new hair!

There is nothing so awesome as a new hairdo. Especially when it's long long overdue.

I'm especially excited that I found a new stylist; I have been in deep mourning over the fact that my former one is on the opposite side of the country from me now. I had figured I'd get my hair cut once a year when we went back to NC, but a little someone made a trip back impossible this year. So believe me when I say I was long, long, long overdue for a cut. Anyway, if you are in El Paso and looking for a stylist, let me know and I'll pass on her info!

And Oskar demanded to be present in these photos (read: would scream every time I put him down all. day. long.), and he cracks me up in these ones: (especially the first)

my face just about melted from the cuteness of this family. | fort bliss, el paso family photographer

I love what I do. And am so grateful to my clients for trusting me to capture a moment in their lives...

and for letting me fall in love with them. (because I do)

Images are from a holiday mini session; there just so happens to be one more day of mini sessions left! Details here. If you'd like to book one, email me at jax@jaxharmon.com!

he's home!

And all is right with the world.

a heart for ana.

A HEART FOR ANA from J&B on Vimeo.

I had the pleasure of meeting this incredible family last year when I went up to Washington (a trip I still need to blog about...). Both Natalie and I attended Film Is Not Dead workshops (unfortunately not the same one) and she and her girls were willing to hang with my boys and I while we were in their neck of the woods.

Now, they are adopting a little girl from Eastern Europe and there is not a more wonderful family she could go to. Due to the particulars of this adoption things are moving very quickly, and they should be able to welcome her home very early in 2013! If you'd like to read their adoption story and find out more details, you can visit their blog.

But in order to make this happen they are trying to raise all the funds necessary for an international adoption. If you'd like to make a donation, you can do so here. And , if you shop at amazon using this link, amazon gives them a percentage of the sale. So if you are getting ready to do all your holiday shopping through amazon, just this one extra click can help them bring their daughter home!

I'm not going to lie, the video above made me cry and I am so excited for them! They are doing an amazing thing.

looking forward to the future...

When sleep deprivation is no longer the name of the game.

While simultaneously trying to soak up every moment while they are small because it is going by way too fast.

In the meantime, please be patient with me as I am not firing on all cylinders...




Although I figure if I can survive the next year I can do anything.  

(in a year the puppy should be outgrowing the puppy behavior and I should no longer be nursing, which means I will no longer be tethered)

a moment in time.

For once Nicola stayed still for more than a moment.

And proceeded to make me melt.

He's going to be a whole new level of trouble in a few years... I pray I have the strength to handle it.

little stranger.

My first two boys look a lot alike, especially as babies. They both have dark hair (and lots of it!), similar shaped eyes and faces. Nick looked so much like Max as a newborn it was like having deja-vu the first few weeks of his life.

But Oskar doesn't look like them. Yes, you can tell he's a Harmon but he just looks different. Don't believe me? Here are all my boys at about 3 months:


Max.


Nick.


Oskar.

He's my little stranger. And I can't get enough of him.