Dear.....

Week from hell, please go away.  I no longer wish to associate with you.  Thank you.

Sincerely,

Erin

Kids are a*w*e*S*o*m*e

So, it's rare that a single day goes by without the most amazing, or funny comments coming out of the mouths of my boys, or those of my nieces and nephews.  Parker has kept me quite entertained lately with blaming everything on "Bigfoot", as a lot has gotten to hear the stories.  :)  My niece, little miss Alycin and Parker are always neck and neck with their cleverness. 

This evening though, I have to say, my Pierce really touched my heart, reminding me just how big his is.  My friend's little boy Jonathan is in the same kindergarten class as Pierce.  Yesterday, poor little Jonathan had a very unfortunate fall from the monkey bars on the playground, breaking his arm horribly, and ending in surgery. Today, when I picked Pierce up, he said "I made a card for him today and put I love you on it."  Then there was a pause.  And then, my child says "I just wish it was me and not him."  Wow.  Moments like that is when I am reminded of how much we adults could really learn from children, if we would really listen.

Later this evening, he gave me a good giggle.  He randomly asks me how many more birthdays he has to have before he can have a phone.  (He's turning 6 next month).  So I explain that he needs to be a lot older before he can have his own phone, and then ask "who are you going to call?" just to see what he would say.  I really couldn't have been prepared for the witty answer I received.  His answer to me was "well, when I have something to say I need to call.  Or text."  HA!  (Take that, mom!)  Could that be any more to the point?  :)  Stuff like this reminds me of the days when I was a child, and how much simpler so to speak, life really was.  We didn't even care about the things that are important to us now.  We never would have imagined that in our adult years things would be the way they are.  There were no computers or iPods, or cell phones to worry about.  Video games were rare and connections to anyone and everything were not at our fingertips.  Really, all I had to worry about was coming inside after the street lights came on.  It sort of makes me sad that our kids will never know the "simple life" we lived as children.  Some kids I know can't even fathom the thoughts of no sleeping all day on the weekends, getting up for church every Sunday morning, no staying inside playing video games.  No computers, no phones, no electronic devices of various sorts like what exists now, well, life would just be OVER without all these things!  ;)

Although their childhoods will never be exactly like ours were, don't let those times go completely extinct.  Get your kids outside to play and get dirty.  Climbing trees, making mud pies, playing hide and seek or kickball never hurt anyone.

Randomness

First thing's first.  IT'S A GIRL!  My brother and sister-in-law found out today that their new baby is a girl.  So excited!


Picked up my camera last night for the first time in several days.  Felt good.  Just been too busy!  Finally got the Dockery pics done and headed to the sunshine state.  :) 


Broke down last night and watched Jackass 3.5.  I have to say, it made me kind of sad seeing Ryan Dunn on there.  It's kinda like I look at their camaraderie in a whole new light now.  Especially Bam.  I know it was only a matter of time until one of them did something unbelievably stupid to get themselves killed; but I honestly would have had Ryan near the bottom of the list.  Nonetheless, I still had awesome giggles, but I know they all have to sorely miss him.  What an awesome smile he had.  I still stand by my word on laughs though...Johnny Knoxville, in my book, still holds the title for best laugh.  Ever.  :)


Been loving these cool evenings!  Feels so awesome.  The leaves are falling and starting to change and I couldn't be more excited.  Jenn, I'm def ready to get out the goods and go wild!!!  :)


Until next time...

Peace.

Catch Up......

Hey people.  Today is going to be one of my random blabbing days.  I feel like I haven't updated everyone with the goings-on with me in a while, so here goes.

Not sure where to start, so I'll just pick somewhere.  Pierce is sick.  Again.  Today is day 2 he's had to miss of the 2nd week of school.  Fever, nausea, sore throat, stupid virus!  I'm REALLY over my boys being sick all the time.  It's constant.  I'm to the point to where I'm just about to break.  I am not sure how much more sickness I can handle. 

Been super busy.  It's just hard to cram it all in; never enough hours in a day.  But if there were, then we'd just have more things we needed to do.  I am finally slooooowly starting to get a LITTLE caught up on photo editing.  I still have a wedding shower and portrait session to do, but at least I'm feeling just a tad less overwhelmed for now.  Nonetheless, it's still hundreds of photos to go through. 

I was de-junking over the weekend.  It's a beautiful thing.  Sometimes I just feel like I need to de-junk; i.e., clean out closets, throw crap away, play the delete game in my phone, just de-junk anything, or anyone that I don't need. 

I feel the presence of FALL slowly approaching and I could not more more excited about that.  Fall is my absolute favorite season of the year for many reasons.  Not to mention it's been hot enough to make the devil cry this summer.  I hate hot weather.  I'm so over it.  Bring on the crisp mornings, cool nights and all the rest of the awesomeness of fall!!!

Not really much else to share right now.  I'm kind of boring.  :)  Enjoy your day!

Wow, what a morning....

So, today didn't quite start out how I had hoped.  Never a cool thing.  But, it could be worse.  I just hate not having all the answers.  Nonetheless, I'd like to thank Michael Grimm, Michael Jackson, Adele, Amos Lee, Default, Jason Mraz and Johnny Cash for making it just a little bit better.  Thursday afternoon, please be good to me.  Thank you.

editing, Editing, EDITING!!!

Whew!  Ok, so I was reeeeally hoping to finish editing the one I've been working on tonight.  I go SOOO close.  But, not quite there.  Gonna have to be one more day.  Sadness.  But my bed is calling my name.  Big time.

P.S.  I'm really pretty sure that I'm not exactly loving the flatness to my color when I post pics on here.  Not sure what the deal is with the server but I'm really not digging it.  Did I mention my bed was calling my name?  Yeah, I thougtht so.

G'night ~

Crawford Crue!!

Love these peeps!  Gage is one of my favorite little monkeys to photograph!  He couldn't be any cuter!  (Rachel and Eddie are pretty darn cute too).  :)  Enjoy!



~Crawford Family~

Had this family sesh last Friday, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I'd been itching to photograph little miss Tinley since before she was even born.  :)  Tanya and Josh have got to be one of the cutest couples ever!  You can plainly see how in love they are, and they made me smile.  As I was processing their photos, I found myself smiling yet again.  Such a sweet family.  It makes me so happy to be able to capture moments like these. 



Derik!

Derik is such a little bundle of energy!  This kid has so much personality and is obviously super adorable.  We had a ton of fun with his shoot, and I get so tickled at him when he says my name, "Ewin".  Precious!