Blog Face Lift

A fabulous fellow paparazzi mom let me in on the blog face lift secret (thanks Jess). The good thing is you do not have to have any HTML knowledge to get one.

Here’s my struggle. Thanks to Tina, my new favorite color is white. For as long as I remember I have always been drawn to black and white photography, and fabrics. The back ground design you are looking at is what I currently love. But with all love(s), I question “will it last”?

It’s too hard to decide so will you help. Let me know if you like this design or the classic, dependable white background better. And the paparazzi mom in me ponders “Is this design too busy? Does it take away from Aidan and Ethan’s pictures?” I’m dying to hear what YOU think! Thanks in advance for your response.

Frustrated

There’s a big secret I’ve been keeping from our readers. We did not want to let the cat of the bag before Kyle sealed the deal. It’s been a family plan even before Ethan was conceived that around this time we would make an international relocation.

GE world headquarters has offered Kyle a great position. In three weeks our family will be living on the east coats. Can I tell you how excited I am to play with the boys on the beach whenever we want? Okay, so it’s not the cute little Ballard I dearly love, but coming from a fabulous yet land locked country I am THRILLED at the thought of wading in low tide with our shovels and sand castle buckets.

Here’s the frustration, I started this blog as a way to connect family to our boys’ daily growth by sharing photos of their daily happenings. Kyle bought me a new camera in May. This thing is beyond my smarts or had I known a thing or two about digital photography, I might foresee this coming. Our computer takes forever to upload the pictures from the memory box. After saving all my patience for Aidan and Ethan, I just loose patience over the silliest thing, like the computer. Thus the photo log updates are not so updated but outdated.

So here’s the catch, for a while this blog will serve as a message board until I get my new HP computer with Adobe Lightroom where I can properly manage picture files more timely.

Thanks for reading.

First steps

Ethan took a grand total of nine steps last night. His first three steps were taken on Sunday from Kyle's arms to mine. Even though the camera was only a reach away, I was busy enjoying this very special moment. I promise a photo soon!

The Zurich Zoo

The boys of Oerlikon

Wall of Fame - the boys of Oerlikon! ...and Yanina too.

Trouble

Last week I went looking for Ethan and found him in our bedroom oh so quiet doing this! See what I mean? Too cute to be in trouble.

Thu and Trina

The lovely photo above was taken by my three year old photgrapher at Seegraben ( it is the lake of Jucker farm). Trina and I decided to take an early outing one morning with Mr. Aidan.