[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: On a more fun note...

[Tonya Minton]

Now me (Wendy):

Okay. I love this idea (and thanks for suggesting it in the first 
place, Iggy!). And in reading this, I thought - oh yeah, I'll post a 
picture of me and my five-year-old son. That will be great. So, I 
started looking for a photo to post . . . and started getting very 
grumpy about something . . . (mini-rant ahead) ::grin::

I have a digital camera and I use it frequently. I take thousands of 
pictures in the course of a year. (No kidding). So, I have tons of 
great photos of my son . . . and photos of my husband and son . . . 
and photos of fabby places we've been . . . and the odd decent photo 
of me taken when I've shoved my camera into someone else's 
hands . . . But Connor and me together? Grrrrr. Hardly ever! 

And, of the ones there are, so many of those are awful - it's hard 
enough getting grownups to pose, but getting a five year old to do 
so? Fuhgeddaboutit. So, there are all these pictures of me, and 
Connor looking the other way, or making a face. Or a few where he 
looks cute, but I look like something from "Night of the Living 
Dead." Nope. Not using any of those (especially not the NotLD 
ones) ::grin::

Okay. So, I'll take matters into my own hands, I thought. I'll just 
take a picture of me and Connor now - using the auto thingy on my 
camera. But,of course, he wasn't in the mood for that. Impossible to 
take a photo of an unwilling five-year-old. Grrrrr. So, instead I 
had to choose from (literally) the *four* half-way decent pictures 
that I could find of the two of us taken in the past *year and a 
half.* Four pictures in a year and a half? Not good. ::grin::

Anyhow, I decided to go with the most recent of these - it's only 
about three months old. It's maybe not the best of the bunch, but at 
least it's the way we really look now (instead of the way we looked 
early last year. I haven't changed much, but Connor has). Sorry 
about the shadows, but this really *is* the best I could do, and I 
Photoshoped it a bit, which did help. But still . . . Grrrr. ::grin::

:-)
Wendy
(Who needs to have a talk with her husband about him taking more 
pictures) ::grin:: (And who is very much enjoying seeing all these 
pictures! Yay!). 
 
Now me Tonya:
 
Wendy, I totally have the same problem!!  My hubby needs to be asked and
asked and asked to take pictures that include me!!  The picture I posted
was one taken by his mother (Who by the way is AWESOME!! I am soo lucky
to have a great mother-in-law).  Your son is absolutely adorable!!  
 
Tonya (Sorry for being off line all weekend but RL gets in the way
sometimes) 




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