Thank you all for casting your votes on the invite choices. As I indicated in a comment, I decided to go with #1 once I saw what Lindsay pointed out: The curly cues in the font mimic the monkey’s tail …

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I mentioned a few weeks ago that I had Jasper’s theme planned out: Leopalooza (Lion/safari theme) and I even went so far as to design the invitations to go with the theme:

But then I went looking for party supplies …

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This week’s mommy SOS question  is submitted by…. me!

What do you do for ear infections?

The week before last daycare told me Jasper had been tugging at his ear a bit. I thought maybe it was teething because everytime …

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A while back I briefly mentioned the story of our long lost cousins that we rediscovered through Facebook. (And you thought Facebook was only good for wasting time!)

In short, my mom and aunt hadn’t seen their three first …

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I felt as if I were in a post processing slump lately.. I had some good captures that I just feel  like I couldn’t get to “pop” you know? Particularly the faces.. they just seemed too washed out and didn’t …

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When I got my camera about a year ago, I knew I would need to get a better lens than the kit lens, but I wasn’t sure exactly which one.  I would read amazon reviews of this or that lens, …

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I STILL haven’t had a chance to edit the pictures I took over the weekend – work has been crazy! But, here is a video of Jasper’s first swim. Well, technically not his FIRST swim because my parent’s have a …

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Well, I was right.  You (ok, we) all DO have a footwear obsession, this was my most popular giveaway yet!

Without further ado, the winner of the Nowali Moccasin Giveaway is commenter #39, Michelle.  I’m sure her daughter Stella …

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I hope you all had a wonderful holiday weekend! I have so many images and videos from the weekend that I need a day or two more to put them in some sort of coherent post, so this morning I’m …

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Yesterday Jasper started strolling around his baby jail as if he’d been doing it his whole life (witness the middle clip of him walking WHILE chewing ice in the mesh feeder!)

It was amazing to watch the little light bulb …

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