Category Archives: Personal

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no excuse NOT to vote

Election Day in Texas is coming up on March 4th, but you don’t have to wait until then to make our voices heard. We voted early for Barack Obama (see post from Monday), and we wanted to make sure you knew where to vote early too.
Check out a video of Barack at a rally in Houston and use this online tool to find your early vote location:

http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/txevlookup

We hope you’ll join us in voting early — and in supporting Barack!

an important PSA from janelle lynn photography (and hubby)

the first of many more video blogs:

Houston Zoo

After a day of wet, miserable weather we woke up to a gorgeous day yesterday. What better way to spend it than at the zoo! Warning! lots and lots of pictures ahead. I took all of these with my 50mm lens.

First up were the Sea Lions. We were lucky enough to watch the zookeepers feed them. Apparently Sea Lions are highly intelligent and need to constantly be stimulated.

This is the LARGEST catfish I’ve ever seen.

This baby giraffe is only two weeks old!

These cute pups are only 7 months old! Aren’t they adorable??!!

As a result of the writer’s strike my favorite show is Orangutan Island on Animal Planet and I’ve been wanting to visit the primate exhibit for the past few weeks. Isn’t he handsome??

Catherine and Scott’s Wedding

Hubby and I attended a wedding as a guest last night. It felt sooooo different to not be running around shooting or planning for the next shot. Of course, I brought along our little point and shoot camera so I could take some pictures.

Catherine looked beautiful walking down the aisle to the theme of Star Wars.

Hubby and I at the reception:
Our table assignment had us right at the edge of the dance floor and I was determined that we sit in the seats closest to the floor. You see, there was something setup in the middle of the floor and I wanted to be near the action. Hubby hem and hawed but I eventually got my way. (as I always do) Well, after the bridal party introductions 4 chinese dragons came out and started dancing the the beat of this very large drum. We were right next to one of the dragons and it immediately singled hubby out. Poor guy! He was sitting there quietly drinking his tea with a dragon dancing in front of him - making goo goo eyes nonetheless! LoL I was rolling on the floor laughing! During this ordeal, Hubby kept pointing to me and saying, “This is all your fault! YOU wanted to sit next to the dance floor!” over and over again. I was laughing so hard I was unable to press the shutter to take a pictures. The dragons eventually worked their way around the ballroom and hubby was spared.
I can’t wait to share this story with our kids someday. :-)

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Hubby and I love celebrating Valentine’s day - why not? Yes, it’s day totally exploited by retailers and Hallmark and our view is to enjoy it for what it is. A day to celebrate and express the joy in being together and loving one another.

This morning our alarm went off at 5:30am like normal and Hubby immediately got up. This is very rare in our household as I’m the one usually poking and prodding him to get his booty out of bed. I didn’t think anything about it and went back to sleep for my 10 minute ’snooze.’ I was getting ready in the bathroom when my Hubby walks in with a coffee mug in one hand, a plate in the other and a bottle of syrup under his arm. The picture he made was so hilarious and cute! He can be such a sweetie sometimes. ;-)

He made heart shaped pancakes!
then gave me my Valentine’s present - a brand new pair of Kangaroos!!!! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE these tennis shoes - they’re comfortable, relatively inexpensive (compared to Nike) and cute! This is my third pair! :-P

Later in the day I received a small arrangemet of pink and red tulips - my favorite flower!

Thank you Hubby for a great Valentine’s day! :-)

janelle lynn photography’s new blog!

We have a new blog!!!!!  We’re sooooo excited to start sharing more about our lives and work.  Any image with a yellow border was taken with a Canon SD1000 powershot.  Any image with a green border was taken with one of our Nikons.  We’d love to hear from you - so please leave comments!