Thing 1 & Thing 3

Lately I had been feeling fairly good about my photography skills. Not that I thought I was so good I still didn't have a lot to learn but I was getting better. Those thoughts all came crashing down yesterday when I visited my good friend, Kelly Holder's, photography blog. She is absolutely an amazing photographer. I hope to be as good as her one day. Anyways, after looking at all of her latest pictures I decided I needed to get back into practicing in between client sessions. Today the kids had on their Thing 1 & Thing 3 shirts that they got in Florida this summer so I decided to take some pics in the backyard. Of course I am biased but I think they look so cute in the pictures I wanted to put together a storyboard. I am thinking I may order one of these to put in their bathroom. I just can't decide which one I like better. Thoughts??

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Our Summer Vacation

This summer our family went on vacation to Florida. We toured NASA, went to Universal Studios, and stayed at the Nickelodeon hotel. I'm going to have to break up the posts so I can fit all of the pictures in. The first thing we did was go to NASA and take a tour. The very last shuttle launch was happening that week so we were hoping to get a closer glimpse of the shuttle before it was retired. There are quite a few pictures so I put them into a slide show because I couldn't decide which ones to take out. Unfortunately we didn't get as close to the shuttle as we would have liked. AND when we did take the tour to see it (and get as close as anyone can get who doesn't work there) they were servicing it so the "arm" of the launch pad (or whatever that is called) was open and covering most of it up. You will see from the picture we only really got to see the tip top of it (from far away - did I mention that we didn't get very close to it?). Anyways, it was really neat to see all of it. Jason especially enjoyed it. He is a very big space enthusiast. It was extremely hot the entire time we were in Florida and this was no exception. Here are the pictures I took that day....

Future Soccer Stars

Last night I celebrated my 39th birthday by watching Zachary and Addison play soccer. We have signed them up to do a training academy for like 10 weeks or something like that. This is Addie's first time to put on her soccer gear and do any kind of organized sport. She was very excited. I think it's going to be a great experience for both of them. Addie will be doing a mini season that starts in Sep. Zachary is doing the regular season which starts in November. I told them I wanted to take their picture and they positioned themselves. I think they are finally getting the hang of posing for me!!! Aren't they precious?!?!

I am hoping to blog about our fun trip we took to Florida this summer. I've been so busy with taking pictures for other people I've kind of slacked off on my own family. I promise to do better this fall. Stay tuned.....