1-31-11 -- T-R-O-U-B-L-E.  These two, I tell ya... thick as thieves...  ;)

1-30-11 -- Camping!  We were blessed with two very wonderful, warm days of 70+ degrees!  Dave and Em were able to camp out on the woods that night and enjoyed the unseasonably warm weather.  Emily is now a BIG fan of camping.  :) 

1-29-11 -- Love him!  He's scrumdiddlyumptious! 

1-28-11 -- Frustration!  When you finally decide to buy something, it's maddening when it's never in stock!  Really?!?  Since October?!?  C'mon!!

1-27-11 -- Yum!

Emily loves her Lucy!

1-23-11

Our first HDR.  It was an early, cold, crazy morning getting the kids off to school and Dave out the door to work - but there's always time to make a picture!  Dave saw the sunrise, ran back in, grabbed the camera and clicked off all of the required pieces of the puzzle.  Still so much to learn about making an HDR really sing, but I though this was a pretty good starting place.  If you can believe it, I didn't saturate the colors at all - that's all from making correct exposures.  Cool, right?!

The Jakester is 5.  Happy birthday, sweet boy!  May you always be so bright-eyed, loving and happy.  :)

Snapped this one while waiting in vain for UPS - after the call center assured me that we would receive a very delayed package that day.  Funny to find out on Tuesday that it would actually be Friday before a delivery attempt could be made.  Many thanks to Gail at Carnesville UPS for going out of her way to help us locate our terribly misrouted box and making arrangements for me to pick it up.

After eleven hours of work, only Dave could make me look fresh and happy.  Lucky, lucky me!

The end of the day - this is the wreckage that comes after five people spend the day in one house.

Yeah, it's fuzzy and grainy and gray and underexposed.  This is exactly how the light was this morning in our bedroom with a pile of kids snuggled down in the bed.  Perfect. 

Dave snapped this one of me out in the snow today.  Wind howling, sleet and ice falling, chaos all around - and he manages to make me look lovely.  I'm so lucky!

After some thought, we have decided that our 365 can be a family affair.  Emily, 6, shot this yesterday.  She's a responsible, thoughtful kid, so Dave handed her our camera without worry.  After a quick lesson, she was ready to roll.  She took a pretty good set of photos, actually - choosing just one was hard for me!  She's got an eye for composition already.  I have no doubt that we'll have a super second shooter by the time she turns 10!  So join me in applauding Emily and the photo for 1-9-11.  Way to go, kiddo!

Mad props to my assistant Jake, for putting up umpteen little umbrellas.  You ought to see his technicolor hands...  :)

Took down all of the decorations today - such a bummer!  The living room looks far better with a large, colorfully lit tree in it.  I think my friend Beth Cooper has it right by keeping a "Season Tree" in her house year round.

The Hunter - too bad those "arrows" have erasers for tips!  Thanks Aunt Janelle and Uncle Josh!

Self-portrait with daughter  ;)