Happy Pictures

Just some fun pictures from this weekend. Kaleb and Ella had a really good time swimming in Nanny & Pop's pool! Just loving the summer and the time outside!

Joanna & Marty's Wedding

Saturday was such a gorgeous day which was a bonus to the beautiful wedding! I was really pretty nervous about the day's events and taking on the photography portion of Marty & Joanna's special day. I actually had dreams about it leading up to the actual day. I spent alot of time worrying about what would happen and if I would be able to get the job done for them. Overall, I'm really pleased with the results, there's some things i would have done differently for sure, but i've excused myself since this was my first time. Thankfully Joanna & Marty were so understanding of my inexperience and gave me a great opportunity to learn from this and grow from it as well.

A total bonus was getting to play with my lensbabies lens. Joanna was all for letting me play with this great little toy. (see above)

Hopefully this was just the first of many weddings to come... I think I really liked it (shhhh!)

Not much going on here...

Not much to report these days. And no new pictures to post... :( Hopefully that will change after this weekend. I'm photographing my friends JoAnna & Marty's wedding on Saturday. I'm a mix between nervous and excited at this point. I've gotten up several times the past two nights dreaming/thinking about the wedding. This is such a BIG deal... well for me at least, oh and I guess for Marty & JoAnna too!

Andrew is officially on summer vacation... which is good and bad. Good because we don't have to worry about homework and all that stuff that goes along with school, but now his social life is in full summer swing. He's hardly home at this point and it worries me a bit, but I suppose I can't lock him up in the house all summer. (not to mention i miss him, he really is barely home... really just to sleep.)

So... for now... Life is good!

Me and my buddy...

Lucky me... on Sunday I got to spend the day with Kaleb at the Sanner Dairy Farm. Denise Sanner from the scrapbook store was nice enough to invite everyone up for a visit. This picture was taken by Rollie and I was really excited when I saw it as I rarely get any pictures of myself and Kaleb together. I think this one's a keeper! LOVE IT! (thanks rollie)

When we first got there Kaleb seemed to have some reservations about staying, and then on top of that there was a rather large dog walking around greeting everyone as well as a few cats here and there. He kept asking me... "Can we just go back to the car?" I felt terrible, but then he warmed up in no time and eventually forgot about the dog and the cats! (which is totally huge for Kaleb since he still doesn't go near Emma, Babe & Belle at our house.)

While we were there Kaleb made some new friends... Josh, Declan, Jackson, Tater & Ethan. They had a great time on the slip & slide, shooting water guns and going on the hayride. It really meant a lot to get this time with Kaleb. He's getting so big and I'm sure it won't be long before he doesn't want to do these things anymore. (kinda like Andrew... he's way beyond doing these things and more interested in hanging out with his buddies. Which is totally understandable at his age!)

jumping in...

So I'm officially "jumping in..." to the world of Blogging. I'm obviously new to this and really have no idea what I'm doing, but I'm going to pretend for now that I have a clue! I've been reading tons of blogs these days and have come to the conclusion that it's my turn. Even if no one reads it at least I'll have it for myself.

I'm hoping to maintain some sort of "diary" through this blog, as well as posting new pictures and random thoughts... hence the name of the blog! Sorry I couldn't come up with something more catchy then that... but it will do for now!


bye for now...