Rabbits run fast but I don't think they swim

We're all back to normal after the blizzard.  I need another one actually. 
Only four more days till Spring Break starts...
I'm busy getting us all ready to go in different directions for Spring Break.

To welcome March I borrowed a bunny from a friend and scheduled some Easter pictures.
Both teens and their friends also wanted to go for pictures.  One friends' mom tagged along to play with her camera and take a few pictures with her daughter and then there were four sessions with babies....

 

There is no shade in this town right now for good pictures.  This is the field I love in the summer and fall but with no leaves on the trees, not so much.

She would not approve of me posting this picture but I loved it! 

 

The bunny only made a run for it twice.  I may or may not have shrieked a bad word while taking pictures of our youth minister's kids when the bunny sprinted towards the water.  We did find out that the bunny wasn't interested in swimming though.  It was a pain to get through the weeds but the bunny stopped at the water's edge (thank goodness).

 

Do you know what happens when you take pictures of four babies in one short period of time?  You squat down about a million times and wonder the next day what is wrong with your legs.

 

 

But it sure was fun

 

 

Happy March

 

 

I did a little trading

Remember all the vintage things I dug out?

I did a little trading and came home with this big boy!  I am going to paint it and use it for some pictures... I'm a little excited.  Jennifer did a little modeling in it for me...

Friends with hats

When we went to Dallas a couple of months ago Katie had to have this hat.  She had a vision of pictures in the hat.  I couldn't say no to it because I had the vision of these pictures, I just hadn't planned hats...

I had vision of the bike and this field, the hats were a good touch.  I am planning on a picture of the girls and I like this for Father's day for Mike...I'm just waiting on Jennifer to come take it.  She needs some bike pic's too...

they brought the best guy friend as well...

Love this one...

 

Take time to frolic with your friends this summer!

Can you hear me now?

I tried blogging from the iPhone app again... I accidentally deleted my last post.  Still can't post but delete works well. 

Our big news of late is that Mike got hearing aids on Friday!

He has had a hearing loss since childhood.  He once told me he threw away his hearing aids in middle school.  This week he said he lost them in a football game...(I really think it was the first one) and he has compensated all these years without them...

He reluctantly agreed to get them again, finally!

He can hear the t.v. at a normal volume, he can hear us when we talk to him, he can even hear us when we are in the next room not talking to him...

He's going to have some adjusting to do...right now he thinks everything is too loud.  I've been sick and sniffing a lot and I am "being very loud" and today he told me the little dog eating was like a light bulb shattering on the floor...he is really put out that he can hear birds outside and traffic now.

But, his biggest complaint is that his clothes rustle.  I told him they always have and I've tried to get him to switch to light starch for that very reason...

I am so hoping he adjusts quickly.

And to add the pictures again since I've deleted the first ones...

My view today

since I didn't remember to take the picture till bedtime my view was a snuggly dog.

Words

Hands

I found Kellie napping and even then her phone was in her hand

A stranger

Since I've stayed home all day, I chose a picture from a stranger's food blog I spent some time on today... Check it out here - http://chaosinthekitchen.com/.    Had to cheat on this one...

On an angle

I love looking at the different photo examples for the parties at Tracy's Trinkets and Treasures...

The latest party is for angles...

Going through my pictures I have discovered that a large number of my pictures are taken on an angle...

I love this picture of Katie... love the angle, love the light, love the sweet girl...

Not the best picture, but the angle served to get Elvis and the ballgame he was watching!

Good friends

We had a lot of friend time this weekend...

It really does take a while to grow old friends...

This good friend is actually living at my house I believe.  She may not have all her clothes here but it's just a matter of time I'm pretty sure...

You know the friend is part of the family when Katie goes to dance and instead of friend going and watching  she chooses to run errands with me...

This friend is on the way to taking up residence with us also...She's a weekend resident at the moment....
She's already a little too comfortable here...

Then there are my friends...

I've got a good friend who got a new camera when I did... we've spent a lot of time out looking for the frightening gang areas fun places to take pictures...

another friend who will meet you for happy hour at the last minute and go sit through a painful benefit dance program

and a couple of friends who fill all the other needs...

