Thank You Trendy Treehouse

Kaydence made top 10!  But better yet, she made #1 *and* "Viewers Choice" in the Trendy Treehouse Shutter Love Tuesday submission I posted here!  Yay!!! :-)  Thank you to Marlessa from Southern Reflections for guest judging this week.

Please go check out all the other great submissions that made top ten here.

Beach :: Fail

Ok, so you would never know by looking at these photos, but we went to the beach this past weekend and it was a complete F-A-I-L!  We were there a total of 20 minutes and then left and went to the pool instead. :-)  Kaydence wasn't a huge fan of the sand...she played for about 3 minutes and that was it.  The sand was too hot and the water was freezing, so that's not a good combination for a 1 year old.  I think we decided that our family likes the "idea" of the beach (I always said I wanted to live on the beach), but not the mess.  lol  So in other words, give us a deck on the beach and our lives would be complete...at least we're all on the same page. ;-)

Trendy Treehouse/Shutter Love Tuesday :: By The Pool

So I couldn't help but enter this photo in Trendy Treehouse's Shutter Love Tuesday because the theme this week is "By the Pool."  I had a hard time deciding between this photo and the more recent pool photo I took that is posted below.  But I ended up deciding on the classic. :-)  This was Kaydence's first day at the pool and she was so enamoured by all the kids splashing in the water that she actually stood still a couple minutes for to take this photo (well, several photos), which, for those of you who have toddlers, know that that is a miracle. ;-)

I actually got up the guts and ordered a canvas of this photo the other day from Canvas on Demand.  I was able to use the floating coupon code that went around, that apparently ended up being a mistake.  I just got an email saying that its shipped...yay!  It made me nervous ordering it because I've never ordered a canvas before, and since I'm not calibrated, I always worry what the printed photo will look like (especially enlarged).  I ordered the 16x20, but they upgraded me to the custom 16x24 size for free.  I guess we shall see how it turns out.

So I leave you with my vintage water baby "by the pool."





Don't forget to check out all the other entries below.

Tropical Beauty

We went to the pool again the other day and KK got to sport her new swimsuit. How could I resist this outfit off the Janie & Jack clearance rack? :-)

Some Recent Photos

Here are some recent photos that I thought I'd share.  KK is becoming more of a little girl everyday.  She is getting quite the personality.  

Today I asked her if she wanted to go to the beach and she said, "yeah."  Really?!?!  When did you start saying "yeah" KK (lol)?  Today apparently. :-)    

Holiday Weekend

Holiday weekends are divine in this house.  It means daddy is home! :-) We had a wonderful July 4th weekend. Teirney's parents, brother, and sister came down and we spent the hot and humid weekend at the pool, grilling out, checking out some music at Summerfest, and it concluded with an Independence Day parade on Monday.  Here is a glimpse into our weekend.

Grant Park :: Love & Family

I was looking back at my previous posts and realized I never blogged about this photo shoot. I think I was trying to play "catch up" awhile back and thought I had blogged about it when, in fact, I had only uploaded them to Facebook.

So I apologize for the extremely late post, but here are some photos I took of my friend, Haley, and her beautiful family back in May ::hangs head in shame::. We were going to do a photo swap (because she is an amazing photographer herself), but I'm not sure if we'll be able to have ours taken now because she now has a newborn baby boy (absolutely gorgeous by the way) and they are moving to another state at the end of August, which I'm very sad about. :-(

If you would like to check out Haley's blog and her beautiful little boy, please do so here.