Morning in Loveland

It is day five of our vacation to Loveland, Colorado to visit family and help clean up my grandparents' home.  It is a great place, a little unique in many ways but the absolute best thing about the hose is that it sits on the West side of Lake Loveland.  Because of this, I have great memories of opening the curtains in the basement before I would go to sleep at night, just so I would not miss the sunrise the next morning.  While I have been getting up early each morning so far this week, today was the first day that I was actually up before the sun peeked up over the horizon.

Updated 1/8/2010

Fueling Up

Posted by mobile phone:
Getting ready for the drive to Colorado. I just fueled up the beast and wanted to try a new method for posting to my blog from my BlackBerry. We shall see.

Rynders Reunion

Day two of Jennifer's family reunions.  Jennifer was able to attend today, so that was a little nicer.  This reunion was for all of the children and families of Jennifer's maternal grandmother.  Jennifer is one of 27 grandchildren, so the Rynders can be a fairly big reunion.  It was not too big today, I guess not everyone could make it.  None the less, it was a nice time.

To see the rest a couple more shots of the entire family, look at my Smugmug site under the Family section.

Of course I took a couple photos of my girls.  Not many, just a few while they were playing the game Pretty Princes.  I am not sure what brought it on, but at one point Mia wanted to make sure that her cousin Katie knew exactly what she wanted. 

Olivia was a little more loving when she posed with Katie.

For the rest of the photos from the day (as well as the previous day), look at my Flickr page and look at the Reunion Weekend set.

Gibbons Reunion

Today I was at the Gibbons family reunion (Jennifer is a Gibbons) and was lucky enough to get the chance to photograph everyone.

It was a little tricky to light such a large group with only two small umbrellas, but with the help of Lightroom, I think the group photos turned out ok.

There are a couple other options on my Smugmug site under the Family Galleries, but I chose to use the one above in this post because Mis is being her typical silly self. (Look in the bottom left, third child in from the edge)

I also got photos of two of the families while we were together.  If any other family would like a family portrait, just let me know.  It is fun to photograph families!  Send me an email or drop a message from my Contact page.

While I was setting up my lights I made Katie be my test model.  Little did she know that I would then post those photos to my Flickr page.

Be sure to see the photos of Katie trying to win at musical chairs.

Listing of links:

• Group photos on Smugmug
• Photos of Katie on my Flickr page
• Photos of Katie playing musical chairs
• The contact form on my website.

Sprinkler Time

Just a quick post to let you know I added some photos to my Flickr page.  These photos were made when the girls decided it was time to play in the sprinkler. 

To see the rest of the photos from the fun, look at the Sprinkler Time set on my Flickr page.