Video Gamer (3/52)

Jacob has a new hobby. Video games. Every night when Brad gets off of work Jacob has been asking if they can play Xbox together. Jacob loves Legos and Star Wars, so of course the Lego Star Wars game is the best thing ever in his mind.

Even though he still has a way to go as far as controlling the joysticks and figuring out how to keep his man alive, he loves every minute of it. And I love watching my two boys enjoying some male bonding together. Doesn't get much cuter than this.

Chipmunk Invasion (2/52)

My kids are obsessed with six, squeaky and oh-so-adorable little rodents. Alvin and the Chipmunks have invaded our house (and our cd player and even our computers). It all started a couple of weeks ago when Jacob went with my mom to see the new movie. Since then we have gone to McDonald's numerous times (Brad even called five different McD's to track down an Alvin figure--Jacob's favorite), purchased the soundtrack, and tonight we actually "Munked" ourselves on munkyourself.com. Would you believe me if I told you that there is even and iPhone App? Yep, we've got that, too.

My favorite part of this whole chipmunk craze is our daily dance party. Those little guys can actually sing and I love the Chipette's take on "All the Single Ladies" (and Abby dancing with her arms raised when they tell all the single gals to "put your hands up").

So my picture for the second week of my 52 week project just had to be of Alvin, Simon, and Theodore.

And if anyone happens to be at a McDonald's that has the super cute, chubby little Eleanore, she's the last one we need. Abby would be ever so grateful I'm sure.

A New Year (1/52)

I'm usually not one for New Year's Resolutions. But after some thought I decided that I should be. I'm all for setting goals for yourself, and to me, that's not much different than a resolution, right?

Well, one of my goal's for 2010 is to go back to taking more pictures of my own children. I just love taking pictures of other kiddos for my photography business, but let's face it--my kids are the reason I became interested in photography in the first place. Last year seems like such a blur and I wish I had more images of Jacob and Abby to look back on as I cherish the memories we created.

And with that goes more blogging. I really want to document our lives here. I want to write about the things we do each day and post images that go along with that. And I want to give up the need for each picture to be perfect. I want to be okay with snapshots of my kids and free myself of the idea that each picture has to be portrait worthy.

So to motivate me I've decided to do 52 weeks of blogs / pictures. At least one entry a week. That's my promise. And more importantly, my promise to my children. So someday they can look back at all of the recorded memories and smile.

And what a better way to start the new year than a lively game of Hungry, Hungry, Hippos? Don't you just love that game? Jacob and Abby sure did!