I know it's been to long

This is one of my fav.!!!

She knows Mom won't say no...Hence the Devil smile.

Most of the shoot was her fussy!!! but she is still cute.

Abosutely love the one on the right. Playing with light through the window. It was perfect.

It's get's crazy trying to update Facebook, my website and a blog. My friends out there that do it and find the time ....you're my idol. LOL.

O.k. so the other day I came across a photographer that goes to your house and takes pictures. she will capture your kids everyday life and your interaction with them. She stays 4 to 8 hours pending on the package you purchased. I thought....that is awsome. I love the idea of getting to really know my clients and taking pictures of real life. Studio is always posed and outside pictures are hard to get right now due to humidity...heat and gnats. So friday I have some friends who will let me come play and take pictures and yesterday I took pictures of Kaydee. we are house bound due to potty training...so why not pull out the camera and get pictures. So tell me what ya think...I think they came out great!!!

So I had a new back drop and wanted to test out this blue. i love this color!!! I almost bought red, but glad I stuck with blue. So these are their easter shots....sorta.

Kaydee is hard to get pictures...she moves so much. So she is good pratcice for me to learn. I love having a studio to get pictures of my kids. Save so much money and I can play with new ideas. Be even nicer to have one right on our property so it's closer.

time flies

Just some pictures to update the family with. kaydee discovering her climbing skills
Thayne comforting kaydee because mommy got made at her and told her NO!

Thayne and his BFF. He caught the cricket and we put it in a jar. So it ate with him and watched movies with him...etc...

thayne took this pic. I love it.

His birthday. fab 14. So I'm a little slow.

He is singing the pete's dragon song that is why his face looks like it does. He is imitating the dragon.

Close supervision

Washing the gator.

Kaydee helped wash the car. Look at her tool for washing.

Kolomoki Mounds. what else do you do at an Indian Mound state park.

Her face is just classic!!!

Not much of anything to report. summer is almost here and the pool is getting ready.

times flies...

Redneck snowman. Notice the cigarette. (I didn't build this thing it was a local)


Local peacekeeper thowing a snowball

We got snow here in Georgia. Yes real snow. And to all you west coasters in Utah and Colorado and Idaho....it snowed an inch and it stuck to the ground. which is nothing for you guys but HUGE for us. Just 30 min north you would have thought you were in Utah. They had tons of snow. The funniest part was seeing all these geaorians that have NEVER seen snow. they were going wild!!! Remember I live just 40 min north of Florida. So deep south georgia got snow. and even Tallahassee Fl got snow....but not like us.

I can't believe my last post was christmas time. I have so much to post....well not really. I signed Thayne up for school. In Georgia they start school @ the age of 4. They go all day to school as pre-k. It's awsome. At first I didn't want to start him that young...but he already goes twice a week to day care. So now he goes all week for free. (well, not until the beginning of Sept when school starts) besides I seriously can not keep up with his little busy body. Also we gave up nap time.....(sigh) so now I make him watch a movie in his room during nap time so I still get my break.

He turned 4 on Valentines day. My little heart breaker is growing up. I can almost deal with it except as he grows I see my baby girl grow too and realty keeps setting in that they grow up so fast.

I am trying build a studio. everything was going fine until I tried to get the loan. The company we got the loan through to buy the house ownes all the land. So since we want to build on the land we can't get a loan because the banks will not own that little building. So they won't loan us money and the moragage company won't loan us money because we don't have equity yet. Can we say ROCK and A HARD place. So something will work out for us....it will just take time. (I hate waiting)

So that's it. I hope it won't be two months until my next post.

Christmas in the KEYS!!!!

