Ah Dang

Hooray for Shane being off school this week! He has saved me from a meltdown several times already. Yesterday afternoon Monkey Pants and I headed to Walmart to return a printer and get a new one. This should have taken approximately 20 minutes. It took one hour. I won’t get in to details because steam might start coming out of my ears again, but it was bad. It involved lots of phrases like “Ah dang this thing be a tax exempt, I gonsta hafta start all ova.” What really made me mad was that there was no apologies. No “I’m sorry this is taking an eternity mam.” Alright, I must stop talking about it before I get all worked up again.

When we finally got home Shane wisked Monkey off to the park to watch a bike race and I finally got a shower in and got a ton of editing done. Then after all that Shane even went to the grocery store for me. Ah dang, what am I gonsta do next week when he’s back in class?

I finally finished editing my last summer wedding. Woot! They are uploading now Mary! Here are some of the ones I love that I didn't take. This is why you need an assistant. Jen caught these moments when I was busy catching other things.



bride's mom seeing her for the first time.



Bride's dad being wheeled in to the church



Bride walking through the puddles



Bride welling up at her son's toast.
Love these!
Nice work Jen!

Today Marlie is working on that last molar and it is not pretty. I had to go get her from Beth’s this morning because she was ballistic and even when I got there she was still crying. I can see it is almost poking through so maybe in the next day or so she’ll feel better. Poor thing.

Tonight I have a hot date. PF Changs here we come!

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Our weekend away was really fun. Lots of reminiscing and catching up with old friends. I missed Monkey Pants, but as I sat at the rehearsal dinner listening to speeches at 9:30 p.m., I thought boy we made the right decision. I would post a photo of the newlyweds, but believe it or not I left my camera at home and depended on my friends to take some pics. I just needed a little break. But believe me, they were adorable.

Speaking of adorable, take a look at this little man...






My photog friends Jodie and Emily came over last week to play in the studio. This is Emily's little guy Noah. We tried out the new child's chair and then we got out the suitcase. He was the perfect little subject.



Marlie was taking a nap so she missed out on the shoot. I tried to get some later but she was super cranky and this is what I got.



Lil stinker.

i get to be mushy today

because 6 years ago today I married this guy. Happy Anniversary Shane.

randomness

Hello there Friday. Today so far I have run around like a chicken with my head cut off getting ready to leave for the weekend. We are going to a wedding of a guy that was in the youth group that we used to lead. That’s right, one of our youth kids is getting married. We have known him since he was in 5^th grade. This further confirms the fact that I am officially old. Anywhoo, it should be a lot of fun. Shane is on his way home from the airport right this moment with some sweet friends of ours that we haven’t seen in a long time. Can’t wait! Plus, we decided to leave Monkey Pants here with her grandparents so that will be a nice break. I wish we could bring her but one teething toddler + a long car ride + two late nights + 4 adults sharing one hotel room = a really bad idea. Sorry Monkey.

But more importantly did you here that apparently they found Bigfoot? Shane came home yesterday and told me this very fact like there was absolutely no question that it was true since he heard about it on his favorite talk radio show. Some Bigfoot tracker (there are people that do that?) says he was tracking a family of sasquatches and happened upon the dead body of an adult Bigfoot. For real? I don’t know. They are supposed to release the data in the next few weeks. Weird.

My friend Beth had a sighting of her own today. I received a text from her a few minutes ago that said “Just spotted, a man running in tight silky boxers.” I don’t know, it sounds like it could have been a sasquatch to me.

Monkey's tiny couch

A month or so ago my MIL bought Monkey Pants a little couch. She had fallen in love with her cousin’s couch so we just had to get her one of her own. When my MIL brought it over I cringed a little, OK a lot, when I saw it. This thing is lime green, turquoise and has ginormous backyardigan heads on it. Oh yes, that will make the perfect addition to the new house that I have been working hard to decorate.

Why do manufacturers make some kid things so ugly?! I mean I know its stimulating and all, but come on. I’ve seen a lot of these little couches and they are all hideous. I like to think that kids have more taste than the companies give them credit for.

Today at the grocery store in the bakery section I saw some donuts with green icing and a gummy worm on top. I mean really? I guess they think some kid will think that looks like a pretty tasty breakfast.

Also, we watch quite a bit of Baby Einstein around here and there is one thing that has really been bothering me. I can’t remember on which one, we celebrate the entire collection, but on one of them there is someone making up a banana split. All you see is the hand scooping ice cream on top of the bananas. Cute OK, but it is green mint chocolate chip ice cream. Bananas and mint chocolate chip? Gross.

I think that Marlie would prefer a nice plain pink couch instead of cartoon heads, a warm croissant instead of a gummy worm donut, and a scoop of mint chocolate chip sans banana. She is so sophisticated. Yeah right, she'd be all over that worm.

Here is Monkey Pants on the aforementioned couch taking in some Baby E. Man she loves that thing.

Please head on over to Noah's blog. The last time I mentioned Noah he was doing much better. It has been such a roller coaster and he and his parents are having a really rough time. I'd give him all of the gummy worm donuts in the world if it would make him feel better. Please pray for them and let them know you are doing so. Comments can really lift your spirits and they need some lifting.

Reasons why I like this week...

I put Marlie’s hair in pigtails for the first time.

It is Shane’s last week of summer classes.

Monkey Pants started saying "go, go" when she runs.

I actually hung stuff on the walls in the new house.

I get to have lunch with the photog girls tomorrow.

Friday we are headed out of town for a wedding.

Marlie said ducky for the first time.

I get to see tons of old friends at the wedding.

I get to celebrate my friend Amy’s graduation on Saturday.

I got Monkey Pants her first pair of Crocs.

I have a babysitter today so I can knock out some editing.

Sunday is our Anniversary. 6 years baby!

And, because posts without photos are a little boring…

Miss Monkey Pants at 4 months. Oh that face!

A family shoot and more Bridget

Friday morning I headed out to a little town about an hour away to meet this sweet family at their lake house for a photo shoot..We took some Senior photos for Jake here.Then I got to take some photos of Abbie on the dock with her guitar. I made her play and sing for me while I shot. She is so talented! We decided she needs to cut an album soon so she can use some of these on the cover.

We took a bunch of the whole fam too.
I love how little Sally's smile sneaks in this one.

Anywhoo, it was a fun shoot with a really cute family. And a great excuse for me to drop off Monkey Pants at my moms and head out of town for a bit. Of course it became quite the adventure when I ran out of gas on my way back home :). But thats just more Bridget Jonesness I guess. Sometimes I really bug myself. I mean, why didn't I look at the gas gauge? I have no idea. So I had to sit there on the side of the highway in the 90 degree heat and wait for my sweet husband to leave work and rescue me. And he did, with no complaints...

me: I can't believe this. Why do I do such stupid things so often?
Shane: silence
me: You don't have an answer do you?
Shane: No, but I love you.

When I get really busy I just start doing really dumb things. Lately my specialty has been going to Target and not getting what I really went there for in the first place. Why don't I make a list? I don't know people, I just don't sometimes. And then I get in there and I get sucked in by the dollar section and the pretty clothes and the great cereal prices. Its a problem.

Then the other day when I finally got my sales tax figured for the quarter I filled out the little form, remembered to include the change of address form and hopped on over to the post office and got it mailed. Then, in the car I realized that I didn't put the stinking check in the envelope. Unbelievable.

Its supposed to be 102 degrees here today which is just sick. Why do I live in Missouri again? Marlie and I are not leaving this house unless we have to thats for sure. Hope you have a good day!