How I Know She Is Feeling Better...

She is dressed up in her butterfly costume with her makeup done! I have had a sick little girl since her birthday. It has been a long week of hanging out in the living room watching tv/movies and playing with her new DSiXL she got for her birthday. Ronyn has been such a trooper this week in just hanging out with us. I don't think he really minded as he was glued to his new DsIXL. The birthday party went well but I never got to take any pictures as I was taking care of Scarlett. My mom did a good job for me and I can't thank her enough for capturing their 6th and 4th birthday! Thanks Mom!!! I am really hoping that we can get out and do things this week. I feel like school is approaching fast and I am not liking it. Why can't Summer last 4 months?

Date Set

Travis and I have picked a date for our wedding. We have decided to have a backyard wedding with close family and friends. I always feel awkward being center of attention and don't really enjoy it, so I think a small intimate wedding will be perfect! I have found the dress, thanks to the help of my mom and sister Ashley. It is not a traditional wedding dress but it is still beautiful! Lynn (soon to be official mother in law) has a real sting of pearls she let me try on with my dress. They are perfect! I love how everything seems to be falling into place.

Getting Crafty

I made this birthday banner for the kids party that is coming up on the long weekend. I took pictures of the Alphabet letters on my fridge, did a little editing and then printed them off. I then strung them on some twine and used clothes pegs to attach them. I am really happy the way it turned it out. I can see this banner being pulled out for all our future birthdays!

A Big Pout & Some Frog Fun With Neely and Maven

I've Been Lazy

I have to admit I have been lazy. All this summer fun and late nights have taken its toll on me and I am whooped at the end of the night. I am going to start to post more often . I have been going through all my photo's and trying to get them organized and the not so good ones deleted. Here are a few of my favorites that I have taken recently. Our garden that Nana Lynn has taken such good care of is growing. Tonight we brought home 2 radishes, a green onion and spinach. The only thing they liked was the spinach!

From The Past While.....

~My Grandad~

~Scarlett, Ronyn & Maven~

~Scarlett and Blue Edge~

I have so much to catch up on and so many good photo's to share that I can not possibly do it all in one shot. So I picked 3 of my fav's and will add more throughout the week (I hope).

A lot has happened over the past while so I will give you a quick review. It is not in order as I cant really remember what happened first or last but it all happened.....

My grandparents went into a nursing home. I am so happy for this as my Grandad has Alzheimer's and my grandma could just not keep up with taking care of him or herself. I went to see them and they seem really happy. It was really touching as when I got their we had to wait in the hall for a moment and my Grandad seen me and started crying "Theirs Angie, Theirs Angie" and waving to me. I love grandparents and love pictures of grandparents. I hope to get many more.

I also got engaged! After 17 years my Travis asked me to marry him! Scarlett is so excited to be in a wedding that she has already started making crafts especially for the special day. I don't want a big wedding, we plan on eloping with close family and friends. More details and pics to come of this....

We also started a garden with Nana Lynn. We were a little late at starting it but everything seems to be growing well and the kids get really excited to see if anything new has sprouted. Scarlett found a caterpillar at the garden and named him Blue Edge (she comes up with the wildest names) he is now in a ca coon and she is excited to see him as a butterfly!

Also, My sister went to Japan for a week and I cant wait to see her pictures, the kids finished their swimming. We had one pass and one who needs to repeat the level. We will see how that goes in 2 weeks. We have had some awesome backyard fun involving swimming pools, slip and slides and water slides.....Gosh we have done so much and I have so many pics....I hope to keep editing and posting!

Nightshoot

I had so much fun last night shooting pictures outside. I learned a lot too! We tried to capture motion making the cars blurry. We learned how to make a night picture look and feel like it was taken at night. Also we experimented with store front windows. While we were waiting for the sun to set we learned how to take good portraits with foregrounds and backgrounds. We also learned about composition and were able to just be creative. Stratford (my hometown) is so beautiful, especially at night. I never really appreciated it's actual beauty until last night. I cant wait to do this again on my own time!

You all know Justin Bieber right? Well he has been hanging out this week in Stratford (his hometown) with this girlfriend Selena Gomez. You would not believe the people who asked us if we were looking for the Biebs and Selena. Their facial expressions would go from excitement to total let down when we all replied we were just a photography class....Too Funny!