The Weather

Unless you have lived in a place where it gets to 14 below feeling like -30 with the windchill factor or where it could snow in the middle of July, you might not understand the prime place that the weather holds in every conversation between everyone at any given time on any given day. Tonight it happens to be 4 below and I am praying to the gods of cars and cold weather and anything else that my car will start in the morning. I know that this must be riveting to everyone, so I will be sure to keep you posted. Feel free to pray for my car too.

I have had a request for this photo to be posted on the blog - so here it is - from Jess and Joe's amazing wedding, where I was lucky enough to have Tiffany as my date and get to reconnect with some wonderful old friends from high school.



The shoes. It is always all about the shoes...


These are just a couple of pictures that I took at Pam's place. Her family was kind enough to be my subjects in order to practice portrait-taking. I know that Pam hates this first picture of her but I love it. I don't think she even knew I was taking it.





I have an addition of my own to the baby name challenge - Penelope Piesnack and how about Olivia Slag?

Jill's baby name suggestions

For Slag, I recommend the first names of Kartika if a girl--Roscoe, Adrian, or Martin if a boy.

For Piesnack, what better fits than Pippin, Berry, Emily, Pia, or Sophia?

Jill

Baby names

Welcome everyone to my blog. This was one of my goals for the new year - we will see how it goes! My main purpose in doing this was to have a place to post fun photos that I take so that I will be more inspired to use my camera, even when someone isn't in a white gown next to a giant overpriced cake.

My first challenge, which was put to me by my friend Jess and which I have expanded, is for all of you (us) to come up with some good baby names that work with somewhat unique (read challenged) last names.

So, we are looking for baby names that work with Slag as a last name and now some that work with Piesnack (YumYum has already been taken).

Please let me know what you come up with. We are looking to create an entire database for these name-challenged couples wanting to start families.

In keeping with my original goal for this blog, here are some photos of my beautiful girls.


The light by the window was amazing so I had to torture them a little.


Somehow we always end up taking pictures in the bathroom. Ams and I had a little bain photo shoot the other night.

And, of course, what better way to pass time while waiting for Mémé and Aunt Sarah than a Barbie portrait session? (I am still new to this blogging thing and am going to have to work out the kinks in terms of uploading images. It doesn't seem to like my color corrected versions - so I apologize for the tiny size of these last three photos.)