• Here you will find the chronicles of our family of four. More pictures than words, I am most at home capturing our life with a still camera. Photos help me recognize the beauty and awesomeness in both the phenomenal people I live life alongside and this breathtaking place we live, planet earth.

    I am a child of God. I am the wife to a wonderful man, mother to two amazing little people. I am both daughter and sister. I am a runner. I love to travel and read.

    I often title this season of our life's adventure, The Continuing Adventures of Mallory Girl and Mark Boy. The photography is mine (unless otherwise noted.) Questions are always welcome. Thanks for reading and adventuring alongside us.

photog’s child

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"come on Mommy, let’s go this way"
yes, she is leading me around by the camera strap

    
Christy McInturff - January 25, 2008 - 5:06 pm

That is great:) a true portrait of what she sees as part of Mommy

Dawn - January 27, 2008 - 8:11 am

LOL! What a great photo!

All Done

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We have lots of communication these days. LOTS. Unfortunately not any English. This is her signal (along with many noises) that she is all done with her meal/snack and is ready to get down. Hands over head, opening and closing her little fits and waving her arms = "all done"

    
Dawn - January 24, 2008 - 7:38 am

After five years working with Mallory’s age group, the conclusion I reached was: who needs English when I am clearly making my needs known without it. Oh the endless hours I spent, trying to convince one-year-olds how much fun it is to “use your words”…

reading

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I love this picture. Ben took it and I just adore it. We read. All day long we read. She knows I am a sucker when it comes to books. It is an almost guaranteed thing that when she brings me a book, I will stop whatever and read it to her. The result is that we read all day long. Other families make reading at bedtime a priority, for us, it’s all day long. And at bedtime, we say a prayer and go right to the bed. Thank you Father for a child who loves to read all day long.

    
Christy McInturff - January 23, 2008 - 8:02 am

I remember doing that with Christian…we had several books memorized and he could ‘read’ them from the time he could speak. Unfortunately with Baylor things are a lot busier and I find myself saying ‘not right now’ a lot. I’m trying to be better about that, but it’s hard

never bored

ok…I found this post today and I am still laughing. It’s SO TRUE.

I don’t know how anyone over the age of 8 is bored any longer. Hasn’t
the internet killed boredom? I haven’t been bored since about 1993,
possibly earlier. All you have to do is enter some random search
string…

For real…..It just drains your time away "poof" it’s gone. All the amazing stuff out there…some days I feel the need to sing that song, "Oh be careful little eyes what you see…" But mostly, wow. We never have to be bored again!!