The puppies are two weeks old and doing great. They are growing fast. They eyes all opened this week, I would say around the 12 day mark they opened up. A couple of them are unsteadily walking which you can see in the video. Enjoy the cuteness. As always click the photo to see the slide show and the bottom image will play a video.

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Here are some more photos of the puppies, click it to go to the slide show.  They turned 1 week old this weekend.  A video is below as well.  They are healthy so far and gaining weight.  We had our first pup hit the 2 pound mark today.

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I just discovered three outdoor racquetball, handball courts just off of Ogden Avenue in LaGrange.  They are in pretty good shape and used quite a bit for handball.  I am looking for some people interested in playing racquetball.  Let me know if you want to play.  Contact me here.  Or if you have any information on when racquetball players come down to the court, let me know as well.  –Aaron

We had a pretty big snow storm in Chicago a couple days ago.  We got about 8 inches over the course of about 24 hours.  Hannah and the doggies of course love it.  Here is a short video of Hannah trying to walk through the snow and some photos of Nadia standing up to her elbows.
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The Chicago area had the first few flurries of the winter.  I actually kind of hope we have all kinds of snow this year.  It would be fun.

We did the Wendella boats architecture and Lake Michigan cruise last weekend when Ryan and Amber and their new baby Ruby were in town.  The best thing about it was that we all got on for free and the tickets were normally $23 each.  The building shown is the Trump tower.  It is really a nice addition to the skyline.  Video too.

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Here are a few photos and a short video of the 2009 Chicago Marathon. My time was 4:22. A good race all in all. It started out about 30 degrees and warmed up to the high 40′s toward the time I finished. My dad, Bryan Scheffers, and Craig Barton ran it too. My mom, Ashlee, and Hannah were all dedicated spectators.

I have been thinking about photographing fireflies every since the first time I saw one (which was actually when I can out to Chicago for med school). As you can imagine it is extremely difficult. I took about 100 shots and only got streaks on these five. I did take a nice video too. It took about 2 hours on 2 different nights. I started out by capturing them in a glass and quickly realized they don’t light up if they don’t fly. I then tried to release them right in front of the camera and they all flew off in different directions. Next, I tried just firing the camera from the tripod hoping I would get lucky, which happened twice. Finally, I resorted to chancing them around using long shutter speeds.