outside fun

The boys and I played outside before naptime in the nice warm sun. Benjamin enjoyed kicking the football around, while Noah painted with water and picked up leaves. I got some sweet photos of my nearly-four-year-old too! And now everyone's napping, so I could edit the photos of the sweetest little boys I know.

"three eyes on your shirt, plus two eyes on your face equals..." "FIVE EYES! i have five eyes today!"

bliss

This was a couple of days ago. I love how they love each other and play well together {most of the time, at least. Sharing is sometimes a sticky situation}.The tackling cracks me up.
Our friend Verietta, who we met almost immediately when we moved to NC, was in CA over the weekend and stopped by for dinner on Monday. Benjamin thought she was hilarious!

lately

Wow, I guess things have been busy since my last post. Tim has been to San Francisco and back for a conference, I escaped to the J's house with the boys, photographed and edited this wedding,saw one of my best friends and her family (at the same wedding),played outside with some very cute little boys,
went to a birthday party for one of benjamin's preschool friends,watched noah feed himself cottage cheese,and had the pleasure of meeting and photographing this cutie pie.

I think that about covers it for now!

a year in photos

My favorites from '09. (Just slightly more than 12 photos from the year.)
January. (How I love these faces. This is my favorite photo of the boys that I've taken.)February. (Noah and I at Duke)March. (Benjamin's third birthday party)April. ("I would like to ride that big Thomas!")May. (Argentina sunset)June. (Santa Monica Pier, one of our favorite family places.)July. (Meeting Sadie)August. (I couldn't choose just one. Our family at Mount St. Helens, meeting Alyssa, and meeting Micah.)September. (Again, I had trouble choosing. These are from Noah's first birthday and our first trip to Disneyland)October. (Photographing the birth of Thomas at 2am, and the pajama day for my kids that followed since I was up for far too much of the night.)November. (They're just so cute when they play together.) December. (This was Christmas morning, and it just cracks me up that they couldn't be less interested in having their picture taken.)