Just a few photo challenges

I hope everyone had a splendid weekend!  Our weather wasn’t too bad this past weekend.  It was about 62 degrees on Saturday but overcast and around 65 degrees on Sunday with partial sun.  Hey I’ll take what I can get. 

I had a very busy weekend.  It was sort of non-stop from Saturday morning right up until 8:00 pm on Sunday when I placed Alivia in her crib for the night.  I went clothes shopping for myself on both mornings, then a little walk around the neighborhood to get Alivia some fresh air, some chores around the house, and a visit to my sister’s.  I’ve been trying to get Alivia outside every chance I get since I’m pretty sure we are supposed to get rain after Monday for three days straight.  

I wanted to link up the picture below to the Show off your Shot Photo Challenge over at And then she Snapped. 

I’m sure you all know by now that this is my peanut!  I thought this shot had an interesting perspective.  It’s actually quite blurry, but I sharpened it as best I could.  Boy it’s tough trying to get a sharp picture of a moving swing.  I had my shutter speed up pretty high too.  I’m pretty impressed I was able to get a crisp shot at all.  The second shot came out nice and sharp.  Of course she had to have her thumb in her mouth covering up a good portion of her beautiful face but, hey, this is so Alivia.  Just when I thought she was starting to suck her thumb less too!  God, I hope she stops the thumb sucking on her own.  I’d hate to have to intervene. 

I took these next shots with my kit lens.  Since it doesn’t zoom all that much, I was right on top of this sucker.  It was a greenhead too.  I’m lucky I didn’t get bitten.  These little suckers hurt when they bite.

These next couple of shots are of my niece’s orchid.  Isn’t it gorgeous?  I just love the colors.

Also, linking up to Quotography over at {My} Perspective and Finagle a Foto over at Happy Jax.  The theme for both photo challenges is Favorite April Photo.  Before I get to my ONE favorite, I thought I’d share all of my favorites.

Nope, I’m not finished.  I can’t forget these:

And my favorite photo for April is… Envelope please….
Along with the thumb sucking swing picture, this is also SO Alivia.

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