All types of photography have one basic fact in common: they all record our memories. Whether that be a dog park down the street, our wedding or birthday, a sports game in which the Hokies pound the Yellow Jackets 37-26 (yeah that just happened), or your last vacation. It's all the same. We record memories.
A few years ago I decided to go through the shockingly few photographs my parents had stored in boxes and make my own album. Albums about me. Photos about me. For the first few years of my life I had hundreds of photos. Then I went through an entire five year stretch without a single photo.
In college I was "that guy" at all the college parties with a P&S camera. I got in trouble more than once for photos I was posting on Facebook. More than a few were deleted for "violating Facebook photo policy." Oops. But I was always taking photos cause let's face it: remembering those college parties is fun. Until you get a real job and realize you need to delete all those photos off your Facebook ASAP. Dang it.
Today I shoot photos as much for remembering where I've been as for a job. In fact, that is somewhat the definition of Travel Photography: a visual record of where people would go on vacation. When I go to a restaurant, I take a camera. In fact, I took my camera with me when I went on a date earlier this week. It was a first date and she gave me more than a few weird looks when I started shooting photos of my meal. Hey, I just paid $20 for that steak, I'm gonna shoot it!
So, what photo shows us your favorite memory? And tell us about that memory. Why is that photo your favorite? Why is that memory your favorite?
I'm just going to start right out saying: this memory is my favorite, but it is also one of the most painful to have to remember. I don't know why but I'm in a stupidly sentimental mood today.
I took this photo halfway up to the top of a hill in the middle of nowhere in Yorkshire Dales National Park. I was here with my now ex-girlfriend taking a trip around the UK. We had started in Doncaster that morning, hit up York for a few hours, and were heading towards Workminster to see The Lake District for a few days.
We decided to get happily lost for awhile and found this tall hill overlooking the area. We climbed up the hill and sat there for hours, holding each other. She asked me what I liked about her country. And we watched the sun set over the rolling hills.
See...for those who are new to me, you don't know the story. I'm sure some of you have gone back through my photos and picked up hints. I am an American, I live in South Carolina. But for four months this year I dated a British woman from Norfolk. We met on this site. In August, I took my first international trip ever to go meet her for the first time.
This was the fourth day we were together. It had been a magical day since we woke up. Despite being there four days already, this was the first time we had sat and watched the sunset together. At times I just sat silently. At other times I told her everything I had found to love about the UK. I was ready to move there. I would have, if things had not ended the way they did.
This is my favorite memory because it was a perfect and to a perfect day. And someday, I want to return to this spot and shoot this photo again just to prove that no matter how painful this favorite memory is, I can still shoot great photos.
@jasonbarnette awww, I didn't put two and two together, but I remember the developing romance between you two and your plans to head over to UK. I'm so sorry to hear that it didn't work out:( I was totally rooting for you guys.
I would have to say that this is my fav photographic memory of late. Years ago, I had a film camera and would take it everywhere..it was a minolta AF 5000 and it traveled to south america with me as I spent a year abroad and eventually here to so cal where I used it to photograph friend's engagements and special moments. Kids came and while I used a Pand S(digital had come), I forget the love I had for photography and let life take over, until a little over a year ago when I got a dslr. I joined this project and fell in love with photography all over again....finally I was doing something for me, whereas most of what I do is for my family and four beautiful children. This photo represents the moment I realized that I had found my niche again and there was no turning back...everything seemed to come together that day, and I have become even more enamored with capturing moments to treasure for not only my family, but also for others. This project and community was a huge part in giving me a piece of myself back:))
As I only have photos from this year I'll have to pick a memory from this year. It's not been an easy year, a multitude of issues have meant that most of the year I've been suffering from quite a severe level of depression - however I am on my way back to normality now.
Myself and Hague can't afford holidays, and hadn't had one together, but as my Parents celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary this year they took the whole family away to Cyprus for a fortnight.
It was wonderful, it was amazing to feel stress free for the first time in longer than I care to remember, to spend time with my family, and time relaxing with Hague. One day, near the end of the fortnight, we took the time out, just the two of us to spend the afternoon/evening in the local beach bar. We drank, we spoke, we enjoyed the breathtaking view. We had a perfect day....
Hmm... it was a tough choice between this and the one posted on 5th October. Both sum up opposite sides of a nine month relationship - partly stressful, aggravating and claustrophobic but wonderful as well. That gorgeous smile :)
This is one of my favorite memories from my project and of my life. Absolutely nothing can match the feeling of excitement, nerves, and love when you see your husband's submarine pulling up the channel. Months of wanting and wishing he was there, over in a few hours. Not to mention seeing the look on our daughter's face when she saw the submarine.
