The Front Yard

There are so many things to do in the front yard, and like most people, I go out with my camera in hand looking closely at our flowers hoping to find a big bug. Ok most people probably don't go looking for bugs but I do, I love capturing a creepy critter sitting on a beautiful flower. Unfortunately I did not capture any bugs the other day, there was this one worm ... he was small and on a flower, and I did go get my macro lenses hoping to capture a cool picture of him but it was breezy and all of the photos were blurry. I did end up getting 2 flower photos that I really liked. The first one was simple, calm, mostly in focus.

The second photo was of another flower with a big middle part, oh don't you love my wonderful terminology, and I think it came out interesting and colorful.

And while I was pretending to be a budding photographer Summer played happily with a few toys on the sidewalk.

Those toys are from Disneyland - well you can probably buy them anywhere but I bought them while we were at Disneyland a few weeks ago. Summer loves playing with "people" type toys. She is starting to pretend play but mostly just likes setting all the little "people" around in different spots. I helped her set all of the people up all over the sidewalk. She has the Disney set and the Princess set. I call Summer my little princess and recently I taught her how to sing like a princess, ah ah ah ah ah - well it doesn't come out right on a blog but you can imagine how the princesses sing on the cartoons, insane opera type stuff I guess but she does it very low and it is so cute. When she does it I tell her - "AH you are a princess!" and I get a big grin from her.
Speaking of which, can you believe with the millions of photos I have taken of her I still have not captured her dimple? I don't get it, I have seen this dimple, she has one, but she has to have her mouth just so, it is a small dimple just like her daddy. Maybe one of these days she will give me a big smile and I will catch it, oh well until then here is another photo.
Summer was not enjoying her time outside as much as I was. She didn't really want to go in, or maybe she did, she was not complaining but kept going over to the door and saying "papa inside" and "daddy inside". It was hot out so maybe she was hot. Look at those feet, see how dirty her feet get when we go outside? We didn't stay outside too much longer, I can only take so many pictures anyway and it was pretty hot out, and windy.
I probably won't get a chance to take photos tonight, Summer and I are attending a company function at one of the new casino's in town, and as much as I would like to bring my fancy camera, I am not sure it is appropriate. I wouldn't take photos of the hotel, well maybe I would, I bet I could find something interesting that would make a great photo, but mostly I would take photos of Summer sitting or standing next to cool colorful things. I can only imagine what we will see, and my friend is taking his daughter so another prop err person to photograph. I might bring it and see how it goes, even if I don't take photos at the event I should snap off a few before we leave because papa bought Summer some new outfits yesterday and I plan on putting her in a new dress for tonight. I will fix up her hair in some cute piggies and put on her sandals, she is going to be so stinking cute!
Off topic slightly, I saw the last episode of Jon & Kate last night, well not the last but the one with their issues being publicized and it was a mother's day special, did you see how cute the little girls hair looked, oh my gosh, I can't wait to do that. Oh and since we are on the subject of cute, I just ordered Summer the cutest princessiest dress I have ever seen off eBay. She will wear it to her birthday party and on her actually birthday. I want to get a second outfit to change into at the party before the cake but this dress is super full and poofy. I can't wait to put it on her, she loved having her Easter dress on, especially when I told her it was her princess dress. I wonder, am I creating a monster?