We took Sophie to Wiregrass mall for New Years Eve. She played in the little town, watched the Christmas light show and had dinner.

A few quick photos after the Fullerton's left and before we took the backdrop down, and one fairly poor self portrait of me while I was getting the exposure dialed in.

Sophie opening up and playing with some of her presents...

Christmas eve dinner at my dad's (grandpa's) house. Sophie had a great time opening presents after a delicous meal of roasted pork tenderloin, potatoes, asparagus, and more. The photos after dinner ...more

were with 2 off camera flashes pointed at the ceiling... pretty nice compared to bumping up the iso into the thousands.

Missing out on the fun yesterday... Diana wanted some photos of her own with Sophie.

These are a few photos Sophie walked into during the Photoshoot today. The rest of the photos are under the "Atherton Family" folder in the "Michael, Denise, and Eric - Maternity and Christmas Photos" ...more

album.

A few Christmas photos with Sophie, us and Nan

A few photos of Sophie while taken during Danny's photoshoot.

Thanksgiving part 2 in New Port Richey... As well as picking up and decorating our Christmas tree.

Thanksgiving Part 1 (part 2 is on Sunday). After waking up at sun rise and picking up Nan, we enjoyed a day of relaxation and a fair bit of feasting with Nan, Cheekie, and Bampa.

A visit to see Aunt Fifi, Rebbecca, Chris, Katie, and Mike.

A day at the shops and park with Cheekie.

Sophie went to visit her Nan today.

Sophie at the breakfast table

Picking up Cheekie from the airport, Sophie got a doll and stroller, Sophie took some photos of Cheekie.

Sophie at the park

At Uncle Rob's house for his birthday.

Sophie and I went to Athena's birthday party today!

Sophie visited her friend Danny today...

It's Official! Sophie is going to be a big sister in 7 months... Currently planned for May 22nd we'll have baby number 2 (although Sophie came a month early, so who knows?). Here are the first ...more

ultrasound images, we'll have another in a month and get the gender in another three months!

Sophie at Play

Sophie and I went to work. Jennie is holding her and Chris is trying to get her to take a pixie stick. Experimented with some off camera flash.

We visited Nan today and got lots of photos.

This is what my photos would look like if I didn't spend excessive amounts of money on fancy lenses with things like fast apertures, great zoom ratios, flare control, focusing controls, build quality ...more

or pretty much any other modern lens feature. Presenting my $15 lens-in-a-cap I ordered from a Hong Kong manufacturer named Loreo. I'm not disappointed at all, it gives a pretty authentic lo-fi look that would be hard to duplicate in post production (not that you'd really want to). And it does have a semi-pinhole setting of f/64 (along with f/5.6,f/8,f/16, and f/32) which does have an artistic appeal (not to mention it puts sensor dust into razor sharp focus). But don't worry my trusty Tamron 28-75 f/2.8 lens is coming back soon (which in my opinion is a bargain even at over 20 times the price of this lens).

Photos with Nan

Sophie entertained Bethany during her photos (See Norvaisas Family Album Soon).

Photos in her cabinet house, playing, climbing stairs, wearing an old t-shirt, and marching in her new PJs and shoes.

Just a few photos on our day together.

Sophie visited her friend Danny today...

Sophie came buy the office, got an STE2 flash transmitter so there are a couple test shots from it (it will pay off more in the studio setups), and there's a Lego photo.

We had a few friends come over for photos (see Thames and Brazinski folders). Here are the candids from the day as well as some nice formals of Sophie on pages 2 and 3... Be sure to check them out.

Sophie spent the Saturday playing with me

Sophie with her Nan

More breakfast photos

When you eat food like grits you tend to go through a lot of outfits in one day.

We went to Diana's coworker's son's (Sam) birthday/adoption party. I might post some of the Sophie photos from the first week of July here since it looks like I haven't taken a photo for a month...

A few photos on my birthday. Sophie took her first series of steps today! We had her walking back and forth about 4-8 steps each way.

First day with the new camera, getting a feel for it.

Breakfast with the Baynard Family before heading home.

We went up for my dear Aunt Anne's memorial service this weekend. Her friend, and close family friend Marcia put together a very nice memorial service as well as making her last days here more ...more

comfortable.

Sophie's running a fever from her shots, but she still lights up a room.

Just hiding out in the fort with Sophie

My apologies for the bug photos. It was outside after our walk, so it got some photos taken.

We went to celebrate Jackson's first birthday today!

Annika came by with her parents for photos (see Braziniski folder), here are a few with Sophie in them, plus a few more.

Stopping by Rob and Sarah's house.

Last day of Cheekie's trip.

Sophie finds her belly button!

Mother's Day

Her Big Birthday party with all her friends. Thanks to everyone involved!

A day outside in her pool, that she got from Cheekie for her birthday.

Today was Sophie's birthday, we had a few family members stop by for dinner. The bigger party with my office friends will be this Saturday. In case you're wondering why it's day 367 and not 365 it's ...more

because I started counting day one when she wasn't yet a full day old, plus it was a leap year... thus day 367 and one year old.

First time forward facing in the car seat and greeting her Cheekie at the airport.

Annika Brazinski was going to get her photos today, but was feeling under the weather (hi Jennifer), so we substituted Sophie in her place.

The Sophie photos from Ed's wedding

Celebrating Nan's "31st" birthday (again?)...

Dinner and Rob & Sarah's

Happy Easter! We have been set free from sin.

Today was a big photo day, so I'm only putting photos with Sophie in them in this album. But if you want to see all the boys Sophie visited today and more, be sure to checkout the Thames and Lasa ...more

Family folders.

Guess who learned how to pull her self up (unassisted) to a standing position today?

A big photo day today. Photos on black, outside, with a wig, and with bubbles are in here.

Trying on a hat.

Outside with bubbles

Veronica's visit, there's more from the trip under Atherton Family.

Some quick test photos with the new backdrop (minus the correct lighting)

Be sure to view them all there are some really cute ones here.

Some photos outside. Whenever the breeze came she stuck out her tongue to taste it.

A few photos with her Nan

Uncle John preached, photos of Sophie and them as well as some photos of Erik and Joshua. Make sure you get to at least the 70th photo for some really cute ones of Sophie.

Sophie's Dedication

A day outdoors... There's also a short video in the Videos section.