This is one of my favorite memories because my whole family was there and we were all together, but each in our own element. My husband was tossing a ball around, my son was sitting in his stroller making babbling noises, my daughter was sitting under this tree in her own little imaginative world and I of course was taking pictures. It was classic.
The one I've picked is of me and my friends. They are all cyclists and this was my first cycle event with them - 80 km and I was very proud to have finished
I've got so many pictures, posted here and elsewhere, in addition to at home. I've gone through them at various times and realize they each represent a point in time that brings great memories. Of all of the pictures the ones that mean the most are always the family moments. So, I can't narrow down any of them as the most favorite because they all are favorites.
Went up to a buddy's lake house, on the way back my boyfriend took me here so I could get some more pictures :) It was such a beautiful and amazing place and I hope to go back there some day!
@izzymathie Thank you! I always try to come up with a great thread a day for everyone to enjoy. I think I nailed it this time. I cannot wait until later tonight when I'm home from shooting my own photos for the day so I can read all these stories.
Yes, people, I actually read them! I don't just post a thread and then abandon it. I fully plan to read all your stories and leave comments and fav and love and all that other goody goody stuff. These have been amazing so far.
I'm not sure I have a favorite memory. I have a favorite place, one that brought peace to me every time I visited it.
The photo in this photo is of the Jeffrey Pine that used to grow on top of Sentinel Dome in Yosemite. I have visited Yosemite probably 15 times in my lifetime with family land friends and even when the valley floor of Yosemite was packed with tourists, I could guarantee that a short hike from the Glacier Point road to Sentinel Dome would bring peace and quiet and solitude. It was a magical place, one where you could imagine you were John Muir encountering the valley from above for the first time.
Very few people visit the dome, mainly because the tree is dead and now gone, having succumbed to the drought in California during the lean years of 1978-79. Why hike out there, when you can essentially get the same view a couple of miles down the road at Glacier Point? Yes you can, but there's also the crowds to deal with there, since there's a large parking lot and a 100 foot walk to the viewpoint. Walk out, take your photo and get back into the car for the next viewpoint.
This, in my opinion, is why Sentinel Dome is more precious to me. You have to work to get out there. There used to be a road right to the base of the dome, just like Glacier Point, but the park service figured that all of that extra visitor traffic was probably doing more harm than good to that wonderful tree, so they pulled the road and made it a mile or so hike to get there. Less people came, but as noted above, the drought finally killed the tree.
For many years, the dead tree stood there, a silent witness to the changing seasons. In 2000, my three children and I hiked out there to visit my old friend. I felt what was left of the trunk, said hello to my old friend and took photos once again, most of them with my children in them, as portraits.
The tree trunk has now fallen and it's gone, probably rotted from inside after the past 30 plus years. Had the road still been there, I would have imagined it falling more quickly due to abuse from the general public. I haven't been back since it has totally fallen. I'm not sure I want to, but I know I will. And I also know I will shed a tear for my friend.
@rich57 Yeah, I stopped early October. Have posted maybe a handful of oldies since but the Canon and I have uh, temporarily parted ways. He's kickin' it in his bag and I'm keeping very busy myself. Maybe with the new year I'll get back into the swing of things.
Well, since I joined fairly recently my choice is narrowed down somewhat. This is my favourite memory out of all of them. It was the last day my parents were here on their holidays and I won't see them again until Christmas. So this was a special day and Northumberland showed itself in all its rugged beauty. Hadrian's wall reminds me of connecting with my past and my present - we spent a lot of time in the 2 weeks talking about how my parents grew up and about our memories of our very own wall - the Berlin wall none of us thought we would ever see disappear in our lifetime! Luckily we did!!
Here is my grandson who is being kept from me by his parents due to a stupid and unnecessary argument. I haven't seen him for nearly 4 months and I miss him immensely.
Here I was, thinking I was done with my project of the day, when this little exchange happened:
I was at the sink doing dishes, Scott was getting ready to grill.
"Is the water on outside?" I asked.
"Yes"
"Are you watering the grass?" All of a sudden I realize my husband was in his swimming shorts. "Uh, are you going to run through the sprinkler?!!?!?"
"It's so hot, it'll feel good."
"Did you tell the kids?"
"Uh, no." Scott admitted.
