Awake . With or Without the Sun

I am oficially awake and working at 5:19am, or so.  That is unusual for me.  I like my sleep until approximately 8am.  I am going to be doing a series on my blog with some of the pictures I got from Australia and New Zealand.  I have no good explanation as to why I chose this one first, except for that it is a sunrise shot.  I was up for 3 of them while we were visiting.  Wish I was up for more.  There is just somethign magical about a sunrise.  Perhaps it is the joy and the challenge of seeing one.  For me, it is the fact that I don't make it up for many.  Maybe that will change.  For now, here is a bit of my soul.  This morning in New Zealand was beautiful beyond words.  All I can hope is that this pictures does it some sort of justice.

K9 Friends

Loved these labs...slobber and all :)

Ashton . Ambition

The Jordan Family . Well Part of Them!

Meet Erin and Shiloh.  They make up two fifths of the amazing, wonderful, beautiful Jordan Family!  We were able to spend some time with this legendary family while we were in Australia this past month.  I will be posting more of these, but as I was making my way through them at a first glance these caught my eye.  The love that this family pours out is beyond words!  Thanks for having us into your home and the memories we took with us.

EC + 365 Days = 1 Year Today!

This very day last year was a deifining moment for our family.  My sister gave birth to her first child, Ethan Charles Litwin, and he was and still is perfect.  My mom was down visiting and we got "the call" at around 4am the it was time.  I rushed into my Mom's room yelling 511 (inside joke) and next thing we knew we were in the car on the way to meet him.  My sister was a champ, her husband Adam was right by her side and we got to meet and hold him in his first moments of his life.  Since then he has brought such joy to our family.  Witnessing firsts has been fun and seeing his huge smile and infectiously cute personality never gets old!  You can see more about his birth here and can see more of a "year in photos" here.  I took these shots about a month ago and as you can see this kid loves the camera.  Happy birthday Ethan, and congrats Laurie and Adam on making it through one year of parenthood!