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Jenna & Kailey

A couple weeks ago I had an opportunity to take some pictures of our friend’s daughter, Jenna, and her cousin Kailey. Jenna’s dad, Jeff, is a friend of Barry’s from their preschool days. The story goes Barry sucker-puched Jeff because Jeff wouldn’t share his Valentine’s candy.  This is only funny now because Barry no longer punches people and Jeff would share his candy in heartbeat. 

It was a blustery cold day and poor Jenna had enough by the end of it. Kailey is like Maggie and hardly gets cold, so she was happy to do wind-sprints around to keep busy.  I’m no nugget expert, but I’m quite certain that both girls qualify as nuggets. Cutie-Patooties!

I’m loving that more opportinites are presenting themselves to me in terms of photography. Thanks to Jill, Krissa and Myrene for being adventurous with me that day! 

Check out Jill’s blog here.

Here are some of my favorite images from the day:

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Boomerang II

This is getting out of control. I’ve had this post “almost ready” for a week now and  I never seem to have the time to actually put my thoughts to the images. I’m kind of at the point that I don’t need to write anything…the pictures can do the talking. They’re old pictures now. But they’re good ones. 

Barry and I had an impromptu date last night which ended with us eating snacks on our couch watching the finale of Parenthood. It was luxurious, actually it was going out to dinner and not rushing home that made it feel extra special. We were asleep by 10 o’clock, however. 

Enjoy the pictures. My personal favorite of this batch is this one:

Letting Mara take a picture.

 

And she is strong enough to hold the camera up....
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Boomerang Part One

Before last week happened we had happily been like a boomerang going from day trippin’ outings with friends to back home again. This weekend and today  we’ve stayed extremely close to home. Today I sat down to look at the images from some of our latest antics….

Lara & Marc got some new chicks and we jumped at the chance to join Cole & Caroline to see them. Maggie was delighted and wasn’t the least bit scared to touch the little birds. I, on the other hand, was a bit skittish.

Being in a ‘playgroup’ with Lara, Nicole, Krista & Erin is so easy. It isn’t quite convenient with all of us spread out, but when we get together the kids have a ball and us girls do too. (But Marc, it is a play date….not a girls weekend.)

Back home, Maggie has finally figured out how to open our backdoor on her own (only if it ‘s unlocked, so don’t go worrying too much) and constantly is letting Sydney in and out. More often than not we’re also ‘invited’ outside with Maggie to stomp in the puddles, get into the gardener’s shed or balance on the wall.

We’ve gotten to a point where she can get her own boots on and will drag our (either my or Barry’s…sometimes both) shoes out of the closet too. We last about 30 minutes before she starts saying “Burrrr” and rubbing her arms.  That doesn’t necessarily mean that she always wears shoes…or a coat, but we try.  This and that don’t seem that far off.

Tomorrow we’re boomeranging up to A-Town to take some pictures of some friends and do some other business related things. Will you do your sun dance for us because we don’t like to take rainy pictures…

Hope your week holds some friend-filled adventures…