We quickly tell the kids, I grab my camera to shoot this momentous occasion of my husband, enjoying our sprinkler on a warm summer's day, alone.
His plan was to sit in his lawn chair as the water rained on him, but him being so fun, humored me and gave me some funny shots. The kids eventually joined him and it was the cutest thing watching them play together.
@lolanae - Brandie, your photograph and story made the hair on the nape of my neck stand on end... I've got goosebumps now. Thank you for sharing this wonderful memory!
Favourite Memory for this 365 project? Seeing the Eiffel Tower for the very first time (and catching up with my Uncle), but the Tower is such a dominating icon in this very impressive City. Such a photographers paradise in Paris.
but Scariest Memory of this 365? Tropical Cyclone Yasi and the rain and destruction that she brought to this little part of Australia. Never before have I experienced wind or rain on the scale of this intense, massive system. 160kph winds for hours and hours buffeted my house and garden, torrential rain lashed at the trees and ground for hours and hours. Here is a shot of a normally pleasant waterfall, but this time just getting all Angry Mother Nature!
This photo brings back memories of long, warm days during the summer - just a distant memory now!
With young boys aged 2 & 11 months, we hadn't really planned a holiday this year, so we took our tent to the Mother-in-Law's & pitched up for a night to see how the boys got on with it.
Well, firstly Thomas (aged 2) was so excited at seeing the tent for the first time that he spent at least an hour just running in & out of it, tripping over the zips to get into the sleeping compartments every time! He was just beside himself & a little over excited!
Eventually we managed to calm him down & when the time came we persuaded him into his sleeping bag & he finally fell asleep.
Quite early the following morning, and perhaps unsurprisingly, he was awake - but then the sun was rising early then... and here he is sitting in the tent, all pleased after the first night sleeping under canvas.
And what about little Henry? Well, one month short of his 1st birthday, he took it all in his stride, slept as well as normal & was perhaps still a bit too young to take it all in! I think he was still asleep when this photo was taken.
I have so many, I have so many. One that springs to my mind is my daughter on her 2nd birthday after seeing her cake. The shock and joy on her face is fantastic and always makes me smile.
There's one of my son when he was a few months old and just home from hospital. On one of our first trips out we went to tescos to get some essentials and I saw a rugby ball then took a photo of him "holding" it in his car seat. The ball was as big as him! It felt almost surreal that we were doing something a "normal" family would do even if it was with our mini-boy.
From photos on my project I would have to go with this one:
This was taken in April during a heat spell. I just got home from work and could hear the children playing in the back garden. I walked around the house to find this sight of my husband swinging my daughter around and her laughing manically. I only had my p&s on me (now dead... children got to it) and quickly snapped this.
The children had been playing in the paddling pool and my daughter doesn't understand why she needs to wear a swimming costume when her skin works just as well.
I love the simple joy in this photo. The memory of happiness between my children and my husband. The naturalness of this shot. If I can continue taking photos which can capture moments like this then whatever I spend on my camera will be worth it.
First of all, I think you need a hug. Second of all, I wish you would stop posting such insightful threads. On one hand, I love them because they make me think. On the other hand, I got nothing, which makes me sound lamer than I am.
@mej2011 OK...I'll take the hug, but stop cutting yourself short! If, just if, it's true that you do not have any photos to share in these insightful threads then you need to take some. Consider this a challenge rather than a hindrance!
As I looked through my project I'd say it's this one from Spring Break--I took the week off and we did day trips around Va. This is Montpelier -- James Madison's House. I have both my kids there and their besties and we just had the best day!
This shot was taken the day my 60D and two lenses arrived via UPS (the package was supposedly for my husbands business and I had to stay home to sign for the package). Total surprise! He says I have to get really good at photography so I can support him in his old age (being a contractor is hard on a body). Ha! I'd love to fulfill that wish, time will tell...
Like others have said there are too many happy memories to pick just one and some (like when hubby proposed to me and I didn't understand what he was asking) I don't have photos per se. So I'm going to go with one from my project.
That's my two little dudes up there aka Little Monkey Monster and Little Gremlin or just plain Callum and Riley. If you click you can read the whole story. It just makes me remember lots of memories that one shot, memories of meeting my hubby, of getting married, of deciding to have a kid and then another kid and of love.
My favourite memory! This was actually December 2009 but I was not part of 365 then so it would not let me upload that year. Anyway, we are going back to Jamaica, Oche Rios because we had such a great time there. We went horseback riding in the ocean with a group of other riders and guides...it was so much fun!
