ME! on let the kids!

I am so so so so so excited to let you know some of my work was featured on Let the Kids Dress Themselves today!!!!!! And I am SO INCREDIBLY HONORED that little me is up there when they've featured a lot of the big names in the photography industry. I was so nervous to submit, that's for sure.

SO CHECK IT OUT HERE! (can you tell I'm excited? I'm doing a happy dance right now) And I'd love it if you left me some love in the comment section:)

If you'd like to see more of my work, here is my website.

And, I of course have a facebook page too if you'd like to become a fan.

Lastly, I just have to say thank you to everyone who has supported and encouraged and believed in me!! Especially Rob (even though he doesn't 'get' this photography thing). It really means so much, and keeps me going whenever I get discouraged.

Oh, and if you'd like to hire me I'd really love that too! :)

happy halloween!

(Oskar's little tush last night)

I hope everyone stays safe tonight, and in the words of the dentist we trunk or treated from last night, "Make sure to brush your teeth!"

in the picture.

I'm sure at least some of you have seen this article that is making it's rounds on the internet. Do you love it as much as I do?

Goodness knows I take plenty of pictures of my boys, but as the resident photographer I really don't have many pictures of myself. It's something I've been trying to work on, but am still failing miserably at.

This part really struck me:

"I'm everywhere in their young lives, and yet I have very few pictures of me with them. Someday I won't be here -- and I don't know if that someday is tomorrow or thirty or forty or fifty years from now -- but I want them to have pictures of me. I want them to see the way I looked at them, see how much I loved them. I am not perfect to look at and I am not perfect to love, but I am perfectly their mother."

I know I can sit and look at family photos for hours; I can't tell you how many times I have sat and STUDIED a single photograph, trying to glean as much information as I can from it. Photos of grandparents, my parents, even of my ancestors who lived in the 19th century. So it makes me wonder if someday my kids (or grandkids!) will do the same thing. Will they stare at photos of me, looking to see what color my eyes were, marveling at the fashions that were in style while I was young, wondering what was going on in the background? I hope they do. And I hope there are enough photos of me that they are able to stare and wonder. 

So, while the number of photos of me pale in comparison to the number of photos of them, I do have a few. I managed to hand the camera off to Rob just 3 or 4 days after Oskar was born and he took this photo that I stumbled upon yesterday. You can tell I'm really tired and I have no makeup on (although that's pretty normal) and my bangs are growing out and hanging in my face and my face is still kind of puffy from pregnancy and I'm just wearing a baggy t-shirt, but I love it. So much. 

I hope all of you moms and wives and girlfriends and people who are always the one behind the camera snap some pictures of yourself with those you love. Someday someone will treasure it more than we can imagine.

pete the cat

My mom works in school (she's a sign language interpreter) so every time the book fair comes around she picks up some books for the boys. This time she sent those two Pete the Cat books and Max fell in love with them the first time we read them. Like, we read them every day kind of love. Now I, of course, think they are adorable too. Last weekend when we were skyping my family my mom asked if we'd downloaded the song yet. I hadn't so she said I had to asap. Well, I didn't get around to it until last night and BOY DO I REGRET IT! If you are wondering why, go listen to them RIGHT NOW! They are seriously the best thing ever. Don't just take my word for it:

it's been this sort of a week.

Sometimes (who am I kidding? A lot of the time) the military life requires HH6 to carry more than their share of the household tasks. And while I don't really mind it too often (I really do love this life), sometimes I just want to do this:

Life can be exhausting. So if you ever see me passed out please don't judge. ESPECIALLY if I'm drooling.

this is what happens during tummy time.

Yup, he's a belly sleeper. And every time he falls asleep this way I'm checking on him every minute. It's kind of ironic, because this is when he sleeps the BEST and longest, but I can't get anything done. Darn SIDS.

And want to know how I know this is his best way to sleep? He always wakes up like this:

It took him long enough to give me smiles.

i still can't believe we have a dog.

But, whether I believe it or not, we are her family.

Even if she is crazy.

Here she is camped out while the boys took a shower:

I'm not sure if she was hoping she'd get wet too, or was waiting to lick the wet shower when they were done, or just simply wanted to be close to them. But I thought it was pretty funny how she was resting her "arm" on the ledge.

Whatever the reason, she was pretty happy about it.