Jared’s new favorite thing to do these days is to recreate restaurant dishes. This past friday I had a craving for Thai food and we headed to the closest restaurant, Opart Thai. Plus this place has a parking lot- that is not easy to come by in Chicago! While I ordered my typical Pad Kee [...]

Sorry kids, we were a little too hungry and lazy to take pictures of all our meals last week. We’ve been rediscovering our green vegetables lately, especially the less popular but cheap leafy greens. On our last trip to the grocery store we picked up mustard, turnip and collard greens ($0.48/lb). I think you really [...]

A few weeks ago we were hanging out at our neighbor’s house. While we were there, Jared snapped some quick shots of their beautiful baby girl (while I putzed around). She’s about 7 months old and so incredibly cute. Seriously, I think her modeling skills must be passed down through their genes b/c this little [...]

Immediately after we had our fill of cupcakes, we hopped on over to another birthday party that included a whole roasted pig. Oooh baby. Even if he didn’t invite us over, we would have come anyway! Look at this little guy with his glistening skin AND, it even came complete with an apple in its [...]

Who doesn’t love a foodie themed 1st birthday? This past weekend we headed out deep into the burbs for one of our friends’ baby girl’s first birthday party. It’s amazing how time flies and how fast the kiddies grow up! We brought along our new toy (a Canon 5d body) and took some fun shots [...]