Just have to share some pics of our little garden...we're loving it and we're totally hooked on gardening. My hubby is already planning to expand the garden next year. He says he wants to grow sweet corn. Dare I mention we live in your typical 1960s built, totally suburban, split-level style, less than a 1/4 acre per lot type of neighborhood? A corn field would really work with that type of landscape, don't you think?
Yeah, I can see our neighbors now giving directions to their future visitors. "Um yes, make a right on Elm, hang a left at the at the cornfield in front of the yellow split-level."
But I digress.
So here are the pics. I think my Grandpa's pride is shining down from heaven. I asked Shawn if he wanted me to take a picture of him in front of the garden... he said "why do you want a picture of ME in front of the garden?" I said "well, my grandpa used to take one every year, so why not...might be good karma." He thought no...
So here's the kiddos with our very first harvest...two yellow squash and a zucchini. And Katie and her new haircut. And Jon with a squash up his nose.
Yesterday was Katie's big dance recital. She did great and we were so proud of her and our little neighbor, Miss Kayla.
Here's the little collage I made up from the studio pics I did yesterday morning before we departed for the big show. I apologize for the Tammy Faye/Little Miss Sunshine makeup...I'm not a fan of it, but that's how you have to do it for dance recitals. When she's older, they have to wear fake eyelashes...I'm certain I'll have to hire someone to help me with that when the time comes because I can't even go within two feet of super glue without gluing my fingers together.
Ugh. Why must Vox automatically sharpen pictures? They look so crispy on here...it drives me mad!
First, my sweet, adorable, beautiful nephew, B-Man. He really can't look anymore like my brother, honestly. But I do see quite a bit of his beautiful mama in him, too, so no doubt this kiddo is going to break many a heart...sigh...what I wouldn't give to see this sweet thing and smooch on him, but he's all the way out in Missurah :(
Then, some shots from today of my two knuckleheads...I was practicing shooting on a white background...the goal being to actually get it WHITE straight out of the camera. This is no small feat with a budget lighting setup. Basically, to get the white background white (without lighting it its a putrid shade of gray...), you have to aim at least one (two is better) strobes at it and blow it out (overexpose it). So I aimed my two portable flash units at the white background and used my regular strobe as my main, and by george, I think I got it!!! Could you accomplish this without the lights on the background? Yes, but you'd be spending several hours in Photoshop afterwards...so better to get it right SOOC (straight-out-of-camera). I'll be upgrading my lighting equipment very soon, so in the future this won't be so cantankerous.
So here we have The Boy, currently a.k.a. Hee-Haw or Ozark, because (a) the missing teeth, crazy cowlicks, and numerous freckles bemoan such a moniker, and (b) you have to strap him down and sit on him to put his shoes on most of the time. The Child hates to wear shoes outside, and rips them off the minute he walks in the door. But he is darn cute if I do say so myself...course I'm a bit biased....
And then we have our little diva-in-training, doing her best Hannah Montana poses...
Last I blogged, I was headed for Texas for Miss Ashley's wedding. That was June 7th.
Obviously, things have been somewhat hectic since then, but a good kind of hectic. Katie is now on summer vacation, so we had all the end of the year wrap up last week, and lots of half days, and with it being so warm this past week, we spent much of it in our pool or our neighbor's pool.
I haven't even begun to wade through all the pics I took in Houston. I hadn't even posted a recap, but if you read Miss Kelly's recap, my response thereto is "yeah that." Especially the part about Jimmy Choo...they can suck it. Alls I did was take a damn picture of ONE shoe...and yeah, do I look like the type of person who can reverse engineer an ugly orange pump from ONE picture? I can't even add numbers without an excel spreadsheet or a calculator. Get over yourselves and your ugly shoes, y'all. Despite that, we had a blast and it was an amazing time.
I've been busy with business stuff, so there's been very little time to play. Plus work has been crazy at night. Doesn't that how life usually goes? It's not like you can slow it down in some spots--it's all or nothing.
But I'm here, I'm alive...just treading through life one day at a time like the rest of the pack. I'm hopeful things will slow soon so I can take some time to gather my thoughts and put together a funny blog or two. Right now, I'm barren for material. Well, other than Jon said something today that I want to freeze in time...I was giving him a hug and he says "Mom, give me a BIG HUG," so I squeeze him harder. Then he goes "Oh, Mom, you guish me." I'm certain guish = squish if he had his two front teeth to help enunciate that sound.
I know, not hardly my usual funny, but I thought it was cute. I'm sure the mamas reading out there can relate.
I just have to share the movie trailer of the movie wherein my very beautiful and talented sister-in-law, Michelle Bratcher (maiden Davidson), takes on the role as a news reporter in a movie about the reclamation of religious freedoms.
http://www.lastounceofcourage.com/default.aspx
So you have to check it out. Why? Because I said so!
