I swear I don't just take pictures of kids birthday parties. This time of the year carries with it heat, swimming, baseball, and apparently in our family, birthdays. Of course it happened to rain at this pool party birthday. Murphy's Law tends to intervene at the worst moments, right? Luckily we had Grandma and Grandpa's basement to hang out in. Where there's cake, balloons,...

I took these for Amelie's 11 month birthday, but forgot about them since they're on my other camera. We want to make sure Amelie isn't scared of water, so we've tried to put her in the pool as much as possible this summer. She seems to like the kiddy pool. But she enjoys the adult pool even better. She gets to kick her legs around and fly in the air when daddy tosses her.

My nephew Connor turned 1 this past week. My own daughter's first birthday is in less than a month. It really doesn't feel like a year since these two have come into this world. They're growing up so fast, and becoming their own little people. My wife and I like to joke that we don't have a baby, we have a person. That used to be funny because for a while, Amelie was just this ...

A quick preview from Lindsey and CJ's  baseball-themed wedding on June 7th, 2014. The weather threatened a rain delay for most of the day, but luckily the clouds broke an hour before the game - ahem, I mean wedding. It turned out to be a fantastic day for the newlyweds!

The tree of life is a mystical concept of foreverness. From our perspective, the world seems to have always existed, and will always exist. But in reality life starts somewhere, and will inevitably end somewhere. Nine months ago, my wife and I had our first child, Amelie. We both experienced an entirely new perception of what life is, having actually created a life. We g...