Check It Out!

Ever since Nathan and I met, we've shared our love for photography. About the same time we knew we wanted to get married, we also started talking about working together as a husband/wife photography team...that was about 4 years ago. We're not sure what did it, but something finally kicked our butts into gear, and we are underway with Labunski Photography!

Nathan has been slaving away in front of the computer designing our website (from scratch, might I add!) and I had my first real photo shoot yesterday.

So check us out!

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If anyone needs any sort of photography done, anything from wedding to newborn, give us a call!

A Reminder

I stumbled across this photo while looking through some files on the computer and it took my breath away. It was taken only 19 days after the boys were born, and was the first time we'd ever held them side by side. Asher is on the left, Levi on the right. Those are Nathan's hands holding their tiny little heads.

And now?


















Lord have mercy, I just subjected you to WAAAAY too many photos of my sons. But I just couldn't stop! Levi's in the brown, Asher's in the blue. Nathan took these photos and didn't even show me...can you believe that man?! Not that I've been home to show them to, considering the fact that I've worked 10 of the last 12 days.

My point is, we are so incredibly blessed that these two babies came into the world as early as they did and yet are perfectly healthy and happy babies.

Fall Is In The Air

There's a nip in the air. My car had frost on it the other morning. No, it didn't snow here like it did in Baker the other day, but the nights are definitely chillier than they were just a week ago.

Last Sunday, my parents were kind enough to watch the boys after church so Nathan and I could have some time together without being on baby duty. After 9 holes of golf up in Cornelius, we had some time to kill before dinner so we went to the pumpkin patch.

What a zoo! The first one was in North Plains, and you had to pay $4 per person to ride the train down to the pumpkin field and back. So instead of doing that, we bought some gourds and indian corn, then headed to the Roloff Farm in Hillsboro. Have you ever seen/heard of the show "Little People, Big World" on TLC? Yeah, it's that farm. Nathan did a family photo shoot for some friends on the farm a few years ago, back before we even know about that show. Anyway, that place was a zoo as well...tons of people, lots of hype. Not nearly as low key as I remembered it being. But we got two little pumpkins for the boys and one big one for us.

After a relaxed dinner at Red Robin, we headed home. Nothing too spectacular, but it was just what we needed.

And, of course, I had to take a few photos of the pumpkins, in honor of fall!


How about a little more spook factor?

A Banner Day In The Labunski Household

First of all, I have to thank God for the WIC program. For those of you who don't know what WIC is, it's a program that help women and children by giving vouchers for things like food, baby cereal, and most importantly (for a family with twins), formula! With their help, we were able to save over $300 per month because they gave us almost all of our formula each month.

But now they can give those vouchers to someone else who needs them because the boys are official weaned off of formula!!!

Levi and Asher had their 1-year well baby appointment just over a week ago. Granted, it wasn't really a "well" baby appointment because they were both sick with colds, but oh well. Asher weighed in at 19.5 lbs, which Levi weighed in at 18.5 lbs. Along with getting four immunizations, including flu shots, the doctor gave us the a-ok to gradually wean the boys off of their formula and on to whole milk. As of their final bottle last night, there was no formula in the mix! 100% milk!

It was nice to finally meet with a real pediatrician for the first time and get some answers to our major questions. Dr. Harbor told us that we really don't have to think about the boys' adjusted age anymore. Yay! They are kind of small for their birth age, but nothing to be concerned about and definitely not surprising considering that they were born 2.4 months early. Dr. Harbor gave us great pointers on what and how much the boys should be eating now, which is something we've been kind of flying blindly on for the past few months. It was hard to move and not have an established doctor, so having the boys established with someone again is a HUGE relief.

Life is good. And I'm so excited to not have to smell soy formula anymore!


P.S. Anyone have any tips on how to transport milk while traveling? I have to admit, traveling with formula is MUCH easier.

I Go Out Walkin' In The Moonlight

Last night's and tonight's skies were graced by big, beautiful harvest moon. I've never had the chance to do night photography before so I jumped on the opportunity the full moon presented.

Night photography is...HARD!

It takes forever to find the right exposure. And once you finally find it, it's next to impossible to get a good focus on the subject because, well, you can't SEE it! Because it's DARK!

But once you get it right (or as close to right as you can get it) it's breathtaking. Try to believe me that these were taken at 10 pm, with no flash, simply a camera and a tripod. And a reeeeeeally long exposure.






Yep, that's the big dipper in the first photo. Let me tell you, I was ridiculously giddy when I saw that it showed up in the photo!

Today I Discovered

• I still love running, but it's kind of hard to do when your cold has moved into your lungs. Yet it feels SO good!
• It's very hard to identify with college students when you have a husband and babies...despite have graduated only three years ago. Getting home at midnight no longer sounds like fun times!
  
• There are days when I miss Baker soooo much that it brings tears to my eyes. Today is one of those days. The things I miss about Baker? Gee, where to start? I miss having a job that I actually know how to do. I miss being in a community that I know intimately. I miss our friends that became more like family. I miss my YL club. I miss having a schedule that was predictable and afforded me weekends off every other week. The list goes on and on. To be honest, there are times when I would like nothing better than to run back there.
  
• Tomorrow is my first pseudo photo shoot...I'm a little nervous.
• I fit into my pre-pregnancy jeans...COMFORTABLY! In fact, I'm wearing some right now!
• I'm 2 lbs away from saying goodbye to the 160's forever!

It was a day of highs and lows. Needless to say, I liked the highs better.

You see...There's This Guy

He is part of our bible study.

He kind of drives me nuts, and not in the good way. He has a bit of a disability, and yet despite knowing that, I get frustrated by the way that he expresses himself. It takes him a long time to get to his point and almost every thought is punctuated with various ways that his faith far outstrips the rest of ours.

And yet...

When he gets to the point, it's like God is reaching out from Heaven and hitting me with the proverbial 2x4. Every time we meet for bible study (once every two weeks), he says at least one thing that takes me breath away and makes me really re-evaluate the way that I view other people.

Tonight, it took him a good five minutes to say "every one of you needs to remember that you are special and have a divine purpose on earth, and that God loves you more than you can imagine". It was almost lost in translation, but when I realized what he was saying, it brought me to tears. I struggle so much to find my worth in this world, yet I could clearly hear God's love coming through in the words of someone that I often lose patience with.

It's humbling, folks.

And so beautiful.