From the yearly archives: 2009

narrowing it down

By On 13 Dec ’09

I recently read a blog post about what businesses can learn from Gordon Ramsay’s show, Kitchen Nightmares.  It really changed the way I think about my photog business (I know, I’m not even officially IN business!) because everything.  Every. Thing.  in that post made sense.

I’ll be developing some ideas I have for [...]

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Oh December, won't you slow down?

By On 12 Dec ’09

Yeah, I know, NaBloPoMo ends and you don’t get any updates.  I’m bad like that.

We celebrate our 10th anniversary in a week – by doing nothing.  It really sucks, but the van needed $750 of work done emergency-style this week and the boys are so little… Maybe we’ll get to celebrate our 20th anniversary [...]

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A giveaway

By On 9 Dec ’09

but not here, at MckMama’s giveaway blog!

Hop to and go enter.  Or not.  It’s up to you.

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a team

By On 8 Dec ’09

I had the privilege of photographing a wedding in Fort Worth this weekend and brought along my brother as a second shooter.  I completely could not have done this without him.  I know I could have … but it just would not have been the same.  Totally would not have been the same.  I [...]

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music and kids and music

By On 5 Dec ’09

I’ve upgraded our Pandora account to a Pandora One account.  I went over our 40 hour limit on the 12th of November and Last.fm just wasn’t cutting it.  I’ve also found a new favorite station.  Canadian Brass (Holiday) …  Many of you know David is a professionally trained trombonist, so it’s only fitting that his [...]

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Happy Birthday Mr. San Luis!

By On 4 Dec ’09

I never thought I’d be wishing my Jr. High Band Director a happy birthday on my blog, let alone 20 years after Jr. High!  We were honored to join the party at County Line BBQ.  We enjoyed hearing all of the “Manuel Stories” that everyone shared and had quite a few laughs as well as [...]

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P.S.

By On 30 Nov ’09

I might not blog for a very long time.

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blah blah blah

By On 30 Nov ’09

I’ve got laundry piled up in my bedroom, on the couch, and in the laundry room.  The big two are playing in their room and the baby is scavenging for crumbs in the kitchen under the table and pulling all the plastic things out of the plastics cabinet.  I’ve got five sessions to edit and [...]

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I think I'm gonna milk this trip for all it's worth

By On 29 Nov ’09

I’ll post tree pictures later … and stick to some stills of the boys for now.  I’m sure James will remember this for years to come.

James and Grandpa hunting for the perfect tree.

Lowell finds one more his size.

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sometimes smiles are over-rated

By On 28 Nov ’09

I’m going through the pictures from the Christmas Tree farm, trying to select a few to show you our afternoon there and how we dug Grandpa K dug up our tree but I stumbled upon these and, well, they deserve their own post.

WARNING: PICTURE OVERLOAD BELOW

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"Don't break your truck, Grandpa."

By On 28 Nov ’09

We have a tree!

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supergreen

By On 27 Nov ’09

I’m setting this up to publish while we’re gone because we’re headed out of town for the day to go dig up (roots an’ all) our Christmas tree.  Yep, we’re going green this year.  absolutely green.  so green.  Green like what?  crystal green.  any kind of green you want.  like tree green.  emerald green.  bzzz [...]

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