Thursday, June 11, 2009

Graduation

The Girl is now officially a first grader! Tuesday was her last day of school and yesterday was "graduation". I just can't believe her first year of school is over already. I was looking back I am amazed at how much she has grown.

First day of school:

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Last day of school:

Last Day of K

How can a child go from such a little girl to such a grown child in just 9 months???

For graduation yesterday we decided to do a "fancy hairdo" complete with curls courtesy of pink foam curlers (I don't think these curlers have changed since I was little).

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Here is her "supermodel look". I am just NOT ready for this!

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And the finished product, complete with gold sparkle spray:

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We were both happy with how it turned out!

The program was so cute. They wore T-shirts they had decorated all year and sang such cute songs. The Girl also did one of the readings.

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That is her teacher Mrs. D with her there. She was a great teacher and The Girl really had a great year!

And now -
"You just finished Kindergarten. What are you going to do next?"

"I'm going to Disney World!"

That's right, today The Boy and I drove The Girl, Nana and Papa to the airport. They are heading down to Florida for 9 days which will include 3 days at Disney!

Lucky ducks!!!

I'm gonna miss her!

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Bzz

I'm a Bzz Agent. What is a Bzz Agent? It's a really cool "job" where I get the opportunity to try out new products or services and help spread the word by letting my friends, family and coworkers (and strangers) know what I think about them. This is Word of Mouth (WOM) marketing! I've had a lot of fun the last couple of years doing this (and I've gotten some great samples to try out!).

Right now I am trying L'Oreal RevitaLift Anti-Wrinkle Moisturizers. They have day formula with SPF 15 and a night time formula. These are supposed to be specially formulated for deep set wrinkles, like that Big, Bad Wrinkle right between my eyebrows. And since that wrinkle was really starting to bother me, this campaign came at a perfect time!

So, before I started, I took an oh-so flattering Before picture of my eyes and forehead.


I should have taken this outside with natural light rather than in the bathroom with the flash. The flash actually brightened things up a bit which made my Big, Bag Wrinkle not look so big and bad.

Then I started using the moisturizers. As luck would have it, I ran out of eye cream just about this time so I decided to give the RevitaLift Double Eye Lift a try too. This comes with any eye cream to reduce reduce under eye wrinkles and puffiness and any eye gel for the upper eye to provide lift.

I really liked these moisturizers! They feel rich without feeling greasy at all. They absorb well into my skin without feeling like they disappeared or like I am left with a coating. The night lotion feels a little richer but still not greasy at all and my skin has really felt better all around. And they have a very pleasant smell. And using an SPF 15 moisturizer in the morning is a must for me. Overall, I really liked these and I intend to keep on using them even after my samples run out.

As far as actually reducing that Big, Bad Wrinkle, here are my After photos after using this stuff for about 6 weeks.

I took this one this afternoon with my new camera (see my earlier post)


This isn't really a fair comparison though because this was taken with my new camera, outside in natural light. This does show the difference between my old camera and my new camera though!

So, to be fair, here is another one taken today with the same camera in the same bathroom as the Before shot.


And here they are together, Before on top and After below:


I think I do see some improvement there! The Big, Bad Wrinkle is not gone completely but I think it is a little less noticeable!

Monday, June 1, 2009

I'm in love!!!

Although I do love The Dad, I am talking about my new camera. I just got a Canon PowerShot SX10 IS and it is amazing. I am soooo loving the 20x zoom lens. So far, I am only touching the surface of what this camera can do. I have only been shooting in Auto mode since I have not taken the time to learn anything else just yet (I just got it on Friday). Here are just a few of the pictures I have taken. These are straight out of the camera (SOOC) without any editing (I did compress them for the web).


You mean you can't see the frog? Let me show you...

This is from the same spot at full 20x optical zoom:


This is with some further in-camera digital zoom:


Here are a couple more pictures SOOC at 20x zoom:




Water Lilly