Over the past month or so I have been building out a new website for my photography business and to host my blog. I am now retiring Doubling Down and all new posts will be available at:
http://lisahalbertphotography.com/blog
I have pulled in all the content from this blog, so if you still want to access or see prior posts, they are available on the new site. So come on over to our new home, take a look and let me know what you think!
I have been in awe lately. In awe over how big my boys are getting. It seems each week they need me less and less. Each week they hit a different kinds of milestone than the rapid baby development that we were so used to watching. They hit kid milestones now.
And in this milestone, Carter is on his very first t-ball team. And he is having a blast. It helps that his good friends from school Jackson, Bruce, and Lucas are all on the team with him and oh my gosh, it is so fun to watch them.
Here is Bruce during the warm up and first run around the bases. Bruce is the happiest kid I have ever met – he was smiling the whole time he was out there and it was completely infectious for the rest of us. You can’t help but love this kid.
Coach Jeremy had to lead by example … I guess I know where my kids get the “I can’t believe you are taking a photo of me right now” look.
Running the bases … and running out their energy. Lucas is in the green sweatshirt and Jackson is in the Spiderman sweatshirt.
These two … we are soooo in for trouble with them.
Learning how to hold your mitt and the ball was up next.
Uh yeah, this would be my kid.
This is little Miss Addie. She is the lone girl in the sea of four boys and their three younger brothers.
And this is my absolute favorite photo from the day. Those faces kill me.
We had our good friends Ian, Keegan, and Todd over for dinner for Jeremy’s birthday last night. An awesome steak dinner, some VERY cool new GoPro gadgets, and a lot of laughter and fun. Happy Birthday Jeremy!
Another week gone and now we are in double digits. How time flies!
This week was definitely one where I had to work hard to remember to take a photo.
Bedtime has been tough lately with still adjusting to the time zone change. Some days Gavin falls asleep in the afternoon & then is a nightmare at bedtime. Other days he nods off quickly.
We had some gorgeous spring weather this last week and spent a ton of time out in the yard. Carter is my wildlife hunter, looking for worms or ants or anything that moves in the dirt.
The boys were playing star wars and I was able to catch Carter next to the back glass doors with his gun under him. I love the soft light that the south side of the house throws in the winter.
Heading to my soccer game on the 520 Bridge across Lake Washington at sunset – it is always fun to see which side of the bridge has rough water. Then the Olympics off in the distance are wonderful (not a bad photo for holding my phone up and crossing my fingers it turned out).
Date night! Jeremy and I went to see our nephew Ryan in a school play and had dinner at a little Italian restaurant prior. I had pancetta wrapped filet mignon with melted gorgonzola on top. Best. Dinner. Ever.
Nice days mean gardening and spring! I re-potted all my geraniums in the green house and cleaned up our raised beds. This is a shot through one of our pergolas, showing the stone path to the greenhouse. I love my yard.
Gavin was watching the birds today and capturing a reflection shot was too hard to pass up. He was so cute talking to them through the window.
This last week the weather in the Northwest was gorgeous. For three afternoons in a row I worked outside in the yard, cleaning up the raised garden beds and our raspberry patch. The boys came out with me and searched for “wildlife” throughout the garden.
Now the weather absolutely sucks and we have heavy rain in our forecast for the next week. Back to reality I guess…
Carter digging for worms:
Raspberry Patch before and after – it was a wild mess because I didn’t weed it out last year and I will be curious if we get better raspberries this year because the plants aren’t being crowded out by weeds:
Little Mister Man loved throwing dirt in the air (check out the photo on the right where the dirt is mid-air as he stares me down):
This week we made it back home! Back to the rain, the cold, our own beds, and the wrong time zone… And I missed my first day in this project.
We traveled on the 19th. After getting up at 4:30am on the east coast, taking two flights with our kids to get to the west coast, waiting an hour to get onto a shuttle home, then having to drop off three people before us, well … a photo today just wasn’t in the cards. I took GoPro video for Jeremy out of the airplane window, but I didn’t take any photos.
Now we are home and the boys were so very excited to have access to the xBox again. Not for games, but for Amazon Video, Netflix, and movie trailers from xBox Video. Because Everything Is Awesome!
Someone also found their Clone Wars Captain Rex Halloween costume when we got home. He forgot how much he loved it. So he made sure to pose with the Mr. Potato Head hat for me while we were trying to clean up the bonus room.
Carter’s reading exploded during our trip – I snuck up and took a picture of him reading the Magic School Bus book one afternoon. Again, another day, another time he had to put on his Clone Wars Captain Rex costume. And yes, every time he talks about Captain Rex it is “Clone Wars Captain Rex.”
We have had a couple of nice days this week and we have tried to make it outside to play. This is a classic Gavin look as he tried to explain something and then starts laughing and say, “… because I was just kidding.” And he says this no matter what.
Another nice day and we took a quick walk on the trail. And again, that is Carter in his Clone Wars Captain Rex costume again. Rest assured he has clean clothes on underneath it each day. But the costume is starting to rip in several places now…
I had a lovely girls night out to celebrate my friend Jeana’s birthday. She got all of us roses “Bachelor Style” as a sweet gesture for making it out on a school night. Sending her wonderful birthday wishes and hoping she has a fabulous trip to Hawaii this next week!
We headed down alligator alley to Big Cyprus National Park on our last day in Florida and saw the big creepy creatures that freaked me out several times as they would exit the river and walk toward us. For one part you can see the road that we are on, how there is no barrier between you and the wild life, and we always made the kids hold our hands and walk on a specific side. Because they are just about lunch size.
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