Saturday, March 5, 2011
New kid on the block.
We've added a member to our little family:
The Nikon D90.
This is the first meeting between the new siblings:
And yes, I'm aware I'm ridiculously weird, to stage a standoff between our old babies and our new baby. But you know what? Ryan's actually the one that took that money shot. With his cool iphone. :)
I took the rest of these with Chris' iphone:
(That's Ryan in the background.)
So far this thing's been awesome. It's got way more ISO settings than either of our other cameras. Full frame viewing, so you can get a better idea of how your picture turned out, before it gets to Photoshop. And the settings are pretty easy to figure out (unlike someone else's Nikon I know).
To get an idea of the awesomeness, here's a picture from earlier today, straight out of the camera:
(My cute sister, who came over this morning in the hopes I could help her with her statistics homework.)
(I could not.)
Not a bad shot, eh?
Here's another, this one further away from our light source (Britt was sitting right in front of our dining room window). Again, not bad considering Chris is in the hallway, and definitely not bad for an indoor shot, which generally come out pretty poor straight out.
We're feeling more legit everyday about our photography business! Chris hasn't given me the go-ahead to release our official name yet (he wants to create a logo and brand first), but it's pretty awesome, and we are officially a business as of two weeks ago. We even have a PO box and everything! (And of course we took pictures of ourselves with our new PO box!)
Chris put up a blog about our latest photo shoot-- go over there to check it out! We had a lot of fun with this one down in Coronado. Feisty little boys are difficult to photograph, but we managed to get him to hold still for a few. :)
Friday, March 4, 2011
Monday, February 28, 2011
Small Successes
Today I gave my Geometry kids their first test.
I was pretty nervous.
Turns out they did great! 10 out of 13 passed it, and the other three successfully revised their answers to come up with a passing test.
The best part was as I was grading one students' test... we'll call him J. J is a very quiet student. He's had to reteach a number of lessons so far. He doesn't often have the answer when I call on him in class. I really didn't know how his test was going to go down.
So J was sitting at the table waiting to get the thumbs up that he'd passed or to get his paper handed back to him. I graded. Correct, correct, correct... he only missed two questions on the whole thing, but he made up for it by correctly answering some of the difficult extra credit questions I'd thrown in. In the end, he got 106%, the highest score of anyone else in the class. And I'm not even kidding, I was just about ready to start tearing up when he broke into this huge grin when I showed his test to him. And when he left the classroom, I saw him stop by Michelle's desk to tell her the good news.
Sigh. Why can't it always be like that?
Algebra takes their first test on Wednesday. Really not liking how it's looking for them. Out of 14 students, 6 show up consistently, and once we get through chapter one, it's going to be really hard for the other students to catch themselves up. Big bummer.
But J got 106%! I'm going to focus on that for tonight!
I was pretty nervous.
Turns out they did great! 10 out of 13 passed it, and the other three successfully revised their answers to come up with a passing test.
The best part was as I was grading one students' test... we'll call him J. J is a very quiet student. He's had to reteach a number of lessons so far. He doesn't often have the answer when I call on him in class. I really didn't know how his test was going to go down.
So J was sitting at the table waiting to get the thumbs up that he'd passed or to get his paper handed back to him. I graded. Correct, correct, correct... he only missed two questions on the whole thing, but he made up for it by correctly answering some of the difficult extra credit questions I'd thrown in. In the end, he got 106%, the highest score of anyone else in the class. And I'm not even kidding, I was just about ready to start tearing up when he broke into this huge grin when I showed his test to him. And when he left the classroom, I saw him stop by Michelle's desk to tell her the good news.
Sigh. Why can't it always be like that?
Algebra takes their first test on Wednesday. Really not liking how it's looking for them. Out of 14 students, 6 show up consistently, and once we get through chapter one, it's going to be really hard for the other students to catch themselves up. Big bummer.
But J got 106%! I'm going to focus on that for tonight!
Weekend.
This weekend was crazy busy, crazy fun, and crazy me didn't get nearly as much as I wanted done. Eh. That's what Monday's for, right? Catching up on stuff you ignored over the weekend. Or waiting till next weekend.
(And the cycle continues.)
(Chris knows what I'm talking about.)
(Love you, babe.)
On this weekend's schedule:
1) Friday night we had Sonia, Paul, and Jeremy over for a Wii Sports Resort night. I fed everyone homemade artichoke chip and felt very hostess-y, we drank raspberry iced tea, and we cheered on the boys as they valiantly fought the ninjas through all ten levels. Ninjas grew boring after awhile, and Sonia and I retired to the back of the house for girl talk. Paul found us at 12:30 lounging on the big bed, talking about life and babies. (Cuz that's what you talk about when you're a married female.)
