Peas

Peas . . . one of my favorite plants to grow in the garden.  I planted a huge crop at the end of May and hardly any of them came up.  We plants close to 700 seeds and maybe 10 grew.  Because we waited so long for them to come up I finally replanted some more seeds at the end of June and finally this week they are ready.  We keep picking and picking but because everyone loves them so much they are gone with in minutes.  Ashlynn is my little gardener in training.  She loves to the work in the garden with me, especially harvesting food.

Softball 2014

Kaylie had so much fun playing softball this summer.  Their team, Pee Wee Power, was pretty good.  This year Kaylie mostly played on third base.  At the beginning of the season Kaylie said she didn't care to play pitcher because all the other girls wanted to BUT half way through the season she got the itch more and more to pitch.  She wanted her dad to practice with her every night and when he couldn't work with her, she asked me.  She finally had her chance but after the first two pitches the other coach complained that she was taking an extra step so she was taken out.  She still practiced every single day and at the start of the last game of the championships her coach put her in.  Kaylie pitched the WHOLE entire game and almost every pitch was perfect.  It was amazing.  All the parents were raving about how well she was doing.  They lost in double over time by one run.  Kaylie was sooooo disappointed.  She really loves softball.  I loved how the girls had so many cheers they would sing through out the whole game.  So fun.

Meet RUBY

Meet RUBY the newest member to our Family.

Ruby is our cute orange baby kitten that we adopted from our neighbor. 

My kids have fallen in love . . . especially Cameron.  He loves to

grab Ruby, carry here around like a rag doll, chase her, and

then cuddle with her in front of the TV.  Ruby is so

patient and lets him do this most of the time.

It's amazing how a little ball of fur

can change people.

June Happenings

Zoo for a Birthday Party

All of Tashia's kids birthdays are close to each other so this year she had one big celebration at the zoo and it turned out to be a fun day.  It was fun going with everyone.

Look at this AMAZING cake table.  All the details.

The decorations were so fun.

Baseball

Photo Sessions

For a while I was thinking about having a small studio in my house to take new born and child photography.  A few months ago someone asked me to take their infants photos and I decided that this was not for me.  I do like to take family photography and action photography but NOT infant photography.  There are certain poses for infants  that every mother wants and they are extremely hard to produce.  I've decided that the photographers who charge $200 plus for those sessions deserve $200 plus.  Sessions can take between 2-4 hours long.  Plus what was I thinking . . . I don't have time with the twins to do something like that.  Here are a few pictures from that session. I honestly couldn't tell if the mom even liked them.



Then I had a friend recently ask if I would take her 6th month old photos.  I was anxious about doing it because I have no backdrops and props but she said it was fine.  I had A LOT more fun taking Porter's photos.  Here are a few from that session.





I think that for now I'm happy to take my own children's photos.  Photography is a lot of work!!!