August 29th, 2011
I hope all of you fellow east coasters made it through the hurricane OK. We were very fortunate, we didn’t even lose power. Some of our local friends were not so lucky – the receptionist at our pediatrician’s office (and …
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August 25th, 2011
I am so behind on blogging!! It has been a crazy week and I know the birthday party recap is going to take a bit of time to write.. in the meantime, here is my annual “Jasper’s Year in pictures” …
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August 22nd, 2011
Dear Jasper,
If you are old enough to be reading this, you are probably old enough to know that the date of this post is NOT your actual birthday and wonder why. Well dear one, you will have also probably …
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August 16th, 2011
For the past 6 months at least, Jasper has been doing this constant throat clearing thing while he eats. It sounds innocuous enough, but when you hear it -it’s a little disturbing seeing it on video actually:
My first thought …
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August 10th, 2011

The lovely folks at my “photography home” Clickinmoms interviewed me for their “CM Pro of the month” monthly feature and it was just posted today!
You can check it out here: http://www.clickinmoms.com/blog/?p=4797
Other than for the local paper, I don’t …
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August 9th, 2011
At the end of last week, Chris and I spent a lot of time trying to get the studio set up. I had a maternity shoot this past Saturday, and I was really worried about the hot-spots that come in …
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August 8th, 2011
All the invitations are out:


(It’s nice having a husband who’s an illustrator!)
The RSVP date was yesterday, and of course, I have only heard from two people so I have NO idea how many kids are coming and how …
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August 1st, 2011
First of all, I want to report that Jasper and I actually had a really nice weekend while Daddy was on his “mancation.”

Jeff grilling venison burgers by headlight. (Image courtesy of Uncle Justin’s facebook feed!)
Despite an annoying episode …
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