@bobfoto Wow! I have seen a waterfall changed by storms, though not to this magnitude, and it was the most powerful force I've ever seen. Your photo really conveys the breathtaking sense of awe and fear you get looking at it.
My friend Brandon. He moved to Georgia this year. Luckily I get to see him tonight since he is visiting. This was from one of our last wings Wednesdays together.
My favorite memories are with my grandfather. Really my favorite thing with him was sailing, but I don't have photos of that. This photo shows us reading together in a cozy moment. My favorite photographed memory.
Class Day at my son's graduation from Yale this past spring. All the graduates made a hat to wear and Tom Hanks was the speaker. A proud moment and a fun day. Thats my son with a Tardis from Dr Who on his head. All those years of having him do crafts with me paid off.
This photo brings back great memories from a perfect summer day spent in Chicago on my husband's birthday and my favorite part of the day was a boat ride on Lake Michigan so peaceful and beautiful!
Well , I've never had a diary- just in case anyone read it !There are so many memories , so i will stick to one on 365. Even so, I could post the leopard that gave me my God moment or the sunsets that take my breath away, yet this is the one that sticks in my memory. For the fact that I will never feel the same way , that I had no idea what the next 24 hrs would bring , that the midlife crisis I was trying to have was cut short :-), that life goes on and that I discovered editing :-)))
I have gone on to occasionally post on my second album ( the one for me ) but not quite the same ....
Really like your work Shadow !
I take so many photos for memory's sake. Lots of them are for the local school where my kids attend and they are used for the yearbook and newspaper. This one here was from a family vacation where all the cousins were having a blast playing King of the Dock. It was hilarious. Love that memory.
Great thread @jasonbarnette. Here is mine. Prepare for a sop-fest.
I accidentally fell in love when I was in South East Asia (from Apr to Jul). Me and Dan met in Bangkok in April and hung out in Cambodia for a bit in May. We thought we weren't ever going to see each other after that, but then he did a crazy thing - he dropped everything at home and came with me to Vietnam. We both bought motorbikes and we spent a crazy amazing month together driving 2500km up Vietnam from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi. It was the greatest romance and greatest adventure ever. We had so much fun, saw so many amazing things, it was perfect in every way and I love him so much.
Unfortunately he is living in Vietnam for the foreseeable future, so I haven't seen him since we parted ways at the end of June. I still think of him every day, and it breaks my heart that we can't be together. Ho hum. The memories I have with him are amazing.
This was the day my boyfriend came back from 3 months in south america! It was by far the longest time we'd been apart in the 6 years we've been together. It still gives me butterflies even to think about how I felt waiting for him to come through those doors!
This is my daughter, in my mom's pool, where she spent a lot of time this past summer. I just love the zany perspective on this, and how silly she looks. :-D
After a great football season, this was taken at the end of my son's last high school football game. He had a great year, averaging over 100 yards per game, and I ended up with my favorite photo.
This is Thumper. If you click on the photo you will get a similar story, Well, I think it was in late April or early May a little baby bunny found its way into my garden and became our pet, we fed it, and it slept under the shed, it was hard to take a photo of him because he was always on the go, I thoink this photo was 2 or 3 days before my birthday 31st of May, and i think this was the 28th or somthing like that, and on the 30 he was there, but on my birthday, It was the last I saw of him, the 31st was the last day I saw him. Hoping he went of you make Baby Thumpers that will come vistit us next year, Bye Bye Bithday Bunny
This is a photograph of my late Mum and Dad... and me... orginally taken thirty four years ago by my husband when we were holidaying in Cornwall... they had not had a holiday for many years and they were so happy to visit Cornwall and spend a week with us... we all had a wonderful time and this holiday holds so many special memories for me ♥
Well, this represents one of MANY of them...that I had with my Mom. She died 4 months ago....so I am reliving all the memories from childhood and what a great mom she was.
In the last year, it would have to be meeting my newest little boy. It is funny to think that my followers have watched him grow over the year and have probably seen more of him than many of my friends and family! Here he is juat after being born
and here he is acouple of days ago! He is exactly 10 months old today.
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I took this photo halfway up to the top of a hill in the middle of nowhere in Yorkshire Dales National Park. I was here with my now ex-girlfriend taking a trip around the UK. We had started in Doncaster that morning, hit up York for a few hours, and were heading towards Workminster to see The Lake District for a few days.
We decided to get happily lost for awhile and found this tall hill overlooking the area. We climbed up the hill and sat there for hours, holding each other. She asked me what I liked about her country. And we watched the sun set over the rolling hills.
