-The flower from Michael.

-The handprint and poem from Michael.

(All photos were captured on my Lumix)

Life has been busy since I last blogged.  Quick update:

-I went to a married retreat where I took my handy little Lumix along and became the "unofficial" couple photographer.  Someone actually captured my husband and I with our camera also:

-My family and I took a mini-vacation to Bear Mountain in New York.  It was so much fun....the nature scenes (that I captured on my handly little Lumix) were beautiful...

- Sean celebrated his birthday... most of the pictures were captured on the little Lumix.

(The Lumix that I'm referring to is the Panasonic DMC-FX37.  It is my "go to" camera!  My next post will include video taken with the same camera...)

It has been so great being a LiHD family.  It's been great for our family as well as our friends.  The last couple of weeks have been a blur.   A few of the highlights:

-We hosted a Singles Night at our house.  We invited over six of our single friends (3 guys, 3 girls) to watch a movie and have dessert after.  We watched the Blu-ray of Bedtime Stories on our large television.  It made such a difference with the surround sound and all.  It was almost like being in a real movie theater.

-We had a Karaoke Party with a variety of our friends.  It was a lot of fun.  (There's a local television karaoke channel, so people were singing the words off the television.)  There were pleasant surprises and barely tolerable moments but it was a blast.

-We went to a barbecue over at a friend's house in New Jersey.  I had my handy, portable Lumix camera with me and was able to get a few "wormy" shots (see below):