18 Years

It's our Anniversary!

18 years ago today the sun was shining, the fall air was crisp, the leaves were cloaked in color and full of their fall glory. At 2:30 in the afternoon I said "I Do" . Today it's a beautiful sunshiny day. The leaves are still green, however, the air is crisp and I'm proud to still say "I Do".

Happy 18th Anniversary to my wonderful husband!
I love you!

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How We Celebrated

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My absolute favorite christian artist Jeremy Camp came to town with a few friends and put on a great concert. I'm sure he knew it was my anniversary weekend! Thanks Jeremy!!
We started the evening off with a nice Italian dinner downtown with our friends Tony and Theresa. Then it was on to the show. We had 3rd row seats and it was awesome! Take a look....
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This is Bebo Norman opening the show

Here we are. Thanks to the man sitting in front of us for offering to take our picture. Problem is he didn't know how to use a camera. Sigh.
Next up was Natalie Grant. Boy can this girl sing!!! Awesome!

And now onto the main event. Jeremy Camp!

It was an awesome concert! I've seen Jeremy 3 times now. The first time I saw him he came to my mom's church and sang a benefit concert with his friend, then Colt's Football player Ben Utech. I got to meet him after the show. It was like the highlight of my year!

Welcome Fall!

I was downtown the other day waiting for a client to arrive for portraits. Across the street from our meeting place was one of my favorite places to visit in Newburgh. I ran over there real quick and snapped a few photos of the beautiful fall displays. Since my kids are getting older, their not really into pumpkin patches anymore. I know, sad, huh! So this may be the closest I get to a pumpkin patch this year. How about you? Are you going to visit a pumpkin patch this year?

Happy Fall!

It's the first day of fall! Things I love about this time of year:
the air gets cooler, I can wear jeans and flip flops, the trees start to change, football, bonfires, pumpkins, apples, pumpkin candles, fall decorations and more.

Here's a picture I love. It's of my dog laying out in the sunshine on a cool fall-like morning last week. The leaves have started to fall and the dew glistens on the grass with the soft morning light.

Happy Birthday Dad!

Happy Birthday Dad. Enjoy your day. Wish we could come up and take you to dinner.
Love you!

License to Grill....

{REVOKED!}

Some people enjoy cooking, I'm just not one of them. But grilling, come on, everyone can grill, right? You just put some meat on and stand near and flip. How hard it that? Well, I guess for me it's difficult. I put the burgers on, waited, flipped them once, went in the house to put the french fries in the oven and noticed that the kitchen floor was still a mess from the bonfire/cookout party we'd had the night before. So as any tidy, obsessed with clean mom would do I mopped the kitchen floor, and oh yeah, I answered the phone. It was my hubby telling me what time he'd be home for dinner. As I returned to the grill my attention was immediately caught by the fire leaping out from under it's hood.

I opened the lid to find our dinner in flames. I quickly removed the meat from the grill, took a few shots and doused the flames with a cup of water.
Smoking grill.
Dinner saved. Whew! Actually I had to cook a few a little longer and add the cheese. They were still yummy!

It's Football Time!

It's our favorite time of year...Football Season! Two of our boys play football. Logan plays for the 8th grade Middle School team. He's number 60. Isaiah plays for the youth football league. Of course, since he broke his foot he won't be playing, but sitting on the sidelines rooting on his team! I snapped a few photos of Logan in the game a few weeks ago.
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Logan on Special Teams, he's the Long Snapper. That's him with the ball.

Logan as a Defensive Tackle. That's him in the middle heading for the QB's blocker #44.
See him in the middle of the screen, under the arrow. This is the shot I got just before Logan sacked the QB.
The after the sack photo. You see both Logan and the QB on the ground.Logan starts as Offensive Right Guard. See him blocking in the center.
Team huddle.And finally, before Isaiah broke his foot I snapped a pic of him in the backyard with his practice uniform on. Isaiah's team plays their first game this Sunday. We're looking forward to it!

Diagnosis: Broken Foot

This is the spot on the river where we play on the rope swing....
(that's Isaiah's head in the water)

Logan jumping off the platform.....

Logan releases the rope in the DEEP end of the water...
Not pictured is Isaiah releasing the rope in the SHALLOW end of the water...
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Pictured is Isaiah after crawling to shore in PAIN. Look at his face...my poor guy.
Fast forward to the next morning...
Isaiah in the Dr. Office after getting X-Rays.

On his left foot, He broke bones #10 and #9, pictured below, right in half

Isaiah getting his air cast on.

He's off of it for 4 - 6 weeks.
No more football this season. :o(