How about this crazy outfit?!?

Gracelynn just being a cutie!

Just posting a few Pictures! Summer Fun!

Fixed the Layout

I got a chance to fix the layout I wasn't happy with...here it is...

Layout I did from this weekend

Here are some layouts from the crop this weekend. The first one is a work in progress...still needs some tweaking, but you get the jist..

Updated Pictures of the little Monkey!

Corey will probably kill me for posting these, but I think they are hilarious! These are of Gracie's Poop Face...she is deep in concentration. haha

Even when she's pooping she is freaking adorable....suddenly I see myself in her with that chin!

Gracelynn's Green bean Goatee!

Life Leading to a breakdown...

Ok folks. I'm trying to hold myself together...but it's getting tougher by the day. Last Monday a Friend of Corey's family passed away...way too young. Tuesday, Corey's Mom's House caught on fire and the garage is pretty much toast...smoke damage in the House. Jane was so generously letting me store my boxes in the garage...but we don't have to worry about storing that stuff anymore. (trying to laugh here instead of crying). Thank God they got out safely.

Money is extremely tight now that we have Gracie's new expenses, trying to pay off medical bills from my hernia surgery, and med bills from the birth of Gracie...and now Corey has to have surgery...ug! So, we will have new medical bills, and he won't be paid for days off.... 2 steps forward, 14 steps back.

Car business is sucking...so commission checks have been way down...contributing futher to the money issues. When is it going to end???? I need an escape, but can't afford it!! ug!!

Side note: I'm grateful for my family and my job. Thank you Lord!

Thanks for listening to me feel sorry for myself...we will push through like we always do...but give us a break, please! :)

Updated Pictures of Gracelynn

Family Photo's and Gracie Mae's Photos

Ok, first of all I want to introduce you to Melissa Fleming owner of Houston Paparazzi's and photographer (I'd call her a photo-artist!). She did our wedding photos and most recently (Last Thursday) did a family photo-shoot at her new studio.

Ok, can I just tell you how much I love her work? She is great, she doesn't get offended by me showing her samples of what I am looking for, she is amazingly patient (Gracie tested that on Thursday), she is extremely sweet and of course, talented....and on top of all of that she is the most reasonably priced photographer out there.

Her studio was jacked up during Hurricane Ike...so that put her into fast forward mode on to opening her new studio out in Rosharon (not really that far...just off of 288 passed the Pearland area). At first I thought what an odd area to have a studio in, but when she told us her plans...it made perfect sense...She put a really nice building on a piece of land she got...the in-door studio is huge! Her plans are to landscape the land to have different photo opp. areas...like a wooden bridge, an area of bluebonnets, etc. What a great idea that is to have it all in one place...kinda like one stop shopping.

Anyway, she posted our pictures last night....and OMG, I absolutely LOVE them!!! They are EXACTLY what I was looking for. Some of the pictures of Gracie brought me to tears...damn I love that kid to the moon and back over and over again.

Melissa is sending us a disk of all the pictures, and of course I will be showing them off as soon as I get them....but if you are looking for a VERYVERY reasonable photographer...you need to give her a call (832-274-0280). You only have to pay a sitting fee, and then you get the disk and can print whatever you want to, at Walgreens or whatever! How great is that?

We are already planning another shoot with her to get our whole family done together...all the grandparents, great grandparents and kiddos...Can't wait to do that!

Anyway, check her out if you are looking for a photographer. Her specialty is weddings, engagement pix, and I think she did an amazing job on our wedding pictures (posted at the bottom of this page)...but she also does Graduation portraits and all that jazz.

Did I mention how much I love her work? :)

I cannot wait to scrapbook these pictures!!!