Rainy Days

I'm so ready for summer. Ugh, all this rain is interfering with everyone's photo shoots! I will be posting some duckling shoots soon. But for now, here's my little pink and green duckling...

Check back for ducks soon!

Maya is Tutu Cute!

Tuesday morning I got out of the shower to find Maya's 6 year old brother helping her get dressed. He was slipping on her black tap shoes after dressing her in this new outfit that Grammy bought her. Immediately I thought- PHOTOSHOOT!

Most of these poses Maya came up with on her own.

Kisses to everyone!

Maya Turns 3!

As I stood in Old Navy picking out pink shirts, the rain beat down on the pavement outside. Ruined. The party was ruined. I spent weeks planning the details. Maybe because I'm artsy, maybe because Maya's just so darned cute, or because you only turn 3 once. Whatever it was, I was pulling out all the stops so that this was a party to be remembered. I based the theme on the book Pinkalicious where the girl in the story eats a ton of pink cupcakes and turns pink.

Everything was pink. I got Georgie Lou's Retro Candy shop to cater a candy buffet. I bought pink flowers from George's Flowers. I rented a Cotton Candy machine from Krueger's Rental. And I bought everyone pink clothes to wear for the day.

But then it started pouring rain, and just wouldn't stop. Until 30 mins before the party was to start. The clouds parted and the day was PERFECT.I served all pink food.I read the book to the kids :)I had them decorate their own cupcakes.We sang...

Maya opened presents.Then we painted faces. Charity and I are available for hire by the way ;)Big thank you to Charity. She took most of the photos for me so that I wasn't consumed by that task. She also helped me arange the flowers and paint faces! Thanks DAWG! Haha.

Maya is STILL talking about her pink party. It was a huge success. I think I have to start two more careers. Children's party planning and face painting!

Proud Momma

I'm a bit of a Tom Boy. I used to play men's lacrosse. I started playing the women's version of the sport when I hit college. After a year on the field, I stepped in as our only goalie and at one point was ranked in the top 20 goalies for DIII women's lacrosse. So needless to say, you can imagine how proud I am that my son, at the mere age of 6, attended his first ever lacrosse camp at Messiah College this past week. He was several feet shorter than the rest, but every bit aggressive. That's my boy!
That's a catch!

And I'm sure this is about to become a GOAL!! Whoot whoot!

Not going to lie, I got a little choked up watching him.

It was an awesome experience and the coaches were very supportive of my little man. Thanks to everyone who helped to mold his skills, but most importantly his confidence, over the last week.

Soccer season

Just wanted to share some soccer photos of Andrew with you all. He has his first game today so I'll probably post more later. I need to post photos more often. I have so much to share. I need more motivation though. I guess sometimes I feel like the only one looking at my blog is my anynomous coworker "M". I would like to do a blog reader/comment poster reward of some sort. I'm open to suggestions so leave your ideas in the comments below.

That pose is Andrew's idea- not mine. Just sayin'.

Next three are an action series of him throwing the ball at my lens. We had a long talk after I finished shooting these :)

Don't worry though- no cameras were harmed in the making of these picutres.

Happy Easter Everyone!

I have no idea how we managed this. We were 1 for 1- batting 1000. I sat up the tripod for the first time to take a family photo and set the timer. We took only ONE shot- everyone was looking at the camera at least. It's not a perfect family photo, but we'll take it! This shot did NOT go as well. I tried to get some of our beautiful pink tree in the background, but this was taken shortly after Maya ripped the hem of this dress. Happy Easter everyone!

The Crayola Factory

It was a rainy weekend. The wind howled. But that didn't stop us. We drove up to Easton, PA to visit The Crayola Factory.

The best part (for me) was learning how the crayons and markers are made. I love learning the science behind things. I couldn't get them to tell me what they use in Color Wonder markers though. Non-toxic, odor and colorless, and it oxidizes. If you have any guesses, let me know!

150 degree wax pours down like a river over this metal mold and fills the 100s of crayon shaped holes. Then cool water is pumped through the mold to harden the crayons quickly.

This is the machine that wraps the crayons with the paper.Serving Macaroni and Cheese to Maya. That is one of the most recent colors named by a 5 yr old little girl during a Crayola contest. In this room they give you each a pack of white clay to play with.Check out the sting ray! I drew Starry Starry Night (or something like that) on the ground in the sidewalk chalk area.
This place is pretty cool if your an artist.

These are wells of melted crayon wax that you could dip into and paint on a piece of paper.More wells... The crew.

Work it!

Finally we visited the Crayola store.

Look at all of these Crayola products!!

Here they house the worlds largest crayon.

Our family.

It's a great winter or rainy day activity. Check it out sometime!