Happy Birthday to ME and the puppies AND Cadence Quinn

What an exciting day! It is my 31st Birthday and for the last week or so I have been waiting impatiently for my brother's boxers to have their puppies. They are supposedly having 12 of them!
So, I got word at 8:30 this morning that the first one was born. How exciting. So Jacob and I went over to see them and by then there were 4. Daisy is still working on getting the rest of them out. Then I went to yoga. A workout but relaxing. Came home to have lunch and a nap but Jacob would not nap. FINALLY he is asleep and I found out that one of my photography clients had their second daughter today, too! Must be something in the air! Tonight it's off to Gasthofs for a German dinner and some polka music and German Beer and Apfelkorn out in the tent. Yay!!

Here are a few photos of the puppies. Hard to see them since they are a big blob of fur and the lighting was really bad. Will take more when Mama Daisy doesn's mind them being away for a second of two.

Lost Photos and More

So, I just realized that I am so lucky I started this blog. recently, my hard drive crashed for no apparant reason. I lost everything in my photos file and am currently waiting for a company called Kroll Ontrack (referred by a friend/client) to attempt to recover the files. If the files cannot be recovered, that means I have to re-do 5 photo shoots. No weddings were lost, I take backing them up more seriously than anything else. I have unfortunatly lost track of backing up Jacob's photos for the last 9 months and have possibly lost ALL of the photos I took of him in the year 2008. Total bummer. But, one glimmer of hope is that I just realized I can drag the photos out of my blog and on to my desktop which means I still have photos of his first haircut and other moments I thought were cute or important enough to blog :) Whew!! I have not totally failed as a mother and photographer!!