Connor Gets His Bear

Connor received his Bear rank tonight at our ward Pack Meeting. I got a call from his leader an hour before the meeting started and she told me that he had fulfilled all of his Bear requirements and would be getting his patch tonight. Wow! I was surprised. I had no idea that he was that close, I thought he still had a few more things to do. It's too bad Jed was out of town and couldn't be there.

Congratulations on getting your Bear, Connor!

Receiving his awards from Brother Siems.

Yeah!

Playing around with Photography

I took some time yesterday to take a few pictures of Rigdon and play with them on my photo editing software. Rigdon has been much more clingy since the other kids began school. Lately he's really started hitting the terrible two's, even though he's really not two yet. He's taken his tantrums to a whole new level - throwing himself around and screaming. Much of the time he ends up bumping his head on something while doing this so then he really does have a reason to cry. It's so funny to watch and is hard not to laugh sometimes.

This was just a regular picture, but I after tinkering around with my photo editing software I figured out how to blur the background and keep Rigdon in focus.

Playing Peek-a-boo.
Playing around with the softness, blurring, and cropping with a regular photo.

I just love baby smiles.
I finally learned how photographers create the black and white photos with just a few areas of color. It's fun trying it out. In this one, I just kept the color of Rigdon's eyes.

Fun, Fun.