daddy's home!

I may have mentioned it once or twice, but I love my husband{!} and thought it was worth sharing again.

We miss him so much when he's gone.  I never seem to quite realize how we function as a complete unit when he's here, and I always realize how much I take for granted when he's gone.

He was in Japan last week and it seems even harder when he's that far away.  His waking hours are completely different than ours, so phone time is limited.

He sent some sweet texts on his way home that I wanted to share ...

7:55 pm - on plane and leaving now; love you call u when I get in

8:07 pm - good night lover ... see u soon

8:30 pm - do we have time for our dinner?

8:48 pm - plane an hour late leaving ...

9:15 pm - hope baby is creamed and soft!!  {i feel this needs explanation ...}

9:32 pm - on plane now.  late ...

I didn't get these until much later, but just thought his random stream of thoughts was so sweet.  Okay, and let me explain ... he is a freak about our children!  The baby's {see!  he calls her a baby too!!} skin gets super dry in the winter and he freaks out about it.  He's constantly slathering her down with lotion.

It's just one of the reasons I love him so much.  Yeah, I get a bit irritated when he's here about some of his freaky, little quirks {or maybe the intenseness of them} ... but when he's gone, it causes me to step back and really appreciate him.

So he finally gets home and just like I predicted ... we smothered him!!  And he loved every minute.

He brought all kinds of little goodies for the girls ... but when he busted out the purses and the little treasures to put inside of them ... I had to get out the camera.  It just melted my heart that a man would get his girlies purses and think to buy treasures to put inside.

I love my husband.  A lot.

And for any photogs that are reading ... I thought I'd share my camera settings and see if you had any thoughts?

So it's my new camera.  I don't normally shoot with a flash if I don't have to, but this lighting was super low, and I just wasn't getting what I wanted.  I decided to try my flash, but my camera wasn't reading it.  :(  Guess I need to do some studying up on that.

I was at 1250 ISO, f /2.8, and if you can believe {well, maybe you can from the blurriness} 1/5 shutter speed.  The color version was even crazier, so I changed to black & white.