January 1st

Hooray, Welcome to a New Year!

I'm going to have a few projects going on this year.  My first one is a weekly themed project which you will see on my business blog.  I've gotten together with some other photographers and we'll each be posting a photo for a new theme each week.

Here was week 1: Newness

We spent our holidays in Arizona this year (quite a change from our usual snowy Christmas) and everyone assumed my daughter was a teenager so she ordered from the adult menu in the restaurants.  She's still 12 but has grown a lot in the past year.  I'm with her all the time so don't notice it as much so it was strange to see her through other people's eyes.  I think this year is going to be interesting as we enter into a new stage of life as parents of a teenager.

The other projects you will see are:
1) An alphabet project : i'm going to be taking pictures of random things that resemble letters of the alphabet.  I hope to find at least one of each letter.  Would love it if anyone would like to play along with me.  It's actually quite challenging.

2)A glimpses project:  I love photos that show glimpses into real life...natural pictures that aren't posed.    They seem to be my favourite photos of my family so i'm going to try and make a real effort and get some pictures that show what our family life really looks like.

and of course i'm going to throw in some picture a days but it won't be every day...just whenever i feel like grabbing the camera and taking pictures.

wow, that sounds like a lot!  It should be an interesting year.

Here are a few from January 1st:

Happy New Year!  Here we are celebrating the new year.  The kids loved it because we celebrated Ottawa time which is a couple hours ahead of Arizona so the kids were still wide awake.

During the day, we went for a nice hike up Superstition Mountain.  My daughter and mother were having a blast walking together and doing a little sychronized sitting routine whenever they saw a bench.  Goofballs!  :) (the themed picture is also from our walk)

my daughter insisted on a swim in the outdoor pool before dinner so she could brag to her friends at home that she was swimming on New Year's day