Potato picking pics....

For your viewing pleasure, some potato picking pics. I did not do much editing on them as they are more snapshot and I wanted to "keep them real" as Lisa did a few weeks ago although hers were much better than mine. LOL

Wow!

Has it really been one month since I've blogged? I can't believe it! We have had a busy month here and we have less than 5 weeks before school starts. They started off with Chinese Culture Camp, 2 family reunions on the same weekend (one Sat and one Sun), Olivia had Vacation Bible School (loved it!), Father's Day, dentist appointments (yuck!) and my mom's birthday. For mom's birthday, I picked up my niece and we went shopping and out to dinner with the family minus David. I was supposed to have my photo workshop but it was moved to the fall. I was really looking forward to it since we gave up the agency picnic to go BUT the fall is going to be so much better weather wise plus we will be able to have some of the lovely fall foliage (and it is going to be moved to the 'Ville instead of Lexington). Since I wasn't going to the workshop, we had my family over to celebrate mom's birthday. We swam, cooked out and the guys played a few rounds of corn hole on the new corn hole boards we got David for Father's Day. All in all we had a great June.



Now that July is upon us, we had some really cool weather the last week. I actually had the air off and the windows open -- that just doesn't happen in July here in KY. Now we are back up in the 80s/90s and can use the pool again. We had an adult only night last Friday where we went to dinner with some friends and to their house for adult conversation. I love my kids but it was so nice to go out to dinner with friends and be able to carry on a conversation with out having to say "Sit down", "Eat your supper", "Use your indoor voice, please" a hundred times! We have a few more things lined up for the rest of the summer and can't wait to go on vacation to Florida. It will be the first time the girls have been to Florida and we will be seeing my dad. Our plan is to go to Disney 2 days while we are there and then go to the Gulf coast for a few days. It will be the first time we've been to Disney with the girls so wish us luck! Also, last night the girls went on their first ever potato picking event in my in-laws garden. They had so much fun but Olivia admitted it was hard work!

I will post some more pics of the potato picking and swimming soon. I have to "rescue them" from Lightroom! I am almost to my 200th post and I think I am going to do a giveaway so stay tuned.

Photo session at "the Doors"

When we had our Bloggy dinner in the 'Ville in April, Felicia took us to a place in Anchorage that was way cool. It had these wooden doors and neat rock walls and I have been itching to go back. I had hoped that we would go last week when Missy came back to town but sadly she couldn't make it. Olivia's last day of school was Wednesday and it rained all day Thursday so Friday came and we headed out for the day not really knowing where we were going to go but knew it was going to include a photo shoot. We ended up going to lunch with my mom (Hi Nini!) and we were in the area of "the doors" so we went. I have some photos edited but several more I need to work on. I would have loved to have taken more but someone needed to go to the restroom even though she had just gone at the restaurant. My mom has been asking me when she is going to get to see these photos so I will post a few. I hope Lisa comes to town again so she can do a photo shoot at the doors while you have some good light although she can rock it with a flash now!

My baby brother and his family....

I took some pictures for my baby brother and his family over the weekend. I spent all day Tuesday editing them. Of course no photo shoot is complete without a few with my girls in there too. My sister in law's sister wants me to take photos of her and her boyfriend. I hope to do them this weekend but we will have to find a different location as my favorite father in law actually CUT his hay today and they really wanted that background. Silly me thinking that the rain would stop him but sadly it didn't. I think I have a business name thanks to my wonderful mentor but I have to wait to actually talk to her before I announce it! Also my Canon Rebel XTi is still for sale.

Selling my Rebel XTi....

Well, I have decided to sell my Rebel XTi as well as an additional lens and the other stuff I have bought that doesn't work on my new camera. I have original box, the manual, software, 2 batteries w/charger, a wired shutter release and also a wireless one. The lenses I am selling with the camera are the 18-55mm kit lens and the 75-300mm zoom lens. E-mail me at oliviaandsophia@gmail.com if you are interested. This has been a fabulous camera and I would love to see it go to a good home than to sit in the closet collecting dust!

So excited!!!

The wonderful Pixel Fairy Princess had a lot of giveaways this week and it was so much fun to participate. I was awarded (as were many others) one of her Lightroom presets called The Dude. On Thursday, she had a photo challenge with a the prize being a free workshop. Part of the challenge was that we had to use one of her presets and I used The Dude -- I have others but used that one as I hadn't used it before. Other people voted on the pictures and you couldn't vote for yourself, Debbie or Launna. Well I found out this morning that I tied with another lady and Debbie awarded BOTH of us a workshop. I am so excited and can't wait to take it. I am already registered for the KY workshop and I think now I am going to be in Chicago in August for the one I won -- Happy Birthday to me! I checked out the flight info and think we will be able to swing it -- arriving about 11:30 on Friday and leaving about 6:00 on Sunday. I will be able to meet some fellow bloggers and one fellow Lovebug Colleen! Now for the photo I submitted:

A picture heavy post

We finally had some great weather yesterday so the girls and I did a photo shoot. We used my favorite in-laws hayfield and barn as a back drop.

My Grandmother turned 90......

Last Saturday my Grandmother turned 90! We had a dinner for her at Huber's which is where we celebrated her 80th birthday too. David and I did not get to stay for all of it as his truck driving championship was the same day and we had to go to the banquet to see if he won. Well he did not win but he did come in second again.
The Birthday girl:

My niece Alexis:

My nephew Luke:

My neice and nephew Bailee and Josh:

My step-greatniece Diamond:

Sophia and Olivia in one of Daddy's trucks:

Sophia and Grandpa (David's dad) sharing a secret: