Can it be possible that summer break is over??  Where has the time gone?  We made a list at the beginning of summer…Our Summer List.  It was a list of all the things we wanted to do over the summer…here are some of the highlights: celebrate our new baby brother, Gunnar!  See Toy Story 3, make pirate grog (this was my eldest’s request - quite yummy), Gracie potty-trained (YEAH!!), Read 50 books, visit Daddy at the firestation (this was actually difficult because Daddy had practically the whole summer off with us - yeah!!), scavenger hunts, Vacation Bible School, celebrate our new cousin, Belle Lehman!  Have a “stay-cation”, sleepover at Grandma & Grandpa’s house, catch butterflies, make birdhouses…IT WAS AWESOME!!  So, I would be lying if I said that we were itchin’ for school to start, but what an amazing summer we had!!

So, with having Master G, I have enjoyed taking some nice time off of “work”, but while I have been gone…I FINALLY bought an IMAC, which I was so thrilled about and just two days ago bought the latest version of Photoshop, I jumped two versions so, there is fun new stuff I can’t wait to learn!!  Now that school has started I will have a few mornings that are quiet (hopefully!), I plan to use them to have fun with my new toys work equipment and software!

On another note…there was some work that I did prior to having baby that never made it to the blog, but still deserve a post, so this week will be dedicated to posting some of those clients’ images!!  Thanks for some serious patience!!  I will also be sending out info regarding sessions for October and November INCLUDING my Holiday Minis sometime next week!  I will also be blogging all the info so stay tuned.

Just for fun…here are some shots from our family camping trip up in the White Mountains…it was wet, but very green and VERY FUN!!  AND here is a little secret…I am a mom before I am a photographer, so in order to take some fun snap shots of my kids I use my point-and-shoot camera, I just bought this one and I really like it!!  Then I can make sure I capture the moments as they happen!!

Our GIANT marshmallows!!

Headed out for a hike…new baby in the wrap

One of the many creatures we saw…frogs, snakes, horny toads, night crawlers and more…

Lots of yummy wild strawberries!

Lots and lots of night crawlers because of all the rain!!

Catching crawdads…

A waterfall from all the snow run-off and rain…

These were elk we saw across the lake…

We met my folks up in the mountains and then some of our dear friends met us up there a few days later…here we all are!!

Thanks for indulging me!!  Lots of more stuff to come this week!

Blessings!

Janelle