Daddy and His Girls

Our Gang

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My puppy

About a month ago when I colored my hair, Hadley got a hold of the bottle of hair dye and well poor Casey got the brunt end of it :( Anyway I finally remembered to take a picture. So here's our poor pup.

Look At those Cheeks!

When I was pregnant with Madilynn I had a 3-D ultrasound at 34 weeks. The first thing the lady said when the baby came into view was "Look at those cheeks". It's still the same. She's beautiful and today she wanted her picture taken and she wanted to ham it up.

Here she is, my little girl who is in the throws of the terrible two's but what in the world would I do without her?

Yeah

I went to pick up Justin for a day visit on Friday and I got an e-mail later telling me I could keep him for the whole weekend. Yipeeeee- I get him next weekend too. Justin is my 11 yr old and I just love having him around. I was going through some things and found some ultrasound pictures from when I was 12 weeks pregnant with him. So here is a current one for comparison. ;=)

Up almost all night~~

I was up most of the night last night editing pictures for a friend. His wife is on her way to Iraq for the national guard. He brought me this huge multi picture frame to fill and asked me to make them all black and white. I thought I would post a sampling of the pictures, since I've put so much work into them :)

Blessed

This morning Marc woke me up at 4am and wanted to talk, he talked and talked and talked and we never went back to sleep, the kids got up at 7. Eric got a haircut for picture day before the sun even came up and everyone was bathed by 7:30. I would say it's a miracle day. Now at 11:30 everyone is exhausted :) The girls and I went to the park for pictures. They are so beautiful, my new lens shows them off so well too! Here a couple from the park. :)

Today's weather was extreme, but beautiful!

I do love Oregon. Every time I've lived away from Oregon I am always anxious to come home. Fall is so wonderful. Today my pain was out of control and going out and taking a drive helps me keep my mind off of things. I went for two drives today. I found some beautiful settings.
My poor kids don't understand when I am hurting. I'm working on being more patient with them and trying to help them understand. With the rainy weather they want to play rough inside and rough and tumble with me and I just can't do it most of the time. I hope they understand when they get older that I love them regardless.
Here are a few pictures from today's drives.

Whirlwind in October

Yesterday I couldn't get a hold of Marc in the mid afternoon Marc, I was having a major PMS day and was certain he was ignoring me. Turns out he was test driving a Miata. Yep he bought it. His dream for 10 years now, it's green and it's in our garage. So he got a car I got some new camera gear! Yahoooo. I went in after my dream L series canon lens and was convinced that I could save $200 and get an equal and in some ways better lens. So with the $200 that I "saved" I bought a killer bogen tripod! :) I'm sooooo excited to get out there and try my new toys out for real. Here are some shots today. One with an old lens and one with my new lens.