Pictures?

I'm trying to put together a slide show of pictures to add as an "element" to Lil' B's blog (this whole thing is still rather new to me and I have no idea what I'm doing). I wanted to include pictures of Sean and me sans bebe (obviously) and pictures of all the cool people in our lives who will eventually play an important part in the life of the little bean...

But in compiling this slide show, it became glaringly evident that there's a huge lack of picture-taking going on here! It's like an epidemic. Not only are we guilty of it--Sean and I are know for having had some really fabulous experiences and either forgetting the camera all together, or coming home with one grainy, blurry, wide-angle shot of us there to show for it--but EVERYONE is! With maybe the exception of my mom, who is a picture taking fool. And Pop Len, though most of his pictures are of scenery and the friends he and Patty make on their globe-trotting adventures, rather than of themselves. And Grandma Diana, who is the queen of disposable 35mm film cameras, and Courtney and Sean and Dana and Paul, who are practically or actually professional photographers....

Wait a minute here. There are obviously pictures being taken. We just don't have any.

Hence the montage of pictures from our wedding. Sigh. (Yeah, I am being a little dramatic here because I never really do get sick of looking at pictures from our wedding. It's true.) But I really feel self-conscious about it, much in the way that I feel self-conscious about starting this blog...like it's a little self-indulgent. Or a lot. I will have to keep reminding myself that this is for posterity. In any case, it will hopefully be the kick in the butt that I need to make picture-taking a priority so we have documentation of all the great people we know and things we do and fun we have.

While our friends and family take digital pictures that are easy to share, most of them are posted on those photo-organization websites like Snapfish and Flikr and are shared that way, and I can't get them off there! I suppose that's the point.

Anyway, I guess this is a call to our friends and family: if you have any nice pictures of yourselves or of family gatherings and you find yourselves with a little spare time, can you send them to me? NOT by inviting me to "view your Snapfish album," but as email attachments. Just a couple, so that the most recent pics we have of you are not from two years ago (no matter how I cherish the memory of that glorious day in Mexico.....).

Thank you!! XOXOXO