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I think we have 9 days left, but I can’t be sure.
i’m swamped with last minute minutia.
by this weekend i should be ready to sit back and enjoy the Christmas season. all 5 days that we’ll have left of it.
we really are trying to do advent every day. but honestly, it’s spotty.
we did have a great time and made a monster of a mess last night when we made gift tags.
here’s a glimpse at the fun. (don’t be fooled by the lack of smiles. my kids are protesting the camera again.)
In between editing shoots, my Photoshop class assignments, and the crazy week of Halloween, I have not updated this blog with anything other than Photography stuff.
I’m actually in the process of developing a separate blog specifically for photography which I hope to be up and running by Thanksgiving. I miss posting about my regular life and all the blase things that are going on.
Halloween was a success. We have a ton of candy hanging around, and even more wrappers. The candy fairy may have to pay us a visit soon.
Here are some pics of a dead ventriloquist, Charles Bronson, a true Jedi, and Ron Weasley…
Hope you had a fantastic Halloween!
Just in time for Halloween!
This was last year’s costume but it makes it’s appearance every so often throughout the year.
You can never get enough Darth, right?
Check out all the other festive photos over at iheartfaces.
Happy Monday!
When I saw these on Amy Locurto’s blog Living Locurto, I knew I needed to make them for the women I visit each month.
I even had enough left for my kids to munch on after school.
Go check out Amy’s awesome blog for the instructions. She is co-founder of my favorite photography blog iheartfaces. She’s a graphic designer as well as a fabulous photographer and has lots and lots of free downloads on her blog.
I’ve got two shoots this weekend including my very first urban family shoot. I’m super excited and hope to have a sneak peek up in a couple of days.
Happy Weekending!
What are you going to be for Halloween???
In an attempt to decide, the boys talked me in to going costume shopping yesterday.
So we hit the warehouse and found all kinds of silly and gruesome and frightfully fun things to explore.
I think we’ve got it nailed down now.
We’ll have a ‘true jedi’, one Mr. Ron Weasley, and a toy slayer (whatever that is).
What are you going to be for Halloween???
Apparently we have a little green in our thumbs after all.
Our garden yielded 24 pumpkins this year!!!
We harvested yesterday. It was downright cold. I had to put a coat on for the first time this year!
And this is the first time I did not have to BUY cornstalks to decorate the front porch.
I made homemade breadsticks and corn chowder and we watched General Conference all day. The only time I set foot outside was to take these pictures.
I LOVE fall!
But I hope to never do that again.
My blog has been neglected, this time, because we were out of town
We just got in last night.
I’m afraid this is going to turn into Travel-Log-Blog this summer with all the trips we have planned. That’s just as well since I’m a little burned out of coming up with intriguing, thought-provoking, clever topics.
You’re right. This blog has never been about intriguing, thought-provoking, clever topics. So why start now?
We wandered around sampling the delicious California fruit and bought a basket of plump raspberries and a bag of juicy nectarines and plums to fuel the rest of the drive ahead of us. Yum!
I’d rather have pie or cookies or ice cream but ever since I saw this on Meg’s Whatever blog, I’ve been wanting to make it. I really wanted to whip it out for the last day of school but it was not to be. So I decided to make it for our Family Summer Chore Kick-Off Evening last night. Hey, there had to be SOMETHING sweet to off-set the chore doldrums.
Of course Meg made it look so simple and gorgeous with her photos. So I thought mine would be simple and turn out gorgeous as well. I pulled my camera out to document this simple and gorgeous cake. Bumping around in my mind were visions of Martha Stewart magazine covers and The Pioneer Woman’s gourmet cowboy cuisine posts. I should’ve known better. My camera has no place in my kitchen.
If you’ve got a hankering for a little sunshine in your day, or for something to make with your kids, give it a try. You can get all instructions on Meg’s blog. She is a daily must read for me. She has some serious photo skillz and has a house I could easily covet (if I were the coveting type).
Despite the rain and the brewing storms (my favorite kind of weather!), the dance went on as scheduled Friday night. Our die-hard neighbors put on a fun family street dance complete with sound equipment, strobe lights, and food. The kids had a great time! A certain someone (who shall remain nameless) rustled up the courage to ask a certain other someone to dance. Twice. All was good in the world that night.
We love going out with friends. It’s so nice to have people you can call up and go out with spur-of-the-moment, which is what we did Saturday night. It was Cosmic Bowling at a local alley so we grabbed a pair of clean socks and headed out for a night of bowling. It’s been a couple years since we’ve been. It showed. But we had a great time! The girls won the first round and the boys won the second.
I can’t believe I have a daughter starting high school in the fall. Where does all the time go? I distinctly remember the day, fourteen years ago, when we brought her home from the hospital in all her pink entirety. I was thinking:
Though far from helpless now, we still ask each other:
A lot has changed since that day many years ago:
But some things have remained the same:
It’s heartening to watch her grow through the years and see her making more and more of the right choices as she gets older and a bit more experienced and wiser. I think that’s the most rewarding thing for a parent. To see your kids choosing good all on their own.
So, because she has been good , we agreed to a birthday party…
(triple yikes!)
That was last night and it went off with just one hitch. The wind started to blow halfway through the movie. REALLY hard. We had to batten down the hatches (temporarily nail the movie screen to the siding on the house). Luckily the movie included enough action (for the boys) and young hot actors (for the girls) that the wind did not deter. They watched Forever Strong, ate candy, popcorn, cupcakes, and S’mores, played basketball and did a lot of texting. I think it was a success!
