Santa Switch 2011

Evan, his girlfriend Audrey and the gang all dressed up and ready for the Christmas dance.

Spelling Bee

Last night Isaiah competed in the school spelling bee.  He did very well.  He was very nervous, but amazed me with his composure and bravery as he took the stage and out spelled 70% of the participates.  This was the 3rd year in a row that he won the homeroom bee and was able to compete for his school.

 The competition and the judges

 Standing when they announce his name

I only take photos at the bee during the beginning round.  I am so nervous and so is Isaiah.  I would not want him to mess us because his mom is taking pictures.

Receiving his participation award 

Well done Isaiah!  We are so proud of you!!!!!!!!

Santa Switch

December is here and one of the things our high school kids look forward to is the Winter Formal a.k.a. the Santa Switch dance.  Girls ask the boys, they pay for the dinner and the dance tickets.  Everyone looks forward to getting all dressed up and having a wonderful evening.
Here are some photos of my boys with their dates and their group of friends.

Evan with Ashley

 Colton with Alex

 Logan with Markie

Bo with Lauren

The Guys

They call themselves "The Bros"

I had this image made into a 16x20 poster for Evans wall.

The Beauties

These are little collages that I made for each of the kids.  

I made the border on the photos match the girls dress.  I hope they like them!

This is a shot of the boys making fun of Logan.  

Earlier in the day he got elbowed in the face at his basketball game.  

He has a black eye and a cut on his cheek.  

Group Photo

(Carlos' date had a basketball game and she met him at the dance)

Merry Christmas!!

Evan + Stephanie

I took my oldest son, Evan and his girlfriend Stephanie downtown to scout out a new location for a senior shoot.  Here are some of the images we captured that day.

This building used to be the Evansville Jail.  It was built in the 1800's and now houses a local attorney's office.  One of the attorneys came out and asked us if we wanted to take a tour of the inside.

Of course we said yes!

This photo was taken inside one of the original jail cells.

I locked the kids up for smooching in public.  hehe

Thanks for taking time to look.

Manly Men

Before the first day of school Evan and his friends Carlos and Evan the other Evan, as I like to call him, decided to build a campfire out back, set up a tent and sleep under the stars (well in a tent, but you know what I mean).

My Evan made it until about 6am, Carlos made it till 9am, but Evan the other Evan came crawling into the house in search of air conditioning and a comfy mattress at 2 am.

They cooked their dinner, made smores and roasted ears of corn on the campfire.  But that was about the end of roughing it as it got.  The ran an extension cord out to the tent, took a TV and a game systems out there too.

Back to School

It's that time of year again.  The boys were up bright and early this morning getting ready to return to another year of school, books, tests, studying, homework, sports ...ahem, friends and social life.

Evan is a Junior this year and Logan is a Freshman

Isaiah is in the Middle school now, 6th grade