Discussing Business and the New Year

Hiiiii....Byyyyyee....Hiiiiiii.....Byyyyeeee

Zoe's favorite words right are ... "Hi" & "Bye".  It's a fun process going out in public, because she will say Hi and Bye to EVERY SINGLE PERSON we see!  Homeless ppes, Armenians, whites, males, transvestites, young and old ... no one is safe from the greetings and salutations of our little girl.  

A Zoe Vid for the Blog This Rainy Sunday

Where I Am - On The Web

The internet is one big bad tangeled web.  I've been contributing to that digital mess of mass information confusion highway since the late 90's.  Today, with my over zealous creative brain coming up with so many ideas and having so many different platforms to chose from, I've found myself on every other corner of the internet.  So, consider this a little map of my art on the world wide web.


www.blackwellphoto.com 
First, and foremost - the reason I always say I'm always on the internet.  Being a stay at home dad, I do most of our work via the web.  E-mails, video conferences, and social networking all make up my day as well as taking care of a 1 year old woman.  So Blackwell Photography's website is the #1 place to find me online.  It is the core of internet presence ... the reason I'm even here, blogging!

Blackwell Photography's webpage is an idea Stacey and I conceptualized one day in the park.  It's a combination of our work.  The Trinity of websites, as I like to call it.  Her portfolio can be found at stacey.blackwellphoto.com, where as mine can be found at marc.blackwellphoto.com.  Our wedding page is it's own seperate site located at weddings.blackwellphoto.com.  That leads to the other subpages, blog.blackwellphoto.com & photos.blackwellphoto.com, where you can view galleries and purchase downloads and/or prints.

Leading into the "social networking sites" in a minute, but still sticking to business.  You can find Blackwell Photography on Facebook by clicking that link.  Twitter, Yelp, Myspace, Tumblr, too.

My personal Facebook site is dedicated to blogs I post here, random status updates, and also a place to share news/blogs/photos/& stuff.B.  It's an overall gathering place for your MB fill.  If you're a Lucas Grabeel fan, or a Drew Seeley fan - you aint gettin' through to this one unless you're super cool.  Haha!

My Twitter page is more laxed and I like to have more followers.  The more the merrier - for some reason...  It's a little more raunchy and fun.  I still promote Blackwell Photography through it, but now with the new BP Twitter, it'll more be a home for letting you know I posted a picture of Zoe somewhere.

My Twitpic is a photo site dedicated to my every day blog kinda pictures. Photos of my hot wife and I going out on dates, to shots of me on a movie set.  Whateva.

My tumblr is a place to post iPhone pics.  Anyone with an iPhone needs 1 dedicated place to upload those pictures to for years.  It's the only way to create a good archive.  And after many attempts and many different photo sharing sites, I've grown to like tumblr for my iPhone viewing needs.

Of course, this blog at Blogger is an old journal of written madness.  It dates back to 2006, so I'll keep it around for a while even if I don't post to it on any regular schedule whatsoever.

Grandpa Santa!

Every once in a while your father in law makes you proud.  This is one of those times, so I'm reposting some pictures he took!

This guy has got it figured out too.  Not only has he been doing Santa for years, it's been a way for him and his family to not use credit cards at all for Christmas!  The money he makes goes directly to presents.  (And now I'm a benefactor of that too!) ;)

Great photos too, from Selah Studios too!  (I can say that, because she's in Texas and not California!) :)

Proud of ya Grandpa G!  Love you too, man.

Peace,

-marc

Baby Blackwell #2!

If any of you are friends with Stacey on Facebook, you already know.  Or, if any of you are friends with us in real life, you already know...

Stacey and I are expecting Baby Blackwell #2!!

Yup!  We are building the Empire, ladies and gentlemen!  Only 7 more to go!  Just kidding ... who knows how many.  But here - I'll answer some of the questions you may have...

Didn't you just have one? (aka, was this planned?)  Yes, yes we did!  Thanks for the reminder.  The babes will be 21 months apart.  We want to have our children close together for a number of reasons, so this works out perfectly!

Do you know if it's a boy or girl yet?  Nope!  Stacey will be 13 weeks along and you don't find out the gender until 18 weeks!  I'm crossing my fingers for a boy. ;)

What are you going to name him?  Him you say?  Well, we have a few names picked out, but we'll keep that under wraps until he/she arrives.

How the heck are you gonna handle 2? Good question!  But I've learned after handling one, if I can do that, then I can do anything!  I'm Super Dad and Stacey, Super Mom.  We aren't worried any more than we should be and are excitedly planning the future of our growing family!

We are going to the Doc later today for an extensive ultra sound and checkup, but everything so far has been great!  The babe has a steady heartbeat, and he/she is making Stacey hungry, nauseous and tired, which is a good sign!

I just wanted to share!  I've been meaning to for a while, but we just figured the online world would figure out in due time.  This is the time!  :)

Cheers!
-marc

Zoe Marcia on Saturday

If you're one of the 69 people who have watched this video, you're lucky! I posted this on November 14th to Youtube.

Life has been crazy, as always. Like my mother used to say "If it's not one thing, it's another." I didn't really know what that meant until being married and havin' a baby! But Zoe and I are doing well, staying at home and takin' care of the fort. I'm really settling into the whole stay at home dad thing. Dishes? No problem. Cook dinner? No worries! Do the laundry (ugh) but ok! :)

Peace,

-marc