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the annoyance.

Impromptu shoot

The other Saturday night we were scheduled to do an engagement session that was canceled last minute. We decided to try to do a shoot with our kids instead - it actually went ok - they had fun and we got some good shots of the oldest two - Nadia - not so much. She was way to busy running around to stop for pictures. We went to the amtrak station - it has been on my list of places to go for a while and you'll see more soon, I have several other shoots scheduled there this month, so in part we wanted to scope out the light and mentally mark down future shots.

I have the first of my senior models scheduled for this week! Yay! I am so excited and so is she!

Have a happy week

These Days...

Yesterday was not one of my best days. In fact it was
pretty terrible - one of those on edge, sortof out of control,
yelling kind of days - I wish I could erase it (minus the work, I did
of course) and do it over. As I was racing about doing my errands,
I looked longingly at all the people outside tending to their
yards, it looked so relaxing and fun - the total opposite of how
I felt. Some days I feel overwhelmed with everything I have on
my plate and that's when I feel out of control, like I can't manage
everything. It'd be nice to say that I just cry out to God and everything
gets put in perspective, but realistically I sometimes forget to cry out
to God and a lot of yelling and grouchiness goes down. But then like today
it's a new day with new things to do and a fresh shot at it.
It's sorta funny that Monday was so awful, because Sunday night
was just about perfect. We went over to County Park and took Joy, our
boxer along. We went hiking on the trails they have and let Joy run loose.
The kids took turns leading the way through the woods - they called it
"an ambenture" (adventure) and we had a glorious time. It honestly
was the best family time we have had in months. Everyone of us
thoroughly enjoyed it. When it got too dark we came home and made
soft pretzels and then I read the kids a chapter in "Little House on the Prairie"
We're reading through that book right now - it's so interesting to me how
the book is different now to me then it was when my mom was
reading it to me 20 years ago. All in all, it was a wonderful night and
I forsee many county park excursions this summer - the kids were
begging for an ambenture yesterday already.

On to pictures - here are some from Conrad and Janie's wedding

Rich is so good at groomsmen pictures - the guys always have fun together

and do all kinds of stuff.

I love the feet in this picture

Next up is some more shots of the kids we took last week, but

I have to edit them first - maybe today if I get moving here...

Just being silly

Today I decided it's time to take some pictures - I get so busy with everyone elses pics and don't take time to take my own - this was not a planned shoot,
it was just a let's take some pictures and you kids can do whatever
you want pose. They like the silly ones, with tongues sticking out etc...
SO mom shot away and we all had a good time - this is what we got
out of a couple hundred pics. (when you say they can pose however,
there are ALOT of bad shots)I think this one is my fave (notice the
ink tattoo's on the hands)
















Nadia had her turn too, though all attempts to get some shots of all three of them were a bust.


Nadia is seriously the most demanding, smartest, funny kid of all
three of mine. Life with her is not always a picnic,but I can't wait
to see what she's going to become someday!

She has this thing with all Stasia's play jewelry, she puts it on, necklace after
necklace and thinks it's so cool.

It was probably the most fun shoot I have ever done with them - usually I

get grouchy when they don't cooperate and they get tired of it in like 1 min.

I guess goofy is just the way we have to go from now on -