THE LATEST NEWS

*School is out, a c-section is planned for one month from today, July 7th. Will I make it? Not many think so but I have never been early before. Honestly, I do not know how I could possibly get any bigger. I have had weekly non-stress tests at the hospital for over a month now and will continue each week for the next month (due to ultrasound findings in 2nd trimester). So far so good. I also had an ultrasound the end of May at 33 weeks. Baby "T" was already 6 lbs and measuring 36 weeks! Grace especially loves to feel her move. Stella says "baby" and will kiss my belly. I wonder how much she really understands of this :)

*I didn't want to even think about potty training Stella until the baby was a few months old and Stella was at least two, but she is going to start on her own. Every time I turn around, the child is naked. When her diaper is wet, she takes it off and says, "pee pee". This was not in the plan, Stella!

*Grace got her ears pierced, and I do not have a picture because she was squeezing my arm so tightly I couldn't move.

*Savanah finished eighth grade, which means on to high school next year, hard to believe. She tried out for cheerleading and made the JV team and we were all very excited for her. Below is a picture I took of her before the big Step Up Dance the last week of school. She is looking so grown up!!
























Preston had the opportunity to be the "bat boy" for the local baseball team. He was so excited and we had a lot of family there to see him as well. He got a t-shirt and baseball which the players signed. He wore a helmet and sat by the dugout. When the team was up to bat, he would jump over the fence and pick up the bat after the player hit. He was featured on the big screen at the field. As soon as we left, he said he wanted to do it again.







































*I had a personal goal of learning to shoot in manual mode with my camera and if I did, I wanted to try to go to the Amy Wenzel Workshop I mentioned before. So I reached my goal and went to the workshop the end of May. If you are not familiar with Amy or her photography, go here to read her blog. She speaks so freely about her faith and how it brought her to photography. To say the least, it was an inspiring two days for me, not to mention all the tricks and tools of photography I learned, meeting some great people and lots of yummy food. I know I need to work on my editing techniques, which I find a little intimidating right now. The pictures I posted above are SOOC, straight out of camera. At the workshop we had four models to photograph and as soon as I practice more with editing I will share some of the pictures I took.