Author: Ben

  • Chris & Lora’s Wedding

    Chris & Lora’s Wedding

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    Nikki’s cousin Lora got married Monday! It was an awesome wedding at the Glenn in Portsmouth. Nikki was in the wedding, so that meant I was Elias’ handler the entire night. Check out the shots as you’ll see some very interesting shots of me with Elias throughout the night, as well as Nikki and of…

  • Elias 13 week update!

    Elias 13 week update!

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    Elias is now officially 3 months old.  He’s getting a ton bigger and more active.  He can roll from his belly to his back pretty much at will now.  He’s talking (baby talk) up a storm these days.  We try to keep him going as long as possible asking him questions and whatnot.  I’m sure…

  • Elias week 12 update!

    Elias week 12 update!

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    Well Elias is almost 3 months old now (he will probably be by the time you read this!). He can now roll over (see the video below for half a rolling over, he’s too quick to get on film!). He loves to talk with himself about who knows what. He’s almost giggling (we think he…

  • First Tuesday night race…

    First Tuesday night race…

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    Raced sluff for the first time last night.  It was the last race of the spring series.  Yarrow offered to help me as Dad’s “stuck” delivering avalanche right now.  We haven’t gotten our real rating yet from PHRF (they’re having a meeting for us this week) so they gave us a provisional rating of 108…  …

  • Elias week 11 update!

    Elias week 11 update!

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    Elias is actually in my lap as I type this…  He’s getting bigger and stronger all the time. He can now roll over from his belly to his back. We’re working on getting it on camera but he’s done it probably 5 times this week. Nikki also went back to work for the first time…

  • Chris and Lise’s Wedding!

    Chris and Lise’s Wedding!

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    Chris and Lise got married today. Chris and I work together (he’s the IT guy). They had a wonderful wedding today in MA. It was Nikki and my first day out together w/o Elias. It was kinda fun doing something “adult” again, but we both also missed him. Debbie was very helpful and came over…

  • Wednesday night sailing.

    Wednesday night sailing.

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    We normally sail Tuesday nights, but I couldn’t last night so I went tonight. I also didn’t manage to track down crew in time (part of the reason we wanted a smaller boat) so I decided to sail alone. I ended up ramp launching the boat alone (first time ramp launching, and first time sailing…

  • Week 10 update.

    Week 10 update.

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    Another busy week for us.  Nikki managed to get out and run both days this weekend.  She said that felt great, but by Sunday afternoon (after also going for a walk in the park) she was exhausted.  Elias is growing and growing.  We’ve had to adjust the straps in his car seat to the taller…

  • NSOP Roger William’s Park meet.

    NSOP Roger William’s Park meet.

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    We also had a NSOP (my photography website/forum) meet at the park Sunday.  We (of course) arrive 20 minutes late.  Elias was dead asleep and had had a rough nite Saturday so we let him sleep until he woke up.  But that mean we still had to feed him and get out the door.  We…

  • Sluff:

    Sluff:

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    Dad and I have both been going crazy w/o a boat… We sold High Voltage (our old yellow boat we raced on Tuesday nights) because it was too much of a hassle for us. A few reasons, but mostly it needed 7 people’s weight to sail competitively yet 5 people was the comfortable crew in…

  • Week 9 update

    Week 9 update

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    HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!!!!  It’s been a long week, and this update is actually getting posted a week late because of it.  Nikki and Elias had their first mothers day.  I made Nikki an album of every shot that’s been on the site through the entire pregnancy to the week before mothers day.  I also made…

  • Elias week 8 update:

    Elias week 8 update:

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    Another weekly Elias update! He’s really starting to become a little person. He’s gaining a little more control over his arms, and smiles and laughs with us daily. He also speaks his own language already. We have no clue what he’s saying (feed me?) but he’s making noises all the time when he’s awake now.…

  • Elias: Week7

    Elias: Week7

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    Another weekly update. Elias has been keeping us busy. It seems he doesn’t like to hold still, so he’s either being held, in the swing, going for a walk, or a car ride. We started Sunday Morning with a car ride to the beach. That let Nikki have her first time off in 7 weeks.…

  • Elias week 6 update!

    Elias week 6 update!

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    As usual I’m catching up a week at one. I figured it would probably be easier to do one giant post that covers the whole week. I’m still shooting a photo a day, they’re in the gallery at the bottom and in the PAD gallery. But I figured one post will make more sense. Anyway,…

  • Elias in his crib.

    Elias in his crib.

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    We’ve been trying to get Elias into his crib to sleep as much as possible lately. The swing works, but Nikki’s reading a book that suggests using a babies crib as much as possible. It makes a good point that sleeping in a living room is like sleeping in the middle of a department store.…