Bah-Humbug!

Every year....EVERY YEAR I KNOW I have to buy gifts for family, friends and the kids....and EVERY year I DREAD going out in November and shopping. It's just not fun anymore. Fighting crowds, shopping sales, looking for the PERFECT gift and then find out it cost $50 buck MORE then you can afford!!

Don't get me wrong, I love my little kids faces as they open their gifts on Christmas day, but it's gotten so commercialized. I mean, they have a TON of toys upstairs that they just HAD to have, and they NEVER play with them. And forget about all the electronic games, we don't have a Wii, PlayStation, or even a Atari (remember those ;) in this house. Its a board game, card game or on an occasion a computer game. I fight enough with my 6 year old, I don't want to through THAT into the mix. He is addicted already. His grandpa has one at the lake, and we fight with him there in the summer time to get out and swim and play then play video game in the dark basement!

Anyway, I babble. Shopping online HAS improved my spirit some, but only if you get a good deal on shipping. I had a toy I wanted to buy one of the kids, and this was the ONLY gift I found I wanted to buy from this site. By the time shipping was tagged on, I was almost paying double the amount of the items...AHHH!

So, I am off to conquer the holiday shopping world. Wish me luck...and if I get too depressed, I may just buy something for myself to put under the tree ;)

Before and After

Before

After

Yes, I am 4 days into this and all I have to blog about is my dog getting a haircut! =)

He was in desperate need of it, as you can tell. He is 12 or 13 (I always forget) and very special to the family...but he is getting old. He still seems to have his health thou...no real problems there. He HATES going to Mary's Groom Room to get a hair cut. On the way there he trembles...but when he comes home, he acts like a puppy again. He runs around, and gets playful and I swear he doesn't look so depressed =) So cute...and Jayden just adores him.

So, my dog got a haircut yesterday =)

Wordless Wednesday

A few words of explanation-

Top photo is my boys visiting my grandmothers grave....I miss her dearly.

Below is a photo of one of my sons sitting on my daddy's grave. They never met him...I miss him more then words can say...

....it must be the holidays approaching that have me thinking of them so much...

...and maybe the fact that we almost lost Cassidy...

...Hug the ones you love, you never know what tomorrow may bring...

Reggie Wayne

That's right!! All you Cassidy followers, we went to see REGGIE WAYNE!! He hosts a radio talk show at a local restaurant and we went to see him. He was SO happy to see Cassidy, and she was even MORE happy to see him!!!! He signed autographs and sat and chatted with Cassidy about her condition and how she was. He must of been talking about her, because as soon as she arrived, the radio DJ's knew who she was, and so did some of the people at the restaurant! We got a front-row-joe table!!

Thank you Reggie for all your support and LOVE for my niece, it TRULY has made her day!

The beginning of a WHOLE new life in blogging...

for me. I am going to update this EVERYDAY for a MONTH starting TODAY!!! I promise!! 6 out of 7 days a week, at least!!

My friend Angie, of Angelica Grace Designs, blogs FAITHFULLY once sometime TWICE a day, and she has a HUGE following and a HUGE success in her business...partly because of her blog. I am going to TRY my DARNEDEST (is that a word?) to do the same, for at LEAST a month and see how many followers I get.

Plus, I was updating my nieces blog while she was recovering from her car wreck and got QUITE a few comments on my writing ability....aside from a miss spelled word here or there ;)

So, here it is....the beginning on a month of blogs from me, about me, my family, my life AND my business....

Yesterday, our house was a BUSY house, and I couldn't of been more happy. We had a COMING home party for my niece, Cassidy.

Above Drew and Cassidy

If you know me at all, you would know that girl took over my heart and my life after she got in a car accident on September 13th. None of us have quite been the same. She is a beautiful, smart, funny, adorable girl that just lights up the room!! If any of you have meet her, or followed her blog maybe, you would know or would of heard about it.

ANYWAY, our house was full of people that love Cassidy and we are happy she was home.
Gregg said at one point "I hope the floor joists hold up!"

Above Cassidy and the Uncle Greggster

So, here it is...the start of new blogging beginning for me....and I suggest you check back tomorrow....I very well may have a photo of my adorable niece with a famous Colts player =)

Stay tuned.....

LOVE Fall Photos

Look at the colors in these photos!! Love it...and I love this family. They are dear friends of ours, and became my clients for the first time this weekend with their new little bundle of joy! Thank you so much Jamie and Candace for allowing me to capture these moments. He won't be that little or cute for EVER...trust me!!

Back to it!

Life is getting back to normal now. Cassidy is doing so much better, and I seem to be getting back to normal life, with a few trips to the hospital to visit every now and then.

I was introduced to Nichole through my husband (thanks Gregg) and I just LOVED this family!! So laid back and relaxed, they truly made my job so easy!! The colors where AMAZING (thanks to the neighbors trees ;) and the mood was fun. I had so many favorites I had to post lots of them!!

Thank you Nichole and your adorable family for letting me capture a moment in your life,I can't WAIT to take your photos again and see how big the kids have gotten in 6 months!

Check back soon! I have pumpkin patch pictures, pumpkin carving photos and Halloween cookie making to post =)