Photographing my kids and whatever else strikes me
This is a space for me to display my budding photography skills and also brag a little (maybe a lot) about my kiddos!
We are finally working on our front and back fences. It’s been taking us forever since it’s pretty much only Josh, myself, and Wallace as a 3-person crew, but we’ve just about finished up the front and are now working on the back.
Starting up the generator.
Teaching Wallace how to weld.
Tacking on the panels.
I almost forgot that Hoss is part of our fence building crew. :)
It’s been a busy summer, at least for the kids, but I took a couple of weeks off and took them to the Frio and the beach.
Although Wallace claims his favorite place is the beach, I think he might have found a special place in his heart for the river as well this year. :)
I spent several days just relaxing in the river for hours and hours. It was fabulous!
And Meredith spent quite a bit of her time catching tiny fish.
And that pretty much sums up the river. :) I think the best part was that we took the kids’ bikes, and I’m pretty sure that Meredith was so motivated by seeing Leah’s kids riding her bike that she was finally able to put it all together and start riding her bike! Thank you so much for making this vacation possible Big Momma!
Then we went home, did a little laundry, and headed straight for Bolivar.
I had a couple of commissioned photo shoots while we were there this year! :)
And these were my favorites from each shoot.
We took a day trip to Galveston.
And everyone got VERY worn out!
But Wallace finally found the Zippo lighter he’s been wanting for so long at a smoke shop on the Strand. lol. I felt like such a responsible parent. I also never realized how cool Zippo lighters are!
Thanks for having us Granny. I needed the trip more than ever this year, and it did not disappoint.
What a senior year it’s been! It’s been so nice getting to be a part of it. :) I love when I get these calls asking for photos. And prom was so fun! I just couldn’t get enough of all the dresses! And seriously, the styles changed so much in just the 2 years since she went last time. Not so many flowers on the dresses this year. They honestly looked kind of similar to the dresses we wore when I went to prom!
You’d never believe from looking at her how incredibly humid it was that evening.
It took me a little while to get to editing these photos, but we had a wonderful trip to Gilmer to spend Easter with Josh’s family this year. I didn’t get any photos of it, but we (well…Josh and Sarah) even got to spend a day teaching his brother-in-law how to cook brisket, and Josh cooked up a bunch of ribs (my personal fav) while they were at it. It was so nice and relaxing.
Happy Easter yall!
Wallace is graduating elementary school, and the teachers asked for a current photo as well as a baby photo for a slide show they do for the kids. This slide show meant a lot to Anna, but Wallace is more confused by it than anything. He just wants to make sure he’s not the only kid submitting photos. I’ve assured him that if he doesn’t submit photos, he will be the only one who doesn’t. And since I haven’t been the best at taking photos lately, I needed to get him out and actually take a current photo of him. I am so pleased with how well they came out!
He really fought me with getting dressed for this. He wanted to just wear what he already had on…or a sweatshirt that he wears every day. We compromised on this.
This is the photo we actually ended up using. :) So handsome!
And even though I hauled one of our super heavy iron chairs out to the trail behind the house, we didn’t end up using any of the seated photos. Oh well…at least I got a workout.
He decided to go with this baby photo. It’s pretty cute, and it was fun to go back through all the old baby pictures. I got my camera when he was a baby, so it was also interesting to see all of my original filters, and all that blur… yikes. Even Wallace was commenting on it.