Valentine's Day Macros

Ok, so this isn't the traditional way to show off the beautiful bouquet of flowers that Jeremiah gave me for Valentine's Day, but it does the trick.

Tired of being sick.

We had done pretty well this winter until the last few weeks, and now we just can't seem to get healthy, at least not all at the same time. All of sudden this afternoon, I started feeling lousy, a special kind of lousy, a strep throat kind of lousy. Doc confirmed it tonight. I am praying it doesn't start cycling through the boys.

Stupid germs.

Happy Valentine's Day!

I don't figure it will be too much longer that the boys will let me make their Valentine's Day cards for them, so I especially enjoyed working with Isaac tonight to prepare his treat bags with caramel corn.

A New Role for Mommy

Last Saturday I embarked on a new adventure when I nervously drove down to a country club in the south suburbs for my first day as an assistant photographer to Jared Wilson, an incredibly talented photographer that I am both humbled and elated to be working with. Yesterday, I shot a beautiful wedding in Vail with him. I'll be working with Jared occasionally throughout the year at some of his weddings. It's very exciting for me to have the opportunity to expand my hobby into this new arena.

I have some of my favorites from each of the weddings in my flickr account which you can access from the menu to the right or by clicking on these pictures.

before people

I was laying down with the boys tonight to help them settle down for bed. It was dark and the boys were all finally being quiet. I thought Spencer was asleep but he announced, as if he had just had a revelation, "before there were people, there weren't any car stores or people or anything". I wish I could have seen the whole trail of thoughts in his head that led him to say that.

Macro at Home

I had a lot of fun taking some macro photos at the Butterfly Pavillion a couple of weeks ago, so today I bought myself some flowers and set up camp in the living room.

:-O

Imagine my horror when I drove around a curve here in town to find the boys' school surrounded by many many firetrucks and ambulances. The 14 seconds or so until I got close enough to see that they were at the apartment complex next door were nauseating. Sometimes being a parent isn't very fun(revelation, I know).

So today this parent gets away with just a scare, unfortunately, gauging by the number of emergency vehicles there, the parents and loved ones of some people who lived in that apartment complex aren't getting off so easy.