Test Subjects

Joel loves photography & he's really gifted at it. He often uses us as his test subjects for various techniques he wants to try out. These photos are examples of this. He put up a white sheet outside our kitchen windows & fired a flash through them to replicate daylight. The lights in the house were out & it was dusk outside. Pretty cool technique! He wanted us to be doing something everyday & natural so we were pretending to be mixing cookies. Em, always willing to play along for make-believe, totally got into it. Jon needed some water in the bowl to stir to become believable on film ;-)
I like them all, but I am especially fond of the one he snapped of me and Katherine.

Christmas Season 2009

Here are some highlights from our Christmas season 2009:

Our annual Christmas Eve Eve.
The movie this year was The Polar Express.

Joel put up some very nice red & white lights on the house.
The kids thought he was Superman for doing so.

We saw Avatar in 3D. It was an experience.

We had a great visit with Joel's dad & his step-mom, Jan.
To get to see them for Christmas was a real treat as they live in Virginia.

It SNOWED on Christmas Eve & stuck around through Christmas morning!
Enough said!

And my baby, Katherine, was almost 3 months old.
I can't believe it!! (She really is cute, isn't she?!?)