Peanut's Gymnastics Exhibition

This little girl just makes me more and more proud every day. Saying that I love her is a huge understatement. Here is her gymnastics exhibition from this summer.

The Little Gym

Here are a bunch of shots of Peanut and her friends ripping it up at The Little Gym.

Dance Class Dress Rehearsal

I'm digging out of the photo backlog, and tonight I finally got around to the pictures from Peanut's Dance Class Rehearsal. What a cute group of girls! I'm sorry to say the pictures really don't do them justice. The images can be found here.

This is likely the last upload prior to a long-overdue password change, so if you're not on the list and you want to be, email me.

Happy Birthday, Peanut!

I am continuing to try to dig out from the backlog of images that I have to process, and tonight I (finally) got around to working on the images from our oldest child's 3rd birthday party. Credit for another fun event and great crowd goes to my wife. The images can be found here, and I have to apologize... I had a setting completely wrong in camera when I started taking pictures (ISO1600, for those of you that are photography-minded), so I blew it on the first dozen or so pictures.

time to grow

Our kids came out this evening to assist with planting day. This is a tradition that I am looking forward to maintaining far into the future. At this age, I think they had a blast helping, but I'm not 100% sure that you're supposed to wear and eat the dirt prior to planting. Either way, we all had fun. After a quick "garden hose shower" they were as good as new.

Playing with light

One of my two favorite models joined me this evening for one of my first attempts at controlled "studio-style" lighting. I'm quite please with the results. 5 new images are posted on the first page of peanut's gallery. Enjoy! Here is my favorite:

Dance Class

I've posted a few images from Peanut's dance class... they appear in two different galleries. A few are in her gallery, and a few in the family album. I did this because her gallery is dedicated to images of her only, and other people were in a few of the images.

Here are a couple of my favorites.

Half-Pint Prints Holiday '08 update - December 12, 2008.

Happy Holidays, everyone. Time to change the password for Half-Pint. I sent it out in a bulk email earlier today. If you didn't receive it, please send me an email and I'll get it to you. The email link is at the top of each Half-Pint page.

The photographic additions to Half-Pint since the last email are:

• Daniel's Birthday (link)
  
• Aaron's Birthday (link)
  
• a trip to New Jersey (I actually hung out with Giants fans...link)
• Marla and Joshua's wedding (link)
• Michael's Baptism (link)
  
• a few pictures from Disneyland (these are not my images... they were taken by the Disneyland Staff Pros.)
• and of course, pictures of our adorable little kids - here, here, and our expected third here
  

I am still way behind, and will be adding pictures from Legoland, Disneyland, Grandpa's 70th, Halloween, Zack's Birthday, Andrew's Birthday, Six Flags, and Addison's Christening. Subscribe if you want to know when things get added (see below for details)
The technical changes for Half-Pint are:

• The Blog. Though mentioned last time, bugs are now ironed out and I'm posting as frequently as necessary. It is a good place to get updates about new gallery additions. It is at blog.halfpintprints.com
• Google Earth. I have a small number of photos up now on Google Earth. If you are interested, follow this link: http://www.panoramio.com/kml/?user=1847300. It will ask you what to do with the file:
  
  Select "Open with," click "Browse" and select Google Earth from the list. Google Earth will launch and you will see "sskoutas photos" in your "places" window on the left of the Google Earth Screen. 5 images should be available. More to come. Don't have Google Earth? Shame on you. It is very cool. Get it here.
• Google Friend Connect. This is an experimental addition to Half-Pint that may or may not last. Try it out. Let me know what you think. It is on the right hand side of the blog pages.
  
• RSS / Atom subscriptions. At the bottom of the homepage, you will find an icon for available feeds. Click on it if you wish to subscribe to the gallery update feed. The downside is it will not give you updates for password-protected images. A better option may be to subscribe to the blog. Click here if you would like to do that, or find the ATOM link at the bottom of the blog page.

As always:

• If you don’t want to be on this distribution list, email me and you will be removed.
• If you have pictures up here that you don’t want up here, tell me and they will be removed.
• If you have any password concerns with your images, let me know.
• If you want a gallery password protected that isn’t, let me know.
• If you know someone would want to be added, tell them to email me.
• Feel free to share gallery access with others that might be interested.
• Contributions for “The Old Shoebox” and “Photographs and Memories” nostalgia galleries always welcome.

Be happy and be well, and please enjoy your holidays!

Gallery completed

I’ve finished uploading the images from Auntie Michele to the Peanut’s TWO! gallery. Thanks again, Michele!

Changes for Wednesday, October 15

The first mission for today (about 50% completed) is to get the balance of the pictures that Auntie Michele took for us at Peanut’s second birthday party up. That is underway now, and the results are in the gallery. I expect they all should be uploaded in an hour or so.

Secondly, I’m trying to make changes to the home page on halfpintprints.com, and the primary change (and ergo culprit) is the new, groovy, flash-based slide show. I certainly need to do some rearranging and housekeeping, so please pardon the appearance as I renovate. Should be nice when completed, though. I hope.

Last, and not only not least, but perhaps most importantly, I wish a very Happy Birthday to Maeyee today as well. It was great to get to see you and hubby this weekend. I look forward to doing that with more and more frequency in the future.