See...for those who are new to me, you don't know the story. I'm sure some of you have gone back through my photos and picked up hints. I am an American, I live in South Carolina. But for four months this year I dated a British woman from Norfolk. We met on this site. In August, I took my first international trip ever to go meet her for the first time.
This was the fourth day we were together. It had been a magical day since we woke up. Despite being there four days already, this was the first time we had sat and watched the sunset together. At times I just sat silently. At other times I told her everything I had found to love about the UK. I was ready to move there. I would have, if things had not ended the way they did.
This is my favorite memory because it was a perfect and to a perfect day. And someday, I want to return to this spot and shoot this photo again just to prove that no matter how painful this favorite memory is, I can still shoot great photos.
Myself and Hague can't afford holidays, and hadn't had one together, but as my Parents celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary this year they took the whole family away to Cyprus for a fortnight.
It was wonderful, it was amazing to feel stress free for the first time in longer than I care to remember, to spend time with my family, and time relaxing with Hague. One day, near the end of the fortnight, we took the time out, just the two of us to spend the afternoon/evening in the local beach bar. We drank, we spoke, we enjoyed the breathtaking view. We had a perfect day....
@jasonbarnette what a great thread!!
This is one of my favorite memories from my project and of my life. Absolutely nothing can match the feeling of excitement, nerves, and love when you see your husband's submarine pulling up the channel. Months of wanting and wishing he was there, over in a few hours. Not to mention seeing the look on our daughter's face when she saw the submarine.
This is one of my favorite memories because my whole family was there and we were all together, but each in our own element. My husband was tossing a ball around, my son was sitting in his stroller making babbling noises, my daughter was sitting under this tree in her own little imaginative world and I of course was taking pictures. It was classic.
Yes, people, I actually read them! I don't just post a thread and then abandon it. I fully plan to read all your stories and leave comments and fav and love and all that other goody goody stuff. These have been amazing so far.
Sorry mine was so sad to start off with now!
Two different days; two similar memories. Both amazeballs.
The photo in this photo is of the Jeffrey Pine that used to grow on top of Sentinel Dome in Yosemite. I have visited Yosemite probably 15 times in my lifetime with family land friends and even when the valley floor of Yosemite was packed with tourists, I could guarantee that a short hike from the Glacier Point road to Sentinel Dome would bring peace and quiet and solitude. It was a magical place, one where you could imagine you were John Muir encountering the valley from above for the first time.
Very few people visit the dome, mainly because the tree is dead and now gone, having succumbed to the drought in California during the lean years of 1978-79. Why hike out there, when you can essentially get the same view a couple of miles down the road at Glacier Point? Yes you can, but there's also the crowds to deal with there, since there's a large parking lot and a 100 foot walk to the viewpoint. Walk out, take your photo and get back into the car for the next viewpoint.
This, in my opinion, is why Sentinel Dome is more precious to me. You have to work to get out there. There used to be a road right to the base of the dome, just like Glacier Point, but the park service figured that all of that extra visitor traffic was probably doing more harm than good to that wonderful tree, so they pulled the road and made it a mile or so hike to get there. Less people came, but as noted above, the drought finally killed the tree.
For many years, the dead tree stood there, a silent witness to the changing seasons. In 2000, my three children and I hiked out there to visit my old friend. I felt what was left of the trunk, said hello to my old friend and took photos once again, most of them with my children in them, as portraits.
The tree trunk has now fallen and it's gone, probably rotted from inside after the past 30 plus years. Had the road still been there, I would have imagined it falling more quickly due to abuse from the general public. I haven't been back since it has totally fallen. I'm not sure I want to, but I know I will. And I also know I will shed a tear for my friend.
Well, since I joined fairly recently my choice is narrowed down somewhat. This is my favourite memory out of all of them. It was the last day my parents were here on their holidays and I won't see them again until Christmas. So this was a special day and Northumberland showed itself in all its rugged beauty. Hadrian's wall reminds me of connecting with my past and my present - we spent a lot of time in the 2 weeks talking about how my parents grew up and about our memories of our very own wall - the Berlin wall none of us thought we would ever see disappear in our lifetime! Luckily we did!!
I was at the sink doing dishes, Scott was getting ready to grill.
"Is the water on outside?" I asked.
"Yes"
"Are you watering the grass?" All of a sudden I realize my husband was in his swimming shorts. "Uh, are you going to run through the sprinkler?!!?!?"