2) Saturday, the coldest day I've ever experienced let-me-tell-you, we went to see a preview showing of Little Miss Sunshine at the La Jolla Playhouse. It was pay-what-you-can day and we paid $5 for what would have been $68 tickets. Ry and I were pretty excited about the cast: all Broadway veterans (even the little girl playing Olive), including Jennifer Laura Thompson, who played the role of Glinda in Wicked after Kristen Chenoweth left the show; Hunter Foster, Sutton Foster's brother (Sutton Foster is my favorite Broadway actress- she's freaking amazing), and Taylor Trensch, who we saw playing Blake Bashoff's replacement as Moritz on the Spring Awakening tour.
Sadly, the show was terrible. Not for the fault of the actors, who were great- especially the girl playing Olive. The show just really was nothing special. We discussed in detail during intermission and after the show, over dinner at Rock Bottom. Consensus: no memorable songs. Not a one. Very little choreography/dancing. It felt like a play with songs sung at each other. Granted, the show's only in previews right now; official opening night is this week, so they're tweaking and changing everyday, but I don't see them making this show spectacular with what they've got.
We also went on a cupcake adventure after Rock Bottom. Ended up at Babycakes. Good cupcakes.
3) Sunday, today, Chris and I ran errands and got a shelf for our garage. We are wild. I prepared a Geometry test for my kids tomorrow, and he organized the garage (as well as put up our new shelf). My sister came over for dinner and to get help installing Office 2010. Which I graciously helped her with, for the small price of one of her three activation keys. Office 2010 rocks, and now it's mine! All mine!
And now it's midnight. Chris is in the office, shooting bad guys and downloading his iphone pictures, and I'm here being enamored with youtube videos of my favorite musicals that I stumbled across while looking up the previous links. I love musicals.
(Just not Little Miss Sunshine.)
(Although the yellow van parked outside the theater was cool. Props for that.)
(And the cycle continues.)
(Chris knows what I'm talking about.)
(Love you, babe.)
On this weekend's schedule:
1) Friday night we had Sonia, Paul, and Jeremy over for a Wii Sports Resort night. I fed everyone homemade artichoke chip and felt very hostess-y, we drank raspberry iced tea, and we cheered on the boys as they valiantly fought the ninjas through all ten levels. Ninjas grew boring after awhile, and Sonia and I retired to the back of the house for girl talk. Paul found us at 12:30 lounging on the big bed, talking about life and babies. (Cuz that's what you talk about when you're a married female.)
2) Saturday, the coldest day I've ever experienced let-me-tell-you, we went to see a preview showing of Little Miss Sunshine at the La Jolla Playhouse. It was pay-what-you-can day and we paid $5 for what would have been $68 tickets. Ry and I were pretty excited about the cast: all Broadway veterans (even the little girl playing Olive), including Jennifer Laura Thompson, who played the role of Glinda in Wicked after Kristen Chenoweth left the show; Hunter Foster, Sutton Foster's brother (Sutton Foster is my favorite Broadway actress- she's freaking amazing), and Taylor Trensch, who we saw playing Blake Bashoff's replacement as Moritz on the Spring Awakening tour.
Sadly, the show was terrible. Not for the fault of the actors, who were great- especially the girl playing Olive. The show just really was nothing special. We discussed in detail during intermission and after the show, over dinner at Rock Bottom. Consensus: no memorable songs. Not a one. Very little choreography/dancing. It felt like a play with songs sung at each other. Granted, the show's only in previews right now; official opening night is this week, so they're tweaking and changing everyday, but I don't see them making this show spectacular with what they've got.
We also went on a cupcake adventure after Rock Bottom. Ended up at Babycakes. Good cupcakes.
3) Sunday, today, Chris and I ran errands and got a shelf for our garage. We are wild. I prepared a Geometry test for my kids tomorrow, and he organized the garage (as well as put up our new shelf). My sister came over for dinner and to get help installing Office 2010. Which I graciously helped her with, for the small price of one of her three activation keys. Office 2010 rocks, and now it's mine! All mine!
And now it's midnight. Chris is in the office, shooting bad guys and downloading his iphone pictures, and I'm here being enamored with youtube videos of my favorite musicals that I stumbled across while looking up the previous links. I love musicals.
(Just not Little Miss Sunshine.)
(Although the yellow van parked outside the theater was cool. Props for that.)
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