Happy Mother's Day Weekend!

Of course Sunday, the day we went to the beach for brunch, turned out to be sort of cloudy and windy! Nevertheless, we had a wonderful brunch at The Beachcomber, and Ella saw the beach for the first time (or at least the first time close-up since she's seen it lots of times while driving down PCH)!

View from our table...

Cuteness & Photography

This post is partially a photo drop-off of the utter cuteness that is my little love bug, but also, to admit that I STILL shoot in "P" program mode 99.99% of the time and to beg for a photography intervention!

These were taken with my 35mm 1.8, but they still aren't sharp enough or bright enough (and the room was pretty well lit with natural light).  I wish someone would come into my room and say, you need to shoot with aperture 2.4 and shutter of 1/500 or whatever in this room.  I just can't figure it out!  Admittedly, it's hard to figure out when you a.l.w.a.y.s. shoot in P mode, but whenever I try to shoot in manual, I just get frustrated!  You'll notice these pictures are mostly too dark, and then also some sort of blurry (the feet shots). 

Ella is loving this position lately...halfway stuck under our bed...go figure.

These all turned out slight dark...

And then these are blurry-ish and the color is off or washed out? (But don't you just want to eat those little feet?!)

These two just constantly crack me up...such love.

I'm Having One of Those Days...

So after our lovely lunch experience, I foolishly decide to practice my photo skills (lighting was terrible).  First I get this...

So I try to get out from behind the camera to get a smile, but instead, it gets worse...

 So I keep trying to at least get this...

Clearly, the photo session was not going to go my way today, so I pick her up out of her exersaucer, and she gives me a gift...

Up her entire back, down her pants, somehow on the outside of both booties, all over my shirt, on my pants, and I think in my hair?  She started laughing hysterically after this happened.  At least I know why she was cranky today.  She's in a great mood now.  ;)

I just have to edit this post to show how her mood changed after she got all that junk out of her tummy:

Apparently that sun is HILARIOUS.