Productive Weekend + Luke's 1st Birthday party planning

this weekend was a productive one.. finally! hubbs and i both got off early on friday so took Luke to the park to try and get some shots for his birthday invite... this is what i got...

hopefully he was just having a bad day and not hating the baseball theme altogether or else we're screwed come game day! good thing this was the 3rd attempt (yep, 3rd!). so, to finalize the invite i had to use some pics from the previous 2 attempts. i swear i just need to work on not trying to be a perfectionist in every.single.thing i do! which brings me to another productivity accomplishment...

i started the scrapbook! yep. i never ever ever wanted to ever (get the idea?!) get into scrapbooking! i always knew it was never for me since i have no creative bone in my body. so i thought about doing "a year of photos" for his birthday party (as display) but wanted to do something a little more... creative. WHY??! who in the world jumped into my body and gave me that stupid idea? well since i'm not naturally creative, i had to buy a cricut (surely it'd bring some creativity juice my way right?! um, NO!). back to the story - it took me 2-3 hours to start & finish the cover that says a whopping, "My 1st Year"

Really?! because i didn't just start a new job and i didn't just lose over 40 hours a week of being home to actually work on this birthday party right? right? i seriously need to be checked into a mental hospital if i think i can pull all of this off within the next 2 months. so please. please wish me luck! sorry - no pics of this :(

oh, and before i forget. here's the first pic taken (well, not technically the very first pic, but one of them) with my new camera. i am in absolute LOVE with this camera. i'm sure it's a combo with my lenses but man, i am loving every single pic that this baby produces and it's absolutely amazing that i can produce an image shot at an ISO of 3200 with little noise. HEAVEN!

and since i can't decide which finish i like.. you're getting both ;)

and here's one i took at a wedding i went to on Sat. playing with the macro end of my macro lens for the first time.

luke's been up to no good :( i'll have pics of that in a whole new post (to come soon). he's already getting in his lateral incisors so it hasn't been smooth sailing around these parts in at least a few days.

oh, and what do you think of the larger pictures? go back to the smaller/blogger ones? have a great week everyone, hopefully you all are getting much more sleep than i am these days.