ACHIEVED THE IMPOSSIBLE
I just got home from my trip up to Plano for bluebonnet portraits and while it was very rainy and cloudy, we still managed to get some beautiful images. I will be up late proofing but I just couldn’t resist editing the one – the ONLY one – of my boys that Grandma Barnes helped me to get of my boys. I was so excited to finally have one picture of all three of them smiling. Photographer’s kids have got to be some of the hardest kids to photograph, especially for their own mother. The boys are 1/8th Japanese, if you couldn’t tell from their squinty...
Read Moresnowmen
By now you know about the freak snowstorm that blanketed Austin and other parts of Texas in a nice cushy thick (we had 3 inches in the front yard) blanket of snow. For the better part of the morning, this was happening outside our windows. It was beautiful. I wasn’t going to let them outside since we’ve been rather sick lately and three-to-one is not the kind of ratio I like to have stacked against me. I caved in, though, when the oldest begged for a snowball fight. How many more years will it be before I can give him a snowball fight, afterall? It was definitely not a...
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My middle son is three years old come Monday. Three. Three long and trying years. Three years full of the most hard-earned joy! Three years of the most divine eyelashes a human could possibly possess. I love this photo because his big brother truly overshadows everything he tries to do, yet he shines through in the way that so many middle children do. He is uniquely sweet. And, oh, those eyelashes! I’ll probably post another little ode to my Lowell here tomorrow, on his actual...
Read MoreI have not forgotten about the dear blog!
I promise I haven’t forgotten! I’m taking some much needed time and regrouping, stretching a little, absorbing the joy of the abundance of life around here while we wait on the bluebonnets to grow. If you’ve seen my facebook page, you’ve likely seen my project 365 photos but I haven’t posted some of the rejects over there. I had to save *something* for the blog! My darling husband and my dear little one, known in these parts as The Destroyer by his big brothers. You wouldn’t know it by looking at that innocent (and dimpled!) face, would you? ...
Read Moretonight, I am washing the icing off my curtain
… because it’s my littlest man’s first birthday! K-baby got to smash a cupcake. It was a last-minute idea to take down a curtain, hang it on a tension rod in our wide hallway and set up some quick remote lighting, run to the grocery store for the cupcake, and let him smash it. He loved it. Well, mostly. He wanted to eat the candle. And this is after I took the candle away from him. I guess he thought it was delicious. I think I want to get a big print of this one… He looks just like baby-me here. I think I made this face a lot. I think I still make this...
Read Morewhat texans call snow
I’ve heard it called “sky dandruff” and I think that is appropriate. Laugh if you will… I certainly am! It lasted all of 5 minutes then the sun came out. The forecasters made such a big deal out of it but all we got was a touch. I’m secretly hoping for a downpour of fluffy white stuff but only today. Tomorrow I am driving to Plano (after a morning session) with my three very little boys (without my hubby and the van’s radio, cd player and clock are all dead!) so I’d really like the roads to be clear for our trip. Here’s hoping for a...
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