Ezra James' Blog

I just blinked and summer is almost over. It’s amazing how quickly time flies. Life has been pretty darn good these days. We have had the most laid back summer. Love it! Here are a few things that we have had going on….

Ezra finished his swimming lessons last week. It’s amazing what six lessons will do for a toddler. He loves the big pool and won't have anything to do with the baby pool anymore. I have a feeling next summer he’ll be out there swimming across the pool all by himself. For now he can swim a few strokes (mostly doggie paddling but it’s a start), hold his breath under water, swim down to the bottom to grab toys, go all over the pool on a noodle, and he LOVES to jump off the diving board and go down the giant slide.

We wrapped up our TCU music lessons last week. This was our third summer to do those. This year Ezra was the oldest child in the class. He can do so much now at these classes. All three of us enjoyed it quite a bit.

Let’s see…what else….we've had lots of trips to the science museum, the zoo, Ezra’s first omni movie. We’ve also been playing a lot of golf this summer. Ezra digs it! He plays with us and also with Nanna & Pop when he goes to their house.

Speaking of Nanna & Pop….I have AWESOME in-laws. Ezra spends the night at their house 2-3 Saturday nights each month. It rocks! He loves it and we do too.

Ezra has been going to school part time this summer so that’s been nice. On my days home alone I’ve been doing lots of house projects and lots and lots of editing. Lindsey and I have shot 5 weddings together this summer so that’s definitely kept me busy. It’s amazing how much time goes into editing a wedding. Now I know why photographers charge so much. Time. It’s all about your time. And when you have a toddler your time is very, very, very valuable.

El Scorcho Quatro was this past Saturday night. My incredible husband did an amazing job as always running the show. (Shout out to JBalls too!) This was my first ever El Scorcho to run. I’m usually photographing all the crazy runners but this year I decided to try it myself. 15.5 miles in the middle of the night, in July, in Texas is not an easy run. It was definitely a challenge for me and I have a new appreciation for people who can run in the middle of the night. Normally that distance isn’t too big of a deal for me. I’ve run much further many times and it’s been fine. But the time of day was what got me on this one. I finished though. It wasn’t pretty but I finished and then headed home a little after 3:00 a.m. to crawl into bed. It might be my one and only El Scorcho to ever run. :0)

We’re starting to get geared up for fall. Logan plans to run another 100 mile race so he’s started training for that. Ever wonder what mileage you start training at for a 100 mile run? This weekend he’ll do a 19 mile run. And that’s at the beginning of his training. Pretty amazing, right? I think so. I have a pretty amazing husband.

And since blog posts are much better with pictures here are a few more that go along with my last blog post almost two months ago. We took these pictures on our wedding anniversary, June 7th. Every year we always take a picture on our anniversary. This was our seventh one to take. It's amazing how many different looks I've had over this short amount of time. Logan always looks the same to me but I definitely change. Anyway, it's a fun little thing we have going in the back of our wedding album that we add a new picture to every year. Thank you for the idea of doing this six years ago Mary Bess! And thank you to Jason for snapping these for us this year!
In our attempts to take a picture of just me and Logan we gave Ezra one of his favorite treats, an Otterpop. Such a simple little thing but man he loves them! We also told him that we needed him to be good so we could take a picture. So as Logan and I sat down for our shot he plopped himself down in the grass just a few feet away and happily enjoyed his treat. What a good kid. He cracks me up sometimes! :0)

More summer pics to come....hopefully...