This, that and tomatoes

Phew - I'm back!

It has been a bit busy around here. I really admire bloggers who are able to blog daily while still having a job and still being a mom. I just can't do it! And I really don't have a job - just a very part time one with my budding photography business. (Which is still amazingly fun!!! I can't believe how lucky I have been!)

Last week was a great week, photography-wise. I had two amazing shoots - one senior and my first newborn!

The senior was very nice, very photogenic and had a great location picked out. I am working my way through his photos and hope to finish in the next couple days. I have a sneak peak of his session HERE.

The newborn, was, shall we say.....AMAZING! (I use that word a lot, don't I?) I was SO incredibly nervous and incredibly excited for my first newborn shoot. I have heard so many photographer's stories about how hard newborns are. I have heard them cry that they spent 4 hours and got 4 pictures! And, needless to say, pessimist that I am, I expected the worst.

But it was honestly the BEST. I felt like I could photograph this little 10 day old munchkin for hours and hours. I got a few more than 4 pictures....I got somewhere like 800! Of course, many of the photos were almost complete duplicates, and I will give the mom about 50 or so images.

It was so much fun and I just absolutely LOVE photographing newborns. And I almost felt like newborn photography is really my calling. But who knows....my next newborn shoot could be a disaster and I will end up in tears swearing I will never try that again. We'll see...... I haven't really gotten a lot of the newborn shots edited yet, but I posted one HERE.

Oh - the other reason for my busy-ness this week is that my husband and I actually went away, alone, overnight, for the first time since we had kids. So, that was about 8 years ago.

It was quite a scheduling act, getting help with Caroline and my other 2 kids, but we finally did it and we were off. We just went away to a little town about 2 hrs away. Nothing too exciting, but absolutely perfect.

We took walks around town. We shopped. We stopped for afternoon drinks and appetizers. We went out for a nice dinner. We played pool. We held hands. We talked and laughed. I almost felt like we were newlyweds, not 40-somethings celebrating 10 years. It was the best.

So now we move on to the second half of our cold, wet summer. And we hope that we can get a few more than THREE days in our pool. Of course, I am thinking the wet weather may have had something to do with this monstrosity....

That would be my tomato plants. I planted 5 plants, and spaced them 2 feet apart. And they are absolutely mammoth. I don't really know if it due to what I put in the soil - soil, peat moss, manure and a bit of Miracle Grow garden soil - or if it due to the wet weather. But I have more tomatoes that I think I will be able to handle.

And some of these tomatoes are MONSTERS!!!! Like this big boy -

It is hard to really tell how big this guy is, but my husband laughed and said it is as big as a softball. And he is right!

Oh - and my cherry tomatoes? I will probably be able to feed a small country with the amount of tomatoes on that one plant. CRAZY!!!!

Well, this is long enough, so I better wrap it up! Tomorrow is supposed to be HOT and in the upper 80's!! Can you believe that this is maybe our second hot day this entire summer????? Let's hope we can end this summer with a bit more summer-like weather!

Later!