enJOYing the little things . . .

D-D-D-D-D-Dora

Our local Babies R Us had its grand reopening over the weekend and you could meet Dora the Explorer and Clifford the Big Red Dod at the store.  Ronald and I asked Cadence if she wanted to go (she adores Dora), and she answered us by jumping up and down with an excited "Yes!"  I've mentioned that Cadence is afriad of costumed characters, right?  So we get there and she didn't  cry.  Progress.  However, this is how close (or rather, not-so-close) she wanted to be from Dora.  Cadence just wanted to admire Dora from afar.

As you can see, my boy isn't crazy about costumed characters either.  Sigh.

We found Clifford walking around the store.  I had to tell him to stay away or my kids would freak out.  So when we passed by he played peek-a-boo with the kids.  This was Clarkie's reaction . . .

I am afraid that I have passed on my scaredy-cat genes to my kids.  I admit.  I freaked out at costumed characters too.  Darn those genes.

Hard to believe that I've been blogging for almost a year.  This post makes number 101 - wow!  Thank you for all those who have visited and have left such kind comments about my kids, my photography, my scrapping and my ramblings.  I apprecate it!  -Joy  :o)

Bride-to-be

Last Thursday I took photos of Windy for her bridal session. Met up with her at the Red Door Salon on Michigan Avenue and snapped some pics while she was having her trial hair and make-up session. Afterwards we took pictures in the lobby and roof of my aunt's high-rise condo. Windy is the sweetest, so easy to work with and she's quite the model too!

A few of my favorites from Windy's day . . .

More images can be found HERE.  Happy week!

From today's Garden

Two layouts to share from Two Peas.

One of my boy . . .


And one of my girl . . .

Two others from the Garden:

This layout by Rhonda - pure gorgeousness.

I couldn't help but smile when I saw this layout by my pal Grace.  I totally relate.

Happy weekend! :o)

Random Randomness

First of all a picture of my guys. I don't take enough pictures of these two. Clark is at that age where he is constantly on the go. As for my hubby, he doesn't have enough patience when it comes to modeling, haha. Perhaps he doesn't have enough patience with me, the photographer.

Garden at Two Peas goes up at midnight tonight. Yay!

Kids and I met Ronald for lunch at the hospital cafeteria today. Miss Cadence kept asking, "Are we at the hosti-ti-tal?"  Girl cracks me up.

Eagerly anticipating two packages. New shoesies for the cooler weather (must give a shout out to Miley and her daughter Brenna for the recommendation) and a new lens.  Hurry up already, UPS delivery guy!

So black nail polish is in. Um, I think I'll pass. However, I am craving Bobbi Brown's polish in "Chocolate Cherry". Okay, maybe I am just craving chocolate.

Trip to the zoo

I'm a little late blogging about our trip to Brookfield Zoo, but I still wanted to share.  This was Clark's first trip ever to the zoo.  Cadence's first time to this zoo.  Even though it had been raining all morning on Labor Day we took a chance when the rain cleared in the afternoon and headed to Brookfield.  So glad we did.  The weather was cool and there were no crowds!

My favorite exhibit was the butterfly one.  Ronald sat out with Clark for this one for fear that our rambunctious boy would do damage to the butterflies.  Cadence waited patiently for a butterfly to land on her.  Instead, one landed on my head and another on my chest.

The kids' favorite was definitely the children's zoo where they got to pet goats.  Cadence was really brave despite her usual scaredy-cat self and enjoyed petting the goats.  Clark on the other hand . . . well, he ran around chasing the goats, but he made sure to keep his distance from them them if they got too close.  Silly boy!

More photos of our visit to the zoo can be found HERE.

Have a great week!