Putting my hobby to good use!

I know I've been MIA for a while now, but I wanted to give you an update to what I've been doing.

Recently I signed on to do the Milwaukee Muscle Walk to benefit MDA. The Muscular Dystrophy Assoc has always been near and dear to me and I've been volunteering at their summer camp for 18 years. Now I'm trying to raise money by taking photos!

If you want to know more, please visit my new blog! I'm sure I'll still be posting here as well, but I know this exciting new adventure is going to take up a lot of my time!

http://clickinawayformda.blogspot.com/

And if you know anyone in the Milwaukee WI area who would like to schedule a photo shoot please send them the link!

I also want to thank all of my blog readers who have been so supportive of this hobby. I love getting all of your comments and it really has inspired me to want to do more! Feel free to follow me over at the new blog as well if you want to see previews from all of my shoots!

It's Gap Casting Time again!

Honestly, I don't know why I enter this thing, and yet every year since my girls were born I've felt compelled to send in their pictures. Of couse every mommy thinks their child is the most beautiful child in the world! And what mommy wouldn't want to see their kids picture blown up big as life in the front window of Baby Gap? And truth be told I would have no problem spending that $1000 gap card! But every year Gap finds new ways to make this process less appealing. The size of the image you upload means that every photo in their gallery is terribly distorted. They have some sort of "Viewer Favorite" which, who are we kidding, is just a glorified popularity contest. And then this year they added a stipulation that your child should be in jeans if possible. All good reasons to just say forget about it!

And yet I enter. Because I am a proud mommy. Because I do think I have the most beautiful girls in the world. And because I can't even imagine seeing my daughters face in the window at Baby Gap!

Chalk!!!

Last week at a garage sale we bought a box full of artist pastel chalks. Needless to say we'll never be buying that sad sidewalk chalk again. This stuff is awesome!

Our trip to the Harvest Festival

This past weekend the girls and I headed out with friends to a local Fall Festival. The girls had so much fun playing in giant bales of hay, riding ponies, feeding goats, eating hot dogs and going down the giant pig slide. The sun was really harsh so the photos could have been better but I know my girls could not have had more fun!


























And will all of this hay, how could I not put this in for Mellow Yellow Monday?

Cool Cats!

First off, I have to admit that I don't like cats. It may have to do with the fact that I am very allergic but cats and I just do not get along. Cool Cats, on the other hand, I totally love. Especially when it's my girls who think they are the cats meow!

Cake

My little sister got married last Oct. For her bridal shower I made tiny hamburger cupcakes with cookie french fries. They were a big hit. I've always wanted to make them again, but I just haven't found the time.



For more pictures to make that sweet tooth tingle, visit Trendy Treehouse!

Dance Baby Dance!

I have a lot of respect for those people who can capture the movement and grace of dance in a still photo. It's a moment in time that is over in a blink of an eye. It's the difference between looking like you are lost in a moment of the movement and just looking like you got caught in an awkward position.

This is Sophie dancing at the farmers market this summer. I pulled this photo from a series of 4 which actually looked more like dancing but I love the movement of her hair in this one.