Category: personal

Happy Birthday Honey! Been a great week this week with the short work week and loooong weekend.  Elias has been doing very well with his potty  training with only a few minor mistakes that are as much our fault as his (he’s not great at TELLING us he needs to go so we use timers but sometimes…

The gang from NSOP decided a sunrise on thanksgiving would be fun, so 6 of us made it down to Beavertail this morning to shoot together.  It was very fun, and mother natures played quite nice with us (it looked like it could be blue bird on the drive down).  It was cold for the…

Well, Nikki Pat and Russell!!!  It was a three way b-day and the Stinton’s Sunday.  They threw a great party for everyone which save us a TON of work, so a big thank you for that.  We also went an picked out our Xmas Tree at Big John’s Saturday and I spent the afternoon raking…

Had a busy week this week.  I taught a landscape photography class which meant I was teaching Thursday from 6-9 as well as Saturday from 6am-noon and 3pm-6pm (if we do it again that will change).   Beyond that we went to Katie and Matt and Hayden and Nolan’s Saturday night to watch Toy Story…

Yep, it’s that time again.  So if you see what looks like scruff on my face it’s a “beard”.  No, really, it is.  Also, Elias is learning how to take pictures with my camera now which has been fun.  It started a few weeks ago with him holding the camera to his face, eyes closed…

Happy Halloween everyone!  Elias and I had a great time going trick -or- treating tonight. Elias was Buzz and I went as woody.  About 1/4 of the people recognized me, but half or more knew what Elias was.  I think most of the hander-outers didn’t think I was dressed up?  My parents also left Thursday…

… and no, that’s not me writing something with a RI accent…  Elias is now pooping in the potty most of the time.  He’s had a few accidents here and there but he’s now asking to use the potty when it’s convenient for him (ie he’s not playing).  We had a chart going where 5…

Wow, busy weekend but only because we did tons of fun things!  Saturday we got up around 7am and I started vacuuming while Nikki got Elias up and we cleaned the house and were out the door by 8:30am.  We took Elias to Andy’s Barber who’s now cut 4 generations of Stinton hair!  Elias did…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRrJD7nV7s0&hd=1 put together a short video of Elias on the beach this past weekend. Make sure you click the little box in the bottom right corner to “720p” for the HD version.  I need to figure out how to make that the default in my new theme…

Grandma J (my Dad’s Mom) turned 91 last week and we were fortunate enough to be able to fly down to Myrtle Beach for a long weekend to spend some time with her.  Elias did very well on the airplanes and LOVED the beach.  We went for long walks on the beach every morning we…

Yes I know I’m a week behind on these shots, but I’ve been super busy trying to merge 3 of my sites into one (this will be one of the lasts posts on benjacobsen.com, click here to see this post on benjacobsenphoto.com).  But we’ve been having a ton of fun with Great Grandmother’s lately.  Elias…

Well Elias had a bit of a breakthrough this week.  This might be a bit gross to some of you but he pooped on the potty for the first time!  He’s done it twice more since.  Big steps towards getting out of diapers which is great.   Not much going on besides that, I’ve been…

Sorry to dump this many shots on you guys at once, but I haven’t grabbed the images off the iPhones in a while so I decided to put them all in one gallery and share them with you guys.  So enjoy almost 100 shots from early July through late september!  Nikki gets credit for most…

Well it’s been a busy and fun weekend.  The above shot is actually one I DID NOT TAKE.  Credit for that goes to Brian Harrington who’s a friend of mine through the forum and a fellow landscape shooter.  He and I shot Newton Ave Saturday morning then went down to Point Judith to check the…

Well I skipped last weeks update.  We’ve just been super busy lately and honestly I didn’t have all that many pictures to add so I figured I’d do a 2fer.  We had an adventurous week though… A skunk decided to try to move into the crawl space directly under our bedroom…  We ended up spending…