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And the winners are…..   …   …   ….  This was hard!!!  I didn’t think this through when I quickly posted on facebook that we needed pet models!!!  Your animals are gorgeous and their names are to die for!!!  My kids and I have loved looking at your images and seeing the names of your precious babies!!  I wish I could have all of them, but I only need about 6, however I couldn’t stop at 6 so we went to 9.  For the final decision I called in reinforcements (Caroline and Jake) who were wonderful … well, actually NO help at all, lol, they thought they were all perfect!!

The Pet Models are:

1.  Windy Sargent’s yellow lab

2.  Haila Scoggins and Zeke

3.  E Ragen with her Jack Russell Dottie and Fluffbutt

4.  Jenny Boggs with her Madison Grace

5.  Lynn Young with her cat Klyne

6.  Shannon Ballentine with Harriett

7.  Tami Williamson with her 9 Golden Doodle puppies

8.  Amy Latham with Penelope

and last but not least….

9.  Paula Hine with her beautiful Mia

Here are some of the images sent in.  Some of the winners are in here, but others are not.  We are so so so excited.  Winners will be sent an email notifying them of their scheduled shoot time.   Thank all of you VERY much for your participation!

I can’t believe how fast the summer has zoomed by!  School starts in 2 weeks and we still have to take our family vacation.  So, with tons of errands ahead of us, the kids and I set out yesterday to get school supplies before they are all picked over.  Thank goodness we did because we’re still missing 2 canvas zippered pencil pouches. I honestly don’t believe they exist in Greenwood.  After visiting four (that’s right, 4) stores I decided I’ll have to google them online.  But that’s not even the best part, lol!  While we were in School Tools a newspaper reporter interviewed the kids and I about “back to school” shopping.  Of course I gave her my piece of mind about these pencil pouches and about everything else I could think of at the moment with 2 kids, now in our fourth store and 100 degrees outside.  So… when she asked to take our picture, I had to politely inform her NOT to shoot my rear!!!  OMG… I now know how you guys feel when I take your picture!  But… you know I’ll take care of you, I don’t have a clue how her pictures will turn out.  I guess now I’ll have to wait and see what this frazzled image looks like.  If you see me in the paper…now you know the whole story!  Too funny!

PS:  If you know where to get zippered canvas pencil pouches… TELL ME!

I’m so excited! (I know I say that alot) But….. I really am!  I have a HUGE portrait display going up the end of this week in a well know ultra couture spot in town!  Beautiful models from the past 2 years, gorgeous outfits from Sugar and the Frilly Frog, and outrageous FUN!  All of the details will be posted on my twitter account… you’re not following me????  Well, click here and get started.

It Rocked!!  We had so much fun!  Seriously… the food was delish (Thank you Dave – he’s the new Chef at TW Boons!),  The Models were Gorgeous!  And… And… And… the videos were totally Fricking AmAzInG!!!  If you’ve not seen them on Facebook go NOW!!  The place was packed… standing room only!  The Pink Potion in the martini glasses – well that was a favorite as well!  Jake, my son, served himself up 3 or 4 and insisted “Mom, you’ve GOT to have one of these”!  His little fingers froze the entire night from holding his drink….and of course the sugar high hit once we arrived home! Lol!  Want to see the #1 video that opened the show?

Click  the image below to start the video!

I absolutely love my Christmas card this year, and I think part of the reason is that is was a spur of the moment decision that worked out Wonderfully! So, yes, I was busy this December….. R-E-A-L-L-Y Busy, and know that next year I’ll start Christmas work, shopping, baking, wrapping, kid wrangling, etc much earlier (famous last words, right!), because this year everything landed me – BAM – all at once.

Caroline’s schedule was a big part of it all – please tell me how do you cart your children around and still manage to put dinner on the table. Well.. I guess I did have dinner… but it was mostly Chick-Fil-A, Migs, and frozen pizza! This was between theater performances, her piano recital and chorus performances – and I’m sure many of you do much more than this!

So, there i was December 17th without a Christmas card and not one creative idea and I knew how much trouble I would have with Jake who despises the camera, Caroline who tells everyone how to pose, me who has to make sure the lighting is just perfect and Hubie… well, he just wants to go fishing. How could I possibly get us dressed to perfection, find the a spot that would be awesome and make sure we all looked happy while freezing our %$# off outside! I was truly screaming inside. Then it was like floating feathers from heaven raining down on me, and a voice in my head saying…. shoot your legs, shoot your legs, SHOOT YOUR LEGS!!! Seriously, I didn’t even have to think twice -even when my sister called me wierd, my mom said “only you”, and my house keeper said “are you sure?”- This was an incredible idea and we were dressed, no hair fixing, no adjusting chins, or silly smiles, and Jake would not have to get dressed at all. (If you have a boy you soooo know what I’m dealing with here, lol).

Whew, I’m out of breath, but that’s how it went down. I set the camera on a tripod, adjusted the camera settings and pre-focused, then I showed Jake’s 2nd grade friend, Ryan, the button to press and ran to my spot. Wow, he’s good! Jake is yelling at him, but then again so was I… well not yelling, but he kept saying “Mrs. Karen, I don’t think your heads are showing” too funny! I assured him it was fine…..perfectly fine.

And my kids are so excited! It’s cookie day, and I’ll have you know right away we make gourmet cookies. Yes, these recipes have been handed my my (second mom) Aunt Corrie who is an awesome gourmet cook. Although I have several different Swiss recipes, we’ll be making Mailanderli and Spitzbuebe cookies today. Go look them up – YUUUMMMIIIEEE! Along with these we’ll make sausage balls and gingersnaps! Well, we’re hoping these gingersnaps will turn out better than the last ones where we added 1 1/4 CUPS of cinnamon rather than 1 1/4 teaspoons!!!

I love to bake with the kids, we laugh, mix and eat tons of dough! …. and, Yes my kitchen will be a disaster (I’m talking total train wreck with the flour) and my nerves will be shot, but it’s nothing that a little soap, water and wine won’t cure!