Skaterboy

 My nephew Sean is a Major skateboarder. He lives, breathes and sometimes eats skateboarding.  He has been doing this for quite some time now. His first skateboard was my brothers from the 1980's that he had found.  In the past few months he was asked to be sponsered by a local skate shop. This means that will eventually get free skate stuff (decks, shirts, trucks).  The local shop was hosting a competition this past weekend and Sean won second place. We are all sooo proud of him and his accomplishments. He's finally starting to see what he has worked so hard for. Here are a few pics oh him a few years ago at a skate park in Hammond, La. 

                                                          Sean jumping over 7 boards! 

                                                          Sean (right) and his gang. 
       

George Ranch

A few weekends ago (after gustav and before Ike) Matt & I went to visit my brother Cameron and my new sister in law Mariamgely in Houston.  We went by the George Ranch where they still have a working farm. It was really cool to see that they had  houses from different periods in time. They also had a cattle show, where they showed us what they would really do when they are roping them in. I felt so bad for the calves...but they seemed used to it. Here are a few pics from the wknd. Below is an old beautiful church, little chicks that cameron saved from the sunlight,  one of the old houses and the cowboy show. The bottom pics are of us playin around. lol.

Humming season

 

Before Matt and I moved we had a  little oasis in our backyard (as I like to call it). We had bird feeders, corn for the squirrels, and a resident snake matt didnt tell me about till we moved. Thank goodness. We tried to make our new apartment feel like home so we brought a few of our plants and our hummingbird feeder to put on our balcony.  Since the seasons are changing (unfortunately not in the south, but somewhere) we are starting to see more of our hummers come around to eat before they fly south.  Right before Ike came (the hurricane) we saw like 4-6 of them fighting to eat.  They are really funny birds.  Sometimes they dont see us when they are fighting and almost run into us.  Here are a few of them trying to catch a bite. 

Hurricane Guests!

We had the great pleasure this labor day wknd to have matt's sister and her 3 children visit.  They came to visit because Gustav was visiting their house. I was a little nervous because we now live in a small apartment and I was afraid we might get tired of each other. But, it didnt seem that way once we all settled in. I actually had a GREAT time.  We did tons of shopping and went to the movies, and spent lots of "quality" time together. The girls are 13 and 12, and Logan is 8. We talked about boys and played charades. I took them by my work to show them the longhorn cows in the front yard of my office. I am totally amazed by these HUGE things. Here's a few pics of us playin around! I wish everyone in La. the best with the storm and I hope everyone had minimal damage! God Bless!

Lori & Davids wedding!

Here are a few pictures from Lori & Davids wedding. Lori was my best friend in college so I was thrilled to shoot her wedding. We drove OVER to Many on a friday night so we were able to send time in town before the wedding. It was a great time! enjoy!

 

Here is just a taste of our trip to Puerto Rico. We had a great time and we were keptvery busy. I think we covered just about the whole island. These pics are from San Juan on our second day. It was beautiful. We went to the old fort "el morro". It was used to keep pirates out. How cool is that....well it was used to keep out others too!

the view from El Morro looking out at San Juan

el yunque rainforest

my humble abode!

For those of you that know me, you know that we recently had to sell our house to move to Texas...It was a very sad time for all of us. So here is a quick picture of what we moved from and what we moved to. It is very hard to move from a 3b/2b home to a 2b/1b apartment w/ no yard. But we managed thanks to our parents who have half of our stuff at their homes waiting for us to pick up on our next move. We do like our new town. It is daylight till almost 9pm, which is really cool because that means I can stay out longer taking pictures. My plan is to put really cool pictures that I take while I am away so that I can share with everyone, just like if I was at home. Later I will put up some pictures from Puerto Rico for my brothers wedding.

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