Photo anyone?

Many of you know that Tomas and I have a photography business and it's really Tomas's baby, I'm just the support staff. I do like helping him set up the shots and at least to me, I think I'm more help then hindrance. I do like picking up the camera and taking a few but I always shoot in full auto and really it's a hit and miss of what I produce. A few weeks back Tomas did a wedding and he handed me a camera (he set it up) and I just snapped away and I actually got a few great shots. And so the passion was born and I finally gave in to Tomas and agreed to take his photography class that he's been teaching at a local Parks and Rec. Our first lesson was on aperture, controlling the iris of the camera. In a nut shell, creating an isolation of a subject in a photo. We have all seen great shots of a person, or a flower and everything around it is fuzzy or out of focus. I walked around for 2 days and in my mind took some great shots but here are the ones that I turned in to my teacher :)

Olivia's Foot

Olivia is still not walking, she says it hurts and that it pulls at the scab. Tomorrow will be 2 weeks. By the way, I took these cool pictures of it :)

Cute kids

just some random pics of the kids- also proof that Malaki plays in the window and on the computer already. I'm convinced that he will be a hacker by the age of 10.

In "Stitches"

I've been neglecting my blog, mostly because I'm lazy but I also feel like nothing is going on that is too exciting, besides a quick update on Facebook is so much easier! But low and behold we had something exciting happen, Olivia's first stitches and not the fun, crafty kind. The MD kind sewing you up kind. We are not sure exactly what happened but from what I can understand and put together is at the Primary activity, somehow she got her foot caught under the corrugated wall that is made of metal and it sliced the back of her ankle/ foot and for once my camera was in the right spot, my purse so I got to document our event. To say the least, she was not happy that I pulled it out and was taking pictures, so I only got one. She was pretty upset and wasn't her usual funny self until the local kicked in and then turned on the charm and the nurse and MD kept saying how well she was doing and how funny... I know everyone tells me how funny she is.

Side note: it's been 4 days and the wound looks great but she refuses to use the foot, her pediatrician was concerned about the bruising around the ankle and ordered x-rays to roll out a break, I'm still waiting for a call back but I'm pretty sure that it's all soft tissue.

18 months

(a matchbox car in each hand)




(running away from Mom on our walk)










Malaki is officially 18 months! For church, 18 months is a milestone for going to the Nursery class (18 months to 3 years). It's a little class for this age group but because I'm the leader, Malaki has been going already, so tomorrow won't be a big deal. Our little guy is not so little anymore, well, he's still little (he's a Mendoza) but he's bigger then he was!
Things Malaki likes: cars, playing outside, running, climbing, laughing, smiling, opening drawers, eating, to just name a few things. He's speech is coming along and it seems like everyday I hear a new sound, but still only a few words. My favorite thing that Malaki does is that he plays with his toys on the windowsill in the office (it's low) and he plays with his cars and dinosaurs and watches the world. He also lays on his stomach to play with his cars. It's very cute but of course no pictures because as soon as he sees the camera he comes to investigate. He also crawls under dad's desk and turns off all the computers (more then once when dad was working) and he found an old printer in the office and he sits on the video camera bag and plays with the printer and has all the doors and buttons figured out!

Malaki

I just love this picture of this cute guy, what's not to love?





Boy News:
*climbs up to my computer and plays, I now have to lock it when I leave.
*went to use my printer to find chicken nuggets stuck in it, thanks little guy!
*knows what he likes, shakes his head no or gets really excited if the answer is yes!
*runs EVERYWHERE! did I mention this kid is a boy? All boy

My Sassy Olivia

Olivia is the funniest, sassy little girl I know and I love her to bits! This is how she "posed" when daddy asked to take her picture in front of a waterfall. No coaching from me at all. P.S. she dressed herself :)