My attempt at photography

Before J was born, I talked my husband into letting me buy a new camera. Many people nowadays like to take tons of photo shoots with their babies: newborn shoots, 3-month shoots, 6-month, 9-month, 12-month, 18-month, 2-year, and every year after that. We don't have that kind of money, but I told him that if we had a good enough camera, that we could attempt to do it ourselves. We bought a Fujifilm Finepix F300 EXR because that was the best camera I could get for $200. I can't wait for the day that I can afford a professional camera, but until then, my Fujifilm does a pretty good job. Here are J's 1-year pictures. I got a lot of good pictures, but here are the best ones. I had to take about 400 pictures to get these. I can't decide if these are good enough, or if I want to hire a professional photographer to take more. We're also having a family picture in a studio.

I'm framing this one in the frame that he's sitting in. I wanted him to hold it up so his face would be in the frame, but I gave up on that.

This would be perfect if his face wasn't dark. 

Some of these were at the Greystone Mansion, some from church, and some from a park. We drove for an hour to the Greystone, only to find that a wedding was scheduled that day in the garden I really wanted to take pictures in.

That was fun in my Sequoia.

We also walked around Rodeo Drive since we were already in Beverly Hills. We found these in Saks. Some people have too much money...

Mother's Day was great this year. This is my second Mother's Day, my first was the day J was born. All I wanted was to eat at Denny's (with a coupon, of course) and to not change any diapers (I changed one). Church was fun this week. We go to the Danish Lutheran Church. The church service was in Danish that day. They had a fancy dinner for Danish Eve. We were seated at a table with two other families with babies. We joked that we were at the kids' table because if you took out the 9 of us, the average age of the crowd would be about 70.