For the past several years we’ve taken the opportunity to have a little photo shoot with our niece, Leah, to document her birthday each year. You can see the blog from last year’s birthday HERE. We really have loved being Tío y Tía the last four years and have enjoyed getting to know the person she is becoming.

Photos from this year’s session:

Happy 4th Birthday, Leah! Tío Iván y Tía Sarah te quieren mucho!

My friend Sabrina came to visit us this past June. The last time we saw each other, we were teenagers in high school.  She actually stayed with my family as an exchange student during that time. We had lost contact with each other after that, but found each other again a couple of years ago through Facebook. We hadn’t seen each other in 1o years, and what else do you do on those kinds of occasions but have an impromptu photo session in the backyard? The sun was rapidly setting, and the mosquitoes were starting to get bad, but a few pictures we were able to get.

Sidebar: This is us 10 years ago.

The two of us today: