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I Heart Faces {Babies}

I had to enter this week's I Heart Faces challenge since the theme is BABIES! I LOVE babies, but especially my babies:-), and right now I'm totally in love with my handsome Jesse. This is one of my most favorite pictures of him. It was taken in April. He looks absolutely delicious!

Head over to I Heart Faces for more baby fun this week!

Diggers and Dumpers

Jack is in love with all things construction and truck related right now. Here are some of my fave pics of him so far this Spring. These were taken at Nana's house on one of our fun outside playtimes last month. I love the look of concentration on his face, and his sweet little hands.

May 2010

I Did It--A real scrapbook page!

I had so much fun making this scrapbook page!  I haven't digiscrapped since May '09.  I can't wait to make oh so many more:-)!

These are pictures from Jesse's Memorial Day fun at Nana's house.  He is so adorable!

Scrapbook Pages

In an effort to make my blogger book have the least amount of pages possible, I am cleaning up/deleting any posts on my family blog that are unnecessary. So, anything that I can move over here, I am. Here are all of my digital scrapbook pages that didn't make it here last year. Seeing all of these pages makes me want to start scrapbooking again--if only there was more time in each day!

Easter 2009

Dan Nicholas Park 4/2009

Jack, about 10 months old

Joe, 1/2009, first Reverence Award in Primary

Hanna with 1st ever blue ribbon award.  Won for a school newspaper article she wrote--2009.

January 31, 2009, Our sealing day.

January 31, 2009, Our sealing day.

8 wks pregnant with Jesse

12 wks pregnant with Jesse

Jack, 11 months old, 2/2009

Jamie's 36th bday, 2/2009

Jack's 1st bday, 3/2009

16 wks pregnant with Jesse

April 2009 journaling page

Easter 2009

Jack, 1 year old, 2009

Easter Train, 2009

20 wks ultrasound with Jesse

20 wks pregnant with Jesse

I Heart Desserts

This week at I Heart Faces the challenge is all about dessert pics.  I baked homemade cinnamon rolls for my dad as a sweet birthday treat because he thinks they are one of the best things in the world!  He was surprised and loved them, every bite!

 

Head over to I Heart Faces and see what else yummy was captured on film this week.

Spring Pics—My Fave Edits

I posted my favorite Spring pics over on my family blog.  Below are my favorite edits using different actions and presets in both PSE and Lightroom.

 

 

OK, I could keep going, but I’ll stop here with these!

Before and After

I played around some more with pictures from our Easter train ride.  Here is the original:

Here it is using Abby’s Less Direct Positive preset:

Coffeeshop Scorched Honey:

PW Colorized:

One more before and after of some daffodils at the zoo a few weeks ago.  Here is the original:

Here they are using Abby’s IR Flavor:

*PW and Coffeeshop presets can be found and downloaded at The Pioneer Woman and Coffeeshop blog links in my sidebar.  Abby presets can be found **here**.  All presets are free to download.*

Silly Face

I thought one of Joe’s silly face pics would be fun to play around with using some different looking presets.  Here is the original.  He is so silly—just like his daddy:-).

Here it is using Auto Correct first, and then Abby’s Hikey LoSat preset.  This is my favorite.  I like the brightness of the face contrasted against the fence in the background.

 

And, here it is using Abby’s Gritty Exposure.

Both of these were edited in Lightroom using free presets found *here*.  Can you tell I’m obsessed with Lightroom?!  Don’t worry, there will be plenty more:-).

Blooms

I took lots of flower pics at Biltmore in the greenhouses since the flowers outdoors weren’t in bloom yet.  I have no idea what this plant is called, but I liked the color of it.  Here is the original.

Here it is edited in Lightroom using the Abby Hikey LoSat Lbd preset.

Another using Abby Undo Grey Drabbiness preset.

And, yet another using NYSM Hdr-ish preset.  This is my favorite.

A collage of all including the original (first).

All pics edited in Lightroom using the above listed free presets found *here*.

Biltmore View

I took lots of pictures at Biltmore House when we were there a couple weeks ago.  You could spend days taking pictures at Biltmore and still not be done.  It’s so beautiful.  I took this picture from one of the balconies on the side of the house.  This is the original.

 

I wanted to see what I could do to brighten the sky a little and make the colors pop more—make it look more like it did to the eye that day.  Here’s what I came up with.  I edited all pics in Lightroom.  On this one I used Sky Effects Deep Blue Something, followed with Modern Dsat + Reds and topped it off with Modern HDR Enhance.

I played around with this picture a little too much.  Here are several more edits.  I used all of the above and added NYSM-NYKF Subdued to this one.  The trees and ground have a little more detail than the first edit.  I like the sky better above, but landscape better below.

On this one I used all that I did in my very first edit and added Abby Hikey LoSat.  I adjusted the exposure a bit too.  I love the greens in this picture.  You don’t even notice the greens in any of the pics above. 

Finally, on this last one I used all of the edits from my first and finished it off with Abby Gritty Exposure.   It looks like there’s a thunderstorm rolling in to me.

Can you tell I’m having way to much fun with Lightroom?!

And, here they all are for side by side comparison.

**All of the presets I used were downloaded *here* at Presetting Lightroom's 180+ Free Presets Collection from flickr.com.**