NEW WEBSITE

http://greatgardieffadventure.weebly.com/ Its still under construction but I want everyone to have the link in preparation and to be able to change your bookmarks accordingly.

Tomorrow

Tomorrow is the big day are you ready? I think we are. As a reminder photos/videos will be presented on the new website that I will post once the photos are up and the website is ready for its debut. Stay tuned, if you want pictures right away make sure I have your email at agardieff@gmail.com

Hiatus (UPDATED)

Just a heads up that the blog site will be down for a short bit as we are nearing Michael's birth. I'll be back next week with a whole new website. I'm moving the site from this one which is blog based to a full website, since it has grown into more than a blog. The benefits will be a better format to present multimedia and allow easier location of the information you would like to see. I'll post the link to the new site as soon as it is ready, make sure to check back to get the new site information, as that will be one of the first places to see pictures of Michael.

Mardi Gras

     Last night I went with my dad out to Universal Orlando for the 2011 Mardi Gras event and watched the parade. Unfortunately our viewing area was extremely close to where the parade floats would pass by in front of us resulting in any video shot being of extreme close-ups of the floats and performers, not giving me many shots of full floats or full body performers. However I did try to piece together what little I had into a short collage to share the experience with everyone. The plan is to go back at a later date and re-shoot from a farther vantage point and use both the parade shoots to create one video down the road. The day was good I had arrived at the park early to do some still photography of the 'Wizarding World of Harry Potter' only to find out that the parks were carrying a heavy capacity which did not work in my favor resulting in few to no photos. I met my dad in the afternoon and we just walked and talked trying to pass the time till the Mardi Gras festivities started. The only food we sampled was the Gumbo and it was decent, the parade is very similar to last years. They spruced up and altered a couple floats, but, still a good length and with lots a stilt walkers.
     While I was over at the studios, Julie stayed home to catch up on tv and started washing all our baby things. Hard to think 9 months has already come and gone and that this will be the last week before things get crazy around the house.  Are you ready? That seems to be the question I get from everyone at work and my response has to be yes, sure of course we could be alittle more prepared or organized. I think that with our family and friend support we have been able to better prepare ourselves for whats about to happen in our lives. Me, personally I feel I am ready, if I'm not ready by now then I'll never be. I've had the last 9 months to evaluate and analyze how things will be impacted and how to adapt to our growing family. As the countdown is coming to the last few days, I'll be sure to let everyone in on any developing details.

Meet The Gardieff Girls

Here's a video I made while practicing video editing again. I only had a bout four old clips of the cats to work with, but it let me do some practicing which was nice to do outside of a show or a parade.

Video Skill Training

Since it's kinda been slow on updates I figured I would share a little bit of what I've been working on as far as editing movies I had taken a while ago. These are two videos I had edited and uploaded today, one is Shamu Rocks from a few years ago and the other is the more recent Celebrate A Dream Come True from the Magic Kingdom, sorry for the quality it's an older camcorder but it's better than nothing until I can one day afford a new one.

Change It Up

Last night my parents came over and brought with them a new gift, the changing table, that goes along with our crib. This morning I went and got it put together and moved into position in Michael's room. Like the crib the table actually went together rather easily and didn't really encounter and problems in the building of it. Room is definitely looking like a baby's room now.

I know alot of people have been asking for photos of the room, it still is a disaster zone, with just getting all the furniture we have only just now been able to start putting away and organzing all his little belongings. This is what the room looks like currently. Its probably gonna come down to the wire but, I think we'll be set and ready for when he actually decides to show up.