Weekend Fun

This weekend was different from most. Sure, I had photoshoots and that's normal but Josh was home both days. Both.days. It rarely happens. The kids were happy and we stayed fairly busy. Saturday, I just told the boys to go outside w/their dad. I went for a run w/Tyler and Conner tagged along on his bike (so fun!). He got tired (or bored) before I did so I dropped him off at home and kept going. Tyler loved it though and I'm so happy about that.

Sunday after my shoot, we decided we'd go to the Yellow River Game Ranch. On the way there, Tyler decided he was done w/the car seat so we detoured and went to Stone Mountain. It's such a fun place and lots of things around the park are free (unless you want to ride the train, go up the tram, do the 'adventure' thing or go on the duck boats) so we decided we'd climb the mountain.

It's 1.1 miles straight up. Parker rode on my back for almost half of the way up. Best.bootie.workout.ever. It was fun and the view from the top make it worth it. Parker was not happy that I put him down and I loathe this photo of me but I think it's the only one w/all 5 of us in it!

After we (thought) we wore the kids out, we took them to the actual park and (thanks to daddy) hit up the candy store. They got popcorn and candy. Spoiled much?! not my kids ;) We then gave them the option of train ride or play in the creek. They chose the creek. They LOVED it. SO fun.

No one wanted to take a photo on these awesome stairs. Too bad. they win. photo sucks. haha

Weekend News

How was your weekend? Ours was fun and busy! I had several different shoots, some w/new clients and others with long time clients. I love seeing old ones and meeting new ones. Conner had soccer on Saturday morning and Josh was not working, yay! After soccer, we just went home and the kids played outside until I left for my shoot. Nothing spectacular. After my shoot we had hot wings and watched football. Sunday, I got up early, headed out to photograph another photographer (HUGE compliment) and then headed home. I had a few hours between shoots so we decided we'd take the kids to a local dairy farm. It was really windy but we just threw on hoodies and went on with our plans.The kids had a great time, so did the adults :)

Weekend

Yes, it's Sunday and I'm going to post about our weekend. Friday night we headed out to the rodeo (brought the camera but they weren't allowed) with some friends and their kids. I didn't think any of the kids would actually sit and watch but they still liked it. They liked running from us and having us chase them, they liked eating dinner with no table and drinking Sprite. They liked watching the barrel races and they liked visiting all of the quarter horses. Those horses are beautiful! The horse owners were very nice and didn't mind that we pet them. It wound up being a very late night but everyone was happy; isn't that all that matters? Yesterday started with soccer meet and greet. We would be the lucky ones to get the team with no coach. After the coordinator tried to convince me to coach (good joke dude, I'll be bringing 2 kids alone most weeks and I want to take photos not coach), two other dads stepped up. The kids were all very cute and it should be a fun season. We might even make some new friends. Once our soccer meeting was over we headed over to IHop for breakfast with the in-laws and then we went to their house to play.

Parker asked my mil if he could see the horsies so off they went. She has 3 horses (and I don't know anything about horses so I'll call 2 of them regular and Gizmo a pony). I know that Gizmo is a pony. My kids always pet/ride Giz. He's super friendly and very, very docile. He just stands there and lets the kids pet him, he loves treats and doesn't mind being saddled up.  **sorry that these have my photography logo on them....the full size files were taking too long to upload; I used my resizing program and it includes a logo***

Weekend News

We had a great weekend! Josh was actually HOME both days and it was really nice. Saturday the weather was questionable so instead of going to the lake, we decided we'd just go to the Yellow River Game Ranch. We always have a great time feeding the animals. The kids love running around and it wears them out!

They have squirrels that run around all over the place and I don't know why but Conner is determined that he will one day catch a squirrel. It's hilarious! Here's him trying really hard.

 On the way out of the ranch, there are some ride on horses. You know the kind, you put a quarter in and they go. Most of them are REALLY slow but there's one there....it does THIS...

I have a photo almost identical of Josh and Conner; Conner was a little younger than Parker though.

On Sunday, we took the boat out on the lake. It was just our family, which was really nice and relaxing. We always wind up anchoring and swimming for a while. We did that, then we cruised around, stopped at the marina. The kids had some popscicles. We beached the boat so Conner could play; he enjoyed the muddy sand :) Parker loves to nap on the boat.