One of them came over with her family for dinner tonight... our husbands hadn't met before but some trash talking domino games soon unfolded...

and my favorite friends right now are a little grumpy at times but still worth hanging out with...
Only one let me get a picture with her this weekend though...

Now if Mike can just find a friend to go to the ZZ Top concert with so I don't have to go,  all will be well...

This and that

My new photographer friend showed me an old abandoned hotel where she takes some pictures... a friend wanted to see it so we took Katie and her BFF along for models.

I had ordered the new lens I have been wanting...

Tracking was showing that it was on the truck for delivery...

We were meeting at 6:30.....

The lens still wasn't here....It came right after we left I heard...Darn.

But we still had fun and took a few pics

It was a pretty scary place....Katie went back to the car, the BFF was brave and let us get a few pics... this is one of the first ones where she is still debating how safe we are...

Then she loosened up....

We moved on pretty quickly... We discovered this little strip of trees, a meadow and a little creek...  Here in West Texas where there aren't many trees this is like a little oasis...I was amazed today when we went by there and there were several photographers there... Trees are really special here I guess.

I loved the light coming through the little trees... We were there at the perfect time...

I'm not quite sure what they are doing but I liked the picture...

But then it appears the BFF was turning on here and trying to stab her with a branch...

She might be going through the terrible teens but she's still a keeper...

I copied this idea from somewhere in blog land... loved the peeps in the jar.

I'm having trouble not eating the "Hawaiian punch" jelly beans.  They are really good...The edible grass on the other hand, isn't very flavorful...

Speaking of peeps... I love this little peep show... I need to do it at my house..

Ellie was in terrible need of a new spring hair cut...the only appointment I could get was at 7a.m. today.  On Saturday. 

after...

Elvis was a little jealous

I'm not sure why there was tiara wearing going on but I think she was more surprised I was standing there with a camera when she walked out than I was that she was wearing it... 

I think the attention she got at dinner last night has gone to her head...

We were waiting on a table at a restaurant and a little boy, maybe 6 or 7 kept winking at her and then told his mom "she's pretty"...mom was a little embarressed but dad, not so much... he was very proud of his son...

Never a dull moment with girls, friends and dogs... I love it all...

A few more pictures

I wanted to add a couple of more pics from earlier in the week...

I loved this picture of Jennifer sharing a special moment with the sweet donkey

Luckily, Jennifer likes a good barefoot picture as much as I do...

And I can always count on several self portraits when we have the camera with us...

Now, I must brag for a moment....

It is obvious which daughter would rather hang out with me, likes to cook, and will even antique shop with me and not complain. 

As a matter of fact, she has started asking to go to antique stores and she can spot some cool stuff...But this week when we were in an antique store she showed me how much like me she is.  We came around a corner and she saw an old punch bowl (that wasn't even that pretty) with the punch cups hanging off of the bowl and said "oooh, this is cool". 

My heart swelled with pride and I hugged her and told her she had a wonderful future of party throwing and shower giving to look forward to. 

I've never been so proud!!!!

I wish I had gotten a picture of us with the punch bowl to remember that moment.

Photo tips and donkeys

I recently ran across the website for a photographer here in town.  I had to look at every picture on her site because she is a pet photographer...

Much to the embarrassment of my kids, I emailed her and asked her about a couple of places in her pictures and she was so sweet to email me back and several emails later, we met for coffee... Otherwise know as my Internet date by my kids...

Amanda was so sweet to visit with me and give me her wonderful list of cool places to take pictures!

But the very best bit of info she gave me was where to find the mini donkeys that she had taken pics of...

Today we went out looking around at some of the sites she told me about and we stopped by to pet the mini donkeys and horses...

They came up to the fence to let us pet them and were soooo sweet!

I think I need one of these babies in my yard!!!

Then we went on to check out some other cool spots we heard about from her...

I realized today that all my recent pictures are of Kellie but she is the only kid that usually wants to go...

Daisy made sure there wasn't a dead body in there for us...
We had fun and I think Kellie and I will be going back to see the donkeys everyday...