New Park, New Shoot

Here are some nuggets from today..all straight out of the camera....except for one of her at an angle!

Tons more on my FB page....will try and upload more later!!! It's EMMY time!

Another year- Another Shoot

It's that time of year again. Well a bit early but with the way my semester is set up..probably not :) I had to get the kids pics done before xmas and decide on a photo. I was going to go with more enforcements..namely their father since he can get them to laugh (although a lot of times he gets them laughing TOO much- ask Jess )...so maybe it was divine that he did not go. We got haircuts for two of the three and I realized that RAIN was moving in. I don't mind rain but the actual sky when it's overcast is FANtastic for photo taking!

The kids did well! I was amazed....we hadn't eaten lunch yet so maybe starving your kids is the way to go :) Seriously we ventured to a new park..I was a bit tired of the barn at our local one....and didn't want to brave my fave one that has a lot of unsavory ppl in it. I bribed the brood with pizza from their fave place if they cooperated and it worked! The park is fantastic and we only ventured in a few feet...they were having a blast exploring and I *think* this shoot worked better than most since I channeled my inner Tara Whitney and just did it. Let them do their thing and snapped a TON of pics. 195 is a huge amt for me. But it was a success. I have a lot of good ones..some bad ones and my faves as usual are the candid ones of us - with ME in them.

I promised the kids we'd go back and hike....there are caves and dungeon like areas inside and it was so cool...railroad tracks (active though) and other things to see....but like I said the rain was coming fast. Outtakes are all shown here. I'll put some of my faves up on my photo blog. If you want to see ALL 195..drop me an email....I'm uploading to shutterfly now.

I love their deal w/Archivers...for the last two years now we've earned our xmas photos FREE...so stinking cool...and another reason to get them done early. Now to work on the newsletter....and get them all stuffed and ready for shipping at xmas time.

If you've asked me to take your family pics this holiday- just email me...now's a good time to head out - when it's cooler but not super cold....and it's not super hot anymore either.

Painting - or gifts cheap

Yep..we are having the kids do ornaments for the family and for our tree..they did a great job with them too. I think they'll make great teacher gifts, etc. Here's some pics of them working on them. AG had more paint on HER than on the actual ornament.

I threw an extra of the dog..just because we haven't had pics of him lately...he's still cute like a puppy and full grown now. He'll be TWO in Jan :) I wonder if I have to have a dog party then? Oy.

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I finally am uploading layouts

I took my whomping big pile that has kind of backed up over the last 6 mos and took pics and found homes for them in albums. :) After AG sprayed my WHOLE dining room and scrap area w/water in early August I decided that I had a death wish concerning my work. :)

I'll upload my faves here!
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Owl Pellets

Yes I said Owl pellets - or more appropriately puke. I dissected some last year in Bio..and brought the skeleton home for the kids. They promptly thought it was the *coolest* thing evah and asked to bring it to school. I emailed the teachers first lest they thought my kids were killing animals :)

So when we were at the Museum (where we have that membership- so 10% off in gift shop too...score) I picked up three Owl pellets. Little did I know that K would have no desire to look at them But of course. But M's friend was over so they all worked together on them. They even provided a little chart to determine what bones they are....it occupied (as AG would say) them for a good long while.

Then we took the kids to the Milwaukee Public Museum....it had *the* best butterfly exhibit ever....a butterfly area where thousands are in there and bred. They fly free around you. Otherwise it was a quarter of the size of the MSI in Chicago and not as nice at all. But we also got Kopp's custard and their YUMMY burgers- so hey- not a bad trade off right????!

Everyone is sort of settling into their routine. AG is having a hard time with the fact that school is 7 days a week and goes for hours at a time. She started by crying her eyes out the first days..and has bad days still. She thought that since she was off on Monday (Labor day) that meant she went NO more mondays..poor dear.

Other than that..*I* am settling in to my 3 classes...2 have started...I go out in the field to do an experiment this thursday...and we get in boats at some point..I hope it's before November :)

Off to help the young one try her bike without training wheels :)

Peace out folks...

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