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My Foot is Dirtier!

My Foot is Dirtier!
Photo-A-Day #1577

Cautionary warning. Even though kids showing each other their dirty feet is cute, don’t let them do it on a rock. Eva’s got a little egg on her head because of this photo. More later.

Today Allison, Eva and I went for a cook-out at our friends Derek and Michelle’s parent’s house. Derek and Michelle and their son Nicholas live out in South Dakota.

Derek, Michelle and Nicholas

Derek is a VP of Development out at a college in South Dakota. They only get to come home once in a while. When they do they do a party where a lot of people can get together at once. This time it was a nice relaxing cook-out.

At the cook-out our friends Neil and Andrea, Steve and Erin and their kids as well as Derik and Sarah and their kids were also there. We had a really nice time playing with the kids, watching the kids and making sure the kids didn’t get hurt as kids do. We almost made it the whole time but at the last moment we I was taking photos of Eva and Nicholas and Nicholas picked up his foot and was showing it to Eva. I encouraged Eva to show Nicholas her feet. Well the two of them tumbled back onto a the rock, Nicholas landed on top of Eva and she got a little egg on her head. I felt so bad too. But she is okay, just a little crying and her first bump, sure it won’t be the last.

Hanging with the boys was fun, catching up with everyone and their lives, it was a good party.

The Boys

We had a photo taken of the guys from High School and their families. There was Me and Allison and Eva, Neil and Andrea and Derek, Michelle and Nicholas. I hope that we can get a shot like that each time we catch up as a group. Thanks Kathy for the shot.

High School Friends and Families

Before Eva’s little fall she was having a great time playing with a set of oversized badminton toys as well as a huge volleyball. She had a great time playing with all the other kids and she got really worn out.

Funny Faces

Funny Faces 2

That Voice Again

That Voice Again
Photo-A-Day #1546

After the crazy amount of rain that we received today it was nice to get down to the Cape house to beautiful weather. We made it in time to meet up with our friends Neil and Andrea. Andrea had a blogger 911 issue and I was her go to guy.

Andrea is a fantastic photographer and she is working really hard on her zenfolio site, she also has a blog but doesn’t update as much right now. So we did some domain switching as well as creating a new blog for her. Andrea’s blog is now http://blog.wheelerimages.com. Her zenfolio is now http://wheelerimages.com as well as http://americandreamphotos.com. Check out her stuff especially if you love sailing.

When we arrived at the Cape my parents had a couple of surprises for Eva. My dad had assembled the Goldilocks bed and my mom dug out my sister’s old My Little Pony comforter as well as Strawberry Shortcake blanket. Eva was very excited about it but she is still a crib sleeper. I say let her sleep in the bed it is less than a foot off the ground and she’s already taken her 1st tumble from it and remains unscathed. But we’ll probably have to find a gate or something for it.

Tonight I almost freaked out because I put my memory card in my camera and I don’t see a photo count. Then I try and take a photo and I get a [CHA] message blinking. What the heck is this now? I think to myself. So I try and format the memory card (didn’t have much on it just the last few day’s photo-a-day images) and the camera showed the card as formatted but still showed the [CHA] message. Not Good. So I tried the memory card from my Sanyo Xacti E1. That memory card was all screwed up from the Sanyo so I formatted it and was able to take photos with it no problem. I did a search for flashing CHA on Nikon D80 and found Cheeky Grin had the same issue once. So I read the post and slid the lock back and forth re-inserted the card and low and behold it works fine. I just checked it on my laptop and the images are all still there. I was very happy not to have lost the images or the brand new 16GB card. The 1st one would be annoying, the second would have been tragic.

Oh and fantastic news!!! Allison and I are now and Aunt and and Uncle. Our sister-in-law had a beautiful baby girl. We don’t know her name yet but we are also not allowed to post photos or her name. But she is a cutie and we look forward to visiting them soon.