OH HAI! Sorry about that ahem online leave of absence. We’ve been busy? I guess? But now it’s March and a young blogging couple’s fancy turns to updating their blog, finally.

It’s been a long few blustery Arlington winter months—not a snow day, not even a snow delay to be had this year, though. We had the best time visiting the Wisconsin family in January, culminating in an amazing trip to the NFC Championship game at Lambeau Field in Green Bay. We got to watch Brett Farve’s last game, even though we didn’t know at the time. It was a heartbreaker of a game, and the coldest I have ever been ever. FYI for our mid-Atlantic readers: -7 degrees for five hours is cold. Man, oh man.



Sarah’s been on two business trips this winter: one to sunny Miami and now a second to sunny Los Angeles (where she’s feeling under the weather!); I’ve been to NYC. For 19 hours. However, I got to go to the gleaming Apple Cube store on Fifth Avenue, so all’s right with the world.

I’ve also been enjoying my introduction to studio portraiture course at the Smithsonian. Dear Rolling Stone: if Annie Leibovitz is too pricey for your next celebrity headshot, gimme a call.

This is the first year I’ve been at my current job during the holidays (actually, I interviewed a year ago on the day of their office party), so I wasn’t quite sure what to expect for our office lunch at the Chop House on 7th. Overall? A few too many people in the thieves’ christmas, bland food, but a surprisingly good time after all. I took over 300 pictures and came up with a handful of okay ones. It was also my department buddy Erin’s last day—go take her classes at G-Dub next semester!







Full set here.

In honor of the 10th plane I’ve been on the span of seven weeks, I thought I’d take some pictures.

Here’s the view from seat D-21 bound for Chicago:


And here’s a self-portrait:



I’ll be on plane #11 on Friday morning.

I was in Nashua since Monday afternoon for training for work. NH was filled with presidential campaign signs. When I told people I was from DC I got a look that said, “Ah—one of those people.”

After the first day of 9-to-5 class I rushed out to a local park I’d seen online and got some fall-ish pictures. Click the picture below to see the whole set.




ps—come to think of it, I should have told people I was an advance man for Stephen Colbert’s presidential campaign.