"If I have a monument in this world, it is my son." maya angelou

I had the distinct privilege to photograph the first day of my new nephews life.  Please welcome KYLE CHRISTOPHER SMITH! He was born at 12:58 p.m. weighing 7lbs 10 oz. and is 19 1/2 in. long.  He is beautiful, healthy and we are so happy to have him finally here.  Proud parents Erin & J. Smith

"Fun is good" Dr. Seuss

 Well today was definatly a FUN day.  It was Ben's official Graduation day from Preschool. The ceremony was at night so we decided to have a FUN day and take him to Knott's Soak City for a day of water sliding, lazy rivers and wave pools.  It was awesome!  I was worried that Ben wouldn't want to go down the big slide by himself, (you can't go tandem) BUT he did! And loved it.  Yelling "I want to go again that was SO AWESOME!"

We came home for a quick rest and off to graduation from Kid's care preschool.  It is ridiculously cute and funny at the same time. Caps and gowns and the whole nine yards!  He was extremley cute singing the grand ole' flag up on stage, but I actually think he was kind of nervous.  He was chewing his finger nail (which he never does) for about 10 minutes before the whole show started. But once he was on....he was on.   It was a FUN day for sure.

“If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard”

What is this place called? Say it with me...."Ben Adventures", that's right.  So on Saturday we got to witness the first ever Olympic trials for BMX riding at the Olympic training center in Chula Vista.  It was incredibly fun and Ben's passion for bmx riding probably increased by a million.  Out of these races only 1 was givin a spot on the olympic team.

After

“Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.” Kahlil Gibran

Ben's first Concert. This is the after of a very cool Beach Boys concert at Humphreys.  Ben was a true rock star and wooed the band enough that he got a high five from the lead singer Mike Love AND a guitar pick handed to him from lead guitarist Scott Totten.  This kid is SOOO lucky.  We are all just squirrels trying to get a nut in Ben's world.