Day 6&7

My Boys.

I know what you are thinking... I have the most adorable little boys.  Well, yes I do have to agree with you :-)

Day 3, 4 & 5

Went to a Portland TrailBlazer game last night! So much fun! These were my favorite 3 shots from the game...

Day 2

A walk through the park...

Day 1

The start of a new adventure...  The camera and the person behind it...

...Kindness and Inspiration...

So today I received a random act of kindness in the mail from a sweet friend of mine... It totally made my day, and I want to reciprocate, so watch your mailboxes sometime in the near future you might just get a little token of my appreciation for you!

This brings me to the second part of my post, the inspiration.  I love and have a passion for photography, but since having kids that part of my life has sat on a back burner, just waiting till I have more time. Well, lets face it MORE time is just not going to magically appear at out of nowhere so I am going to make time!  So here is my challenge to myself-

One Photo a Day

for 365 Days

Taken from my DSLR

No camera phone! 

I have a blog?... whoops...

Yes... I'm horrible at updating! Maybe one day, I'll be better.... But until that day comes here is an update!

Ben will be 10 months old in a few weeks. Wow just wow. He was 31.5 inches and 23 pound at his 9 month appt! He is so close to walking, loves to eat and is my super snugly baby. He adores his mommy (but really what's not to adore? ;)) which makes it hard to put him in the nursery at church, but he's getting better! Oh and he is working on tooth #8! He's just growing way to fast...

Johnny is just exploding with new words and sentence every day... He is such a fun little boy! Oh trust me we have our moments where I want to pull my hair out, but it really is such a joy to watch him learn new things and discover what life has to offer.  He loves his trains, anything that has to do with a train and he is all over it! When we sit down to color, he asks me to draw a train for him... I must say my choo-choo drawing skills are quickly improving ;)

And just like that, Ben awakes from his nap... Maybe this is why I never update, I seem to be short on time most days ;)

An update on life...

So it's been a while since I updated this. Ok, it's been a long time, oops. I will try to do better, but really I make you no promises ;)

Benjamin was born on May 25 at 5:11 am. My labor was about 12 hours long start to finish. Thursday late afternoon I had to go into the hospital because my blood pressure has shot up and they suspected pre-e, and since I was already 1 week 5 days past my due date and having mild contractions they kept me there and gave me some pitocin to jump start my labor. Around 11pm I woke up to a POP and gush, my water had broke! I pushed for all of about 20 minutes and had a completely drug free labor! He was 9lbs 4 oz and 22 1/4 inches.

Hard to believe this Saturday he will be 3 months old! He is just growing so fast! Overall I think Johnny likes being a big brother, he has even started wanting to share everything with Ben, melts my heart. The first two months Johnny called Ben "baby" I think he was hoping if we didn't name it, we didn't have to keep it ;)

We recently took Johnny to the zoo for the first time! It was so much fun, and I'm so glad PawPaw, Grammie and Aunt Marie came with us! Johnny had a great day seeing all the animals and riding the zoo train, pretty sure that was his favorite part since he is obsessed with trains!


I love my two boys so incredibly much and am so blessed to be their mommy!!!

Aunt Marie and Johnny reading a book

My mom and me <3

Pawpaw and Johnny playing

My two boys