Monique's Blog

Newest Rodriguez Family

2009-12-06T21:22:00.000-08:00

Baby Quince

2009-12-06T09:01:00.000-08:00

Our first grandbaby born! Quince Chance Alexander Rodriguez. December 2, 2009 10:17 pm, 8lb 14oz 19 inches. He's doing well and finally home. Here are some pix.

Porsche

2009-04-14T19:03:00.001-07:00

Kennedy

2009-04-03T17:50:00.001-07:00

All his test came back great! He loves food and people, in that order! Tolerating the dog pretty well. His favorite place to sit is on top of the couch. He also likes it by the back door where he can watch the birds in the back yard. Here are some pix with my new lens (thanks Michael:)

New Toys

2009-04-03T07:03:00.000-07:00

Mike's new toy: a little silver scooter. Photographed by my new toy: 50 mm 1.8 AF Nikon lens.
Who's happier?

New Cat

2009-03-27T16:26:00.000-07:00

Crystal & Amber & Kennedy! Just waiting for all his test results now. The cat is not too fond of the dog yet, but it's only been a couple hours. He has beautiful eyes!

Homestead Cabin 09

2009-01-25T11:56:00.000-08:00

There may have been a shortage of snow, but there was no shortage of good times! The girls enjoyed cooking, smores, sleeping pads, board games, the fireplace, the wood stove, the swing, stilts, hide-n-seek, dinner twice, tromping through the woods, guitar hero, giggling, caramel popcorn, singing grace, lots of photos and much more. Did anyone even miss skiing with all the other fun?

Family Christmas Photo

2008-12-24T18:50:00.001-08:00

We have a family photo tradition. Everyone agrees to pose nicely for all my traditional family group photos. Once I am satisfied then we do our "silly" shot. I have started this tradition with some of my professional work-people love it! Here is our before and after.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

More Wintery Photos

2008-12-22T10:39:00.000-08:00

Jacob & Ben dug for hours last night to build a snow cave. Ben managed to spend the whole night in it! This morning we all awoke to another 6 inches or more! We've had plenty of food, but Mike is anxious to drive around a bit today and maybe even get Jacob home. Technically today is our Christmas eve but I am not sure if family will be able to make it tomorrow-time to improvise I guess. Here are some photos from this morning. I plan on heading out for more around the neighborhood later.

Arctic Blast '08

2008-12-20T20:44:00.001-08:00

Here are some photos from our wintery weather this week. With such constant wind I didn't venture out much today. All the kids and nephew Jacob played outside this afternoon and evening. They built a ramp from Mike's truck down into the driveway. Mike and I stayed in warm with Libby and fresh chocolate oatmeal cookies :) Tomorrow the kids are heading back to the neighboors to sled down their perfect hill. I hope to take more photos tomorrow, make leftover turkey soup, watch one of the several movies we rented, and enjoy vacation with the fam!

Summit Christmas Party

2008-12-13T16:52:00.000-08:00

We had a great Christmas party on Friday! Thanks to everyone who participated! I always like seeing the families behind all of the great staff I work with! Here are my pix-enjoy!

Soccer Girl

2008-08-21T18:14:00.000-07:00

Soccer Photos Art vs Noise:

Copyright?

2008-04-16T07:14:00.001-07:00

Lightbox Banners

2008-03-22T16:28:00.000-07:00

D300 Photos

2007-11-23T08:07:00.000-08:00

My wonderful husband surprised me with the Nikon D300 on Wednesday!! Here a couple of the first images. These photos have not been touched up at all and were shot in .jpg large/fine. Also I am using the Nikon 18-200 vr lens. Enjoy!

Sunrise over Mt. Hood: ISO 200 f18 1/60 (tripod)

Tree at sunset: ISO 200 f5 1/80 (handheld)

Small Bowl of Coffee: ISO 320 f7.1 1/60 small amount of fill flash -on camera (handheld).

Surf & Sun 2007

2007-08-30T18:37:00.001-07:00

We took the whole family to the Big Island of Hawaii this summer! Here are some things we learned:

--Sea urchins can leave slivers.
--Jelly fish stings can feel like slivers.
--The days are backwards-early morning is hot and sunny then afternoon is cloudy and cooler.
--Green geckos are cool, they chirp and they are everywhere!
--Turtles are called Honu-and they are much bigger when you are floating above them than they look like from land.
--"Mahalo" means Thank You.
--Turkeys do not say "gobble gobble".
--Hawaiian's love their vowels.
--Bubba Gumps serves yummy food, be ready to answer movie trivia.

I will post a few pictures of our stay-as soon as I can. Mahalo!

Spring Fling '07

2007-05-28T17:26:00.000-07:00

"Spring Fling", the annual teardrop trailer campout, officially opened the camping season for many in the Northwest. Fifty (yes 5-0) trailers attended all or part of the Memorial Weekend event. We even managed to drag in a small family from the Packwood Swap Meet! Rod & Trudy hosted a wonderful event as always. I have included photos from many of my memorable moments. Potlucks, dutch oven delights, Cow Chips (the BAND), "tech talk", hours by the campfire, trailer tours, swiming in the Tilton, greeting cards for our troops in Iraq, and lots of great friends highlighted the weekend. To all the TOW members, please let me know if you would like copies of some of my photos. Thanks again to Rod & Trudy, I look forward to the 10th Spring Fling next year (our 5th)!