to join her for the workshop. Lisa and Ivy brought some amazing "models" for us to shoot. I was so happy to finally met Heather. What a fun gal! It was also great to met Bobbie and Cheryl. We had a wonderful time together. I can't believe I didn't get any pictures of the photographers or the Pixel Fairy Princess. I was too overwhelmed trying to learn.

I am going to post the link to some of my favorites from the workshop on Flickr.com

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I am trying to practice my skills so I took Katie out last week for a photo shoot. Here are my favorites from that session.

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I took Bailey out today to get some pictures for Karen for Mother's Day. Of course it was cloudy and raining. Here are my favorites. I am trying to decide which ones to enlarge for Karen as a gift. Which one is your favorite?

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I am have been slacking lately in the land of blog. I was spending WAY too much time on the computer and I needed to stop for alittle while. The last few months have been so busy around here. I am hoping to catch up on my blog soon. I have so much to blog but so little time!

Bunny goes to work

Last week I was leaving for work and I noticed Katie's bunny in my purse. It was the bunny she just got in her Easter basket. I asked Katie how the bunny got into my purse. She said she wanted me to take the bunny to work and show it to all my friends. So bunny came with me to work. I showed the bunny to all my friends. I work in a Cardiology office and do stress testing all day. So I decided to give the bunny a stress test! I am not sure if I have officially lost my mind.

Happy Easter and some rambling.....

We had a wonderful Easter. I woke up to screams this morning that "the Easter Bunny came, the Easter Bunny came". Katie had a great time looking through her Easter basket while Dan made breakfast. Then we quickly got ready and off to 10 am Mass. We went to Aunt Karen's and Uncle Jeff's house for dinner. We had an Easter egg hunt for the kids in the backyard. Then off to Uncle Ed's and Aunt Dolores's house for a second Easter dinner. I am stuffed! Pictures to follow this week.

I wanted to send out a quick post since I have really been slacking lately with my blog. We have been so busy and I have been so worn out at night that I just want to fall into bed. My plan was to get back to blogging this week but I just realized that Dan left our external hard drive at his Aunt and Uncle's house tonight. He is having his cousin upload music to the hard drive. So, now I don't have any of our photos because they are all on the external hard drive. I won't be able to blog about all the fun stuff we have been doing without any photos.

So stay tuned for me to finally catch up on this blog. Katie has been to 5 birthday parties in the past 5 weeks. Katie started Spring Soccer. We had our annual neighborhood Easter egg hunt. We went on a trip to the Philadelphia Zoo. I know there is more that I am forgetting. Once I get the external hard drive back I will blog about of these fun times with pictures!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter.

Headband?

So we are at Old Navy today getting a birthday present and Katie's walking behind me looking at everything. As we walked through the woman's dept towards the children's clothes, Katie stopped at a table covered with woman's underwear. She pulled a hot pink lace thong out of one of the bins and said to me...."Mommy, look isn't this a pretty headband?". I laughed and said "It sure is". She put it back in the bin and there was a lady standing there that got hysterical laughing. I said to the lady..."At least she didn't try it on".

Cinderella?????

Katie loves to do the dishes! I hope she still likes to do them when she is 15!

Uncle Jeff for Supervisor

On March 14th we marched in our local St Patrick's Day parade to support Uncle Jeff. He is running for supervisor of our township. The night before the parade we all helped Uncle Jeff get ready. We put Vote for Jeff RXXXX Stickers on lollipops and we tied Uncle Jeff's business cards on green beads.



The day of the parade we all wore green and Vote for Jeff RXXXX Stickers on our shirts. We gave out lollipops and beads along the parade route. Poor Katie didn't feel good. I didn't realize it until we got to the parade. She wasn't acting herself. She stayed in the wagon and I felt so bad. She wasn't sick the night before. She was sick through the rest of the weekend.





Getting ready for the parade





The beads





Poor Katie





Vote for Uncle Jeff





Uncle Jeff working the crowd





Uncle Jeff





Katie perked up alittle at the end



We had a great time supporting Uncle Jeff's campaign!

Catch me if you can.......

On St Patrick's Eve we set a Leprechaun trap. I covered a box with white paper and Katie colored shamrocks and rainbows on the box. Dan propped the box up with a stick and we put a bowl of Lucky Charms cereal under the box to lure the Leprechaun into the trap.

The next morning the trap was down and there was shamrocks and gold confetti all around the box. Katie was nervous to lift the box up so Dan helped her. We didn't catch that silly Leprechaun but he ate all the Lucky Charms. He left Katie gold chocolate coins in the cereal bowl and he left Katie new shoes. According to Katie's "St Patrick's Day Alphabet Book" Leprechaun's are shoemakers.

The Leprechaun left us a note and it said Dear M>>>> Family, You can't catch me! Thanks for the cereal. Sorry I turned your milk green when I used it on my cereal. Sorry about your toilets(he turned the water green) but I had to go potty. I left some gold chocolate coins and new shoes for Katie. You can try to catch me again next year!

What fun we had trying to catch that silly Leprechaun!


Katie decorating the box


Getting the "bait" ready


The "trap"


Katie wouldn't lift up the box. I think she was freaked out that the Leprechaun was under the box.


But there was NO leprechaun under the box.


Gold chocolate coins


Lucky Charms for breakfast!