I hate 'ON CALL' weekends

I just want to put that out there.
Robb is 'on call' this weekend, which means if there is a fire, he gets the call to go an investigate it. Robb got called yesterday about 3:00 pm came home about 7:50pm and didn't even get out of his car before he got called AGAIN! Left for another two hours, came home with dinner from Wing Stop, thankfully had the chance to eat - about 20min - and got called AGAIN. He was out all night long getting home around 7am because while he was out he got called TWO MORE TIMES. UGH! He can't get out of the Arson Bureau fast enough...
Of course all this means that he is dead tired and can't even go to church with us this morning, because he needs to sleep while he can since you never know when that next call is going to come!

This ends the RANT - I will now return you to your regularly scheduled blogging...

I know who I'm voting for!!

School pictures... not really

The kids had school pictures this week so knowing that I wasn't going to buy them but figuring we might want some to share with friends, family and teachers I decided to take them to my 'garage studio' and take my own. I still have some work to do on my studio work but this is what the kids gave me and what I was able to do with it. I am still going to schedule my kids photo sessions with EllaBella Photography once things slow down =)





BTW - don't let the last two photos of Pete worry you - he is still a happy kid!

First Day of School 2008

First a disclaimer - we spend the previous weekend in KC and I was in NO WAY prepared for Wednesday to come as quickly as it did.
Here are my kids' first day of school photos...



Can I explain? I had fully intended to take lovely photos of my children with all their things ready to face the world and even walk into their classrooms and capture that moment of them meeting their new teachers and such, but what really happened was a mad dash out the door with no camera (I had my snapshot camera handy though) and I carelessly made appointment to get to by 9am so this was the best I could do!

I love this smile!!

Elle had a couple of teeth pulled on Tuesday - don't you think that this is the cutest smile ever???
I love that she has a little lisp now too!


Well, school starts in ONE WEEK! YIKES! I don't know if I am ready for this - Pete is moving up to middle school and then within a week of that, reaching the coveted age of 13. Too much for Mom who then turns the big 4-Oh No! a couple weeks later...

On a side note - Robb told me that his picture is in tonight's paper! I am hoping he will bring home a copy so I can see too.