Matilda Jane Update!!!!

First of all let me tell you the actual PARTY DATE IS SEPTEMBER 4TH from 10-12!!!! I sorta made it sound like it wasn't. Yeah so I'm blonde (bottle) and Polish like that. The girls (grace and Peyton) have MJ clothes on in these pics...aren't they CUTE!

I found the BEST new place for photos. I'm so excited about it. When my husband and I drove up I actually got goosebumps. THANK YOU STEPHANIE for telling me about it! I love it and you!

It's a party and I'll have CAKE if I want to...

MY MATILDA JANE PARTY!!!! You are all invited next Thur, my house 10-12 and there will be CAKE and DESSERTS and BRUNCH and THE MOST FABULOUS clothes for fall that your little girl (and some little guy stuff) and YOU could ever NEED. (sending subliminal messages here...YOU MUST COME TO GET CLOTHES THAT ARE FABULOUS). Okay CHICKAS if you GO to www.matildajaneclothing.com RIGHT NOW and click on 2008 collection you can see the fall stuff! It may not stay there so GO NOW. IT's a sneek and it won't be back till SATURDAY so go look now and see all the COOL FUN FUNKY AND FABULOUS stuff you'll want to buy. AND ask my other friends....I like to bake so you'll be FED well and I'll have tangerine mimosas and spicy bloody mary's and other yummies!

And for all you girlies that live out of state, you can join is in spirit AND still order from my party! Email me and I'll give you my trunkkeepers number!

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's BLU!

Blu came over for a playdate last night. This little guy is completely coming into his own personality!

LOOK at that boxer paw action against Macy and she's all "oh no you di'nt"!
Blu with the SMACKDOWN ACTION on McCoy...total wwf action or wbf (world-wide boxer federation)
"I just might be able to fit your ENTIRE head into my mouth...this won't hurt a bit!"

"Been here, done that, kicked some boxer butt! I'm outta here!"

What's that they say...snips and snails and...

This is the second time I've been able to shoot these adorable and precocious brothers... hey is that how you spell that, I don't know. Anyway.
I'm still not driving (yeah, it so sucks), so my Mother in law took me, she's probably sick of me by now!

These boys are always so fun! They crack me up with the crazy things they want to do and what they say is always hysterical. The little one here had a really bad nose bleed so we waited awhile for it to stop. At one point he said "let's just do it anyway, I like blood on my face!". Me, not so much! Altough I guess we could have used them as Halloween invitations or something!


Don't let these sweet innocent eyes full you...there's mischief there. I'm SURE of it. I can't tell you how many "bunny ears" I've cloned out! LOL

OHHHH, and stop by later, there'll be pics of adorable and lovable and smooshable puppy Blu later.  He came over for a play date and gave McCoy/Levi and Macy a complete surprise with his devilish sounding growl!   AND I'm going to have more info on Matilda Jane...the PARTY~!

Matilda jane all over again!

CLOTHES ARE NEVER A FRIVOLITY: THEY ALWAYS MEAN SOMETHING! ~ James Laver

**** I'm crazy and originally had the wrong date!
I'm having another Matilda Jane Party. If you are not familiar with MJ, it's one of the hottest and I mean HOTTEST "boutique" clothing lines around. There is tons of buzz about Matilda Jane and it has the cooolest story behind it to. It's designed by a mom with no background in design and she has two little boys and writes the most delightful blog. The clothes go from 12 months to 10 years old (girls only) and then REALLY cool funky fun and COMFY but sexy mommy stuff too! PLUS the adult ex is perfect for tweens too! That's what Callie wears. I had a party in the spring but unfortunately it was at the end of the "season" for MJ so a lot was sold out. This time it's not even two weeks into the fall "season" for the new stuff! My party is Thur, Sept. 4 from 10-12. If you want an invite just pop me an email and ask and I'd LOVE to have you. I'm about an hour from Lancaster, 45 minutes from Baltimore and an hour from Philly. I make mean desserts too! Plus, my show will be virtual as well, so if you want to order something, I'll give you my trunk keepers number but you have to call her THE day of the party to qualify.

These clothes are SO dern cute and believe me, they occassionally stop traffic! Who doesn't want their little girl to look super sweet, unique and original but still have a traditional flair? Heck, most mommies want that too!

