Birthday Picture Overload

You've been warned!

I have problem, as far as problems go it's a pretty great one to have. We have a family friend who my kids all love who is a FANTASTIC photographer. Why is that a problem you might ask? Only because I have a very hard time picking my favorites!

These were supposed to be our annual "birthday" pictures, I've started doing 1 photo shoot in the middle of everyone's birthdays - so for the little girls it's a little after their actual birthdays and for the big kids it's just before their special day. Good enough for me! Here a a few of my favorites - these are just a few of the great photos she took that day.

Nate will be 12 in less than a month!

  

In his preferred element

 

Doing what he does best - being the best big brother EVER!

 

This one just melts my heart!

Abbie will be 10 - in just a couple of weeks

 

 

Kassie turned 5 this summer

 

 

 

 

 

Last but not least Maddie is 3

 

 

 

Group shots

 

 

Silly faces

 

 

Nate being....well....Nate

 

My sweet sweet girls

See?! What did I say - too many good ones to choose from. Great pictures of my favorite people, thanks to an amazing friend, and that doesn't even count the much needed mommy conversation time after pictures were done. I am truly blessed by some amazing people in my life, and I am grateful beyond words!

Nate - Future Programmer?

So the other day a friend "shared" on facebook a link for
21 Jokes Only Nerds Will Understand (Click here if you want to see them all)

I clicked over, 'cause I'm curious & wanted to see how many I would get. I saw this one & just about fell off my chair laughing. I laughed longer and harder than I had for some time.



So here's why it was so funny.

A couple of weeks ago we (the kids and I) were running Abbie to Baton class and Nate was hungry. We went across the street to the bagel shop & I gave him money & sent him in to get a half dozen sesame seed bagels (his favorite). He came back out very sad, they were out of sesame seed bagels I mentally went through their bagels and sent him back in. My suggestion: "Why don't you go back in and get a pizza bagel, you like pizza. You can try something new and then maybe next time you'll have another kind that you like." He asked me if he should get a dozen to which  I replied "No, just get one to try and if you like it you can get more later". He came out with a half dozen pizza bagels and a free sample he talked them into giving him.

Somehow he got the worker to give him a sample to try, decided he liked it, and (I guess) it was "later" enough & I had orignially sent him in for a half dozen bagels so surely I still needed a half dozen.So he bought a half dozen pizza bagels. Perfect Nate logic.

I don't think I'll ever need a half dozen pizza bagels, but I did get a reminder that day of just how literal he can be. Hey programmers make good money - right?!

Not at all related to this post but today I am grateful for a creative husband who "redneck engineered"  the kids pool so they could cool off in this heat & I didn't have to find the $$$ for new pool! They've been playing all day - it makes us all much happier. ("Redneck engineered" are Dan's words not mine - he's the least redneck person I know!)