Crawfish Boil

We recently went to a crawfish boil at the home of one of Josh's work colleagues and I brought my Contax645 along.

Life Around These Parts

More Polaroids

All taken with a Polaroid 600SE on Fujifilm FP-3000B.

Dim Sum Night

The boys love their Chinese dumplings. Sam was even reduced to tears when he thought there were no more steamed pork buns.

Josh and Ben

I love it when I get film back from the lab and I LOVE this shot of Josh and Ben. I just started using Richard Photo Lab and they rock the casbah.

This is What I Saw

These were taken the afternoon I came back from Foundation and picked up the boys at school after not having seen them for five days.

Happy 5th Birthday Ben!

When Ben was just one month old I took the photo below of him and it is one of my all time favorites. So at my behest, Ben and I recreated that photo this morning on the event of his fifth birthday. I am not a perfect mother, but in my favor, I did remember your birthday on the right day this year. I love you baby.

Home

I am back home with so much to say about what transpired last week. But for now I am just happy to be reunited with these two.

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The iphone is the obsession at our house these days. The boys want to be playing on it constantly--especially Sam. He loves doing puzzles on it. I let him play on it, but I try to limit him, which is a tough proposition. It has gotten so bad that I cannot even use my phone in front of him because he starts screaming that he wants it. I have created a monster.

Striving

Lately I am tired. Tired of being in front of the computer all of the time. So I have started shooting more film and sending it to the lab. And when I am shooting digital I am looking to get my shots as close to perfect in camera as possible. But they have always needed some tweaking. The exposure is always a little off etc. Two days ago I picked up the camera and these came out. They are not perfect by any means, but I did not post process them at all. Not one single adjustment. They are straight out of my 5D MKII and I LOVE them.

Ben Gets New Rainboots

Ben and His Book

Brothers

Bedtime Routine

This is he new post-bath routine. Jumping on the bed, dancing around, reading books. You will be seeing many more of these type of pics (sorry in advance).

Right Before My Eyes

He is growing so fast. Like a weed. I want him to slow down some days and speed up others. It was just yesterday that he was a little 9 pound blob and now he is accessorizing.

New Year's Eve at the Park

On New Year's Eve day we went hung out with Katherine and James and their kids as well as Lillia. Lillia's mom had just had a baby AND eye surgery to boot so we took her one day to give mom a bit of a break. We all had a great time together and it was a beautiful day. I LOVE the shots that Katherine took of the boys and I as well as the one of the three adults racing to see who could find a lunch solution the fastest on their cell phones.

A December Dinner at the Simons

Why I Take Photographs