Everything is still hush hush about the new line but it will debut on the 23rd. However, if you do some sneaking around the websites you'll see glimpses of some of the fall stuff.
www.matildajane.typepad.com and www.matildajaneclothing.com

This first pic is my neice Gracie in a sweet little halter. The next is Callie in an awesome hoodie that both of my girls got and their friends and some of my friends too! On the back in tone on tone it says "always unpredictable".

The last pics are of Peyton in a fashion shoot at the beach. Her halter is cool because she can also wear it as a skirt the back is elastic and you just tie the straps into a bow...it's so cute like that too! Her Halter is an art fair piece so it's more one of a kind. If you check ebay for Matilda Jane, it sells for way higher than you'll buy it at the trunk show for. Especially for the dress that are of limited quantities. Pretty cool return on an item you daughter wore and outgrew, huh? LOL

Is anyone else ready for school to start?

I love my kids. I love having them home with me, I love doing stuff with them, I JUST LOVE THEM. BUT...I don't know if it's that I'm stuck in the house and I feel mommy guilt that I can't do all the fun stuff that we normally try to pack into the last weeks of summer or if it's just me, or just them or whatever. BUT...a tiny, itty bitty part of me wants school to start. The routine, the normalcy the 8 hours of non-bickering. :-) I usually cry walking home from the bus stop the first day and feel in a funk that whole day. I know this year won't be much different but I'm sorta kinda ready for it! LOL This is an unrealted photo I know. I thought I'd post Callie because believe it or not she's the one giving me the most grief lately!

Remember these little cuties?

I was supposed to shoot this Momma's newborn pics but poor little baby Ella had to stay in the hospital a couple extra days because of jaundice then my surgery got in the way. So The girls Mom, my friend Ashley brought the baby to me today! It wasn't ideal, I had originally all kinds of visions for a cool newborn shoot because Ashley's up for anything! Part of that is probably because she's crazy since she has 3 babies in 2 years! Yup! Emma here won't be three till Nov. and Layla is 16 months! She's a brave lady! LOL So I didn't get to try the cool things I wanted to because I'm still healing but at least we got a couple cute ones!

Meet Pudgy McSmoshface, ummm I mean little boy Blu

Yes, I know I'm posting a lot lately. Can you tell I'm homebound? LOL I'm going out tomorrow...I can't take it anymore. MUST GET OUT OF THE HOUSE!

Check out Blu here. Is he NOT the cutest little puppy face you've seen? Don't mind the snapshots...I know these aren't my best work...yadayadayada. Here's Blu's story. PLEASE check it out, it's heartwarming and awesome and just makes you go awwwww. www.boxerrescue.com and then go to available dogs. Blu here was Max and he was SO close to death from the horrible and hateful parvo virus. The rescue group I volunteer with does AWESOME good deeds and this is just one drop in the bucket of the amount of incredible things that they have done. The cost of saving these puppies is just ENORMOUS.

Luckily my friend Tina was able to adopt one so now not only do I have my own puppy goodness with Levi McCoy I get to enjoy Blu's earth-shattering cuteness on a regular basis. I have to get a puppy shoot in on this guy as soon as I can. My camera is NOT that heavy!

SO THIRSTY!
RUNNING WITH THE BIG DOGS! Macy looks on because she thinks that she might just be too lady-like to indulge in all the goofy puppy play but eventually the fun was overwhelming and she couldn't help herself. Look how skinny McCoy is....I gotta get some meat on that boys bones! McCoy/Levi and Blu are only 3 months difference in age...amazing!

girl power and all that!

This post is in lighter spirits....


One of the cool things I found at the farm fair was all the "girl power". A lot of the animals were shown by girls...I don't mean the bunnies and chicks and piglets and stuff, what I'm talking about were the big a** STEERS and the STRONG HOGS and sheep with bulging biceps! These girls kicked butt and it made me proud of them. I can be a mix of girly girl and dirty girl all in one but I'm the first to admit a bad day sends me running to the makeup counter for a new lipstick. Nothing brightens my day like a shiny new tube of it! So it was cool to see these girls out there, powerful and full of pride...and some had on lipgloss too!

As I mentioned, I was afraid that the farm fair would make me a vegetarian, and I have to say I am much more mindful of what I eat. I mean NO DISRESPECT to all the red-meat lovin, chicken lickin' eaters out there. I'm one of you, however, It definately put a new light on food for me. I don't think I'll be having nearly as many red meat meals in the future. This brings me to a Peytonism.

