are never, ever, well…let’s say rarely, like this.
He stayed asleep. After I rolled away from him. After I carefully got out of bed. After I quietly tip-toed out of the room. He was still asleep. So, I took some pictures of it.
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mornings
10 on 10…may
We went to Gatlinburg last month. Sometimes it is good to just get away, even if it is not very far away. Here is the first picture I took.
It is a mountain laurel. They were everywhere.
We went hiking, of course.
And, the trail was crawling with these:
And I’m not the only one that kept taking pictures of them…
At the cabin there was a hot tub. Kids LOVED it. I LOVED that their faces would be all blushed when they got out, so when Jude-y was all rosy cheeked after a hot tub soak, mama had to grab her camera.
You know, I am really working on my black and white conversions…I swear converting an image to black and white is harder than correcting a color image. Anyhow, I was trying to retain the dark rosy detail in the cheeks. Not sure if I succeeded…
I chased this rosy cheeked baby onto the front porch where I mammarazzi’d it up some more(because it was open shade at golden hour *sigh*) until he said, “Allllllll done.”
And we were all done. The lens I had on my camera was too long, and the porch was too small, hence the limb chopping…oh well! It was a great vacation. 
Now, follow our blog circle and check out the talented Austin Texas Photographer, Karen Porter!
baseball pics
with my old, but new to me, telephoto lens look like…
this. he he he. Yes, they do. Because, ya know, when you have 3(or 4) kids running around when one is on the field, you end up chasing them around, lol. Which is fine. This is the season we are in, not baseball, but life. It is hectic. It is fast paced. It can be stressful. But, it is very beautiful, and I am very thankful, even if I am missing 99% of the older one’s game. Someday, I will have big boys(and probably a totally different lens), and I will be alone. All alone and free to snap every. single. play. said ‘big boy’ makes. And I will miss having a toddler to chase. So, it’s all good.
film fridays
The eldest two…they really do exist. Really. Truly. I have two older kids. he he he 
Joey…
Paul…
Nikon n80, Kodak Portra 400, developed at Indie Lab, converted to black and white.
Oh, you know you want to check out the rest of our filmy circle this Friday, so head on over and see what the amazingly talented, Melissa Zihlman, Dallas-Fort Worth Child Photographer, comes up with!
date night
with Peter…just us, one on one. On the way to our house, there is this seafood restaurant with a big sword fish on the sign. Peter loves that, and he has wanted to go there because of that(great marketing seafood peeps!). We had a great time. This is the first time I have done this with Pete. During dinner, he told me that Bingo(his imaginary friend) was also at dinner with his mother, at Pizza Hut, where an invisible chef was busy making pizza. He ordered catfish, not fried, and he wanted to know where its head, whiskers, eyes, and fins were. lol I told him the fins are too hard to eat, and he assured me that they are not too hard for *him* to eat.
