Monday, November 23, 2009

Found On My Husband’s iPhone, B-Sides.

There were just too many priceless moments on Chris’ iPhone for my first post about it, so here are the rest:

For instance, he has Ali, practicing school in a desk that Chris himself very well may have sat in during Elementary school:

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There were a TON of absolutely adorable pics on his iPhone, because Ali will ALWAYS smile better for him and his stinky-picture-takin’ phone than for me and my Canon Camera. Ugh.

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I MEAN – posing on one knee with flowers behind your ear and in your hand?!?!? WHY oh WHY won’t you do that for me?

And more adorableness…

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And MORE…

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She would even smile at the MIRROR for him!

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Not that I’m bitter or anything.

He also managed to get another priceless picture – one of her actually sleeping. Picture 342

Maybe I should give HIM the good camera and let him become the family photographer.

Then again, there are still the random photos, like our neighbor’s roof being redone?Picture 014

The hot water heater…
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And a Taverna Plaka bellydancer…hmm. Somehow it feels different when I photograph them…

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And then there are the confessional pictures. What he and Ali do while I’m not around:

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There are middle-of-the-night pictures, when our neighbors were apparently having some sort of skirmish….
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And truly vintage Ali-And-AJ pics:
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I was surprised and flattered by the number of pictures of me – being that I’m the resident photographer, those are few and far between on my camera.

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Granted, that didn’t keep me from being upside down.

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He also caught Ali reading her favorite magazine:

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His co-worker looking oddly…

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Ali looking blessed by God:

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..showing off her fingernails..

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And her ever-fancier-than-Mommy-could-ever-pull-off braids by Gramamma:

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And…that’s a wrap.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Orphaned Photos of The Week, Part Five

A few extra pictures from our Ali/Radford fun:

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“I don’t trust you farther than I can throw my diaper, woman….”
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“He’s making me CRAAAZY!!!”
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Ali in mid-air, teaching Radford how to play “Pop Goes The Ali”:IMG_5140
Bonus pictures from her “Alabama Dress at Church when the leaves were falling and looked like a portrait studio’s fake backdrop” photo shoot:IMG_5185
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Feeding the Ducks, again…
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On that particular duck-feeding trip, we went onto the pier to feed them. There was this kid, about Ali’s age, being held by his Mom and right next to us. He asked “Can I have some bread to feed them too?” Of course, wanting to be the nice Mommy, I handed him some, and he threw it.

Then, he asked for more. As I was about to hand it to him, his mom said somewhat haughtily, “He’s VERY allergic to wheat.”

I stammered an apology and felt awful…

Then I thought about it.

Shouldn’t she have said something when she heard him ask for it the first time? And shouldn’t she have corrected him, so he’d learn not to do it next time, rather than the complete stranger?

And so, I exonerated myself from all guilt.

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Here’s Ali and her first girl-cousin, baby Tessa! We went to a photo shoot for a new hairbow site (I’ll tell you more about it when it’s up), and Tessa was there too, so they “hung out”.IMG_5288
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Because I’m a big believer in bribery (I used to feel guilty about it till my Mom told me it was a very acceptable and effective parenting tool), This was Ali’s reward for smiling pretty at the Photo shoot:
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I think she found it worthwhile.


And finally, a couple ore pictures of Ali and her “Sweater that doesn’t have any armholes!!!”
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