This is Jim taking Abbagael to pick up pizza. Abbagael has a special relationship with "Pizza Man". He is from Italy, has an amazing little restaurant right on main street and best of all he loves Abbagael. He always gives her free garlic knots to bring home too! And if you haven't had New York pizza, well, I'm just saying.....you're missing out. But that's another story...It was freezing outside. But Abbagael was insisting that she wanted to wear her Mickey Mouse hat. So Daddy put it on her. Over her stocking hat. Nice. It worked!
Some have called me "the paparazzi". Back in the day I took photography classes and also enjoyed being the Editor of my high school year book. Then as life went on I pursued other interests. But some years back I took it up again. After Abbagael was born Jim bought me an amazing Canon Rebel digital camera. I can click away and just delete the ones I'm not going to use.
Abbagael is a well documented little girl. Starting with my pregnancy. With a 'high risk' pregnancy they took extra sonograms. Then my doctor even made an exception by allowing Jim to video tape her birth....fun fun. My doctor's cell phone actually rang during my c-section....and I looked at the camera and said, "tell them I'm busy".
So, anyway we've got a lot of pictures and video of her and our lives together.
Why do I do all this? It is simple, really. As we go about our every day lives, special times and events...I usually have my camera with me. I love capturing these times and moments so that we can back up these special memories. And I'm sure we will enjoy them for years to come. There are plenty of times that I don't capture on film. That's ok too. It's not a driven thing. Just an important investment of two parents loving a little girl.
