Haven’t updated in a while. I will be re-doing the entire blog soon so I’ll be posting a lot more once I can actually stand to look at it again haha.

I still haven’t really been shooting much. This week has been pretty busy getting ready for our cross-country drive to North Carolina coming up on Monday. But we snuck off and met my friend Vonessa and her son, Tristan at the Tucson Zoo for a little morning adventure:)

Took this with my point and shoot this morning at the Tucson Children’s Museum! I’m in love with this picture and it’s subject:)

Took Lily to the little park that’s around the corner from our house. This was a week ago, I believe.
Grabbed the trusty point and shoot and laid in the grass while Thomas chased her around:) It was a nice afternoon together! Lily is still not a fan of the grass lol. I couldn’t get enough of it though:)

You can kind of see the mountains behind them. You can see them much better in person. It’s gorgeous here:)

These were from later that night, after her bath.
She has started smiling for the camera [:)] but it’s these weird, fake smiles!
I loved them though!

I’m doing better about using the point and shoot. But, I’m not using my other camera as much. The last week was really busy so it was just easier to grab the little camera when Lily was cute. I’m still not happy with the quality of the pictures I get with it… but hey, at least I have pictures of my cutie being cute:)

These are all from yesterday and today. Lily loves to play in our shower. I know it doesn’t look like the safest place. But I’m sure you all trust that I’m a good mother and that I don’t need to explain anything to you. She also loves belts. Well, any straplike thing really! So this was an extra special combo for her lol! She’s also learning to eat with plates and bowls and forks and spoons. It’s new but she’s having fun and catching on! She also loves to snuggle. With Thomas. With me. With the dog. With anything really. So I grabbed a quick one of her snuggling her Daddy while they watched cartoons in bed. And then there are some of her running around the living room being silly in her pajamas and with crazy pigtales. Her hair is getting really long! I’m thinking it miiiiiight be time for a hair cut! We’ll see though;)

These are a few of the last pictures from North Carolina before we left to drive cross country.  I actually have a few more but they were on a different memory card than this batch, so they will get processed and edited later.  These are more special to me and my family than anything else.  There are a few of Lillian playing with her Pop Pop [my dad] and his hat right before we loaded up and left and then there are a few pictures of us and my family in the driveway.  These were all shot on auto and were barely edited, if even at all.  But are loved nonetheless;)

And lastly, my family waving good-bye to us as we were driving away<3

Good-bye, Carolina. We love you and miss you.

I try and try and try to remember to bring my point and shoot camera with me when we go out. I bought a Canon Powershot over the summer so that I wouldn’t have to risk carrying my DSLR around in the diaper bag. But that’s easier said than done. I don’t think that I get quality pictures on the Auto mode and in my opinion, if I’m going to have to be worrying about settings, I’d rather be worrying about them on my DSLR since I know that I’ll get good pictures with it! But, I still throw the point and shoot in my purse as often as I can remember to.
These are a few of the pictures from last month.

Lily and Daddy reading the newspaper at the Pope clinic waiting room.

Lily and Mommy waiting for the Pediatrician.

Lily roaming around the room, checking everything out.

Lily, not very happy, after her 4 shots:(

Lily and Hailey cuddling on the couch, watching a movie together at Adalynn’s! [We realllly miss them:/]

Lily’s first time coloring with Crayons:)

Anddd… grumpy butt Lily, cuddling with Mommy before bedtime<3