“Rock the Boat”
was the name of the party Amanda and Madison had at Lake Grapevine.
They invited 100 of their closest friends and partied the night away.
It was a little cold on the upper deck where the kids were dancing but that didn’t stop them.
It was alot of fun and the girls looked absolutely beautiful.. 

 Oh,  how I would have loved to have a party like this when I was 16, but no such luck.. 

This is one of my favorite images..

  

   

    

 

This was my day…

and I don’t think it could  get any better..

What do you do on a boring weekend night?

Well for me, I decided to grab my camera, get my tripod and head up stairs to my bedroom and take a few shots..  

o.k. people  get your head out of the gutter

I was trying to be some-what artistic..I’m  not sure how well I did but here are a few of  my attempts..

A few self-portraits and a couple of things around my room.

 I was digging through some old pictures, and I found these of me when I was little. I don’t have that many pictures of me, my mom said they just didn’t take as many by the time I came around (thanks mom). That’s probably why i take so many pictures of my kids..

I love the ones of me and my sister, she was always there for me, making sure I was o.k. Take a look at that awesome bike of hers, those curved handle bars and that awesome rear view mirror. She had it goin’ on.

I was pretty much a happy go lucky kind of kid, I think that’s still how I am today. But as I’m looking at my teeth they are pretty much spaced out to the max..Lookin’ a little scary.

I have to say: I loved my life, I loved the good ol’ days, I loved that I didn’t have a care in the world, and I loved that I had/have  two  parents that loved me very much!!!

I have been trying to write this post for awhile, but when I sit down I’m not sure where to begin.  This first post is all about Trent. If you have read my blog before you know that Trent is like one of my boys. I have known him ever since he was little. When someone walks in your house and never knocks, that’s when you know their family. That’s what it has been like with Trent and his family for years. Trent is leaving Friday to help defend out country and we couldn’t be more proud of him. But, when I think of him leaving it brings tears to my eyes. I’m just at a loss for words. I don’t know how these parents do it, watching their kids leave. It breaks my heart.

It was so nice that Trent was home for awhile over Christmas break. And to my surprise, my door flung open and in he walked yelling ” Women I’m hungry, make me something to eat”. He has quite a loud voice but I wouldn’t change him for the world. He has a few other saying but it’s better I don’t post those. He always has me shaking my head and laughing. I wanted to put a few pictures of him up so he knows that were thinking of him. Trent, there’s a lot of people that love you and are thinking of you.  We’ll see you when you get home..

Now to Trent and Brittney..

I don’t know what it is about young couples that I love. Especially one’s that I know and have watched grow up. Whenever I’ve taken Trent’s pictures it’s always been a little hectic. Like I said before, he can be loud. I can say he was on his best behavior on this shoot. I’m sure I owe all that to Brittney. (thank you Brittney) We had fun crawling over a fence to get back to this abandoned building, and to my surprise there was a couch there which i loved. I love  the ones of them laughing and being silly. I don’t think these two could get any cuter. The last two pictures are some of my favorites.
Brittney your in our thoughts also doing this hard time..