Showing posts with label pictures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pictures. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

11 Month Update


G and I have been enjoying a fairly mellow month. I mean, as mellow as it can be with a tiny person who can't seem to sit still or keep his hands to himself. He's emptied all of the kitchen cabinets approximately 2,678 times a day, and thinks it's hilarious to zip towards things that he knows he shouldn't touch (all the while looking back to make sure I'm chasing him and giggling until he can't breathe).

11 Months is all about growing and learning around here. G doesn't seem capable of sitting still, and can't keep his hands to himself. Everything brings with it a new adventure, and he loves inspecting things that he's never seen before (from a menu at a restaurant to a cardboard box).

He officially has five teeth (with two more on the way), and he's thrilled at the chance to eat new foods. In the past month, we've loved string cheese, ravioli, grapes, peaches, peanut butter sandwiches, and goldfish crackers.

Our 11 month photos were taken a bit late (err.. a lot late), but we got them (the ugly doll just barely fit on the chair with him).

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And then he decided he was done:

11 Months

Friday, November 9, 2012

I Heart Faces || ORANGE!

Ok, so I haven't done one of these in a LONG time, but this month's I Heart Faces challenge is orange. I knew immediately which photo I wanted to submit:


This may not be the most technically perfect by any means, but it's an absolute favorite of mine. I took this the day G and I came home from the hospital. 

If you want to join in the photo fun, hop on over to I Heart Faces. There's still time on this challenge :)



Photo Challenge Submission

Saturday, November 3, 2012

Obligatory Halloween Post

I've been requested to post a snipit about Halloween. So here it is:

Seeing as how Halloween landed on a Wednesday this year, it was the perfect opportunity for me to make G a little costume since that's my day to go into the office for some on-site work time. It was a bit down to the wire, but I managed to finish in time to take him in. Now, without further adieu, his costume...


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I did make him a little mask, but he disagreed with me about how cute it was ;)

Sad TMNT

Monday, April 4, 2011

Wonderland

Wonderland

I've been feeling a bit like Alice in Wonderland recently.

As though I've fallen down a rabbit hole and things are passing by me very quickly. I'm also quite sure to see and experience some rather fantastical things once I land.

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We're moving... fairly soon (at least Josh is). He's been accepted to the program for flight nursing and must report to his new base by July 15.

His new base being Ramstein AFB in Germany.

Saturated Blossoms

I'm excited, most certainly, but I'm not entirely sure what we're getting into. I feel as though I have all the time in the world (I won't be permanently joining him until early October), yet at the same time it's as though I just got to DC and I'm not quite sure where the time is going.

I need to learn German. In between packing. And seeing all the places we were supposed to see while stationed in the national capital region. And doing all the things that I want to do in the district. And working. And job hunting. And all of the million other things that are going into this.

Wonderland II

I'm absolutely positive that I am simply seeing a curve in the road of this rather extraordinary adventure that I find myself on. So it's definitely good.

Simply a little like Wonderland.

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Look, there's a Colonial!

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Last Friday after work, I jumped in a car with five lovely ladies (ok, we had two cars) for a weekend full of awesome.

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We got a really great rate on a fantastic condo just outside Williamsburg

Mashup 2

Saturday morning was spent in Colonial Williamsburg followed by a relaxing afternoon and an awesome dinner.


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There were many photographs taken between the six of us, and tons of laughter.

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It was definitely a fantastic breath of fresh air before the holiday madness begins :)

Monday, November 15, 2010

I Heart Faces Contest // Silhouettes

This past weekend, I hopped in a car with my friends, and we took off for Williamsburg. While there, I just so happened to shoot this silhouette photo...


just in time for this week's I Heart Faces challenge. Hop on over there and check out the rest of this week's awesome entries :)





Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Crab Cakes and Boogie Boards

To get out of the city for a bit, to shake things up, to enjoy the end of the summer, to check somewhere off of our list of places to go, and to celebrate our impending 3rd anniversary, Josh and I took off early on Friday afternoon and hit the beach this weekend.


We stayed Friday and Saturday, and headed back after lunch and a movie on Sunday.


Between the awesome food and the gorgeous weather, it was a fantastic weekend.


We whipped out Yelp for every meal, and I for one was never disappointed.


Our hotel was situated right on the boardwalk. We could literally walk out of the lobby and onto the beach. It was WONDERFUL.



I think that we both needed a weekend away.



