company!

Very busy day today... brother & sister-in-law arrived mid-day from CA. We hung out and yapped and enjoyed the kids. We spent a good part of the afternoon out in the yard, passing around the digital cameras between/to/from the kids. Some of our
handywork:

(I compressed the photos to save on bandwidth and load time, but you know, they just don't look that great, as opposed to the originals, which look fantastic... should I upload the full size files? Is it worth it? I don't know...)

All the kids took pictures with both cameras. Mine is much smaller than my brother's. He has this amazing digital SLR Nikon job that's simply astonishing. The kids were very respectful of it and got some amazing shots with it as well.


DS1 took these with my brother's camera. I love how he composes his shots. I think he's a natural.




DS2 took this picture.


DD could barely keep a straight face throughout. Every time the lens swung her way, she made some kind of goofy face.


I decided to let the cat have an outing today, and she came out into the yard with us and sniffed around a bit, sprinted here and there a few times, and investigated the kids' fort. When she started to nibble the fountain grass, I shoo'd her away, and she dashed over to the door where she waited patiently for me to let her back in again. Good kitty! And so pretty, too: