Happy Birthday to Me! Yesterday was my 32nd birthday, and I spent it hanging out with Anna and Mia. We had lots of fun playing with their new Dancing Station toy, watching Baby Einstein videos, and getting oatmeal everywhere. It was good times - not many other dads have the luxury of being able to take time off from work and play with their kids, and I feel incredibly lucky.

For my birthday I bought myself a new camera the week before last and have been using my time off to take lots of pictures of the girls. I've gotten involved with the photo group at www.strobist.com, and have been working on improving my baby photos using off camera flash. There's lots of updates in the galleries, but my favorite group so far is this fall leaves one. I've also started getting together with other Strobist readers to try new photo stuff out - some of those shots are up on my Flickr page (linked to from the baby photos here). Anyway, hopefully all the loyal VaughnNet readers are enjoying the new, improved, and numerous baby photos. If you have any requests get them in soon, as I'm going back to work on the 26th, and will be back to my usual sporadic updates.  ¶ 9:16 AM