With Josh on a rotating night schedule, we often end up missing each other, and it's tough for us to spend real time together.


I'm pretty sure the only downside was the traffic... but it's definitely a price that I'm willing to pay ;)


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Monday, November 23, 2009

Lovely Sun Flare

Though I'm out of town visiting family, when I saw that this week's I Heart Faces photo challenge was "sun flare," I knew that I just had to enter. I went out (at a seriously crazy hour) a couple weeks ago to have a play-around photo-shoot with a couple friends of mine (one other photographer and our friend [a musician] who wanted some promo shots for her new album). Anyway... I walked away with some absolutely lovely sun flare shots. Below is my favorite, and my entry for this week's photo challenge.

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If you haven't been yet, you should definitely go check out http://www.iheartfaces.com. It's a great site, and such a fun community :)





Monday, November 9, 2009

National Harbor

Have any of y'all ever been to National Harbor? It's on the Maryland side of the Potomac, just south of the Woodrow Wilson Bridge. I would definitely recommend checking it out if you're in the area and have a little time to kill.
I mean, there's still construction going on, and it's completely and totally created for tourists (in a city with a huge tourist draw to begin with), but there're definitely some fun things to see.
You can check out some gorgeous mosaics along the walls of the stairs leading down to the docks
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Horse Mosaic
There're some fun animals
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Good cupcakes (though if you're in the DC area, Georgetown Cupcake is really the place to go for cupcakes)
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And there's this guy
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I love him
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Every time I pass by the National Harbor exit, I think about him and smile
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I love how huge he is.
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I think he's simply wonderful :)
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So tell me, what delights are you currently loving?

Monday, November 2, 2009

Bloop Bloop

That's the sound of time plopping away without me. I've been going and doing and adventuring and trying my hardest to slow down and breathe :) Since pretty much everybody has posted a lovely Halloween post, I'll at least mention that we went to a Halloween/Goodbye party for our good friend Matt who moved to Pittsburgh today. We will certainly miss him, but I'm quite certain we'll see him again!
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In other news, I've begun a grand adventure with one of my favorite people in the world.


Jenn and I have started a little photo blog in the vein of mintyforest. We've only just begun, but I'm loving it so far! Jenn's studying higher education at Oxford currently, so I'm thrilled to have a means of staying in frequent contact. Anyway... our new little project is at http://justfollowyourfeet.wordpress.com/ . We're still working out a few wrinkles, but I'd love for you all to go check it out :)

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Swinging



Apparently it's going to take a little while for me to get back in the blogging swing of things. I think that's ok. I'm actually working on a collaborative project with my BFF Jenn that I'm hoping will inspire me for this blog as well.
I'm still over the moon with excitement for fall. It's getting cooler everyday, and I'm totally reveling in this blissful time of change.
Speaking of change...


Josh is now working close to home again (he'd been working at a hospital on the opposite side of the district from our home {in other words, an hour long commute one-way every time he went to work}), and he's now back to working about 15 minutes from our house, which is a HUGE stress relief for both of us. Additionally, he'll be switching back to working nights starting tomorrow night. The transition is always a little tough, but we've gotten pretty good at making it work :) All in all, it's a good switch for him at this point, I think. On top of that, he's also looking at his options for the future and making some choices that will effect the next few years. As part of that, he took the GRE this past week (and totally rocked it!). Basically, life keeps on flying by.
I finally jumped on the band wagon and got a pro flickr account. I'm hoping that it will remind/inspire me to document and organize my memories that I'm collecting. Within the past three months, I've made new friends, worked to deepen existing friendships, seen friends move away, and am preparing to send off two more friends for their next adventures. It's a nice reminder that life isn't static. It's 100% transient, and if I don't grasp what I can of it now, I'll end up missing something great.

Monday, June 1, 2009

WooHoo!!!

Ok, so... I've been waiting and waiting for iHeart Faces to finally have a category that I have a picture for (and have the time that week to post), and it's finally here :D Every week I wish I could rent kids to take photos of, but I have yet to find a place for that...
Anyway... This week, they have a special pets category (something the terrors are actually good for ;)). SO... I posted this photo of them a while back, but it's still one of my favorites. Here it is, my iHeart Faces photo :)

From A Life of Delight

If you haven't been yet, you should definitely go check out http://www.iheartfaces.com. It's a great site, and such a fun community :)

Well, that's all for me!