Brotherly love

Last week I spent the evening with the Roe family taking pictures as BE. I brought Rees in hopes I would get a couple good shots of him but turns out that 3 boys together creates some chaos and they seem to fuel each others fire if ya know what I mean! But all in all I think it went really well. I got some great family shots for them here are a couple

I think they turned out cute, I added some vintage effects to some and this is just a small sample, I ended up with 300 on my card when I got home! I love to take pictures!!!! I am on the lookout for a set of railroad tracks in a country setting if anyone knows of any please let me know I have got some great ideas for them. I am really enjoying shooting pictures outside with natural light I am learning so much about my camera settings. I think I enjoy outdoor more than studio shooting, maybe because I haven't got to use my studio for a while. Don has taken it over to use a bidding room since Trimat is bidding on a lot of work this month. Good thing it's nice outside I would have withdraws not using my camera for that long.

Great food...all day long!

Oh my gosh, I feel like a little piggy today! We had a picnic today with fried chicken, pasta salad and pie down at Celeste's house and it was sooooo good, right down to the sweet tea! So I stuffed my belly full of that then we went to Nana & Papa's (Maurice and Patty's) for another dinner and we had hamburgers, hotdogs, mac n cheese, corn on the cob, baked beans, fried potatoes, cucumbers etc. etc. etc. boy does Maurice know how to cook and I was down right miserable after that wonderful dinner. Then Trish came out to take Rees swimming and I was so stuffed I couldn't even get in the pool! So they swam for an hour or so and Rees had a great time with his aunt! Then we visited with Ma for the rest of the evening. It was a nice day. We stayed on the move and the day flew by as all Sundays do. Every day with Rees is such a wonderful adventure. In case you didn't notice my new little button on the right hand side it's a new link to another thing I started just for reipes, so if you like to cook check it often! I just made up the recipe cards on the Pc so you can just print and cook! Enjoy

Yummy recipe

I have a cooking club meeting this afternoon and the theme is picnic. I picked a dessert to bring and after careful consideration I chose this recipe:

It's a perfect recipe for a hot summer day. I fixed one earlier and it was so yummy and talk about easy. I made it with Rees in the kitchen playing in the floor. So it only took me about 15 minutes from beginning to end! Time is hard to come by these days so fast is always good! I think if you right click on the recipe and chose 'save image as' or something to that effect you should be able to save this to your pc then print it out as a 4x6. I do all my recipes this way, it makes it easier to cook when you have something pretty motivating you! Celeste is making homemade fried chicken today I am so stoked for that, fried chicken is a personal fav of mine but it takes forever to make so we rarely eat that at my house!

Quickie

I just ran onto this and wanted to share The Polka Dot Alley their stuff is adorable. I love anything personalized! The momathon weekly planner looks pretty neat.

I am Loving the new blog

It's still a work in process, if anyone finds any errors or links that don't work please let me know but I am really loving Blogger. Wordpress was much harder to use and I couldn't customize anything myself so you all will see changes much more often now that I can do it myself! I am addicted to blogging and now that I am learning how to do code I'm going to be dangerous! HTML is so interesting but it's a slow process learning it! Once again anyone that wants/needs any help at all with setting up a blog, I'm no expert but I would be happy to help with anything I can! This blog theme came from Sweet Shoppe Designs and was $5. It took me a while to install it but it did come with instructions that where VERY easy to follow and taught me a lot about the "behind the scenes" aspect of blogging. so I encourage everyone to BLOG...you'll LOVE IT!!!!!

I'm going to post again later today! I have more to say but Rees just woke up!

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Blog make over

I am tired of my old blog so I gave it a makeover. I learned so much in the process. I switched from Wordpress to Blogger and so far I am liking it, other than the fact I can't import my previous blogs from Wordpress which is a bummer. The platform is so much easier on Blogger than it was on Wordpress though.

THE SANDBOX!!! I played in my sandbox a lot when I was little, Patty said that Mat lived in his all summer and the tradition continues! Rees spent forever in his sandbox tonight. He carted water from the pool to the sandbox all evening to sink his little feet into the wet sand it was so cute! He even put the cat in with him, silly cat didn't even care! Rees (as I'm sure most kids do) Loves to be outdoors. When we go in for a diaper change, dinner, nap the fit starts. It's terrible. Tomorrow is supposed to be 90 and it just gets unbearable outside for me, but it's like it doesn't even phase him.

Don't ask cause I don't know!

He concentrates so hard on everything he does

I have been so behind on my pictures. I don't have my Saturday session edited yet, totally unlike me. Especially since they were such a fun family to work with. I got a ton of cool pictures! I have been working on creating my own templates for photo books. The ones that you have professionally printed and your picture is on the cover and it's bound. They are so neat. I made Sophie one and it turned out to be Soooo cute! So I am putting together more templates, I can't find any premades that I like to just one more project I got on my plate. We have a cooking club picnic on Sunday and I'm trying to decide what dessert I want to cook, so many greats to chose from. Maybe a sampler is in order! I'm just rambling now, I better go. I think I'm gonna take a nice long bath and watch So you think you can dance (my guilty pleasure) I love all those silly dance shows! Later all!