Best Friends!

Elizabeth

Baylee

A Milestone Day

This was the scene at our house around noon today. A happy and a sad day. I'm happy for Belinda and very proud of her. At the same time it means my baby is growing up and I no longer have a car. I'm not completely sure how I feel about either one of those things. By the way, Belinda is not crying tears of joy in the first photo, her allergies are just really bad today!

Go dear daughter. Go forth and be successful in all that you do. Go be with your friends. Go work and serve. Go pick up your sister from school. Go get a loaf of bread and a gallon of milk. Go take the dog to the vet. Wait, this really could be a good thing!

Cutie PaTooties in TuTu's!

Mallory

Well, we lost our light pretty quick during this session so I had a lot of great shots that ended up a little blurry. Shutter speed was too slow, should've had a tripod. I'll be trying again this afternoon because the location was great.

The next couple of shots are for my class this week. I needed an example of stop action and blurred action.

A Weekend in the Mountains-Sweet Freedom!

Kendall and I ran away to the mountains all by ourselves last weekend! It was so quiet. Here is a photo of the dog butt that welcomed us at the front steps to our cabin. Also a pic of the dead leaves on a tree out behind the cabin that actually looked lovely in this light after a light rain.

Following is a boatload of photos at Anna Ruby Falls just North of Helen, GA at the Unicoi State Park. I was playing with the new camera, not sure at all what I'm doing but some of them turned out alright, if I do say so myself.

Now, this next series of photos documents one of my favorite parts of the trip. We had already checked out of the cabin and we headed up to the waterfall. After the hike we were ready for lunch and had decided to grill some hotdogs and reheat a couple of burgers from the night before. The park had great picnic areas so we found one with a pavilion and got our stuff out of the cooler. Kendall noticed that we had some Duraflame logs in the back of the Yukon so we grabbed one to put in the grill. We thought we would be clever and roast the dogs over the flame on a stick so.......

The next photo occurs after the following conversation:

Kim: I found a great smooth , skinny stick.
Kendall: Is it toxic?

Kim: Uhhhh...

Kendall: Let me check.

Kim: How exactly do you do that Mr. Eagle Scout?

Kendall: (mumbled with stick in mouth) You stick it in your mouth like this and if it burns it's toxic.

Kim: (stifling laughter) So?

Kendall: We're good!

After determining that the stick would not kill us we put the dog on it and held it over the flame. It was after about five minutes that we learned something new. A Duraflame log puts out a LOT of soot. Check out the hotdog. Would you eat that? Yeah, me neither. So now what? It's about 42* outside by the way.

Kim: I sure wish we had some foil. Then we would just wrap everything or lay it on top of the grill to cook on.

Kendall: That would be nice.

Kim: Wait a minute. I have an idea.

Now, considering the temperature of the air and weakness of the flame, we had a while to wait. What does one do when lunch is taking too long? Well, the chocolate is open now so we might as well have dessert first!

Yum!

Then, finally, lunch is served!

This is the kind of adventure best had without five hungry kids in tow.