Family Trip

Aloha!

We recently returned from a trip to Hawai'i and I can honestly say that 4 nights in paradise is just not enough. (Insert whine here.) Just as soon as we acclimated to the time difference it was time to go home.  Then we get home only to discover that Day Light Savings time was in effect making it that much harder to acclimate here.  Ay, ay, ay.

Ah, but the kids had a blast and that is the most important thing, right?

My youngest kept saying he wanted to go to Hawai'i even while we were in Hawai'i.  It took us a full day to understand that if he wasn't on a beach then he wasn't in Hawai'i!  And given the number of incredibly beautiful beaches, who could blame him for wanting to be on the beach day and night?!

I took so many photographs on the trip but sadly I didn't take my Yashica (film camera).  I'll share some of the trip photos in the upcoming weeks. In the meantime here are these:

Hiking With The Boys

A couple of weekends ago I went hiking with the boys at a local park near our home. The day was overcast with the occasional gust of wind but not cold. The boys had a great time and I got a much needed break from the bickering contest they were involved in that morning. The best part was they slept real well that night!

Thanks for stopping by!

The Film Files

Hello, 

Today I am sharing my first film scans from PhotoLab in Berkeley.  I shot these in December 2013 with a Yashica 35 mm on Fuji Pro 400h film.  There are quite a few that are not in focus but the overall color and skin tones are just so yummy that I don't even care that they are not in focus.  On a sad note, the meter in the camera died shortly before finishing this roll of film. Cue sad music.  

Of course this can only mean one thing:  I must now find a replacement!

Until then I shall endeavor to learn to use a light meter.  I'll share my results in future posts. 

Thanks for stopping by! 

--Carolina

What?!

Soooo. It's been a long time since my last post. Shameful, I know. But I have been busy!  I am in the process of revamping this blog to make it more my style but it is a slow process as I work on it in stolen moments. 

You moms out there know what I mean!  

I steal 15 minutes here, 10 minutes there while the boys run amok through the house screaming and laughing.  The screaming and laughter usually ends in tears which means I stop what I am working on to establish a short-lived period of peace. That means that I might get to what I was working on later in the week. Ha! 

I'll leave you with these photographs until this blog is up and fully running with regular posts (well, regular for me, anyway).  I clearly have a love affair with the color orange.  

Christmas Eve 2012

I am sure I am not alone when I rhetorically ask, "Where has the year gone?!"  

I sit here in my little corner of the kitchen writing this post while my two monkeys run around our small home screaming and laughing. It warms my heart to be surrounded by this happy chaos while it seems to add to my headache. :-)  I look around my home and see all that should be done: wash clothes, fold clothes, bathe the monkeys, wash the dishes, wrap those gifts!  -sigh - But then I look at my monkeys and in the big scheme of things living in a messy home for the moment is just fine. A messy home just doesn't seem like such a big deal. 

The fact is that the past year has been full of messy home moments in preparation of birthday parties and family gatherings. In the next couple of days I hope to post a few pictures of some of those events. In the meantime, I wish you and yours a very joyous Christmas full of merriment and wonderment.