Her birthday continues into a second weekend! Ella and 5 of her friends got their nails/toes painted today at a local salon....lots of glitter everywhere! They then feasted on pizza and yogurt with all the yummy toppings.
Afterwards I did a little photoshoot of Ella in her party-wear. I'm eager to go through the photos...but not tonight...tonight is family movie night. (The photo above was taken with my iPhone and the Hipstamatic App-love this app!)
As per this post.... Tara's Personal Project Challenge.... we took our family portrait this past weekend. We cheated a little bit because this is supposed to be for January and technically we didn't have our newest family member (Oooops I haven't posted about his arrival yet!), but now that he's here I couldn't not have him in the picture.
January Notes:
Made the ultimate decision to adopt a new puppy...found and 'reserved' a pug puppy we named Dexter
Bad weather kept us from the ski park all month. Sad, but the rain/snow was much needed.
Ella lost her first tooth, Jacob lost a couple more.
Sickness consumed a couple of the weeks of January...at least one of us seemed to be sick with something most of the month.
Our cat, Max, has been having some health issues of his own. He has stopped eating and has gone on 3 weeks of no food. He won't eat anything and drinks very little. Other than that he seems healthy and content. Our cat Coco, passed away last year so I am concerned.
I started a new hobby of running after hating it my whole life. It's going well so far and I feel I have to run 5 times a week. Not sure that I've become addicted yet but I do like it.
Ella took a break from dance. She's been taking dance since she was about 2 and a half. I only want her to do what she wants but I secretly do hope she will want to dance again in the fall.
For fun (and to stop talking about running for the moment), I thought I'd periodically post some of "My Favorite Things" to my blog. I always love reading other blogs and finding other's favorite things. My bank account doesn't usually love it but that's another matter entirely!
Photography is a big love of mine. It's a hobby that has sadly fallen to the wayside in the last year or so. Well I take that back, my camera has seen a whole lot of action in the way of jewelry photography (which is an entire beast in itself!)...this year I intend to focus more on broadening what I capture with my camera.
In addition to taking photograph's, I love to look at others work. Last year we had Heather Armstrong, a local photographer, who's blog I stalk frequently, take our family portraits. I love, love, love every photo she took! Here's a video I put together of some of the ones we chose, she took hundreds of photos so it was really hard to narrow down to just these ones.
Family Portraits from Heather Armstrong June 09 from LISA LEE on Vimeo.
For more info on Heather and her photography, please check here..... Heather Armstrong Photography
Another one of my favorite family photographers is Tara Whitney. She is located in Orange County, California and one day I hope we can book a session with her. Here is her blog...Tara Whitney...Just be blogged...
