Whoops…’what to wear wednesday’ is now ‘Fashion Friday’!    Every month I try and post a few coordinated outfits…just so you can see how families can coordinate-without being ‘matchy matchy’.  Don’t forget accessories!  Hats, scarfs, jewelry…all make for interesting textures and colors in pictures.

We finally got another taste of summer yesterday…I believe we were actually a little sweaty after our foray into the country side…or maybe we were sweaty because we were chasing a certain ’crazy’ little 3 yr old boy?  I’m kidding, he did awesome!   We were shooting in an abandoned barn, and we had him sitting just inside the doorway.  He kept looking over his shoulder, convinced that a bear was going to come and get him.  Mom-I think you might need to review his basic farm knowledge…last time I checked, ‘bears’ weren’t on the list with the cows and  pigs!!   :)   It was wonderful to meet you guys!

I hope all of you moms had a wonderful weekend!  Filled with sunshine, chocolate and a relaxing massage.  Sounds nice, huh?  I would really like all three of those things at once.  My hubbie was sweet and got me a gift certificate for a massage.  Even though he loves to tell me, “your not MY mom”.  Oh yeah buddy?  Then why am I always yelling at you to stop teasing the kids?  Or asking you if you remembered to brush your teeth before you left the house?  Or picking out your clothes whenever you wear something other than the standard ‘KLATT TRUE VALUE’ t-shirt?  In his defense…he does have many amazing qualities.  He’ll just have to wait until Father’s Day for that mushy blog post.

Would you like to hear how cool I am?  Well, as some of you know, I used to work at AppleBee’s restaurant.  I spent almost 4 months there as a server (about 4 yrs ago), before I started to disappear from the work schedule.  My shifts became less and less frequent, until I realized that I was being subtly fired.  Turns out, I suck at being a waitress.  I have a horrible memory, I spill a LOT and I am missing my verbal filter.  I once told a customer who finished his meal rather quickly, “boy, you sure wolfed that down.”  Yeah, and you wonder why I didn’t last.  Anyways, this weekend our church had a fundraiser at the A.B’s (that’s what the cool kids call it) in Rogers  serving a pancake breakfast.  I showed up in full Applebee’s attire (hey, where else can I pull off that snazy black polo with the embroidered apple symbol?) ready to serve the masses.  Turns out, when you dress like an employee, people think you know what’s going on.  Ooops.  I spent the first hour telling everyone, “I don’t know.  I don’t know.”  Whenever they’d ask where this was, or that was.  Then I pulled out the big guns.  I went up to take the order of my high school English teacher.  Her and her husband asked for coffee.  As I poured the steaming hot brew, I heard a ‘plunk’ and felt the burning splash as coffee poured over their entire table. Turns out the top lid wasn’t a lid at all, just a small black cup that someone put on top to keep things hot.   I’m SO sorry Mrs. Gauger!

This just turned into a very long journal entry.  Let’s see some cute pictures instead.  Meet Miss ‘T’, so sweet and sleepy, she was one of the fastest newborn sessions I’ve ever had.  At the end her mom tried to wake her up so we could see her eyes, but she refused.  Oh well, I’d much rather that, than the other way around!

The other day I had the pleasure of meeting up with a family that I used to know quite well.  Well as in, from age 4 to age15 I basically lived at their house.  My old BFF ‘Cara from the block’. (Random J-Lo reference, sorry!)  We grew up on the same street, yet my house was in Crystal, hers was in Robbinsdale.  We took these pictures at the park that Cara and I spent way too much time at in the good old days.

  We used to do really “awesome” things together…like reenact the dance scenes from Dirty Dancing (I had to be Johnny, perhaps I looked more manly?).  Anyways, enough of our embarrassing history, here is the entire family together.

We did these Tuesday night, about 1/2 BEFORE the rain started.  We must have looked crazy to passerby’s…the wind was whipping and the clouds were rolling in fast-but we finished up just as the first drops fell.