Category: Family
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2023 – On changing seas(ons)
As the title suggests, I’m feeling metaphorical for this year’s Christmas/year-in-review newsletter. But I’ll save that more for the end, let’s catch you up on the Montana Powells and their adventures for the year 2023. Let’s start of with trips and travels. We headed out to Oregon for Elijah’s spring break to spend some time…
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2020: Not a dumpster fire
Man, this year was one for the books! It wouldn’t be a year’s end without a little retrospective, and this year was a good one. You might be taken a-back at that, but 2020 was a good year. Yes, a global pandemic sucks, sucks hard. Political and social unrest also make for unsettling discourse and…
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Quarantine Walks | Nature Park Scavenger Hunt | Helena, MT
Well friends, I was planning on posting this over on my business site to give people a little insight into my life and my family. My website isn’t liking me, so here I am giving it to you all instead. Enjoy! Quarantine Walk Earlier in the week we decided to get out and enjoy an…
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We bought a [really old] house
We’ve been in Helena for about 7 months now and have spent most of that in an apartment on the east side of town. If we were sans kids and without pets, it wouldn’t have been so bad, but we have two kids and a dog that needs exercise. It was next to Walmart, in…
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The father and son head west
We never intended on leaving The Dalles so abruptly. Between the new job and finishing up the house, I really didn’t have time for much else. That includes my family, both immediate and extended. Fortunately, my brothers and sister all made trips to see us off before we left, but it was also to help…
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A decade, A DECADE!!!
2020 is here! I know, I know, I’m a little late on the recap… give a guy a break!!! As we head into a new decade, a new form of retrospective starts to build in our minds. Ten years ago, I had just graduated college, Jess and I were just two years married, and we…
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We have a four year old | Tuckerman Park
I can’t believe it came and went. I feel this way every year though and I’m sure this feeling will never go away. My first born turned four on October 2nd and I am in disbelief that it happened. Now that we have little mister Fitz around, I’m reminded of how tiny and all the…
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Newborn Session | Fitz Bergen Powell
The photographer in me can’t help but do basically all the different types of sessions around a newborn. You can do a birth session, a fresh 48 and a newborn session. Part of me would have liked a birth photographer while the other part of me kind of cringes at the thought of it. It’s…
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Fresh 48 | Fitz Bergen Powell
I have always loved the fresh 48 hospital pictures that people sometimes take right after the baby is born. If you don’t know, fresh 48 is a photography session taken within the first 48 hours of a baby’s life. A lot of people tend to do these instead of labor photos. They are a little…
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Son of the Mountain People
If you aren’t “in the know,” our son, Fitz Bergen Powell, was born to us 5:01pm Thursday, August 29th, 2019 at 8 lbs. 9 oz. and 21.25 in. long. Jess carried him 41 weeks. Jess was induced into labor with Pitocin and had her water broken mid day. She pushed hard for two whole hours!…
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Bump Photos
After the remodel and the move, I knew I wanted to take some time to get maternity photos. Now, I didn’t have time to look around to find a local photographer to Helena plus as a photographer myself, I’m a little picky. If I am going to pay someone, I want to really like them…
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New Town, New Traditions
We’ve been living in Helena for almost two months now. Our apartment is mostly settled and ready for a baby boy any time now. We’ve started taking the steps toward integrating ourselves into the community of Helena. One of those steps was partaking in one of the largest events the city holds each year, Symphony…