Woo hoo, I have noise reduction software back for my photos! Because my kids move around a lot, I have to shoot in the sports mode on my camera to avoid blur. This setting shoots at a high iso, so noise (grainy appearance) appears in most of my pictures. I have complained about this many times on here before. What I used to do is e-mail myself the pictures, then go to the Dell computer in the office to run them through the free noiseware software I downloaded. Then I had to e-mail them back to myself, open them on my mac, and edit them on iphoto. It was a pain but it was free and noiseware isn't available as a standalone for macs. Well, two weeks ago, the Dell got a virus. Since we have absolutely nothing of value on that computer, I just put the restart disk in. That wiped out all the drivers for some reason and now we can't get on the internet on that computer (or really do anything else for that matter). So I had to purchase noise ninja for my mac. It wasn't very expensive and now I don't have to e-mail my photos back and forth to myself anymore so it's much better anyway.
All that to explain why I'm late getting photos of my dad's visit up. My dad came a week and a half ago to hang out with the boys. Cason kept him entertained and laughing. This was his first time to meet Bryce.
On Saturday, we decided to go tour the new Cowboys Stadium. Kelly had taken the tour at the old Texas Stadium a few times when we first moved here. Based on his experience, we thought we'd stand in line for maybe half an hour, then go on a 45 minute tour of the stadium and be on our way back home. Wrong. We got there right when tours started and had to wait an hour and a half just to start the tour. Then the tour lasted almost two hours. It is a very cool stadium (despite the issues with the punters hitting the scoreboard!) but the tour was not all that impressive. They kept showing us media room after media room. If you've seen one, they're pretty much all the same. We liked the tour but wish they would have compressed it to about half the time. Despite that, the boys were very good on the tour. Cason didn't complain at all, even though he must have been starving by the time we left (90 minutes after his usual lunch). Doesn't he look thrilled?
In the locker room:
My dad used to have an awesome workshop in his basement and has made some very impressive woodworking projects. Therefore, we always have a few projects for him to help us with when he comes. Before Cason was born, we had him help us put a chair rail up in the bedrooms that now belong to Cason and Bryce. Back then, Kelly had only a few basic tools and we had to rent a miter saw from Home Depot. In the past few years, Kelly has been slowly building up his arsenal of tools so we can do more projects. This visit was no different, we planned to have my dad help Kelly build a cornice box for Cason's window. It was a pretty easy project and Kelly plans to build another one for Bryce's room when he gets some spare time.
Thanks for visiting Grandpa!
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