Sunday’s random ramblings

Taking a page from my favorite scrapbooker/teacher/photographer Karen Russell (who will get another mention in a minute) a list of various stuff from today:

1. Templates of Christmas/Holiday cards are up on the blog. To see them all, click on the "Christmas Cards" header on the left under "Pages".

2. I emailed a ton of friends, clients,  and family to let everyone know the Christmas cards were up for viewing. I have NEVER had so many visits to my little blog ever before. So to everyone who visited, thank you so much. Now I just hope you liked the cards and pictures enough to contact me for a session! And to those of you who already did contact me, thank you so much! Looking forward to working with you soon.

3. Tommorrow is picture day at school for the big boys. I have to say as I get further into the photography thing, the less excited about picture day I get. I think I can do better and I hate paying for the picture package before even seeing them. But I have to get them for the class picture.

4. Yesterday we had our cousin Tricia, her son, her sister with 3 of her kids over for lunch. Tricia’s neice is going to a local college and may need someplace to crash on occasion. She is such a sweet girl. A freshman on the softball team and they work her so hard! But we are finding we have a lot in common (girly stuff, scrapbooking, sushi) so I think it will be fun with her staying over every now and then. The boys were happy cause she played baseball with them (although they were a little disgruntled over the softball instead of baseball part) and Timmy loved her right away. Had a great time hanging with Tricia too- I wish we lived closer so we could play more often!

5. Timmy’s sentences are getting better and better. Tonight I heard "No, I not pee-u. I maybe a liiiiiiitle bit wet". No, I not wet, I’m ooooookay". Potty training going so well but no poop in the potty yet.

6. Got a haircut yesterday and it’s okay. Too short but before it was too layery so I had no choice on cutting a bunch off. Still shoulder length, but just. It’ll grow. Just not fast enough to be long for the wedding on Friday. Getting highlights Tuesday. Hair is a lot of maintenence, man.

7. Took the big boys on a 2hr bicycle ride today (and my ass is killing me tonight). We rode over to the nearby State park and rode the bike trail. Hilly and so fun. They did great but I think it’s time for the next size bike. In the spring. The complaining was at a minimum, thank god. But those boys are sooooooo slow. A little pep, please. We saw a teeny snake on the way out over the footbridge. No camera with me, so no picture. Sorry. But it was cool.

8. Saw my cousin Alex on Friday night after the photoshoot down at the beach. I have always been scared of German Shepards and she has one (plus she was babysitting a friends Doberman Pinscher) and it was in the house. With me. Luckily they were both so sweet, but very big. So I guess I am over my fear by immersion. We had a nice visit, even with the dog slobber. And thanks for the PBA card, Alex- you rock! (sorry I missed you Kevin).

9. And the capper to my weekend– The afore mentioned Karen Russell (see her blog here ) who is a famous scrapbooker, scrapbook designer/artist, and amazing photographer sent me a compliment. A big one. I’m signed up to take her photography class in PA in October and she told me after looking at my blog that my photography is so good already that she dosen’t think I need to take her class. How totally freaking HUGE is that!!?? But I’m going anyway. I still have lots of questions and there is always lots of room for improvement. But I am floating for days over this one.

Have a good week everyone.