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Happy Mother's Day

Hope all you moms and grandmothers had a wonderful day!!! I got to sleep in this morning (YIPEE), woke up to some Jerry's donuts (YUMMY), then just hung out and relaxed at home.  We went to Scott's parent's house for supper.  The men grilled us "moms" some mean hamburgers! :)

Just a couple pics from this weekend.  It is no doubt, that I like afternoon naps on the weekends!  Usually MIka I cuddle up and take one together!  This weekend...there were no naps for me! ha ha   BUT I captured Mika's sleepytime!

Saturday afternoon nap with Toby!

 

Ahh...melt my heart!  Sunday afternoon's nap! :)

Austin Flashback

I have been able to edit a few pictures from my recent Austin Trip.

Group pic of Jenny, Elizabeth & I...After our session ended on Friday we went out to eat and then goofed off taking pictures ourselves in downtown Austin...It actually was ALOT of fun!  I will post more as I get them edited! :)

We had the MOST ADORABLE children "models" to practice on...Check out these cute kiddos!

AHHHHHHHHH...

I spent last week in Austin Texas meeting up with a couple of my good photography friends Elizabeth and Jenny (who by the way needs to update her blog ha ha).  We attended a workshop by the fantabulously talented Cheryl Muhr.  More posts with pictures on that later! :)   I am seriously still gushing on how wonderful it was!  Anyhoo, I arrived home on Saturday afternoon to a SPARKLING clean house (THANK YOU SCOTT) and this drawing on the table!   It melted my heart.  HOWEVER, lets just say that when I went to go pick MIka up at Scott's parents (he was golfing, you know, payback for being gone 4 days...hee hee) she was less than thrilled to see me! :)  She just woke up from her nap and all she wanted was her Grandma!  When you are gone from your kids for days...you always envision in your head when you come home...them running with open arms to give you a big ole hug and tell you how much they missed you!  Well that was not the case...but the picture sure did make my day (at least I know I was somewhat missed during my absence!)

This is what happens...

When Granny & Papa come to visit...no naps, going to bed REALLY late, and then getting up REALLY early for two days in a row.  My parents came down to visit for the weekend and what great fun it was!  They left shortly after 10am this morning to go back home...After they left, I was doing some laundry and noticed it was REALLY quiet.  I went back to our bedroom and found her snoring logs in our bed at 10:50am!  Poor little girl was wore out!

Filthy Fun...

Last night we were invited to a hotdog/smores roast.  I was soo mad at myself, once we got there I realized I forgot my camera...ARGH! 

We went to "Big Hadley's" (aka neighbor girl) grandparent's farm.  Mika had a BLAST!  Fun complete with lots of little kids, dogs and cats running everywhere, cows in the pasture to look and yell out, dirt to play with and the best part..........a meal complete with hot dogs, smores, potoato chips, brownies, rice krispie treats and pop.  MIka was in sugar/junkfood for HEAVEN!   What is it...that eating a hot dog and smores over a hot fire makes it taste SOOOOOOOOOOOOO good?

Well I don't have proof that we were at the acutall weinie roast...but I DO have proof that my child was FILTHY DIRTY!  Covered in head to toe dirt.  I took a couple of pictures before we had to hose her off in the bathtub.  She almost fell asleep in the bathtub she was sooo tired!

While I am on the memories bandwagon...

Oh gosh...While I was reliving all of the wonderful memories of my "Grandma Berta" I had a flashback to one of the most embarassing ones of her! ha ha  Thought I would share cuz it still makes me giggle now that I am a grown woman, not a pubescent (sp?) teenager! :)

Where I grew up, we always had 8th grade graduation at the end of our 8th grade year.  It was held in the "old gym" in our high school.  We would have cake, punch etc.  Friends, relatives would come stop by with cards and gifts!  I remember sitting at a table with ALL of my friends, when my "Grandma Berta" came to "shower" me with gifts!  Well gift numero uno, I tear into, open the box and what do I see for ALL of my friends to see????????????????????   A package of girl panties that had the "days of the week" in different colors stitched on the front!  OMG...I was soo mortified, seriously I was 14 YEARS OLD.....Didn't my grandma know that I stoppped wearing "days of the week" panties about 9 years prior? ha ha  WIth my bright red face, I thanked her for my gift!  But to this day, I still remember that look of horror I had when I saw those panties for ALL to see at my 8th grade graduation. ha ha   Bless my Grandma Berta's heart!

The Rings

Growing up, we had a sweet lady that lived acrossed the street from us, Alberta Anderson. We didn't call her Alberta though, we called Grandma Berta!  I don't remember her husband very well, as he died when I was very young, but she and her husband treated my family like their own.  She spoiled my brother and I sooo much, we thought she was our grandma, so hence the named "Grandma Berta." 

She LOVED to cook. I can remember many of evenings, my mom coming home from work to find a full cooked meal sitting on our stove. I can appreciate this more being a mom now. How awesome that would have been to walk in your house after a full day of work to see supper already made for you?  Might I add, she made the BEST banana bread EVER.  When I came home from college to visit on a weekend, she would always send a loaf of it back with me to share with my roommates! She also loved to sew and would always make me skirts and dress up clothes for my dollies.  When she would come back from a trip or come back from visiting her daughter my brother and I were ALWAYS excited, cuz we knew she would have a present for us! These are just a few of the many memories I have of her....but the ONE memory that I will ALWAYS have of her, is her ring box!

Grandma Berta kept this ring box in her dresser drawer.  As a little girl, I can remember spending many of hours sitting on her living room floor playing and trying on ALL the rings in this little metal container.  I LOVED THEM ALL.  I would put several rings on EACH finger, then rearrange them just to do it over again.

A couple years before she moved to a nursing home, she gave me this ring box as she knew nobody loved that little tin of rings more than me!   Grandma Berta died when I was a senior college and how I miss her so!

This morning as I was cleaning out my jewelry armoire, I found this little tin of rings that I had carefully placed in the back of the amoire for safe-keeping.  It brought a smile to my face, as I had briefly forgotten about this tin of rings and AND I knew MY little girl would love these rings just as much as I did!

These pictures bring tears to my eyes, as I know Grandma Berta would have LOVED to sit in her rocking chair watching my OWN little girl play with the "tin of rings."

ATTITUDE...

That is what this child gave me this morning and ANY morning she CAN'T wear a dress.

This girl is ALL about her clothes...Dresses to be EXACT!  That is ALL this girl wants to wear.  Every morning when she gets up or sometimes before she goes to bed at night she asks if she can wear a dress the next day.  If the weather is nice or if she has a warm dress clean (we only have a few winter dresses and tights)..she gleams with delight!  INSTANT good mood and my morning is STRESS FREE! ha ha

Well here lately...the weather has been cold and yucky and these mornings are a STRUGGLE to get her dressed.  She instatly gets ticked when she can't wear a dress.  I don't like messing around in the mornings.  I have time schedule and I want to be out the door!   I give her the option of several warm outfits (aka pants and tops).  Kind of a win/win situatin in my mind!  She wears something warm, but gets to pick what outfit it is!  It is horrible, she tries to bargain and reason with me into letting her something that is NOT weather appropriate.  She won't cooperate and also doesn't like to back down!

THis morning was ONE OF THOSE MORNINGS...Frustrated with her...I told her we needed to hurry and that she HAD to pick a pant outfit PRONTO.  To her disgust AND with tears in he eyes, she replied, "Well you CAN'T come to my birthday!"  "ONLY Daddy can come!"   Might I add....her birthday isn't until November! ha ha   My reply, "Well little girls who talk to their mommy's like that WON'T be having a birthday!  :)

Ahhh...why can't spring/warm weather just get here so my mornings of trying to get her dressed will be smooth sailing? 

Also...I have started a business blog on my photography website!  I am going to try to keep my personal and business blogs separate.  We will see how it works! :)  So for now, if you want to see any sneak peek pictures of clients go to my website Heather Munson Photography and click on the blog link!

Precious Kolby

This has been the week for newborns! Meet Kolby!  This little man is a little over two weeks old but he decided to scare his mommy and daddy and come into this world 6 weeks early! :)  He is a cousin with sweet baby Meka pictured below.  Moms are sisters...how cool is that?  These little ones will have LOTS of memories growing up together.

These are two of my favorite pictues from this sesssion.  We caught him grinning a couple times.  So, so sweet!

I gave this picture a litle "vintage feel" to it...I LOVE IT..I LOVE his sweet expression!

Boy Have I Had Fun....The Last Two Days!

I have had the privledge of photographing a 3 day old newborn and my sweet Clara, who I have been taking pictures of since she was in the womb! ha ha....This little sweetness is 6 months old!

WARNING....WARNING....WARNING!!

PICTURE OVERLOAD!  :) 

Baby Meka...3 days old!

 

Here is the sweet and sassy Miss Clara at 6 months! :)