Treasure Box, Crew team photos

Ava brought home a treasure box from school today.  When she told me what it was, I was so excited to see what was in it...what are her treasures?  I got a good laugh when I saw what was inside.  Treasure is in the eye of the beholder!  She has some yarn and some paper she cut herself.

The athletic department had asked me to take a team photo of the crew team.  They have someone come in from NEW YORK...(yes, thats right...New York) to take the team photos...don't even get me started...the guy comes in for one day while the guy who works in the "cage" (he passes out the uniforms) loses his mind getting the entire school outfitted for this one day.  The photographer races around campus being driven on a gator and takes the photo within 10 minutes.  One of the reasons he does it so quickly is because he has to get to another school.  He took the crew photo this year and a parent had complained that they didn't like the photo.  I didn't see the photo, but I heard that the team had a hard time getting in uniform all at once and because of time, they took a group photo of everyone (instead of individual boats which has always been done in the past).  So, the athletic office called me to re-shoot the photo.  I was happy to do it, although a little annoyed that their "star" photographer could not make the drive from his location to fix his own issue.  After taking the photo, chatting with the kids and coaches, I had to come home and hand make the boarders and do cropping for the photo so it will look uniform to the format that the other photographer uses.  The sky was overcast and white, but I changed that so it appears sunny.   I think it came out great and the parents should be very happy.  Why they want to hire someone out of state vs. me who is literally across the street is beyond me.

My day was very busy and full yesterday between working in the office during the day, taking the photo in the afternoon, working some more in the office in the afternoon, going to my photoshop class (which I LOVE, but an hour is not long enough), meeting my family at the dining hall for dinner and then coming home to do bedtime while Jose had an umpire meeting to go to.  The kids were finally settled around 8:00 and I completely crashed on the couch.  

Here it is 6:30am today, and I already feel that I wasted too much time blogging.  Enjoy the day...so far it looks sunny!