Yesterday morning while I was doing dishes Josh started giggling. I turned around and saw this.
It’s kind of hard to tell, but he’s sitting up in the swing. Ready to jump out. He’s getting so big, so fast. It makes me happy and sad all at the same time.
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I was lucky enough to get to test Michelle Black’s new Spritzer Action set. In a word, they’re amazing! The set includes nine completely adjustable, unique and fun actions that truly allow you to create hundreds of different looks for your images. Spritzers was released today and they’re a steal for just $20. Hurry on over to Michelle’s site and grab them!
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Thank you Michelle for letting me try these out!
Last October, Claire contacted me to see if I would be available to accompany her family to the airport and photograph the homecoming of their daughter, Hope. I remember reading the e-mail and getting goosebumps on the top of my head and tearing up. She didn’t have a date, but was hopeful that it would happen in January. She warned that there would only be a few days notice and was concerned that I might not be able to do it with a new baby of my own. I didn’t hesitate for a second. I knew the minute she asked that I had to be a part of it.
January came and went. Claire updated me regularly and was hopeful that they would get the call to say Hope would be coming home any day. Last week, the long awaited call came and twenty-seven months after they started their adoption journey, Claire, Rusty and their son welcomed Hope home.
I know there’s a ridiculous number of pictures here, but I had such a hard time narrowing it down. I was hoping to post a slide show, but after spending hours trying to figure out how to post it, I officially gave up. If you scroll quickly and listen to this you can pretend you’re watching one.
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Claire, Rusty and S I couldn’t be happier for you. Thank you so much for inviting me to share in your joy on this most special night. xoxo
It was a crazy week here on the North Shore. It started with the heaviest rain that I have ever seen and ended with beautiful warm sunny weather. Unfortunately, I was too busy cleaning up the aftermath of a flooded basement to get out and take many pictures. I was so surprised when I went to look through this weeks photos and all I had were some from a ballerina birthday party that we went to last weekend. Here’s the birthday girls little sister hanging out with daddy and watching the big girls dance. I think she was mesmerized.
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The two or three of you who actually see this probably aren’t overly impressed with my late night, under the influence of a few (or five) glasses of wine, flash photography skills. I actually had some really cute, technically much better photos of my kids this week but chose to use this for a few reasons. You may remember from this post that I made three resolutions for 2010; exercise three times a week (I’m going to start this one in March), be more intentional about spending time with friends and to shoot more for me.
This photo proves that I’m doing two and three.
Jay and Kathy are two of our best friends and favorite people in the world. Brad has known Jay since college. He was our best man (and gave the best toast I’ve ever heard) when we got married in 2002. I didn’t really know Kathy all that well back then, but today I feel like she’s always been my friend. On Valentine’s Day they called us around 4:30 to see if we wanted to meet at the gym to let the kids run around (I know, so romantic). We didn’t make it to the gym but they came over for dinner that night and I snapped this picture while our boys played Star Wars Wii and our girls watched Snow White. I’m so thankful to have people in my life that I can invite over on a moments notice and not have to clean, cook something fancy or take off my dayjamas for.
The second reason I chose it is that Kathy has already thanked me for not sharing any on Facebook and I’m rotten like that.
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MeganHe IS getting so big! Such an adorable shot, I can not believe he’s sitting up already. 🙂