~ Flag Bearer ~

My boy was the flag bearer on Grandparents Day this year. Such an honor!  Such a privilege!  Of course, these were taken back in March...better late than never, right?

Rose Ceremony ~

I know we don't look old enough to have a 1st and 3rd grader...but it's official!  We do!  Cute ones to boot!

Vacation!!

Oh, we had such a great week away!!  More images to follow!

~ House Proud ~

My kids accompanied me on a volunteer project with House Proud an Atlanta non-profit that provides repair work on homes  belonging to elderly folks.  They host a huge party once a year where they gather national sponsors and work on 6-7 homes in one morning.  For the 2nd year in a row they asked if I would document the event for them...I gladly obliged!  I love toting my kids along with me to events like these.  I think it's important for them to see people volunteering and giving of themselves.  P 

Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day to the best chicken keeper out there! 

Not a Rooster...

It's been a while since I posted a "I love this kid so much!" post - so here goes... I love this child of mine so much!! She makes me feel like the luckiest Mama on the planet!

Worried...

that these two fine ladies...might not be ladies...

~ Magic Elixir ~

Last week I had a sick girl on my hands...high fever & just all around feeling like $#!T!!  As you can probably guess I'm not one to pass up the opportunity to photograph my children (sick or not).  Without further ado I give you what I like to refer to as "the Magic Elixir."

This one really breaks my Momma heart!

Getting a little annoyed with her Mom!

 

Proof!  She is sick!

 

Downing the Magic Elixir...

  
15 minutes later...Ta-Da!!

the darndest things...

He says the funniest things.  The other day we were walking home from school and in his very matter-of-fact voice he asks me "do you know what happens to you if you hang upside down on the monkey bars too long?'  Of course I'm intrigued to hear his answer so I reply "nope!"  

"Well, if you hang upside down too long then all of your blood will rush to your head and and cause you to think too much, about everything you know, and your head will explode!!

Mulberry Pie

~ Farmer Mary's Goat Farm 2012 ~

Our last trip to Farmer Mary's with Ms. Keeney's class...trying to keep it together here...

~ Tim McGraw ~ Down on the Farm ~

Easter 2012

  

~  Clem Snide ~ Burn the Light ~

The Very Quiet Cricket

One of my favorite children's story is Eric Carle's "The Very Quiet Cricket".  I loved the part where the cricket sees a Luna Moth quietly sailing in the night sky.

Something weird happened here at our house this weekend...my wonderful husband, father of my children, cleaned the house on Saturday while I was out photographing a wedding.  Here it is Monday morning & the house is still clean...still clean...ok, I need to make our bed, but still...the house is clean...

On another note, my precious, beautiful, loving children are visiting their grandparents for the weekend & should be home shortly.  

I wonder what my Mom's house looks like...

Chicken Visitor

We had some very special visitors this weekend...Aunt Jamie & Parker came to see us & our chicks!   At first Parker wasn't too sure of what to think of these chicks, but he quickly warmed up to them.  

Who knew that owning chicks would be like a vegetarian mission for us...Turns out that Aunt Jamie skipped the chicken lunch today after spending the weekend with 9 of them.  Sorry we don't have cows too! 

New home

We've recently moved our chicks from the brooder into a larger pen. They looked so big in the brooder, but now that they have more space, they still look like little babies. I took these pictures to compare to the image I will take in a few weeks...to show how big they are going to look in that kennel very, very soon.

Rosemary loves the perch!

eating out of the palm of his hand

The feeling is mutual between my main man & the birds!!

My favorite chickens!

Breakfast

The other day, a friend on Facebook posted a picture of her delicious breakfast - Eggs Benedict.  As I am prone to do, I made a funny/sarcastic remark about how she was making us "all" look bad by making her family a warm, yummy, attractive breakfast on a Wednesday morning, before school, no less.  I've thought about that Eggs Benedict a lot the past couple of days...about how much Gina loves her family and shows it in simple ways - like preparing a beautiful breakfast.  

This morning (albeit a slow, Saturday morning) I decided I was going to show my family some of my love for them.  I basically made the same thing I would have made them any other mornings, croissants, bagels, yogurt, but instead of tossing it on the table in front of them I served it up on our finest china.  

What a difference presentation makes!  You would not believe how much we all enjoyed this breakfast!  I told the kids that they could have whatever they wanted - that included the chocolate croissants. It was so nice to sit down and leisurely eat and enjoy each others company on this glorious Saturday morning! 

Life really is about the presentation isn't it?