Happy Birthday Mom

Harrison and I had such a fun day in Frazier Park for Grammy Shelly's birthday! She spent time in the warm fall sun, we had a great dinner with some of her pals and most importantly she felt good and enjoyed the day. Here's to a healthy, happy, positive and entirely better year Mom!

Photo shoot with Priscilla

My former colleague Priscilla has found her calling as a photographer and asked if H could help her out with a class project. We had a great time visiting the Sacramento City College photo studio, learning about setup and lighting and of course getting some great shots of Harrison! He was SUCH a good subject - looked in the right direction on command, smiled, played, talked and was super patient.

Most importantly, I learned the ultimate trick to get Harrison to crack up/smile very naturally. Since the day of our photo shoot, I've tried it on numerous occasions and it works like a charm every single time!

Mom: "Harrison, what do you say to Gidget [Gidget is Grandma Barbara's little dog] when she jumps?"

Harrison, with pointer finger wagging : "No dumping Didget... ha ha ha Didget cazy"

Why are my pics blurry?

I am having issues with Blogger apparently...stay tuned while I do a few tests to figure out what I am doing wrong all of a sudden to get blurry uploads on the blog? Kind of annoying...

Trick-or-treat

H and Kate at the pumpkin patch - it was literally about 99 degrees (in the middle of October!) so we lasted about 20 minutes...but still got this great pic!

H and Madeline on their field trip to the pumpkin patch. Again, a sweltering hot day so I mistakenly wore flip flops, not realizing that I would have to climb through dirt trenches and spiky pumpkin leaves in search of small, cute, round, orange pumpkins. Not so easy!

Boy fun with pumpkins and knives

Inside the lives of Manhattan's elite...XOXO, Gossip Girl

Blair Waldorf and Chuck Bass