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As some of you may know, we just got back home after a week in Mexico. We usually prefer to have lots more adventures during our travels, but this time we had a short and relaxing family vacation in one of the big resorts near Playa del Carmen.

As usual, we took a bunch of camera gear with us but after having lugged two big cameras around for a few days, we decided to let it go and leave them in the room. After all, what interesting photo opportunities can you find in a resort? Well, as Murphy’s law would have it, dramatic light happens as soon as you leave home without the camera. Fortunately, I always carry a little point-and-shoot with me, and all the pictures here were taken with it.

An amazing sunset we saw in Cancun:

Our Thanksgiving dinner with Turkey and tropical cocktails:

Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!! Have a great week :)

At the end of July we posted that we are going to Yosemite for a bit, but after the trip we got so busy that we never got around to post pictures. Better late then never, so here we go!

It was my pretty much the first real visit to Yosemite and I absolutely loved it! It was very warm and comfortable during the night so we could sit by the fire all night long. During the day though it was well above 100 degrees and we couldn’t do any hardcore hiking and were mostly just walking around the valley and along the river.

It’s never safe to nap when the camera is around!

Self portrait how-to: 1) Turn on the timer 2) Put the camera down on the ground 3) Push the shatter button 4) Ruuuunnn! :) We did it quite a few times too :)

I just loove the feel of this one:

Mike – the master of fire:

I could not believe how close the mule deer let us come to them. They really didn’t care!

The famous Half Dome. We met a couple there who just got engaged on top of it that morning – soo romantic! We’ll have to climb it one day :)

The challenge of going to Yosemite is that the park is so popular you need to make campground reservations half a year in advance. The next reservation date is already on my calendar and we are so going there again next year! :)

This week is incredibly exciting for the whole family: we got to meet Mike’s new nephew Jonah! He decided to come out and see the world a couple of weeks ahead of his due date, so it was a bit unexpected :) Both the mom and the baby are doing great and they’re at home already. Jonah is tiny and absolutely adorable!!! :)

We didn’t have a chance to photograph him yet, but here’s a picture by his daddy, Alex Peyzner:

On another note, my most favorite little girl in the whole world turned two today! How did it happen so quick? It seems she just was learning to hold her head not that long ago… I’m so happy and at the same time a bit sad that I cannot be with my family to celebrate her birthday. Here are a couple of pictures of Dasha I took while visiting them in Russia about a month ago:

Have a great upcoming weekend everyone!