We really enjoyed the first Snow Day at the Great Park in 2009. So we packed up the family to enjoy the same event again this year. Unfortunately it was a bust. There were way more people than last year, it seemed to be double. In addition there seemed to be less snow. Really there [...] Read More → No Comments

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My daughter turned 5 today.  In honor of her birthday, here is her own version of the alphabet song. Read More → No Comments

In a recent episode of “This American Life” the theme was “No Map”. It featured stories of people encountering difficult situations without any guideposts on how to navigate through them. You can listen to the entire episode here. The final story was about Mike Nyberg, a Mormon that encountered Read More → Comments (8)

My first nephew, David, gave me the opportunity for another first; my first baby portrait shoot. I learned two very important things from the shoot. 1) It's tough to get a good picture of a 4 month old. 2) An aperture setting of 1.8 is very dangerous. Read More → No Comments

I got a new Canon 40D for my birthday. I was able to start playing with it early so that I could do some portraits. These are the pictures of my girls in their Easter dresses. They came out great. and the girls did a good job of posing. Read More → No Comments

We let our daughters dress themselves. Read More → No Comments

I took my daughters to ride the free balloon ride at Orange County’s Great Park.  I thought I could get a good picture of them standing in front of the balloon.  Unfortunately after we landed they went CRAZY.  They could not/would not stand still with each other.  At best they would tackle one another.  This Read More → No Comments

I just discovered that the Great Park in OC has free ice skating. It’s only open Friday, Saturday and Sunday and only for the next 3 more weeks. Free skate rentals and all. I took the girls this afternoon and we had a good experience. It was their first time on the ice but they [...] Read More → No Comments

As soon as the adoption finalizes I’m finding a photo contest to enter this into. It tells such a great story, not the story that actually happened, but a good story nonetheless. Read More → No Comments