A week of...

This has been an eventful first week of summer.

Some finals were taken on Monday and the results are as follows:

3 A's and 2 B's

I'm going to be working hard to get all A's next semester, B's don't sit well with me.

Then on Tuesday I took Abby's Senior Pictures.  Some of my favorites:

It's hard for me to pick though, because I really loved them all.  It was my first senior picture shoot and I think that it went really well.  Kutos go out to Abby for being a wonderful model/ guinea pig for my photography madness :)

You can find the rest of Abbys pictures here

Then on Wednesday I had a photo shoot at Daycare with my mom's kids for her graduation board.  I was taking their 'headshots'

For some reason it flipped the picture when I attached it and it wouldn't let me turn it the right way.  So enjoy the sideways version.







It was a little dificult photographing two year olds, but I had some fun with it.

And today I did a little shopping and went to the birthday party of my favorite little girl; Zoey Jane.

Life is well in my world, and summer is here so I am a happy gal.  Pool time, Tans, and bleached hair shall commence.

Fast Fowarding

These past few months have felt like a huge blur, and it seems like all of the memories are melding together into one big pot where its hard to distinguish one thing from another.  I can't figure out if its a good thing or not, but I'm still enjoying it nonetheless.

As you all know, mothers day was this past weekend.  And after looking through our family pictures from that day, I realized just how odd and dysfunctional my family is in a wacky loving kind of way.

If you know my family at all, you know that we are all very jokey and loving and a generaly happy bunch.  But we look so peeved in most of our photos, and we look like we pretty much hate eachother.  Its a good laugh, but I wish we could capture who we really are as a family.  Laughs and giggles, full of love and affection in our own off-kilter kind of way.

I had a funny realzation on Sunday though, I am a half mother too!  haha.  We were all taking pictures outside, and our dog Chloe (the one who just had the puppies) walked up and posed with us.  We were all laughing, and I realized, well hey, shes a mom too, she deserves to be in the Mother's day pictures.  And I have a darling puppy, Dudlee, and I call myself his mommy.

So we took our mother-puppy pictures as well.  I've realized that I'm sure going to miss him next year.  We've bonded a lot, and although I never really thought that you could form that close of a bond with a pet; I have with my pup. 

I'm also going to miss...

Random dance parties with best friends, that end in stomach grabbing, bent-in-half laughing, chairs being pulled out, and bonding over the smiles and dance moves.

Befriending the most shy girl in the class, and helping her to come out of her shell.  I absolutley adore this girl now, and we're bffs on the playground.

Going to church; the same one I've been going to for almost nineteen years now.  I'm a little frightened of trying to horn my way into a new church family, and I know it'll all work out, but it's hard leaving the comforts you've spent your whole life building.

But life has been good lately.  School's almost out, summer is upon us, and I'm a happy girl.