Total Beauties

Took a few hours today to photograph these two beauties.

A Perfect Vacation Day

From the beautiful sunrise, the fun afternoon on the water and the amazing sunset, this was a perfect day at Lake Ozark, MO.

Sunrise over the marina

Logan and Isaiah having fun on the tandem tube

Dennis - our boat driver extraordinaire

Evan having fun swimming

Jodie's first time on ski's - I got up for about 3 whole seconds

Logan's first time on ski's. He made it look easy and stayed up about 3 minutes!

Isaiah gives skiing a try, but couldn't quite get the hang of it. We'll try again tomorrow.A happy kid

The End of a beautiful day on the lake

I've Been Tagged!

I've been TAGGED!!!
What was I doing 10 years ago?
I was a mommy, I had 2 kiddos. I was also a Birth Doula (birth assistant at home and hospital births). I lived in Brownsburg Indiana in the house we had built 3 years earlier. I loved garage sales, gardening and playing with my kids.

Five snacks I enjoy in a perfect, non weight-gaining world:
1.Empanada's from Taco Bell,
2 Peanut MM's,
3 Turtle Ice Cream Sundae's from Culivers,
4 Kit Kat Balls
5 Buckeyes.

Five snacks I enjoy in the real world:
1.Everything I said above, but in moderation and not like everyday like I wish.

Things I would do if I were a billionaire:
1. Buy the perfect property on a lake with an in-ground pool,
2. Build a photography studio on my property with cool outdoor prop areas,
3. Purchase all the latest and greatest camera and lighting equipment for my studio
4. Take my family on an exotic beach vacation
5. We'd pre-pay for all the kids college educations.

Five jobs that I have had:
1. Preschool daycare teacher,
2. Jewerly store sales clerk,
3. Legal Secretary,
4. Office Manager at a Cellular Phone company,
5. Scrapbook Instructor.

Five of my habits:
1. Completeing other peoples sentences
2. internet blogging and surfing,
3. organizing stuff and spaces,
4. not planning ahead what we're having for dinner
5. staying up too late reading.

Five places I have lived:
1.Coldwater Michigan,
2. Indianapolis, Indiana,
3. Columbus, OH,
4. Brownsburg, IN,
5. Medina, OH,
6.West End, NC,
7. Newburgh IN (so that's more that 5, whatcha gonna do about it!)

Five people we should all get to know better: (A nice way of saying TAG!) ummmm, Janelle, Mandi, Cheryl, Judy, Hammy

Celebrating Dad!

In honor of Fathers Day here are some photos of Dennis with his son's the day they were born.

Dennis with Evan 1993

Dennis with Logan 1995

Dennis with Isaiah 1999

That was then, this is now.

Dennis with his boys 2008

Happy Fathers Day to the best Dad any son could ever ask for!

4 Things

My friend Katie J has a blog challange this summer to post about 4 things. It can be 4 photos, 4 topics, 4 anything. So I decided I would do 4 for Fridays, however, last friday I was too busy to get online, so I'm late. But here's my 4 things:

1. We got new carpet upstairs last week. We exhaused ourselves ripping out old carpet and padding and moving furniture, but it was worth it.





2. I was a craft leader at VBS all last week. Fun crafts and some funny stories. Let me just share one:
The 3 year old preschool class I did craft with just learned about Moses and how his staff turned into a snake. So they had these cute wooden snakes to color with markers. A cute little boys said to me: "My papaw had a snake in his yard. He shot it and threw it in the damn backyard!" It was all I could do not to laugh. He didn't even have a clue he cussed. You just know he told the story just the way his Papaw tells it.

3. My kid wore his hair like this to VBS on crazy hair day.


4. I got a new truck this weekend.

Cardboard Testimonials

A fellow photographer friend of mine shared this video on her blog and it touched my heart so much, (I cried), that I wanted to share it with you. Our God is an Awesome God, full of mercy and grace. We can't earn it or work hard enough to deserve it. He gives it, free for the taking, just believe!