Scott and I decided to visit our friends in the Keys. What better time than at Christmas time. A gift to ourselves. We had the kids Christmas On the 19 and set out on the 22nd for our trip. We don't get to take family trips during summer because of scott's work. So when winter comes family vacation begins!!We accidentally came across the Florida Natural Orange juice company. So we did the tourist thing and went to the LAME visitor center. I say lame because they just showed videos of how things were done. Who wants to watch a video? It did smell like warm orange cider outside the juice building.
This is our first day in the Keys. we stayed on Big pine Island. This place in the pictures is a house that belongs to the sister of who we stayed with. Beautiful land. The kids are feeding the fish. Scott unfortunatle was not with us because after driving the whole trip his back gave out on him this morning. He was flat on his back for two days. we didn't get to do a whole lot those two days.

Thayne loved fising off the balcony of the house we stayed in. There is no beach at this ouse but a canal leading out to the ocean. All he is doing is casting. There is no hook just a big rubber weight in the shape of a fish. In the palm trees there are coconuts. So cool. other trees had Bannans.

The picture on the left is thayne with Katie. Such a SWEET pitbull. The picture on the right is KAydee with Grandpa Jim.

The second day we took the kids to the beach. Scott is still on his back. Thayne is playing with Grandma Cheri's grandson Jayce. THey were wild together but had so much fun. One of the pictures is a hand holding a jelly fish. I didn't know there were "friendly" jelly fish.

Thayne got a Dragon from Santa. He LOVED his gift. The dragon had to go with him everywhere. even the bathroom. Kaydee is dancing to Mo-Tab. ANd then got tangled up in a neclace.

Christmas. Scott finally was able to come and join us. This is the third day.

We took a Scott to the beach on christmas. The night before a storm gad come thru and caused many DEADLY jelly fish to take root at the beaches edge. We were warned about them so we avoided steping on them, but one got Thayne in the water. His hand got stung. When we told him he had to pee on it he did not like the idea. So after about 15 min he was back to playing in the sand....would not go back in the water that day. The day before there was only the one jelly fish that we saw and it was touchable. Funny how the next day the shore was covered in deadly highly toxic jelly fish.

Christmas night we tried to get out to watch the sunset on the boat....but the rain had chased us back to shore. Scott is now standing and doing so much better.

The fourth day we finally got to go play because Scott was moble. So our friends took us out on the boat to go snokling. We bought a underwater camera....but in anticipation of snokeling we left it on the boat. I got sea sick and jumped in the water as fast as possible...unable to grab the camera. and scott was so excited to finally go snokeling he forgot to grab it before he jumped in. Anyways, we loved the expeirience but cut it short because seasickness is overwhelming!! the pic on the left is Thayne knocked out from being seasick too. He is under the towels sound asleep. I rode back on the boats floor to scared to move.

That day we drove to Key West. Caught the sunset just in time. Bought t-shirts just to say we were in Key west. It was overcast so the sunset was not that great. the next day we left there was a beautiful clear sky for a beautiful sunset. oh well.

The picture on the Left is a Dock that you can hook your boat to when attending our church. Crazy!!! We went to church on Marathon. The picture on the right is the pool at our hotel onKey West.

At church we met a fellow pilot...Scott wanted to see the plane he Charters. Thayne got to sit in the Pilot seat. That was cool.

On the way home we went to the everglades and did an airboat tour. Now we can say we saw the everglades. The place we did the tour had peacocks all over and Thayne and Kaydee liked chasing them.

After the tour there was an aliigator show. This guy was very funny and crazy! Every 15 to 20 min he does this show. The kids loved it. The picture with Thayne, there is an alligator right up against the fence. Kaydee tried to poke it with her little fingers. being so small she easily could get it through the double fence. I stoped her just in time.

we paid $5 for Thayne to hold an Alligator. worh every penny!!! kaydee was not scared of it but was not about to hold it.

We had a wonderful time with our friends. They took care of us and treated our kids like their own grandkids. We loved the Keys and hope to go again. Next time I will take dramamine and scott will not drive the whole time so his back will so better.

The kids were fantastic in the car. I couldn't ask for better kids...but...vaction with out them would be nice.