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My mom volunteers with the local animal shelter and I always try to get a few shots of the cats there. She has been fostering 5 kittens for a month or so now and they are just ADORABLE. One of them has already been adopted, but the other four are ready for a permanent home. 
you can check them out at: http://www.yorkadoptapet.com/
Photographs have always been important to me. Way back before I really knew what an F-stop was and I was happy with just a disposable film camera or (eventually) a point and shoot digital camera, I was always photographing something: vacations, parties, flowers around my parents’ house, pretty much anything I could capture. When I started my photography business, my casual photographing came to an end. I spend my days using a camera and just wanted to sit back and enjoy family functions without a camera in front of my face. I was also afraid of becoming the family ”crazy girl with the camera”.
Yesterday I got the itch to bring my gear to a family function again. I’ve been missing being able to thumb through the photographs from personal events and I finally just figured I’d rather be the crazy girl with a camera than miss capturing the moments that are so special to us. We spent the afternoon at my husband’s uncle’s farm. He has been working hard getting everything fixed back up since last year’s tornado.
My daughter loves to sit on the porch swing (I’m blaming the annoyed expression on her allergies & not PCS, otherwise known as photographer’s child syndrome). 
There is a Tire Swing upstairs in the barn. The barn got hit pretty hard by the tornado so its to great to see it back in good shape.
This is one of my favorites.
Can’t have a farm without a windmill~ I am in love with it because it reminds me of Nebraska (where I grew up).
Have a wonderful day!
A perfect May day deserves some lovely flowers! Just to add a little cheer to your day!
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Have a great day!
I finished another dress yesterday and I am in love with it!
a little bit of cheese:
and some attitude:
A photographer deals with constant pressure to keep being creative and different for each and every session they do. Photographers do a lot of different things to stay “fresh”, from doing different types of photography (landscape vs. portraits) to studying other artwork, etc. I take a different approach. When I am needing a new perspective, I put down the camera (gasp!) and look to other creative outlets. I’ve dabbled in pretty much everything, I used to be a decent artist back in the day (as opposed to the stick figures I draw now!), I’ve made jewelry, I bake cookies, pretty much anything I can do with my hands.
Lately, my creative needs have gone back to sewing. Fortunately, I have a daughter who doesn’t care whether I can sew a straight line or not. Here is my latest attempt:
There is something so satisfying about making something with your own hands. It also makes me appreciate all the dresses my mom and grandma made me and all the dresses my mother-in-law makes for my daughter- they are pros compared to my sewing abilities. I hope everyone is enjoying the beautiful weather!
I don’t think Emmett is 100% cat. Somedays he sounds like an Ewok from Star Wars. Somedays he’ll “talk back” to us like a preteen with an attitude when he is pretending he is being good. Somedays he plays fetch like a dog. He also seems to have super-cat qualities… I am not sure how he can get up as high as he can and still get back down. He can take a flight of stairs in a single leap. He can sneak up on even the most observant person.
Hmm… is this where I admit I got the name Emmett from a certain popular series about Vampires? 
He has made quite the addition to our family. And has even stolen the heart of my husband… who has until recently not been a fan of cats. They make him sneeze. A lot. But for Emmett, he will make an exception.
I mean, who can resist a super-cat/dog/preteen/ewok who will snuggle up with you when you are cold?
Our yellow Lab’s name is Molly. As you can guess, we see yellow Labs everywhere. Anytime we see one, at least one of the kids (or two or three) will say, “Look! There’s a Molly-dog!”. That’s just how much Molly is a part of our family. She is everyone’s favorite dog in public. She has wonderful manners and puts on her girl-next-door charm everytime we go out.
At home, Molly can be a little less lady-like. In fact, her favorite toy is something as un-lady-like as possible: a football.
Molly plays with her football all the time. She carries it around, taunts her sister with it, practically begs her to chase her.
She even sleeps with it if she can sneak it past us at night (and she uses it as a pillow).
I really don’t know what we will do if the football ever goes to football heaven. Probably buy her a new one.
For now, she is just happy to have a place where she doesn’t have to pretend she’s a girly-girl all the time.
Basset Hounds are funny dogs.
They lead you to believe that they aren’t very smart creatures and that they prefer to just lay around all day.
Ok… maybe they do like to lay around a lot.
In reality they are very smart… and stubborn.
Smart enough to pull on your heartstrings. “Isn’t a Basset Hound’s life so rough?” she says with her eyebrows lifted.
and stubborn enough to NOT move when you most want them to move. And you get frustrated when they won’t sit, stay, heel, or stop eating random toys…
until you look into their big, sweet, sad, expressive eyes….
and know that your heart will always belong to a certain stubborn Basset Hound.
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Have a great night!
This is the beginning of a new day.
You have been given this day to use as you will.
You can waste it or use it for good.
What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it.
When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind…let it be something good.
