Leaves!

Some times it is easy to get caught up in your everyday life that you forget how to relax.  It seems like my nights after work and getting home with the girls leaves us with only enough time for dinner, baths, homework, and reading books before bedtime.

As we were driving down our dead-end street after soccer practice, I told the girls that next week we will make big leaf piles and take our pictures in it!  They loved the idea and wanted to do it tonight!  How do you explain to little kids that the lighting conditions aren't right? The girls jumped out of the car and ran for the rakes while I went inside to start dinner.

I went out to check on them and found they had a great leaf pile going! What the heck, why not have some fun... what will it hurt?!  Figuring that dinner will only take me 10 minutes to throw together (Grilled cheese & tomato soup is the best combination!), I got the camera, tripod, flash, & wireless shutter release and headed outside!

The were shot at ISO 1600 because of the rapid loss of daylight, but I'm happy with them!  I didn't have time to edit all the pictures I took of just the girls, so I went through and pulled the ones of all of us!

Dani is as much of a ham in front of the camera as she is aspiring to be the one taking the pictures!