Luckily it wasn't anything a bottle of Draino and some good plunges from my husband couldn't fix.
It makes me happy when...
I was watering the plants the other day, and thought, it makes me happy when the flowers I plant are still alive.
So I was going to take a picture of my beautiful labor of love and post it. Then I was going to try to post weekly the things that make me happy. A nice gloomy day, a dinner where the kids don't get half of their food on the floor, you get the idea.
So well I was in my happy moment, I loaded my plant picture onto my computer and...nothing. My 5 year old laptop fizzled off into cyber heaven. Oh dear.
That should have prompted me into starting the "It makes me mad when..." post. Or maybe it was a sign, who knows.
I know have a beautiful new IMac sitting on my desk at home. I love it, can stare at it in awe for hours. But I do miss my laptop and the portability of it.
So then I got back into my "It makes me happy when..." mood. So well I have yet to upload any photos to my beautiful new computer, I will hopefully share my happy moments with you soon.
Oh, and with all the computer drama among other things, my plants died.
My Artist
Last week Owen's school celebrated Teacher Appreciation Week. Owen is lucky enough to have two amazing teachers in his Kindergarten class. One of their assignments was to draw a picture for each teacher, which would be collected from each student and put in a book.
At the beginning of the school year Owen would just rush through things, not paying much attention to detail. I've noticed his progress throughout the year. Instead of quickly drawing a stick figure and throw in the towel, he is now drawing books with such titles as "The Imagination Land" and "On the Farm".
Here, Owen drew a portrait of Mrs. Giles
Mrs. Rodney was lucky enough to get a scenery picture. Owen calls it "Life on the Himalayas"
Sticky Fingers
This is what happens when a four year old named Emma is left alone with a box of Krispy Kreme's.
Happy almost Friday!
Why does it seem like Friday today. I don't like it when the weekdays trick you like that.
I wanted to share with all of you Emma's new obsession. She got a Yo Gabba Gabba/DJ Lance Rock hat and glasses set.
She won't touch the hat, she says it's too big, but she claims the glasses make things clearer for her.
She wears them all afternoon. She'll take them off, put them back on, and say.."Much better" as if they are some magic glasses or something.
Tobin & Erika - Engagement Session
Erika had a vision. She scoped out her location, thought long and hard what would work, and set her expectations. When she asked me to shoot her engagement session, I was a little nervous, hoping I could meet all of those expectations.
We met at the train depot and wandered around a bit before we started shooting. Erika and Tobin are straight out of a fashion magazine. They look so good together! Erika fell right into the shoot and gave me a lot of sassyness, fierceness, and hotness, with little to no direction. I know it's not easy being in front of the camera, especially when you have an audience of people waiting for the train, but we managed to duck into some empty areas and got some great shots.
Thanks so much you two, I had fun sneaking onto private properties and visiting ostriches with huge ear holes ;) You both rocked!
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