well, looks like i either need to grow longer arms or get a wider angle lens!  either option would be painful.  stretching my arms would just plain hurt & buying a new lens would hurt the bank account!  ;)

i had hoped to get more pics up tonight, but i shot a wedding with laurie today and i'm pooped!!  my legs & feet & arms are aching... off to bed i go!

more of jeremy's photo skills...

jeremy is turning into quite the photographer...

these are few of my faves from our first trip out to the daffodil field 2 weeks ago. it was a quick trip & rivers really wasn't into it, but i somehow managed to get a few good ones. lately i've found that it's surprisingly easier to take pictures of other people's children than it is to do my own. i'm thinking it's because rivers knows all my tricks already & he's no longer amused. looks like i'm going to have to come up with some fresh, new material.

i'll never get tired of pictures of his beautiful face... even with his boo boo. this one is my favorite!

and this means, "enough"!

i have failed to mention on here for quite some time just how amazing my son is. ;) not only does rivers know every letter in the alphabet and can count to 13, but he is now able to spell a handful of words. and even more amazing - he can spell backwards! (truthfully, i'm not sure if i should be amazed by this or worried, but let's just roll with it for now.) he can spell: dog, cat, stop (usually backwards), fox, kids (i just realized this one yesterday, and yes, he spelled it backwards), cup, mama, dada, and baby. sometimes he will go up to jasper and just say, "D. O. G." and sometimes its "G. O. D." anywhere we go, he is all about the letters. we go to food lion - he spells it out. we go to toys r us - he spells it out. driving the road, he sees a sign - starts spelling it out. we go to old navy - he spells it out. we were there this past weekend and people were actually stopping to watch him identify the letters and couldn't believe it! i wouldn't be surprised if my son is in the national spelling bee one day. in fact, he'll probably be reading the dictionary by this time next year! ;)

whoa... i just realized that i failed to mention my new "professional" photography blog on here!! i did put a link to it, but never said anything! well, here's the announcement - i have a new professional photography blog for my business. update your bookmarks or add it to your RSS feed. there you can keep up with my latest sessions as well as check out any specials/promotions i'm offering. hope you enjoy it! and please pass it along to all of your friends and family.

let me begin with... i'm no martha stewart! so after work last night, i come home and think, "what to make for dinner?" i decide to do a casserole type of dinner so that i can just throw it all in a dish, bake it, and play with rivers. so i start with cream of chicken soup, then add some uncooked rice. then on second thought, maybe i should take the rice out & cook it separately. so i strain it out as best as i can and start a pot of rice on the stove. back to my "casserole" - i add chicken, then peas, consider carrots, but no, jeremy's not a big fan. ok - thats good, chicken & peas are fine, i'll stir the rice in later. oops - forgot to preheat the oven. (turn on oven) and finally stick in the casserole. jeremy comes home and cautiously asks what's for dinner. when i tell him he says, "should i just go ahead and bake that frozen pizza?" i reassure him, no, it will be fine. then decide to also make corn on the cob. so i get the big pot out, fill it with water, and turn on the heat to get it boiling. i check on the rice and oh my - the water is all gone, its done. i look in on the chicken - not even bubbling or looking close to done. jeremy tells me he's starving (didn't take lunch break) and rivers is begging for yogurt, crackers, banana, anything... uh oh, dinner is no where close to being done and the boys are ready to eat! i stir the rice and give it a taste test - yuck! its still hard. fail. throw away. ok - give up on casserole dinner, get out the pizza. start cooking the pizza & then decide that since i already have the big pot of water boiling, why not go ahead and get a lasagna ready for tomorrow? so instead of corn, i boil noodles, begin cooking ground turkey. pizza is then done - well done (no not well as in good, well as in hard). we sit down to eat the yummy cardboard pizza, meanwhile i've put the "casserole" back in the oven. we can always eat it later in the week?! when gross pizza is gone i go back to the lasagna. get to the top layer only to realize i can't count - i'm missing 1 noodle. oh well - i make do and add extra cheese. so 2 hours after i started the easy, quick casserole, i had a very messy kitchen, much frustration on my part, and 3 crappy meals... hello monday!