Seek The Substantial

We haven’t done the best of jobs keeping everyone up to date on our second adoption. We have been a little more hesitant this time around because we are more aware of all that can go wrong in any international adoption. Our dossier (paperwork that goes to DR Congo) was…

I was awful at taking photos this Christmas. We started with Christmas at our house on Christmas Eve morning. We did round up the kids for the photos, while at our house. That is Ashley’s fingers at the bottom of the photo. Waiting. I did not take any pictures at…

Every year, we go to my father-in-law’s cabin out in East Texas. There is no cell service, or very little service, and almost zero internet service. It’s really quite great and I get to do things that I normally wouldn’t do, you know, like not be constantly connected to my…

It is a tradition like no other, taking Christmas photographs in November. We went to a park in Canton, that was actually pretty cool. A park that had a real deal Frisbee golf course that looked pretty legitimate and an incredibly nice play area for the kids. It was a…

I am always amazed as to how pretty Fitsum is. I won’t be able to use the word “pretty” much longer, but he really does have a beautiful face.  These are his school pictures from the fall of 2013. The many faces of Fitsum and they’re all totally accurate.

Pretty awesome and one day, when Fitsum in old, he’s going to laugh at the next picture.  He won’t be between the ages of 10 and 18, but after that. Long after that, he’ll laugh and think it’s funny how his old man took this picture of him. Seriously though.…

A while back, one of the people that I follow on Twitter, Sports Illustrated Richard Dietsch had been asking people for their best singular moment captured in a photograph. So I tweeted to him this photograph of Miranda and Fitsum kissing for the very fist time in Ethiopia: It really…

I’m on a roll. Catching up with two posts in one day. Towards the end of May, Justin organized a guys weekend where we had Justin and Elam, Eric and Cole, Matt and Miles and myself and Fitsum together for a guys weekend at their farm near Bogata, Texas. It…

I had an issue with trying to figure out where I was going to store photos online.  I started to dislike paying for the Flickr stuff because so much stuff is free and then Flickr became free.  So here we go. Earlier this summer we took Fitsum to see Thomas…

I think Fitsum officially understands Halloween.  I remember last year and he didn’t have a clue what was going on.  He had on a costume, last year it was Elmo, and he walked up to people’s doors and we went back and did it again.  It is amazing how much…