By Lisa Gutierrez on 03/30/2011 
It’s been a few weeks since I shared photos of my littlest. With Nathan in kindergarten, Andrew and I spend a lot of quality time together. He’ll be three (3!) in less than 2 months and that blows my weee mind. He’s learned his colors and shapes and can count to five. I suppose we could start working on numbers more.
He never really entered a “terrible two” phase, but I do believe he is a strong-willed child. I have had to learn how to get around it and sort of “trick” him into thinking my ideas are his. I do this a lot when I want to get photos of him.
He gets annoyed when I try to keep him in a certain spot for long and makes it perfectly clear with his facial expressions. It doesn’t help that he’s at the age of awkward smiles. SO, unless I get a candid photo of him in a good mood, all his smiley photos look totally forced. Ages 3-5: the awkward smile phase. He’ll grow out of it in a few years. Right now, he’s just too occupied with much more fun things than my silly camera.
Like the big firetruck! Look, I turned day into night.
Which leads me into a little bit about my newest camera accessory. Cactus wireless flash triggers! I received them in the mail, last week. A late birthday present from my wonderful husband. A whole new world of off-camera flash has opened up for me and I am excited, scared, inspired, excited, and scared some more! I’ve taken a few photos with them and I’m so disappointed. You mean I have to PRACTICE?! (sarcasm)
Let’s see where this leads me.
By Lisa Gutierrez on 03/11/2011
Living in an apartment my entire life, I never really looked forward to spring and summer. I just didn’t care. We (my neighbor and some cousins) played outside in the concrete jungle of a complex and in the local washateria that had sweet arcade games (Galaga and Street Fighter were our favorites). I never had a garden or a backyard of my own, so it was no big whoop. I liked winter because I live in coastal Texas and winter only lasts about 2 weeks. I get absolutely giddy when the temperature drops below 60.
I still feel that way about winter, but I’m also finding myself amazingly excited about Spring. The grass is turning green and the sun is staying out longer. Jason comes home from work and the boys play soccer for an hour or so until dinner or dark. I’m collecting little succulents that I find beautiful and I even bought 3 edible (eventually) plants–bells, jalapenos, and strawberries! I’m not psyching myself up for them to completely succeed. I know zilch about growing vegetables, but I can try, right? Maybe my little chants of “grow, grow, pleeease grow” while I water, will persuade them to give me fruit. Who knows.
All that to say–the warmer weather is making me happy. I need this green; I need this light.
Out of all the things on my 25 before 26 list, I’m most glad I completed #1.
By Lisa Gutierrez on 02/13/2011 
Daddy left on his semi-annual business trip to Las Vegas, this morning. He goes twice a year and I still turn into Mopey McMoperson when he leaves. I think the boys just thought he was working really late. Thank goodness my family likes to keep these guys entertained. I’d be even more frazzled if I had to do it alone. They are electric. Always on! Always go! Always this! Always that! They go to bed when I tell them, though, so I will continue to just count my blessings and ignore the rest.
They were pretty colorful, today. Nathan is wearing purple Levi’s. The color was called ‘parachute’. I loved that! I found them and the purple Vans in the kids clearance section on kohls.com. I knew they’d be PERFECT for him because he loveloveloves purple. He’s always asking to wear these pants. I wish he didn’t get so dirty, because they are always getting thrown in the wash and I know they’re going to wear out really quick. I’m going to keep my eye out for extra pairs. I should have bought more!
I hope you all are having a wonderful weekend. I will be spending Valentine’s Day with my two sweethearts and lamenting yet another February 14th with my husband in a different state.
Don’t forget to enter the woven doily giveaway!
By Lisa Gutierrez on 02/10/2011 
Bending gender rules everywhere, my littlest asked DEMANDED I put my apron on him, today. Why? Because it’s new. AND PRETTY!
And has lots of pockets that are the perfect size for cars. They’re big enough for fumbly little hands to dig around in.
He would load the apron up and climb the stairs to race the cars down the banister, one at a time. When he was empty, he would go down and pick them up. My oldest actually got a little jealous of the apron action and said tomorrow HE should get to wear it. Okie dokie!
I think I’m going to be putting them both in aprons when its time to pick their toys up off the floor.
In case you wanted to know, I bought the apron from the one and only my girl thursday! Go ahead and check out her Etsy shop and fall in love with everything. Then, head on over to her blog and fall in love with her!
By Lisa Gutierrez on 01/03/2011 
This was much tougher than I thought it would be! I had quite a few tabs open with my favorite face photos of the year. I almost chose one of the photos from New Year’s Eve, but decided against it. I chose this one because it’s just so Andrew–the prop, the stoic expression, the cheeks. He’s a giggler, but when I point my lens at him, he tends to go blank. I think it’s his age. Nathan went through a phase of just not liking me taking his photo all the time, but he’s outgrown it, thankfully.
Check out the I heart faces “Best Face Photo of 2010” post. Entries close tomorrow morning and then you get to vote for your favorite!
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