5.30.2013

Happy Birthday Alyssa!

My favorite niece celebrated her 8th birthday last weekend (with her true birthday being today!)

The kids all had a blast! A great and beautiful day.



Some of my favorite pics . . .

Happy Birthday Alyssa!!!

(And yes, that is Layne grilling an elephant and apples.)               
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5.29.2013

Brewer Outing

  Memorial Day weekend, tailgating, comfortable weather and Brewers - it was a great day to spend some quality family time. I was able to snap a few photos. Here they are!

I am limited by the number of photos I can put on a blog post, so here is the link to my google picasa album.

https://plus.google.com/photos/104855146261100723827/albums/5882846413092113281?authkey=COWSvNm-qJDU8wE


                          

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5.23.2013

Moments in May































May has been a busy month so far! I’ve had many favorite moments in May already!

Mother’s Day was great! I was able to have some time to myself to actually get ready for the day without the boys in my bathroom space. This getting ready was especially nice, because it was more than just my usual mascara, yoga pants and a pony tail. It was, as Evan would say, “A really special treat!”

My gifts were great too! I got photography swag from the boys. A nice camera bag (woo hoo – no more stuffing it in random mom bags!), a scalloped hood (an accessory for the camera, not an article of clothing), and a variety of lens filters. On top of camera basics, I’m now super excited to try out all my accessories.   I was so excited, that on the very blustery Mother’s Day morning, we all went to the park. That was crazy. I think the temperature gauge on the car said 37 degrees. Really? What were we thinking? We lasted about five minutes, but I did get to try out some of my new stuff. (no photographs from the park made it on the blog, it was too cold and I got nothing good there!)  I then got to enjoy a nice afternoon out shopping with Andrea.  For dinner, Jeff grilled some delicious steaks. It was a really great Mother’s Day. Thanks again boys!

Following our freezing Mother’s Day, some warm weather finally made it here!! We broke out the water table and even took a trip to the technically closed, Pewaukee beach. The boys loved it. Evan especially loved it. He had no qualms about walking right up to the water and going for it. (He had no complaints about the seaweed or anything!) Is this my son? I have a feeling we will be regulars at the beachfront this summer.

Our playset has gotten a lot of use this summer, as have the bikes! Evan loves his tricycle. I’m happy to say that we are now proud parents of a real peddler! That is why I had to throw a couple pictures of Evan on his tricycle. In the last week or so, he has mastered peddling and he is very fast! This will be yet another mode of torture for Preston but hopefully he will just get really fast at running ;)

The sad picture of Preston . . . Well, he’s teething and has had a cold for awhile. That pretty much has been his May so far.

My final happy moment was this week when Jeff & Evan had their first Brewer outing together for the season. Good practice for our upcoming LanGer Brewer game this weekend. Evan loved every second of it (so I hear) and we are excited for more games!

5.07.2013

Alyssa's First Holy Communion

I had the pleasure of capturing my favorite niece’s First Holy Communion. This was quite a gig! There were so many beautiful things to capture. I wish I was better at it so I wouldn’t have missed any shots.   

If I had to use one word to describe the day, that word would be beautiful! What a beautiful communicant!! Beautiful ceremony, beautiful weather, it was truly perfect.  

 This was my first ‘event’ shoot. It was so fun! I even had some dialogue with the official First Communion photographer. His only comment to me was to upgrade my camera. Ha!!! I need to make money what I’m doing before that happens. (not to mention learn a million more things!). 

It was really hard narrowing down the shots to show on my blog. So many were my favorites. I’ll leave Andrea to decide if any more should be shared once she gets all the images to review. 

A special thank you to my sister for allowing & trusting a novice to document such a special day. I hope I did it justice. (Also a special thank you to Jeff for playing on the playground with the boys so I could focus.)



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


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