A few days after the farm fair, my mother-in-law took the kids to Wendy's and Cole was talking about what he was going to order. Peyton heard him and said, "Cole, I thought you were going to be a vegetarian!" He said, "well, I'm thinking about it!" Then Peyton exclaimed, "but you had candy today!"

The Rainbow Bridge

Our sweet brown boy left us yesterday. I am thankful that he was able to leave peacefully and restfull in my lap. He will always be in our hearts but now joins many friends who wait patiently.

If you are not familiar with the rainbow Bridge concept, go here... www.rainbowbridge.com

In the room where we go in our vet's office there is the story of an indian legend with the same concept. It always brings us comfort.

You can click on this to make it larger.

I never meant....

I really never meant for this photography blog/personal blog to turn into the chester blog, so I'm sorry. I can't really say a lot about him tonight. He's comfortable, chilling on the tile in the kitchen, still. But the journey has almost ended. I took this photo yesterday.(Sat). I love you Chest.

Slowing down

I'm sorry to say that Chester is now greatly slowing down. He's still eating his dinner and treats but he just doesn't have much spunk left. Today was the second day of very rest-filled days for him (and me too). He is not in pain and still gets on the couch although the cool tile of the kitchen seems to often be preferable. I just wanted to let everyone know and we still appreciate all of your seamingly endless positive thoughts and prayers. Thank you.

About my backside...

<------Thank God it doesn't quite look like this although that is a DERN cute piggy butt. I'm home from the surgery. It went well. Took a little more than twice as long as expected because my floating dried out disc piece was larger than anticipated. You know me, always the overachiever! :-) If I'm going to have a leg numbing and weakening dried disc piece rubbing up against my spinal cord, it's gonna big a nice big one! Please be aware I'm writing this post on a couple of percosets...I'm not supposed to be on the computer. shhhh


Oh, here's my pretty little booth lit up with the delightful and delish chandelier I purchased in Bethany Beach at my friend's shop. LOVE IT!

Warning: unrelated blog photos! :-)

I'm so far behind on photos....I'm sorry everyone! I got so much done in the past few days. My delightful husband, Matt will be mailing them out on Saturday. These are a few from recent sessions I thought I'd quickly share.

Chester is doing great. His neck looks like he swallowed a bag of large grapes but he's still chasing the vacuum, (he did that tonight when I was doing under the bird cages-although I'm not real sure that's on the list of things I should be doing so we'll keep them between us, okay?) he also randomly snapped at the moths that fluttered toward their demise of the light in our kitchen as I'd open the patio door. I've decide Levi McCoy has the bladder the size of a small lima bean and he ENJOYS going in and out 82 zillion times a day and night.

Speaking of Levi McCoy (okay, so he has two names now), he tried on several occasions to open the bathroom door by using his mouth on the handle today. Most boxer owners know that you CAN NOT go potty without having said boxer(s) in the potty room with you. I must try to remember this.

Tomorrow is the big day... let's get the ol' back fixed! See you soon!

Something you should nose...I mean know

I finished up the farm fair today. To say I'm exhausted is probably an understatement. But it was soooooo much fun. Really, exhausting fun! I would have to say I learned a lot about farm animals, and all kinds of cool animal fact that I had no clue about. But I also learned of the incredible kindness of others (Thank you Steve and Debbie Nelson) and how helpful friends can be. I also COULD NOT have gotten through those four days with out the help of my son, Cole. Really, he got up early with me EVERY day didn't complain once about loading and unloading and all kinds of stuff I'd have him do. It was really cool, fun mom and son bonding time too. Again thank you all for your help...everyone from my family (sister, dad and in-laws) to friends!

I have lot's of awesome farm fair photos to share but it's going to be a bit. I needed more help than normal this past weekend because I'm having some major back issues that will require surgery this week. I have 4 sessions that I need to finish up by Wednesday and also get the discs for the 4 H done. If you email me and I don't return it quickly, please forgive me, it may be a week or two. Please accept my apologies for the delays in advance! :-)

Chester is still doing well, thank God. In fact, for a few days he seemed to be the healthiest dog in the house! Macy caught the bacterial infection from McCoy(the family is calling him Levi, but he's still my McCoy). But they are both on the mend now.