I think I like snow days here better.  Everything shuts down, it is not really that cold  and because I know that it will not last I go out and enjoy the day.

Here’s to snow day 2010!

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November is completely booked. I have no more session times available for Christmas cards or portraits.
All orders must be submitted by December 1 to ensure Christmas delivery.
I will be closing the office December 19 – January 3 for a much needed break and to spend quality time with my family.

A sweet baby boy ready for the holidays.

After a great early run this morning I came across many things that made me smile. Here are just a few.
Enjoy

Love this smile!

Both girls dance and have a big recital this weekend. Along with their fabulous moms they brought all of their dance costumes and we played.

They were just so cute!   Here is a quick peek at one of the costumes,  are they not the prettiest ballerinas EVER!!!!!!

Good luck with your recital girls I know you will do great!

chat soon

Kelly

This weekend I was invited to  my neighbors to do some pre prom pictures.  Of course I jumped at the opportunity, beautiful people all dressed up !

The kids looked fabulous and were ready to have fun.  

Prom is somewhat of a mystery to me.  Growing up in Western Canada we did not have proms.  We had dances but they were the type where you wore jeans and a t-shirt.  The only time in my high school career that I dressed up was for my grade 12 graduation.  I guess that was our type of prom.   

Thanks to everyone that night, I had a lot of fun.  I kind of wished that I had done a prom when I was young, oh well I will just live vicariously through them. 

Of course I want to share but this time I am adding a link to a little slideshow so you too can go to prom.

click on the link below and enjoy

enjoy

 

Too many people put off something that brings them joy just because they haven’t thought about it, don’t have it on their schedule, didn’t know it was coming or are too rigid to depart from their routine.

I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night in an effort to cut back. From then on, I’ve tried to be a little more flexible.

How many women out there will eat at home because their husband didn’t suggest going out to dinner until after something had been thawed? Does the word ‘refrigeration’ mean nothing to you?

How often have your kids dropped in to talk and sat in silence while you watched ‘Jeopardy’ on television?

I cannot count the times I called my sister and said, ‘How about going to lunch in a half hour?’ She would gas up and stammer, ‘I can’t. I have clothes on the line. My hair is dirty. I wish I had known yesterday, I had a late breakfast, It looks like rain.’ And my personal favorite: ‘It’s Monday.’ She died a few years ago. We never did have lunch together.

Because Americans cram so much into their lives, we tend to schedule our headaches. We live on a sparse diet of promises we make to ourselves when all the conditions are perfect!

We’ll go back and visit the grandparents when we get Steve toilet-trained. We’ll entertain when we replace the living-room carpet… We’ll go on a second honeymoon when we get two more kids out of college.

Life has a way of accelerating as we get older. The days get shorter, and the list of promises to ourselves gets longer. One morning, we awaken, and all we have to show for our lives is a litany of ‘I’m going to,’ ‘I plan on,’ and ‘Someday, when things are settled down a bit.’

When anyone calls my ’seize the moment’ friend, she is open to adventure and available for trips. She keeps an open mind on new ideas. Her enthusiasm for life is contagious. You talk with her for five minutes, and you’re ready to trade your bad feet for a pair of Roller blades and skip an elevator for a bungee cord..

My lips have not touched ice cream in 10 years. I love ice cream It’s just that I might as well apply it directly to my stomach with a spatula and eliminate the digestive process. The other day, I stopped the car and bought a triple-Decker. If my car had hit an iceberg on the way home, I would have died happy.

Now..go on and have a nice day. Do something you WANT to……not something on your SHOULD DO list. If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Make sure you read this to the end; you will understand why I sent this to you.

Have you ever watched kids playing on a merry go round or listened to the rain lapping on the ground? Ever followed a butter fly’s erratic flight or gazed at the sun into the fading night? Do you run through each day on the fly? When you ask ‘ How are you?’ Do you hear the reply?

When the day is done, do you lie in your bed with the next hundred chores running through your head? Ever told your child, ‘We’ll do it tomorrow.’ And in your haste, not see his sorrow? Ever lost touch? Let a good friendship die? Just call to say ‘Hi?

When you worry and hurry through your day, it is like an unopened gift…..Thrown away….. Life is not a race. Take it slower. Hear the music before the song is over.Â

‘Life may not be the party we hoped for… but while we are here we might as well dance!

Here is a sneak peak for Mom. 

ENJOY!!!!!!!