Where is the summer going?! It seems like I blinked and now it's almost August! Kerry seems to be enjoying herself and has been a very busy girl this week .

There were "pine-cokes" to be collected...

Uncle Dale and Aunt Stessie (Stephanie)'s pool was beckoning to us in the 90+ degree heat...




Mama's "may-no's" needed picking..

And puddles needed to be splashed in. She's had a good week.

And I couldn't resist posting these photos from a few days ago. She decided she needed to eat her dinner all glammed up in sunglasses and bracelets.

Saying the blessing =)

to be 17 again...

This is Ashley.

I've known Ashley since she was around 9 years old and have been lucky to call she and her family my neighbors, and dear friends, since. I recently had the pleasure of photographing this pretty girl for her Senior year photos. I was thrilled and honored that she asked me to do this, but was also just a little nervous...okay more than a little nervous. Luckily, she seemed happy with the results..phew. Anyway, I had a great time, although it was HOT, HOT, HOT outside! We're talking ninety degree weather with about 300% humidity. Anyway, here are a few pics from our little shoot.

Ashley is such an awesome girl. Pretty, smart, strong...she's gonna go far.

It was just us girls; Ashley and her proud Mama Amanda, Kerry, and myself. Afterwards we went out for lunch. We had a great time =).





Did I mention it was HOT! Kerry was with us and the poor thing was melting after just a half hour. I've never seen anything like it. If she goes out in anything warmer than about 80 degrees, her little head and face just starts pouring the sweat.

I caught Kerry playing in the light that pours in from our large picture window in the living room and couldn't resist snapping some photos. She was in rare form, so I managed to catch quite a few of her frequently used facial expressions =). She rarely has all of her hair down since it seems to grow straight forward and hang like a curtain over her eyes, but the longer it gets, the easier it is to get it sweep it to the side, if only briefly. I can't get over how much more mature she looks in some of these..guess its the hair.

I wish I knew how to make the photos larger, like I've seen on some other blogs.

this is how she often looks when she's talking

not sure what this one was..

this is the look she gets when she's amused with something we..or she herself...has said. And now she follows this up by saying"Funny!"

One of her belly laugh expressions =).

The look I expect to be getting alot of in about 12 years, lol..

This one just screams "Mo-o-om...geesh"

"Enough already, Mom!"

I asked her to smile in this one =).

Just cute...

Kerry shows what she knows (letters)

I shot this video of Kerry earlier today while she was demonstrating some of the letters that she knows at 2 years 4 months. She didn't want me rearraging the letters after she'd put them where she wanted them, the stinker =).