Easter Sunday ...

I am a little behind on posting these pictures, however I did want to show you all some of the images from that day. Kenzie is just too cute... I know I'm biased... but still she's our beautiful little girl...

Here is the picture of Kenzie's Easter Baskets --- my sister mailed one to her. Kenzie loved them both.


It snowed that morning so an outdoors egg hunt was out of the question, so we did an indoor egghunt in the living room.


A cute one of Kenzie


Our little angel


This is when she came into the living room and noticed what was going on... I like this one.


I liked the processing on this one... she is just soo freakin' cute...



We purchased a cute lamb for her - she hasn't named it yet. But on a side note I make a good lamb sound when playing with her with it... ;-)



Excited about the egg-hunt


Chocolate is one of her favorites...

Pictures from yesterdays hike

Today we chilled, went to grocery store, watched a movie, watched a couple Smallville episodes that I've missed... and I updated the look of my Blog... I like it.

So as promised here's a few of the images from yesterdays hike. It was a great hike. All the images were taken with my 10-22mm Super Wide Angle lens and my 40D.

Here's where we started out- Red Rock Canyon - hooking onto Section 16 and then to Entenmann Trail... of course Kenzie rode in style.

We reached the duck pond and a nice family gave us dog food to feed the ducks... they ate up. Kenzie wanted to feed them some bread, however we didn't come prepared for that plus we had a long way to go still ... so we said good bye to the family and went on our way.

Here's Tara hiking down the trail - still the beginning of it, she's carrying the water and the snacks.

Beautiful blue sky with puffy clouds - I love living here. The temperature was about 60'ish degrees.

There are stairs built into the side of the mountain at one point

The rock quarry area

Mike (holding his daughters shoes - she wanted to hike barefoot) and Tara

Me and Tara - self portrait... with my 5 o'clock shadow- can't see Kenzie but she's still on my back

This is where we started to get lost - some how we went down the wrong trail and got turned around, we ended up going through game trails and private property.

This is the private property we walked down - if you look second hill you'll see a house on top of it. That was 1 of 3 houses that this road lead down towards. What a beautiful place to live.

After 3 hours, Mike offered to carry Kenzie for me, it was such a relief - I was getting exhausted with 35 pounds on my back (Kenzie 25 Ibs + pack 10 Ibs)

We had a great time and can't wait to do that trail again, but next time I'll figure out the trail before we go. All in all we hiked for a little over 4 hours and a little over 7.5 miles. Today's day of rest of well earned. Time for some sleep...

4 Hour Hike ... We're exhausted...

We were in the mountains a couple miles outside of the city... it was a grueling 4 Hour hike, but we made it... I'll post some images tomorrow. We're both exhausted - I carried Kenzie (in a backpack'er) about 3 of the 4 hours. A great way to start our hiking season... Thank GOD Mike went...

On June 21st - we hike Pikes Peak (14,110 ft)... can't wait.



... Kiddo won't be on my back while doing it either... should make it a little easier for me.

I'll always be a kid at heart.

Growing up we had some wonderful memories (me and my 3 siblings), I remember always playing video games (Atari, Sega Master System with the built in Worm game, NES, Sega Genesis, and the PS1) with my brother into the late hours of the night until my Mom would come in and make us turn off the video game, or right after we finished our homework. I would always play the navigator for him, I'd coach him along as he would end up beating each game, he was my older brother so he'd always have the controller and let me play every once and a while... I didn't mind that I liked navigating I liked looking out for him while he played. We'd play 2 player games of course, but I was better navigating... but now... I rock at video games!

I remember most of our Christmases together and the wonderful feeling of not being able to sleep the night before and being filled with anxiety wondering and thinking if I truly got what I was hoping and wanting - I was never disappointed. My parents weren't wealthy more on the poor side growing up but that never stopped them making sure us kids got exactly what we wanted... plus socks, clothes, and underwear. They were wonderful...

I remember Saturday morning cartoons and waking up extra early so I can plan out my Cartoon TV time properly to make sure I had time to watch all my favorites - man I wish they had Tivo back then. My plan would always consist of trying to watch these (this is a small list... and this is throughout the years... can't remember the order) : the Real Ghostbusters, Pac-man, Alvin and the Chipmunks, the Smurfs, Beetlejuice, Superfriends, X-men, Muppet Babies, Saved by the Bell, Q-bert, etc ... ). Wow I sure miss getting up those days and not having a care in the world - just making sure I got the most out of that great morning. Of course afterwards we'd go outside and play with all the neighborhood kids which was tons of fun... but those stories are for another time. Heck thinking of cartoons and some of my favorites I can't help but think about the after-school cartoons, here are a few just to jog your memory --- Thundercats, Ducktales (I love the intro song!), Talespin, Transformers, GI Joe, He-man, Voltron, etc...

Thinking about all this today I made sure to call my Mom and then my Dad to just say I love you... some days I miss those early years, not all were great but it's good to look back on the happy ones. It really makes me love Kenzie (and this time with my family) all the more...

So with all that said, I really do feel that there are many parts of me that are still a kid and don't want to grow up totally - I'm definitely a geek to some degree. I still love video games and some cartoons... but my choice in toys has changed to camera gear, computers and programs. However last week I went ahead and bought something that I've always wanted but like most I always ended up with a CHEAP walmart version. So I splurged and I picked up a Nitro powered R/C buggy, an Ofna Ravanger Buggy capable of going 55+ miles per hour.

Jimmy and I took out his R/C car and mine this past weekend and had so much fun... I truly felt like that little boy from my past - out there at a dirt track racing around and having fun. It was great.

And you know... there are many things I can hope and pray for you - but one of them is that you get something (a hobby, anything...) that is a release from the normal stuff, something that takes you away for just a little while - something that brings back those happy childhood memories... and releases you from everything for just a couple hours...

For me - this is just one of many things throughout life that I'm certain will bring back those cherished memories... I love reminiscing. - Enoch.

Alfrey Family ~ Fox Run Park

Had a shoot with a very cool family (the Alfrey family) this past weekend in Monument Colorado on a wonderful 65 Degree day... it was amazing outside. Then it snowed the next day a couple inches (odd).

They were a wonderful bunch - 4 Kids, 3 Dogs, 2 Cats... wow - Big Family --- but they were happy together and it showed. They were all lovely and such good sports for anything which always makes my job a bit easier...

RFC - Baptism

We attend a wonderful growing church here in the Springs (Rock Family Church), where Tara and I serve as Kid's Church teachers 1 Sunday a month, and where we also learn, worship, and grow in our faith. As well I share the privilege of being one of the photographers that gets to photograph some of the happenings of the church - this month I'll be snapping away during Easter Service and the Easter egg-hunt ... should be a blast.

This past Sunday I was asked to take some shots of the baptism in which I gladly said yes -- it is a wonderful thing to witness. Here are a couple images from the service...

The Youth Pastor (Jordan) - administered the baptism to the youth..

... Oh and if you're in the area and are looking for a good church home... hit me up and I can either recommend ours ... or others in the area that are great churches...

Good night. -Enoch.

Flowbee Haircut

My Brother-n-law{Jimmy} just bought a Flowbee on eBay a couple days ago, I was so excited to see it in person for the 1st time ever. I couldn't wait... I kept asking him when he was going to crack it open and use it so I could capture this momentous occasion. Finally today he decided to use it... Heck YES! Tara assisted Jimmy so I could capture the images...

I have to say after he used it I was impressed... not that bad of a little haircut he got - everything was cut perfectly and even. Will I use it? Maybe not... but we'll see... maybe once at least so I can say that got a Flowbee haircut once.