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Today is the big day. Russell is going to Graduate from High School tonight. Then at midnight during the Project Graduation Party he will celebrate his 18th Birthday.

Congratulations Russell and a big Happy Birthday!

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The decision is in. Russell will attend Rutgers/Mason Gross School for the Arts as a music performance major and Biology major next Fall. It will be a tough schedule but he doesn't want to limit his options which is why he wants to go for both majors. This decision was a long time in coming but I think after careful consideration it is the right one for him.

There's a lot of other good and or hopeful and interesting news to share. First of all it looks like Rob will indeed be home very soon. I don't have an exact date, but I did get a letter from his command recently in preparation for his return and some of his things arrived here today. I missed the mail today but they are at the post office waiting for me to go get them tomorrow. I am so excited and elated that he will soon be back home.

I got a very interesting call this afternoon and I have been offered a job doing some freelance photojournalism for a fairly prominent news media outlet here in NJ. I will fill you in when I have all the details, but I am very happy and excited about it and I have a good friend of Rob's from high school to thank for the recommendation. It's a pretty big deal for me.

DL, Thanks so much for the recommendation!

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Today is Jon's 15th birthday!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JON!!!

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Rob is on his way home! He's in Europe and will be home tomorrow night!

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We went to West Point on Friday to see the United States Military Academy. Russell is a Junior in High School and has started investigating colleges, and universities. He expressed an interest in West Point so we went there for a Candidate information session and tour. If you want to read about the experience, I went into it in greater detail on Parallel Universe.

This was the Cadet who was our guide. While each of the Candidates, went off with their Cadet guides, he took the parents on a tour of the Academy. I don't remember his name, unfortunately, but he was great. He was funny and smart, and very engaging and informative. He is about to graduate in less that 40 days.

I wanted to get a clear shot of him, with a better composition but it proved difficult since we had a very large group that day. Often someone would walk in front of the camera as I was about to shoot. It was also very cold and my poor hands were ice so I didn't take many photos and kept my hands mostly in my pockets. When I took this shot he was standing on an incline. If I had pulled back there would have been the tops of heads just below his neck, so the composition is a bit off. I wanted to post it anyway even though it is a less than optimal composition.

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The last post was indeed a macro of a large pine cone. They are cinnamon spice scented ones that I got at the craft store. I have them in a basket on my family room coffee table. I used flash to get that shot.

This is my son Robert who is home on leave for about 2 weeks. After chasing him around for the last few days with my camera trying to get a relatively clear shot of him, I finally managed to get this one. Like his youngest brother Jon, he also suffers from severe camera-phobia. His camera radar is even more keenly tuned than Jon's.

I managed this snap just as he was trying to duck from view as he was carrying around his devoted kitty, Missy. (Thanks Missy for slowing him down a bit!)

I took this with the new macro lens since I'd been using it only moments before and it was on the camera at the time. I think it actually makes a pretty fair portrait lens as well. This was shot using flash.

Robert's presence is a blessing. I am so happy to have him home, although I could do without being set upon with the Velcro dart Nerf gun he's been hunting me down with over the last few days...Some things never change. I've been hit while brushing my teeth, doing my hair, drinking coffee, working on the computer, and just about any time I am unsuspecting. I'm tired of pulling those things off the back of my sweaters! It also isn't fair when he brings his brothers in on the ambush. I did use the same tactic to wake him up yesterday morning though...he he he... ;-)

The life of a mom with all boys is an adventure to be sure, they just need to remember that I had 3 older brothers and no sisters growing up so I am not all that phased by their rambunctiousness, and can give as good as I can get!

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Ok...This is Jon and he is camera shy as many of you know. He's only shy around a camera, otherwise he is loud and boisterous and very outgoing. He tortures me all the time by not cooperating for portraits, posed or otherwise. He has developed a very keen Camera Radar and it's nearly impossible to catch him off-guard. Hence this shot. I think this would have been a nice candid portrait. It had it all, subtle lighting a nice setting a relaxed and happy mood, but...as you can see his Camera Radar was set to high that day and he caught me. So instead of throwing it out I warned him that I was going to use whatever I got and that would be that. So for the record this is Jon on Thanksgiving. Isn't he handsome?

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