Tennis Time!

So this post is a little delayed but Adam took some fun pics of my friend Alyssa and I at our first tennis match! I am playing on a team in Alpharetta with Alyssa; one of my good friends from FSU! She and her husband Chandler have 2 little boys; Colby and Camden - they are SO cute! We play on her neighborhood's ALTA team.


So we didn't exactly win our first match but we had a great time playing! Thats what it is all about....right? I'm definitely getting back in the swing post Hayden - its taken me a while...maybe we will win our next one! lol! I'm really enjoying that it gets me out to see my friend more often and gets me movin!

"Get your motor runnin!"

Guess who this post is about? That is right, Hayden is getting quite a lot of press for a seven month old. In his latest starring role, he is showing us his blazing speed when motivated to grab anything involving electronics. The TV remote is probably his favorite...

Enjoy...

Starring Hayden James...

Well, I figured I would go ahead and extinguish many a fire by posting some current pics of Hayden. Hayden says hello, and that he enjoyed his photo session.

This is Hayden's "How can I get over to that fascinating object" look...

This is Hayden's "please take me seriously" look. I forgot to tell him to wipe the drool off first..

"I love these silver rings!"

"wooooowwww."

"Are we done yet?""This one if for my agent." This could also be "sensitive yet mysterious."
"Mom will you have a birthday everyday so I can play with the balloons?"

Thanks for reading... :-)

Who dunnit? Jenn's Birthday fun...

Okay, before I post more beautiful images from Hawaii, I had to post about my wife's Birthday this past Friday. Now, I won't reveal how old she is, but there are enough clues in the slideshow to figure it out... But we decided to make this one very special, so we hosted a murder mystery party for Jenn's Birthday. We had quite a positive response. Here are a couple of pics from last night. Thanks to everyone who participated. Photo's were taken by all of us throughout the evening... For the slideshow click here...

Hawaii

Aloha from Hawaii!!

We are currently on the island of Kauai and have had an amazing trip so far. Rob and Carla's wedding was so much fun, and we will post some images from the event later next week. Here are a couple of images from the rest of our trip so far. The mountain in the background in this image is called diamond head and it is a dormant volcano. It was the backdrop for Rob and Carla's wedding. Then we took a trip up to the north side of Oahu to witness the Bonsai pipeline. I can easily say that these were the biggest waves I have ever seen in my life! Then we flew out to Kauai to slow things down a bit. We went to a beach yesterday that had a monk seal sitting on the beach. There are only about 1200 in existence and 35 on this island. So as you can imagine I had to take a picture.

Here is Jenn with Diamond Head in the background....


John and Kevin analyze their chances of survival should they try body surfing on the Bonsai pipeline...

A veteran surfer...



Roped off sleeping area for an adolescent Monk seal...



Hanging out on the beach at sunset in the formation of YMCA... :-)




More images to follow later...

It's great to see friends...

Last weekend Jenn and I got a chance to check out Athens and visit our friends David and Sarah. What a fun way to spend a weekend. It was basically a couples night out on the town and we had a great time. So here are a couple of pics, and if you really want to get crazy you can check out the slideshow as well. :-)


We are on the move....

The highlight of the evening was having a Karaoke room all to ourselves while eating sushi and singing our guts out....

Then the group was off to cause more trouble at other establishments and you can tell that we meant business by the way my wife was strutting in front... :-)

Starry Night Part Duex

Ok, so after my good friend Mark mentioned that he would like to see last nights exposure at two hours, I couldn't resist. So here you go Mark....

Thanks to my other friend Will for braving the elements and capturing this shot. So my next question is, how to make the stars brighter?

Speaking of Stars...

My wife Jenn surprised me on my birthday with tickets to the NHL All Star game. I just happened to have a Mark III on me with a couple of lenses... Check out the slideshow.. I took these images from the last row lower level, so some are a bit cropped to try and get in on the action...

The North Star

I recently purchased a tripod and thought why not put it to the test and find the North star...

If I was more patient I would have used a longer exposure than 23.6 minutes or 1418 seconds at F/8 at ISO100. Next time I will start out a touch earlier in the evening (than midnight)...

Have a great night...

Hayden's first dining experience...

We are finally catching up on our blogging... Whew.. Just other day Hayden had his first bites of real food. Take a peek..

The other part of Christmas...(oh yeah still backlogging)

The best part about the Holidays is family. We were very lucky this year as we got to hang out with both sides of our family. Usually we go to one or the others house for Christmas, but this year Jenn's parents came down for New Years, so that was great!.. Here are some fun pics throughout that week...

Note my grandmother laughing....She said that was the best party she'd ever been to...
;-)



Jim and Chuck decided to settle a bet the old fashioned way by playing some Wii Tennis..
No one was injured by their crazy swings, though there were a couple of close calls...


Grandpa feedin the little man...


Wifey poo feeding the little man. He never turns down a meal...

Connie posing for her photo op. She said this was her favorite pic from the whole week...

Barb loving her grandson...

Hi...

The ladies discussing the presidential race...




A little quiet time...





A hilarious game of "Balderdash." If you haven't played this game before it is worth checking out. Very funny...

Just a happy grandpa enjoying the week...