"It's so hot, it'll feel good."
"Did you tell the kids?"
"Uh, no." Scott admitted.
We quickly tell the kids, I grab my camera to shoot this momentous occasion of my husband, enjoying our sprinkler on a warm summer's day, alone.
His plan was to sit in his lawn chair as the water rained on him, but him being so fun, humored me and gave me some funny shots. The kids eventually joined him and it was the cutest thing watching them play together.
With young boys aged 2 & 11 months, we hadn't really planned a holiday this year, so we took our tent to the Mother-in-Law's & pitched up for a night to see how the boys got on with it.
Well, firstly Thomas (aged 2) was so excited at seeing the tent for the first time that he spent at least an hour just running in & out of it, tripping over the zips to get into the sleeping compartments every time! He was just beside himself & a little over excited!
Eventually we managed to calm him down & when the time came we persuaded him into his sleeping bag & he finally fell asleep.
Quite early the following morning, and perhaps unsurprisingly, he was awake - but then the sun was rising early then... and here he is sitting in the tent, all pleased after the first night sleeping under canvas.
And what about little Henry? Well, one month short of his 1st birthday, he took it all in his stride, slept as well as normal & was perhaps still a bit too young to take it all in! I think he was still asleep when this photo was taken.
There's one of my son when he was a few months old and just home from hospital. On one of our first trips out we went to tescos to get some essentials and I saw a rugby ball then took a photo of him "holding" it in his car seat. The ball was as big as him! It felt almost surreal that we were doing something a "normal" family would do even if it was with our mini-boy.
From photos on my project I would have to go with this one:
This was taken in April during a heat spell. I just got home from work and could hear the children playing in the back garden. I walked around the house to find this sight of my husband swinging my daughter around and her laughing manically. I only had my p&s on me (now dead... children got to it) and quickly snapped this.
The children had been playing in the paddling pool and my daughter doesn't understand why she needs to wear a swimming costume when her skin works just as well.
I love the simple joy in this photo. The memory of happiness between my children and my husband. The naturalness of this shot. If I can continue taking photos which can capture moments like this then whatever I spend on my camera will be worth it.
Thank you for starting this thread Jason.
First of all, I think you need a hug. Second of all, I wish you would stop posting such insightful threads. On one hand, I love them because they make me think. On the other hand, I got nothing, which makes me sound lamer than I am.
I am not cutting myself short. I am short. Really, I am. :)
That's my two little dudes up there aka Little Monkey Monster and Little Gremlin or just plain Callum and Riley. If you click you can read the whole story. It just makes me remember lots of memories that one shot, memories of meeting my hubby, of getting married, of deciding to have a kid and then another kid and of love.
My friend Brandon. He moved to Georgia this year. Luckily I get to see him tonight since he is visiting. This was from one of our last wings Wednesdays together.
Well , I've never had a diary- just in case anyone read it !There are so many memories , so i will stick to one on 365. Even so, I could post the leopard that gave me my God moment or the sunsets that take my breath away, yet this is the one that sticks in my memory. For the fact that I will never feel the same way , that I had no idea what the next 24 hrs would bring , that the midlife crisis I was trying to have was cut short :-), that life goes on and that I discovered editing :-)))
I have gone on to occasionally post on my second album ( the one for me ) but not quite the same ....
Really like your work Shadow !
I take so many photos for memory's sake. Lots of them are for the local school where my kids attend and they are used for the yearbook and newspaper. This one here was from a family vacation where all the cousins were having a blast playing King of the Dock. It was hilarious. Love that memory.
I accidentally fell in love when I was in South East Asia (from Apr to Jul). Me and Dan met in Bangkok in April and hung out in Cambodia for a bit in May. We thought we weren't ever going to see each other after that, but then he did a crazy thing - he dropped everything at home and came with me to Vietnam. We both bought motorbikes and we spent a crazy amazing month together driving 2500km up Vietnam from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi. It was the greatest romance and greatest adventure ever. We had so much fun, saw so many amazing things, it was perfect in every way and I love him so much.
Unfortunately he is living in Vietnam for the foreseeable future, so I haven't seen him since we parted ways at the end of June. I still think of him every day, and it breaks my heart that we can't be together. Ho hum. The memories I have with him are amazing.
Sop fest over.
After a great football season, this was taken at the end of my son's last high school football game. He had a great year, averaging over 100 yards per game, and I ended up with my favorite photo.
and here he is acouple of days ago! He is exactly 10 months old today.