spring in our step

Spring is so close!! We ventured out to the park with the Kinard fam on Saturday. The kids are getting to such a playful age together--here are a few pics.

LOOK OUT!

We have a new family member! No, it's not in human baby form or superhero form for that matter.

Her name is Abby.

Her family had her since she was a pup. They have a one year old little boy who is dreadfully allergic to her. So they tried keeping her in the laundry room, medical treatments for the baby and nothing was working. Some friends of mine at lunch were talking about it & how sad it was because the family was heartbroken. It made me think of Max and if one of the kids were sick related to him. What would we do? I would be sick to think of him somewhere that might not be anything less than a loving family and a home. So Abby has joined our family.

She is 15. Yes, 15. She love tennis balls, her pink pig toy....and in traditional Jack Russell style, insists on sleeping under the covers.

She is TINY too!!! Max looks like a fat horsey compared to her! Joe had to redo the fence for 2 days straight and even built her a little ramp to help her in/out of the dog door. She & Max aren't exactly BFF's yet, but she is coming around. We are giving her her space to adjust.
A few pictures. And more to come! Please welcome Abby to our family!!

Love,
Carrie

FISHY FACES

We took a trip to the Aquarium last weekend. It was Jay's first time and probably Ellie's 10th. It never gets old and I think we see new fish or animals every time. I don't post a load of text these days....figure you all just want the pictures anyway, hehehee. ENJOY!!!

Hope everyone is getting ready for spring, i know we are!!!

2009 Valentine's Day!

If you wanna peep at all the photos i shot for the valentine...here ya go!! CLICK IN THE PICTURE BELOW. The original is in there somewhere...I marked it as ORIGINAL VALENTINE.

2009 valentine's day

suck your thumb, rub your belly & pat your head

Okay....so Jay has a few funny quirks. They are SUPER cute & I love it! The biggest one is that he loves to suck his thumb & rub his tummy. Onsies are def a thing of the past for my little man. If he can't get to his belly, he sticks his hand in the top of his shirt to rub......and if he can't get to either of those spots, he'll do the next best thing & stick his hand in someone else's....hehehehe.
He also does a funny when pretends to wash his hair. I can't get a picture of it though. I'm trying--but by the time i get my camera, he stops. here are a few from over the weekend and the very first one is from his classroom. They get such a giggle out of him because of his "healthy" appetite & his favorite spot---in a little book box, sucking his thumb & rubbing his belly.




Ellie is pretending to suck her thumb--sorry, had to get one of her in too.









He has no problem doing it in public either. He LOVED the dog park.

Holiday of Luuvvvvvvvvvvvvve

Well it's that time of year again!!!

The huggy-lovey-dovey holiday of LOVE. I'm shooting our annual Valentine's Day photo this weekend. My mailing list has practically tripled in the last year with all my new "old" friends......from every corner of the world. I can't complain for having friends for a lifetime, literally. I love it.

I loved getting Valentine's as a kid. I think everyone deserves one in the mail....old school, right? Anyway, I'd love to send you one, just email me your mailing address.

Here are the last 2 years.

happy birthday, ellie + more

i will update this later....in a rush. so i don't have edit/flow--you're getting raw thoughts.

i'm thankful for my healthy girl, Elise. i could go on forever & ever about how special she is and what she means to me. but we all know that people. she is me--just a smaller version. although she said "on my next birthday time, i will be big & tall like you?"

what makes her a little more special in my book (besides the date also coincides with Audrey Hepburns death, who is my ALL time favorite woman in history next to Jackie O, but that is a different post) is that she was born on Inauguration Day--for Bush....and today-- her 4th birthday also marks up there with pure history.

i had a shoot today at the airport for the Inauguration.

no matter your political affiliation, watching the world the watch history and being some tiny small part of it always feels good. i am proud of my family, my work and hopefully my small contribution to the world. I had the shooter take a picture of me with a newspaper that a very nice passenger gave me. this is pre-photoshop too.
sorry, i should've warned you--it's a sap of a post.