Michelle's Bachelorette Day!

We started the day off at the Spa!  Some people had massages, spa pedicures and facials.  Then it was off to party!  Only 4 out of the 12 of us at the spa were able to go out.  We tried the new winery, Sharon James.  It was good.  I'll have to go back when I'm able to drink!  :)  It was nice to chill and do some girl talk.  We also put together some songs for the reception.



Michelle (the bride-to-be) her sister Lori (maid of honor)



mmm.  food.  We ordered the Tranquility wine.  It was delish. Yes, I had a sip and the girls liked it the best.  We ordered the above as well as bruschetta and pretzel sticks.



Time for gifts!  Michelle got some good stuff!








After the winery, I drove everyone to Paladar where we "ended" our night. It was nice to find my husband in the parking lot with Caden standing outside the sunroof! Haha.  The car was parked and off, so relax.  They were out partying, too. And wanted to say goodnight on their way home.  :) ❤

Everyone was starving so we had 4 servings of guacamole, tacos and calamari!  Oh and more drinks of course.  I had the Passion Fruit Mockarita.  Um....YUM!!!!!!

On our way home, Michelle said,"Oh no. We never got a picture of the 4 of us!!!"  As we were blasting our music (Tonight is the Night- Outasight and Wide Awake- Katy Perry) I thought of an idea.

We were just getting into Chagrin and I parked in front of the Wine Bar and left the car running and said, "Everyone out!  Let's go! Get out! C'mon!"  So they all followed and we got someone to take our picture.  It wasn't the greatest picture, so we went inside and had the bartender take another one.  Then we all ran back to the car.  "Hey! It's still here!  Good thing we live in a respectable neighborhood!", said someone.  Haha   Then we drove around looking for other people to take our picture.  Last stop the Ville.  The "bouncer" (because they really need one) took our picture.  Probably the worst one of the night.  Seriously, NOTHING good comes out of the Ville.  Nothing.  Then it was time to drop the ladies off.  Duane took the best picture of the night, so we were set!

I got home at 12:15 and everyone was safe and sound.  It was a fun night!  I can't wait until the wedding next Saturday!!!



Oh and today, I took my first nap in a long time!!!!  It started off rough, bc Daisy kept barking at my stupid neighbor's dog that she obviously doesn't care about since it wanders all over the neighborhood.

Alrighty, gotta go work on pictures from the Different Needz Foundation charity event.

Ooh look a butterfly!!!

Up-do by Kim

I needed to check the lighting.  So my sister and I goofed off for that!

Is that her weapon?  Hairspray.



Eye see you!




Her Basket Braid up-do




Again, I checked the lighting on her.  hehe  Turned out to be a cute pic though.






Pregnant & Fierce.    Haha  Looks like my "don't step" face

Football Season Has Returned!!

Michael is now a NDC Falcon!  He even got his first choice #!!  That's pretty cool!  We went to his season opener and it was fun to watch!  The Falcons beat Mercyhurst!!  Of course, by now I forgot the score 50 something to something else.  Haha.  I can't wait to go to more games!

Caden really enjoyed it, too.

I'm back.....

Yay!  I'm back at school subbing already in the 1st full week of school.  I want to get as much days in as I can before this baby pops out.  It's only a half-day assignment, so that's a good way to ease back into it.  Plus, the kids are just taking quizzes.  Tough!!!  Haha

Then there is a photographers meeting at the paper today. And it's off to another football game tonight.  Ugh....

❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤

sneak attack plop

Whatever. I know I said no more plops. But this was the only camera I had at the wedding last night.  So here are some random plops:

Carey & the Mantis, There's a bump shot in there working on pictures

Outfit changes for the wedding & reception

Caden in a football jersey! Touchdown!

Daisy's favorite place in the backyard, Caden wearing one of my old shirts

mmm Lobster roll, CLE

Another haircut for the little man, Indians' Game

Fairport Harbor

LT pool

New car, Nick Robinson!!!, CFFD, goodnight!

Don't forget, these pictures and MUCH MUCH more are posted on instagram!

Up-do!

My sister is REALLY good at doing hair.  From cutting, to styling, so coloring to up-dos.  She can do it all.  Here is the latest up-do I had done for yesterday's event.

Senior pix

I took Sam's senior pictures, they will be up on my professional site soon.  But here is one from when I was just tweaking my settings.  I thought it was kinda cool.

Riley's 4th Birthday Party

Baby Owen.








He LOVED painting!  No shocker there.



"Here Daddy, wanna paint?"




We painted his hands to make handprints.



I love how Jimmy is concentrating so hard on it.  Hehe

p.s. I'm pregnant. Not fat.



Riley blowing out her candles



She said, "wow!" When she opened her gift from Caden.  They were all talking about how my wrapping left glitter all over everyone.  hehe.



Jimmy hanging with the birthday girl and Jeremy wearing Caden's apron.  It fit!

It's Been Rainy...

It's been raining and I have had volleyball all week.  Perfect time to get organized.


We put Nature Stone in our laundry room.  It feels so nice on my feet. :)  Not to mention that it looks a hell of a lot better than the gross brown floor with the old glue all over it.








Just feels cleaner!



I spent a day putting all of this stuff back on the IKEA shelf.  I even managed to get 2 open shelves.  Time to shop! Ha  Just kidding.

Here I am 24 weeks pregnant about to tackle the long forgotten office....




Well.  It doesn't look totally clutter free.  BUT there is a huge improvement.  Stuff you can't even see.  You couldn't walk in the room before.  Now ya can.  There is even space to pay the bills.  Woohoo!

I also put up some more of Jimmy's awards that were just lying on the ground.




The Office Depot box will be gone soon.  The giraffe photo boxes & karaoke machine will be gone when the built-in is done.  The fabric in the blue tub is for my T-shirt quilt that will NEVER get done.  Haha.  So tedious.  No time for that crap.

Eh.  Good start.

Let's go to the Beach!

Impromtu beach visit.







23.5 weeks prego in these.

cool

My what-would-have-been high school made the news:

Allen Eagles, Fight Fight Fight

Car Explosion

The movie, Toy's House, is being filmed in our town.  Since I work for our local paper, I get VIP privileges to doing stuff.  I got to stand in a good spot to take pictures of a car they exploded for the movie.  And better yet, my family also got to stand by me as well to check it out.



Boom goes the dynamite.












It was pretty cool to watch.  But 13 seconds of fun didn't quite add up to the hour of standing in the scorching sun....... without water......being 6 months pregnant.

I did however get my picture taken with an actor from one of my favorite shows!!! It's on my instagram account.

Jimmy and I also talked to the producer, maybe i'll be starring in one of his next movies.  HAHA!!!

randified....

Wanna see the most random pictures ever?



So as you can see, I'm running out of room in my dime jar.  So I bought a new BIG jar to hold them.  I'm debating on if I should put new dimes in the old jar until it gets full again and them dump it, but that took me about 9 years to fill up.  Haha.  I think I should just find something else to put in that little jar.  Plus the new jar can fit my quarters from my Grandma S. So that is cool, too.




Dragon Fruit.

Looks so pretty on the outside.  Looks like a white kiwi fruit on the inside.  Tastes like NOTHING.  I mean absolutely NO FLAVOR.  boring.



You've been officially randified*.













*Ran•di•fied:  | ran dē fīed |
adjective

officially recognized as looking at something random

At the Lake House

Me & my guys...and baby #2, whichever it may be.  Haha

I look sooooo good in blurry pictures.  I should make sure they are all like that!




Michael posing




Jimmy posing



Caden looking at his Daddy, wondering what the heck he is doing