Cherry Blossom Fairy Tale

I wish I could fly each and every one of you to DC for Cherry Blossom season. Your own private tour of the beautiful flowering trees that welcome Spring with the joy of heaven's trumpets. These pink and white, cotton candy, fairy tale, clouds that grace our city for a few short weeks are a sure promise of time to be spent outdoors. For me a reminder that I am thrilled not to be running the race this year.

All across DC you'd find residents snickering to themselves. The cherry blossoms bloomed early this year, fooling all of the tourists. By blooming early, us residents are about to enjoy the beauty of our city, nearly uninterrupted. 

But since you are all off in faraway lands, I hope you enjoyed the pictures. It is seriously beautiful here. 

Instagram / Copygram / Link Ups

I participated in the instagram #febphotoaday challenge. After a month of taking pictures, here are my thoughts:

I like to be part of things. To join, participate, and share. But I also like things to be complete, so jumping in January 6th was already too late. I needed to wait for February. So I completed the full month.

Reviewing my instagram photos, I generally prefer the photos that I took and uploaded unprompted to the instagram challenge photos. While it was fun to have a topic to get creative with each day, these photos don't really tell the story of our family. They are a bit random.

It was fun, and I might do it again at some other month in the future. But for now, I am finished with this challenge. I got my fill.

Jess wrote an awesome review of copygram. It was super helpful and now I am hooked.

You may notice the insane amount of linkups I have been participating in (see my first thought). I like the schedule this gives my blog and the community that builds through link ups. But I also like the freedom of flexibility in my posts. All that to say, I won't always be linking up so much, but when I do, it will be with blogs I love. Without further ado...today I am joining Story of my Life & a {little} dash of ash!

Some Favorites

I wanted to share some family portraits from our Florida vacation. The fabulous Pam Bell based out of Amelia Island took our photos and was wonderful to work with.

As I was trying to figure out how and when to share these photos, I realized that I have once again been hoarding links to favorites of the interwebs.  What better than a post featuring both?

 FIVE FAVORITES OF THE WEEK:

 adorable rubber stamp kits

    the perfect appetizer for my greek heart (oh yeah, I am greek.  did I forget to mention that?)

    if we lived in a bigger home, I would collect rugs. my latest rug obsession

    this etsy shop redefines whimsy

    a twist on tomboy style, my favorite look of all

What do you think?

Should linking to favorites become a more regular feature on The Scribble Pad?

Old Photos Recreated

Have you seen the "Back to the Future" photo project by Irina Werning?  It is incredible.  Check these (and the rest here) out!  Be ready for a time warp:

I certainly don't have any photo recreations, but I do have some old school photos that I will be sharing next week.  Do you have any of your favorite photos from growing up on your blog?  Dig 'em up and link to them here!

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I'm linking up to Outside Voice...

...Lauren hosts photo link ups and this month's theme is trees, easily one of my favorite subjects {before Behr} so I had loads of photos to chose from.  Here are some of my favorite trees from around the region:

2011: Outside the Library of Congress

I love how this photo looks like a windblown cotton ball.

2008: Hiking Old Rag in Virginia

If I could spend my entire hike looking up at this view, I would go every day!

2008: Nature Walk at Thomas Jefferson's House in Virginia

The beautiful "leggy" trunks deep in the woods.

Linked up on Outside Voice.  Thanks Lauren!

This Photo Needs a Caption

Here is a photo I took of Behr on St. Patrick's Day.  He is wearing an adorable green sweater {with a bear} from our friend Fallon.  However none of the shots turned out very festive.  This look, the yawn, was priceless and needed to be shared.  We are currently searching for a stellar caption.

Captions in the running include:

Look Ma, it's a Behr!

You mean when I grow up, I am going to look like this!?!

Introducing Baby Behr

A few photos of our adorable son.

Behr Robert

01.12.11

8 lbs. 1.1 oz

21.5 inches

I am writing this from the hospital (still) so it is just a quick photo post. 

our little lax player

I love his spiky hair

he loves being held by his daddy

can you ever see enough baby pictures?

our family of three

I cannot wait to capture our birth story here and share it with you all in the coming weeks.

Maternity Photos

My dear friend Julie took fabulous photos of us while we were in PA, weeks ago!  I realize that the hardest part of being a photographer might be sifting through photos and choosing favorites.  I narrowed it down to 80+ and shrunk that into 30+ actual images using the picnik collage feature.  To spare you, I am posting them as a slide show rather than a never ending post of images.  Here you go:

Sneak Peek: Maternity Photos

My friend Julie loves photography and takes some pretty amazing pictures!  For a sneak peek of my maternity photos, skip over to her blog: Green Eggs and Hammes.  Oh, and while you are there, be sure to leave a comment and let her know that her photog skills are awesome!

Have a lovely weekend!

Baby Bump Christmas Cards

With a due date in early January, Mark and I decided that a baby bump on our Christmas card is a MUST!  Typically we go the homemade card route because I like to get all crafty, but this year presented special circumstances.  Here are a few cards we like...but NOT the card we chose!  To see the final product, you will have to wait for good old snail mail.

Which one is your favorite?  Are you sending snail mail Christmas Cards?  When do you typically send cards?  (are you one of THOSE people that already has them in the mail or ready to go?!?)

Maternity Shoot 2

While in Boston, Mark and I took lots pictures at our favorite orchard.  Still contemplating "professional" maternity photos, but these are fun in the mean time.

These photos were taken at 27.5 weeks.  Now, two weeks later, so much has changed.

My belly is growing noticeably larger each day.

Baby boy kicks a bit differently.  His patterns of movement continue to change.

Hiccups are a frequent occurrence for the little guy, while I just have consistent heartburn.

He has taken up residence in the center of my belly, no longer favoring the right side.

And when I am driving, he kicks my ribs, begging for me to elongate my torso and provide more room.

He doesn't wake me up any more, but seems to follow my daily rhythm, becoming active when I am.

I am longing to hold him, but want him to grow healthy and strong inside of me.

I cannot fathom that in about 10 weeks I get to hold this little guy in my hands!

Meeting Samuel

A few weeks ago when we went took an impromptu trip to PA, we had the chance to visit Samuel for the first time.  He is our cousin Mark and Bec's adorable baby boy.

Loving is play gym.  Our little guy has the same one, hopefully he likes it just as much!

 
Watching the Phillies!  A true fan...or should I say phan?

Talking to our baby boy!  Sammy would coo and poke at my stomach, and our baby would kick right back.  It was adorable.  We couldn't get a peep out of sam other than when he was hanging out with my belly.

How are babies so cute?  Even when they sleep?!?!