its all about the squirrels

Timmy, center, celebrated his third birthday with his friends. They all wore hand made capes as they rushed from one air filled toy area to another.

I had a great time at my niece and nephew’s big Super Hero birthday party blowout in Hutto Saturday. [update: click here to view a slide show of a select, raw images from the party.]

Children and adults alike donned capes and spun super memories of chasing each other around. It was a fun filled two hours. And while I attempted to make pictures of everyone having a great time it was crazy trying to take pictures with all the other proud, excited parents. There were times were it kind of felt like (but not quite) a photoj scrum when the two coaches shake hands at the end of the game. Especially when my niece was all smiles sitting among all the plastic balls. I also realized that I will not retire to be a children’s photographer. It was still a ball of fun and then some to photograph everyone doing their thing. I do wish that I had had more time to become familiar with the camera I was using just so I could take the pictures better, ya know? Some day I will have my own gear again to tote around and act like I know what I am doing.

Sunday we had fun playing with all the new toys. Timmy had a friend come over so we went to the park and played there. Erik and his son Timmy even had a light sabre fight. It was hilarious. They vanquished all the “evil” batman balloons and made their home safe from Republic fighters. I was able to hastily do an audio recording of them sort of beginning the fight after Erik took Timmy’s picture  as Timmy held  his fancy new light sabre. The light sabre is way cool. It lights up and if you listen to the audio piece you can hear the noise it makes.

On the way back to Waco, I stopped at the Center for American History at UT since I wanted to check out some materials to do some research on my masters project. It was closed. Instead I went into the LBJ library and was pleasantly surprised by some new installations in the museum. I’ve been stopping into the museum ever since the late 90’s when I was on my “let’s be a politician” career kick. Plus, LBJ was such a fascinating person. Some of his generation would even go so far to say he was a crude individual.

I also splurged time on visiting the outlet mall that is located north of Austin. I’ll be stopping back after Thanksgiving (suicidal I know) but they had some kids birthday gift ideas that I want to try and get.

It was a good weekend. Heck, I even was able to do some homework despite the CAH being closed.

Time for me to go rinse out my super powers. After all, Aunt Robin will be back in action soon.