as you all know, i am second shooting 5 weddings over the summer with another local photographer, erica. i was so thrilled when she asked me to shoot with her and at the same time i was so nervous because i have never really done weddings before nor did i want to. i always swore that i didn’t want to do weddings because i felt they were too stressful!

boy, was i wrong! i’ve been having a blast! these are pictures from the third one we did back on july 28th. erica asked me to hold off posting these on my blog until the couple got back from their honeymoon because they wanted to be the first ones to see them. i can totally understand that and i am happy to be able to share them with you now.

leave a comment and let me know what you think.

i {heart} this face! even when it’s like this!

that’s how long it’s been since my last post! and i haven’t even been on vacation or anything exciting like that so i have no excuses for it.

it was a busy week last week. emily auditioned for a peter pan play at the community centre on tuesday and thursday. four hours each night. ugh! she did very well considering this was the first time she’s ever auditioned. she got a call back from the producer on saturday so she has to go back again on tuesday for two hours. i guess they’ll decide that night  if she gets a part or not. we’re so excited for her. she says she doesn’t really care if she gets a speaking role or not but i’m sure she’ll be disappointed if she doesn’t. i’m so proud of her anyway whether she gets in or not.

i’m also proud to report that so far, emily has raised $101.45 for the spca through her card sales! thanks so much to everyone who has supported her. you can check out her etsy store here. if you have purchased any yet, what are you waiting for????

i am absolutely amazed at the response. she has had people from far away as austrailia contribute to her efforts! i love the power of the internet. thanks again to everyone for your support. we went to a local community fair yesterday and while we were there we met the chair person, karen, for the local spca. emily told to her about the etsy store and about her key chains and karen was very impressed. she took emily’s name and phone number and she wants to put an article in the next newsletter that will be coming out in october. how exciting for her!

i have been busy getting everything in order to have my photography website back up and online. it’s been down far too long! it WILL be up by the second week of september! there, i’ve said it! now, you’ll have to hold me to it!

so, since i’ve been going through all of my old pictures, i have found a few that i would like to share that i don’t think i have posted before. thanks for stopping by!

almost forgot, to tell you. i bought myself a new bike so we’ve been out almost every night after dinner for a little ride. it’s so nice now that tyler doesn’t have his training wheels anymore. isn’t it pretty!

beautiful weather always draws us directly to the lake after work. our summers are too short to not enjoy every possible minute that we can out on the lake. and besides, when you have a boat and you’re paying moorage to keep it at the marina, you want to make sure you use it enough to get your moneys worth out of it, right?

so, tonight we headed out to the lake. we made a couple of stops on the way, to pick up dinner and snacks. phone our friends annette and paul to see where they were and to let them know that we were coming. all is great!

the kids helped lug everything down to the boat. derek began taking off the cover. i helped tyler secure his life jacket. ran into some other friends who were just going boating too and chatted with them for a few minutes while derek started ours up and let it run for a minute. said goodbye to our friends, got into the boat and…………….. nothing!

we weren’t going anywhere.

we had power. and the motor was revving when he gave it gas but we weren’t moving!

derek tinkered with the lever a few minutes and tried to see if it was a loose wire connection or something like that. then he got out all of his tools (yes, we’ve learned from experience to ALWAYS have tools on-board the boat) and started taking things apart. after half an hour and feeling very frustrated, he finally says that he thinks it must be the transmission and that he can’t fix it.

bummer! transmission is probably going to cost a couple thousand dollars! just great. and we were pulling this boat out of the water tonight anyway because we’ve bought a second boat and we are selling this one. confused, i am!

so, derek pushes the button to raise the leg to see if that is working. and tyler yells out,

"DAD! there’s no motor there!"

"what?"

"there’s no motor there!"

this is what we saw

it’s supposed to look like this

that’s right. no prop!

whether it fell off (which is highly unlikely) or someone took it off, we just don’t know. but it’s gone. derek dove under where the boat sits to look for it but he couldn’t see too much because there’s so much mud and silt on the bottom of the lake.

explains why we weren’t moving! and it’s a heck of alot cheaper to repair than a transmission! and just when you think it can’t get any worse, after derek pulled the boat out of the water, the trailer got not one but TWO FLAT TIRES!

happy hump day!

i don’t know why but i love this photo!