I call him pure bliss.
I'm not even 1/3 of the way thru little Landon's images, but I couldn't help but post just one. And my favorite so far, too, I might add.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Sweet Baby Landon
Saturday morning, I went back to see Torrie. Except this time she had this cute little butter bean with her that she calls "Landon".
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
2009 Year in Review
2009 was good to me.
Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally good to me.
Like, almost-one-of-the-best-years-ever good to me. Yeah, THAT good.
I looked back at the 6500 images I took (no joke, it was that many!!) and tried to find the best picture of the year. Something that highlighted the year.
But, when I started looking, I couldn't find one. I could find 32 of them. And then at one point I narrowed it down to 15, but I couldn't find just one.
Then, I asked myself, "Why do I have to pick just one?".
And that tiny little thought led me to 158 images that I compiled into this amazing slideshow. Which to me, was a 5 minute smile chiseled into my face.
As easy as you'd think this would be for me -- a photographer, mind you -- it was so hard trying to weed out the "unimportant" images. We had alot of important stuff happen over the course of 2009. There were birthdays, and milestones of a first tooth loss, there were sporting events and life events of babies being born. There were holidays and vacations.
But my all-time favorite times from last year were the in-betweens. The Halfdozen sledding trips and snow forts, the family trip to the Ohio State spring game, the night all of us went to dinner at TGIFridays and Cassanos, and our Yahtzee games. Then, there were the summer nights of the kids playing in the backyard, or the hot afternooons at the swimming pool. The lazy Saturday afternoons of sidewalk chalk drawings and the backyard football games.
How is one person suppose to choose a favorite? I couldn't. And believe me, I tried! Chris always makes fun of me for have 100 favorites of something -- movies, colors, foods, shoes. "They ALL can't be your favorites...", he'd say. But there was just no way for me to have only one favorite.
I hope my family gets to look back at the gazillion (that's really a word) pictures that I have taken over their lives and appreciate the moments that I was able to capture.
It's like memory insurance.
One day they'll be old, with kids of their own, looking back at boxes full of pictures. They'll tell their kids "man, I remember when we went here"....or "remember how mad mom got when we broke that clock?"
I want them to feel their hearts swell when they look back at these pictures and remember how much they were loved. Then maybe, just maybe, they'll have a tiny idea about how it felt to be their mom.
Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally good to me.
Like, almost-one-of-the-best-years-ever good to me. Yeah, THAT good.
I looked back at the 6500 images I took (no joke, it was that many!!) and tried to find the best picture of the year. Something that highlighted the year.
But, when I started looking, I couldn't find one. I could find 32 of them. And then at one point I narrowed it down to 15, but I couldn't find just one.
Then, I asked myself, "Why do I have to pick just one?".
And that tiny little thought led me to 158 images that I compiled into this amazing slideshow. Which to me, was a 5 minute smile chiseled into my face.
As easy as you'd think this would be for me -- a photographer, mind you -- it was so hard trying to weed out the "unimportant" images. We had alot of important stuff happen over the course of 2009. There were birthdays, and milestones of a first tooth loss, there were sporting events and life events of babies being born. There were holidays and vacations.
But my all-time favorite times from last year were the in-betweens. The Halfdozen sledding trips and snow forts, the family trip to the Ohio State spring game, the night all of us went to dinner at TGIFridays and Cassanos, and our Yahtzee games. Then, there were the summer nights of the kids playing in the backyard, or the hot afternooons at the swimming pool. The lazy Saturday afternoons of sidewalk chalk drawings and the backyard football games.
How is one person suppose to choose a favorite? I couldn't. And believe me, I tried! Chris always makes fun of me for have 100 favorites of something -- movies, colors, foods, shoes. "They ALL can't be your favorites...", he'd say. But there was just no way for me to have only one favorite.
I hope my family gets to look back at the gazillion (that's really a word) pictures that I have taken over their lives and appreciate the moments that I was able to capture.
It's like memory insurance.
One day they'll be old, with kids of their own, looking back at boxes full of pictures. They'll tell their kids "man, I remember when we went here"....or "remember how mad mom got when we broke that clock?"
I want them to feel their hearts swell when they look back at these pictures and remember how much they were loved. Then maybe, just maybe, they'll have a tiny idea about how it felt to be their mom.
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