Colin and Cameron on Easter Sunday

Posted via Pixelpipe.

This is one of my favorite shots from Easter Sunday (the rest of the album is at Smugmug). Colin and Cameron are delighted because it's their second Easter egg hunt of the year, they got to leave the Sunday service early, it's the start of Spring Break -- and I've got the week off as well, thanks to HP "recommending" that we all take this week off. What's not to like? :-)

Separate topic, this time on how this photo got published to this blog. I've been searching for an easy way to post pictures from iPhoto to Blogspot (which hosts this blog). I installed Picasa for the Mac, which I like in general. But it was taking a long time to refresh its database with the iPhoto pictures. Plus, I'm not sure I want my entire photo collection re-thumbnail'ed and re-indexed just so it's easier to post to Blogger.

In Googling for a solution, I happened across Pixelpipe, which is a much more general purpose publishing service. I'm giving it a whirl. You'll see this picture here and in Twitter and in Facebook all at once, something I did just by exporting the picture from iPhoto once. Still have work to do on making the posts more friendly (by default it labels your post with the filename), but seems very useful.

Time to go to church

 

Cameron is such the fun age now. He's also the family's class clown -- always laughing and with a mischievous gleam in his eye. We're not ready for all the children to grow up as fast as they are!  For some reason, I liked this shot of the tiny guy as he and mommy head up the hill to church.

Posing like thier personalities

Their poses reflect their personalities in this picture, I think:

• Colin: earnest & eager to please
  
• Katye: slightly crazed
• Cameron: not sure what's happening but along for the ride so he doesn't get left out
  

Wii boxing

It's more fun watching people Wii box than it is playing it. 

Defender of the, uh, playground slide

There is tiny playground near my mom's house that we haven't been to in ages. (Usually the kids are too tired or it's too late as we're leaving my parents' house.) But timing worked out last weekend, and God blessed us with a beautiful warm, sunny afternoon.

Here, Cameron is posing as the All Powerful Guardian of the Playground Slide. Or something like that.

One of our favorite pics from vacation

Fedora snapped this shot as Cameron decided he had enough of the cold water. 

Legoland

Legoland wasn't quite as crowded (we went on a Wednesday), but they are still plagued by the slow-moving-line syndrome. Something about their rides and the way they pack people into them mean than even short-looking lines can go for 30-40 minutes.

On the plus side, this was the first year Cameron could actually ride some of the attractions, including the drive-your-own-cars which he treated more like bumper cars than a simulation of a city street.  :-)