better late than never

I was going through some pictures and realized I never documented the little mans 'first' cake experience. (I posted about his early birthday, in which he was sick and didn't want to even look at the cake) This was on his real birthday. No worries, it's only 6 months late =) Sorry for the coloring, it was at night, Seth was taking these and didn't use flash... and I don't feel like editing them :) It was a yummy little cake the nieces made. We needed something that he liked to put on top so that he would realize it was covered in yummy toppings, and grapes was the food of choice at this stage of his life. It took him a while to get the hang of it, but once he did, he dug in!

And then he decided he needed to be decorated in the frosting, too!

He thought he might try to make some pigtails out of his hair.

roll finishers

These are just a few photos that I personally love from different rolls of film that I took, trying to finish up a roll. 

Cori brought their new little pup over to play. 

 It's impossible to get these three to look at the camera at the same time AND smiling OR having normal faces :) But I love them anyway.

salt water

"The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea."
- Isak Dinesen

A good cry, I think, is needed every once and a while. I had one of those today. The kind of cry where you're all alone so it doesn't matter if you make those embarrassing snorts or high pitched gasps for air. Ya one of those. 

For me, it releases all tension in my body, allows me to let it ALL out in five minutes of a good cry and then I feel better. Feel stronger. A good cry, just feels so......so... GOOD.

I have a city league ball game tonight and it'll be the first time since freshman year in high school that I'm able to play with Cori again! I'm so excited. There will come the sweat. I'm 2/3 cured;)

Now where's dang ocean when I need it!?

ggggoooooaaallllllll!!!!!!!

We had fun watching my nephew, Michael, play in his soccer game. It was the cutest thing watching those little ones chasing the ball around and stopping mid dribble to turn and wave 'hi' to their moms. We spent most of the time telling them which way to kick the ball and laughing at all the hilarious things that went on. Oh the joys of 4 year olds and sports. I sure can't wait until lil man Ren gets to join in on the fun!

This picture below is hilarious because Michael randomly turned to where we were sitting and got down then stood up with his fists in the air yelling, "Mommy, thank you for taking me to the soccer game!!!"

 Attention spans don't last long and they start chest bumping each other while waiting for their turn :)

 This cute little girl kept helping Michael up whenever he would fall down.

 It's like there's a magnet on their shirts connected to the ball.

And of course if your shoe falls off, just run out of them game and find your mom :)

and another....

...picture of the one who runs our house these days. Today was one of those "I can't believe how big Warren is" days. I just kept looking at him, wondering how he has managed to become this little man that is now saying words. His vocabulary does now include,
bye bye-
(a form of) pretzel -
(a form of) cracker, which really sounds like the Spanish word for poo
peet-a-boo (peek a boo)
da- e (doggy)
momma! (FINALLY!!)
chee (cheese)
Suuu (shoe)
And some others I'm sure I'm forgetting.

These are from my first roll of BW film. I didn't have to edit these at all. I'm loving shooting with film, although I am still learning how to make the images as crisp and sharp as I did with digital, (which of course takes better equipment and I have the lowest end of film camera at the moment) I'm liking the look and how it makes me feel about my photos. It's been easier for me to  not worry about what others think about them, because I'm finally seeing what I want to see in the final product and I honestly don't worry or wonder if others like this look and if it will still get me clients. I'm loving what I'm doing and wanting to shoot because I'm excited with the results! I never felt 100% that way with digital. Of course, I hope others will enjoy my work too, but it's not a huge factor like it used to be. Yay for film! (ok that was a little tangent, haha)
Back to the point- I love Warren to pieces and don't want him to grow ANYMORE!

spring special

For those interested....

sand

Where we live, there is a commons area with a swing set in sand. We've had a few warmer days and whenever I let Warren start to venture on his own, he walks straight to that.

 ...and throws it on himself...

We don't have a beach, but we do have sand =)