Labor day weekend...and other stuff...

Family came into town this weekend. It was fun. They arrived on Friday. Hannah's A-ma (my mom) came around noon by plane, and Hannah's grandpa (dh's dad) came around 4pm by truck.
Saturday the men went fishing in the Gulf of Mexico. Ize was really glad that hurricane Gustav didn't bring rain and bad weather our way. It was a good father-son outing. They had a good time fishing and brought home tons of FRESH shrimp, Fresh fish and shark.

While the men were fishing, A-ma, Hannah & I went around Corpus. We initially headed to the aquarium in the afternoon, but Hannah fell asleep in the car. After driving the scenic Ocean Drive route, visiting Sun Harvest (health food store) & the uber-tiny Asian store, we finally made it to the aquarium after Hannah woke up from her nap.

I took photos of the sea life...and the front lens element on my 50mm f1.8 fell out! Of all the other things to break this past week (the CF card, the reader, now the lens). I'd read reviews about that happening to this particular lens - since it is the cheapest in the Canon line-up. I guess it's time to upgrade to the 50mm 1.4 - can't afford the 50mm 1.2 yet.

I've been super busy with a bunch of photo shoots. One Friday morning, one Saturday morning, and one this past Tuesday morning...and totally behind on photo processing...
BUT today... our NEW COMPUTER FINALLY ARRIVED ! YAY!

It's BLAZINGLY fast compared to our old laptop. Though there are still a lot of set-up issues and other stuff to take care of. Photoshop is installed on it and it's sooo much faster! Next I need to buy lightroom.

Okay...nuff photog stuff on Hannah's blog...

About Hannah....going back to Saturday. So...we discovered that Hannah DOES have a shrimp/shellfish allergy!!! DUH!!! I figured she probably DID...so I told everyone - "we're NOT going to feed Hannah any shrimp tonight."

Well...Ize & I headed to Wal-Mart for cocktail sauce, and we left Hannah with A-ma & Grandpa. A-ma tasted some of the freshly boiled shrimp and was so delighted at its wonderful taste that she gave some to Hannah....yes...she forgot...

It's funny b/c we were watching video that Grandpa Ted had taped of Hannah...and lo and behold, the "1st feeding of shrimp to Hannah" by A-ma is CAUGHT ON DIGITAL VIDEO! ...I won't dwell on it anymore b/c my mom already felt totally bad. She's getting really forgetful in her old age.

ANYWAYS...Hannah ended up breaking out with little red spots around her mouth and all over her back. We gave her 2 doses of Benadryl. One when I 1st noticed the spots on her mouth...and I asked mom, "did you fed her shrimp?" and then more Benadryl after her bath when there were a ton of spots on her back.

Monday on Labor day, Grandpa Ted made yummy omelettes and we went to the Lexington. It's a big ship. We watched the Fighter Pilot IMAX movie. It was pretty good. We did a lot of stuff this weekend...including watching Kung-fu Panda & 10,000 B.C.

We also went to ChuckECheese on Tuesday for a playdate...

I'm too tired to write anymore... photos to be posted later....

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1st round of photos - all SOOC b/c I don't wanna edit them:
A-ma has been Hannah's personal horse lately





oh...and the thing on her nose is her scab from when she fell down at the event thing last Wednesday (the night that I lost all the photos I took of the event). She was standing on the window sill and apparently she fell - hitting her nose in the process...I turned around and she was already on the floor crying...






Now these are from the aquarium:

Hannah's eating these dried anchovy things that my mom insisted on giving her...much to my dismay...sigh...(I sense a trend here)...





These at the end were all taken all manually...I had to make things work...manual focus (b/c of the busted front lens element) manual settings (b/c it's actually easier in constant indoor light)...and I was proud of myself for being able to focus...(b/c my eyes were actually dry and blurry...)

more photos to come....