You Know You Have Had a Fun Day When Your Camera's Flash Card Gets Full

I filled up my flash card in one day.....I had such a fun day. We celebrated the last day of school with a fun primary activity at church. We played water games and ate more fun summer treats.

Last Day of School Tradition...so fun

I ran into my neighbor yesterday and she asked if I had my water gun ready for tomorrow. I had no idea what she was talking about. She told me that it was tradition on our block for the parents to hide behind the bushes on the last day of school at the bus stop. This sounded like so much fun. She said they greet them as they come off the bus with water. One dad even hides in his backyard and sprays the kids with his hose as they walk by his fence. I had Lauren (little girl I tend to) shoot the water while I shot the photos. After that we had a little party with cup cakes and summer treats. What a fun neighborhood I live in.

Pics With My New Baby

These are the pics I took using my new baby....my lens...thank you Maranda!!!
These are some pics when I was just playing around of some of the kids I tend to.

Very Valuable Gift

God grants us many gifts in life and the greatest gift he gives us outside of the family is friendship. I have a very special friend. That friend is a gift herself, but that friend sent me a gift in the mail today. I want to publicly thank her. My old friend Maranda (or what I used to call her in high school was Marz) sent me a package. Wait, first I need to back up in the story....I went out to AZ in March. We all met at the park for a little bday party for my Maelee. Maranda brought her very cute son Ryker. Maranda and I share a love of photography. I was sad on the first day of my vacation when Delana dropped my camera. I thought "how in the world am I going to make it through the week without my camera." So before Maelee's party I went to the store and bought a Canon Digital Rebel, a camera I had been wanting for a long time. So I told Maranda at the party about my new purchase. She told me to take the camera back because she was wanting to get rid of her canon rebel because she had just upgraded to a better bigger camera because she just started her own photography company . So I took my camera I just bought back to the store and practically stole the camera from Maranda because she would not let me pay her much for it. I have been so blessed to have such a wonderful camera. Oh and by the way, the camera she sold me (allow me to steal) is a better model than the one I bought. I love that camera! I have been shopping around for a new lens. Maranda was giving me hints on what kind of lens to buy. Then it came to the point that I really needed one because Maelee dropped my camera and broke my lens. I pulled out my old lens from my rebel 35mm....it has kind of been working...

Now back to today. Today I pulled up and I had a package on my doorstep. I saw it was from Maranda. She told me that she sent me a package last week. I was not sure what was in it..we have both been shopping around for TuTu's so I thought maybe it was a tutu or some fun photo prop. I was not prepared for what was in the box. It was a camera LENS. I could not believe it. She sent me a 85 Prime lens. WOW!!! After I was done crying I played around with it and took pics of the kids.....what an amazing gift. Thank you Maranda!

Maelee and Ahmid

We got new neighbors a couple of months ago. They have a boy the same age as Maelee. They are in the same class at school and quickly became BFFs. You can tell how happy they are by the looks of these pics.

You are Never too Old to play with Bubble Wrap

I had gotten a package in the mail from my mother. It was a beautiful antique children's piece of furniture. I will be using it as a prop in photography endeavors. Thank you mom.....and my neighbor also thanks you for the bubble wrap in the box. The kids had taken all the bubble wrap from the box and decided to take it out front to play hop scotch on it. Which I think is pretty brilliant of them! Later that day when all the kids were inside I decided that I had better go out before it got dark and pick up all of the bubble wrap. When I went out I discovered my neighbor (which is a grandmother that just moved here from Sudan to help tend to her grandchildren) was sitting on her front porch with the bubble wrap in hand popping it. It was so cute. I ran and got my camera and asked in the best way I could to a women that does not speak any English if I could take her picture. She shook her head yes. This picture lets us know that bubble wrap is fun for all ages!