Little Tatum is growing up!

Tonight, we had dinner with Angie and Jason. But not before Tatum put on a few outfits for me and posed like a little supermodel!!! Gonna be tough trying to keep up w/ her as she grows up. three words: SPOILED. LITTLE. TATUM!!!

So cute!

The wrath of Ike

Man, what a week!!!

First, Ike was coming. Then it wasn't. Woke up last Thursday, its headed straight for us!!! Unbelievable. People on the news are panicking, roads are getting congested, basically... time to leave!!!

I was on daddy/diaper duty that morning. Thao had a doctors appointment. Right after she came back we packed and headed toward Austin. Took us a whopping 6 hours to drive 200 miles. Hunkered down in Austin until Monday and decided enough was enough, came back to Houston. Of course, the scenery wasn't as bad as the news made it out to be, but there was some serious damage. Our house is ok, just a ton of trees down everywhere. Didn't get a chance to take any serious pictures, but here's a few of the Shell station down the road that took a serious beating. Gives you an idea of the isolation of the damage.

Power is finally being restored (we got it back last night at the house), and work is slowly resuming. Galveston took a serious beating. Bulivar island is under marshall law and it looks terrible judging by the pictures I'm seeing on the news. Either way, Houston will recover. Ike beat us up, but he's now gone and the response/updates on recovery is amazing!!!











And here's an example of the tree damage all over Houston. Don't really need anything more than a single picture to describe that one.

Kami's studio photoshoot

So today, we went to my good friend Dave McLaughlin's house to visit... since we're refugees/evacuees from Hurricane Ike and all!!! Took the chance to take some 'studio' shots of Kami with some background and lighting. here's the final result...

Kami's first haircut!!!

So the longer Kami's hair got, the more "is that a boy or a girl" question popped up in public. He had curls coming out the side of his head, no hair in the back, and a ton on top looked like a bad toupee!!!

This past Saturday, we were invited to by Thao's uncle to have some BBQ with the family. We took the opportunity to have her aunt (who's a hair stylist and a makeup artist extraordinaire) give Kami his first haircut. Now he looks like a proper boy and is aaaaaaaaaaaaall sexy. Check it out!!!















LOOK AT HIS LITTLE TEETH!!!!

A very different Labor Day

Texas World Speedway - Labor Day 2008

The link above was my day today, Labor Day 2008. My friend Dave -- not the photographer (ALTHOUGH, he does have a Nikon!!!) -- invited me out to Texas World Speedway for a motorcycle track day. It was an all day event, and I woke up veeeeery early to make it out to College Station by 7 am... with my UT Longhorn shirt on, I might add!!! HOOK 'EM!!!

Had a blast. I don't think I've had that much fun taking pictures in quite a while. Yes, its exciting taking pictures of Kami. Yes, its exciting taking pictures of others... but this is something new. I got to do something out of my learning mode and see how it turns out on the knowledge I taught myself.

I must say, I don't think I did too bad on my first outing taking pictures of moving objects. What do you guys think???