I saw one!

I have not seen many Obama supporters out there driving around, good thing, my husband might rear-end them just to talk to them out of it.:) But, today we saw one and he was going in the exit side of mcdonald's. Exactly.

Other Blog

Hey everyone! I used to have a photo blog attached, but I took it off and redid it a little. Check it out if you like! I could have done so much more to it, but I had to keep it simple. Please let me know what you think. I did include a price list at the bottom, but for those of you who have already booked an appointment at my intro pricing... of course I will honor that!! You won't hear any more plugs from me about my photography business. It really annoys me when people do that and I am sure you feel the same. Plug over. Really, I am done. What are you still doing here?Go check out my other blog at www.mandysmithphotos.blogspot.com

Photo shoot

This is a wonderful couple... you can tell by their pics how in love they are. Here is a sneak peek at some of their pictures. Now I have to go finish the rest so I can get them their CD!

ramblings...

Hey peeps! Can it really be almost 20 days since I have posted? Where has the time gone? I have been super busy...like I am sure you all have been as well. Let's see... homeschool, soccer, taking care of babies:), loving my husband:) and photography have been about all I can handle! I love life these days!

Soccer is OVER! it was a blast, but I am always glad for a break at the end of any sport season. Jackson and Kellen had so much fun. Homeschool is going well, we are having fun and learning so much. Babies and husband are doing great! Photography is REALLY fun and I am surprised at how it is taking off.

I have talked about and dreamed of becoming a photographer for years. It all started when I got my hands on a friend's SLR. I love being able to manipulate my settings until an image looks like I want it to. I love seeing the beauty with my own eyes and being able to recreate it with my camera.

I have been doing a few photo sessions.. I will post some pics soon. I hardly have time to edit lately. I could spend hours on it, but there are so many other important things to do:) I am shooting a wedding with a great friend of mine in a few weeks. I am so excited. I hope I do a great job. Thanks to everyone who have booked photo sessions with me! I look forward to getting your pictures to you soon. I hope everyone is doing well! I wish we all had time to sit down and have a cup of coffee one on one. I would love to hear about your life, so I will be blog hopping later ( the older 3 are at my mom's today!)

I am shooting on MANUAL!

A year ago, I didn't know what manual was. I got my camera and discovered that there are ways to adjust settings and make this baby take some cool pictures. But, as I tried... and tried and tried... I could not make it click in my brain! I would try to shoot on manual (versus automatic which chooses the settings for you) and the pictures looked BAD! So, I shot on the automatic settings while I put photography on the back burner. Auto was just fine when i could barely waddle over to get the camera and snap a few of my boys. ANYWAY... I shot at a wedding this Saturday and of all places it started making sense and I shot almost the whole time on manual. I am so excited. I am looking forward to doing more weddings in the future. I love photography... almost as much as painting, maybe more, because you get (almost) instant results. And I get to (hopefully) bless people with beautiful pictures of their families! I will post a few more another time. I have got to go to bed! BTW...Did anyone watch the office? We cut off cable.... thanks again Dave Ramsey! I love it!

Just a few pics..
1. I love green.., I have always loved green, but lately I have been craving green. I do that for some reason. I go through seasons were I crave certain colors. I once craved orange through an entire pregnancy. Good thing it was an color that can be eaten a alot! (orange sherbet, oranges, orange peanuts, etc) So... Green is my new color. Go Green!
2. This is my niece and her sweet hubby. Aren't they cute! They will be married for 1 year in November. (Those are my babies!) Can you tell by the look on her face that they will have some of their own soon???
3. Sweet feet.. One reason, I think, that God made it so babies can't walk yet is so we can stare at the bottom of their feet. NOTE: My 6 year old still wants to name them Rick and Bubba. Uhh.... NO!
4. The best pic for last... My sweet and wonderful mother. She has ALWAYS been there for me and she does get frustrated with me.. but she LOVES me and my family! And I am so thankful for that...

ever yell in public?

I cringe when I hear people yelling at their spouse or even worse their children in public. I am sure you have witnessed this. It always seems to happen to me at Walmart.  I always feel so bad for them. Don't you agree that is a really awkward moment for everyone?  Or. maybe the people are so used to yelling that they don't even notice it. The other day at soccer, i was up the hill at the car changing the twins' diapers. For about 5 minutes this lady was letting her kids have it. Her son was 4 or 5 years old and he didn't bring his ball to practice...YOU FORGOT YOUR BALL! WE ARE SO LATE NOW! HURRY UP! GET OUT OF THE CAR!  I mean, it just went on and on (kind of like this post!) Then, the kid started crying (ya think?) and she actually says...WHY ARE YOU CRYING? DON'T YOU WANT TO PLAY SOCCER? WE WILL NOT SIGN YOU UP AGAIN EVER IF THIS IS HOW YOU ACT! Can you believe that the kids didn't want to go play? I think I would have nightmares about soccer if I were him.

Now, here is the funny (sort of) part of this post. Just so you don't think I am judgemental or mental)... we were at our SOCCER game Saturday morning. Now, we got there at 8:45 (after a shower, a quick clean-up after breakfast, a trip to target, and leaving my half-finished coffee in the van (AGAIN!) we were in the middle of the game,with no chair, because we forgot it (AGAIN).  Jason is one of the coaches. He is helping coach the kids, I have a baby taking a bottle in one arm, holding another bottle for the other baby in the stroller, my four year old is tugging at me and going through the bag because he is bored and thirsty. My 2 year old things I am a goalie and the fence behind me is the net. He keeps booting the ball HARD at my feet... i am kicking it back. I guess for the 2 seconds that I looked down at the baby in the stroller... my 2 year old decided that now is his chance to make it big in soccer and storms the field with his little ball. WITH 6 and 7 YEAR OLDS!    He was almost right in the middle of the game.

Here comes the yelling. Jason, my sweet loving husband, gives me a look that says to me... you crazy person... what are you doing??? He runs out, gets our little one, and YELLS at me... MANDY>>> WHAT ARE YOU DOING?????    He actually has to ask that? Well, instead of the gentle, kind words that were supposed to come out... I YELLED back... HEY<>

It doesn't sound that bad, but it was ugglllyyy. 

Now, those of you who know my husband, know that he probably didn't notice or care. I mean, he had been in the middle of yelling and cheering the kids on anyway. But, I felt awful. I wanted to cry! I was so embarrassed and mad at myself  (and him) . Needless to say, this is how the rest of the game went for the little soccer star...

we are good now...of course it never came up and I forgot about it until I just downloaded this picture. HA! look at his cute little soccer ball!