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Family Vacation

Last week I went with my family to the Grand Canyon!

Nick and I have both been before but this was my boys 1st time!

We hiked down into the canyon a ways.

My oldest took our pic for us while we were taking a break.

I handed off the camera many times and asked my husband to take shots with me in them.

It is important that I have proof I was there!

Plus I know it will be fun to look back on later.

Second hike in.

I held my youngest little man’s hand a lot.

It was really not as scary as I thought it would be though.

That did not stop me from dreaming all night about steep drop off’s…

He brings out my mature side…

Pueblo in Arizona.

What can I say, sometimes I have something better to look at than the camera.

Red Rocks in Arizona!

This was an unexpected surprise, so beautiful!

Painted Desert.

Sandia Mountains at sunset!

Getting to hike on a snow covered mountain was another wonderful surprise!

These boys were so excited!

My oldest kept saying, “you found it!!!!”.

My happy place.

Some fun before we headed back home!

Make sure you get in the shot this holiday season!

Take a deep breath and hand over that camera!

If you are not happy with your weight here are a few tips.

-have them take it from above (low adds on pounds)

-angle yourself (you do not want to be the broadest to the camera, make your husband stand straight on so he looks bigger! he he he).

Check out Emily at the Anderson Crew for more inspiration about getting in the shot.

My boys and I ~Zoo take 2

I am joining Emily over at the anderson crew again today to get myself in the shot!

I thought I would give the information on my camera settings for these pics for a little change.

Whether you want to know or not!

These were taken in mid day sun.

I put the sun behind us.

The sun reflecting off the bridge did put some light in our faces though.

The zoo map my boy decided to bring into the pics did an even better job of putting light in our faces!

I am going to pretend he did it on purpose.

I took these with my Nikon D300s, 50mm 1.4 lens.

Aperture was set at 1.8

Shutter speed 1/4000

ISO 400 (after getting asked about this I decided I should probably explain! A lower ISO is better for bright light. I had just not changed it from earlier. It does not matter much on my camera

but if you have an entry level dslr it might make your picture grainy to have a high iso)

If you have a DSLR make sure you are USING it!

I like to encourage people to at least keep their camera in Aperture Priority (that controls how much is in focus).

That way you can at least get those blurry backgrounds for portraits.

I wore totally impracticable shoes to the zoo this time.

No tennis shoes!

I like to step out of the typical mommy uniform sometimes.

So I wore a skirt and boots!!!

I have found long skirts work pretty well with my boys.

I had a pretty interesting incident in a knee length skirt before though…

Little boys like to wrap their arms around legs.

Floor length is a much safer choice!!!!