Wooden Block Abstracts

This afternoon while the girls were making Cinderella's castle with their colorful wooden blocks, I used my 50mm f/1.8 lens and a Vivitar close-up filter to make some colorful abstracts. Here are four of my favorites.

Bunny Cake

After hours of watching how-to baking segments on Howdini (which is one of Elyse's favorite Web sites; she used to call it "Ding-ding," but now she can actually say Howdini), Anna made a bunny cake:

He tasted very good.

Mother's Day Portraits 2012

This year, to create some special Mother's Day gift portraits, I arranged three separate secret photo shoots with my two daughters--one with both of them, and then one each alone. Here are some of my favorites from those three sessions: