Fireflies Art

art hop!

Last night was the Kalamazoo Art Hop that I participated in!

I was lucky enough to have my photography showing at Honore Salon.

These aren't the best pictures...but I just had my point and shoot camera with me and the lighting wasn't the best for taking pictures. :)

It was a really great experience!

I sold a few things...but really the highlight was just hearing positive feedback about my work.

I am also really grateful to each of my friends who came out to support me!

And a HUGE thanks to Bree for helping me out with the kiddos.

And a realllllly big thank you to Kristin for helping me get this all set up.

I'm planning to find a place in Allegan to show my work for the December Art hop!

Now here are lots of pictures from last night...

memorial day weekend...

after we stopped in grand rapids to pick up the rest of the prints i need for the art hop we headed to aunt jennie's house!

she has some gorgeous flowers and plants!

after we left jennie's we headed up to the farm! the kids and i had a great weekend with family...we were bummed that jim had to work! the kids got in tons of swimming time, bounce house time and so much sunshine!

sage and buddy are equally afraid of storms!

sage caught some blue gill and a catfish!

we even did a little parade in front of aunt mary kays house this year!

the kids loved that.

and here is the biggest bull frog sage has ever caught!

it was a wonderful, wonderful weekend.

 

 

school talent show!

sage waiting for her turn to perform!

this past friday sage was in the school talent show...

she was SO nervous, but still did great!

i was so proud of her for getting up there!!

i NEVER would have done that when i was a kid!

she did her hula hooping to the song Firework by Katy Perry.

it was ADORABLE because tons of kids starting to sing along and the made her smile so big. so so cute.

our preschool days are over...

here's emerson sliding into kindergarten!

and hugging on his incredible teachers.

and taking a bow.

he's bummed that preschool is over...

but as soon as he got in the car after graduation he said...

"you know i'm a kindergartner now mom"

he's a smarty pants...i think he'll do great next year!

and i can't believe that starting this fall both of my kids will be in school ALL DAY!

good thing i'm starting back at school again so i'll have something to keep me busy.

my 3 favorite people.

mothers day.

the "flowers" the kids picked me from our yard.

i love that emerson loves to write now and doesn't want any help.

it says, "I love you to the sun and stars and moon and back"

mom i love you. happy mother's day.

seriously cuteness.

sage's message for me on the chalkboard this morning...

her cursive is better than mine.

a beautiful peacock sage drew me.

a current list of family members.

dad, mom, emerson, barley, lonney, buddy and sage.

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i had a wonderful day! jim was disappointed because he had planned on taking us out to breakfast this morning...but the kids were quite excited to pour me a bowl of cereal and i was happy with that! the kids had made me cards and little gifts from school. i love how excited they were about it all! emerson couldn't stop talking about it last night! so grateful i get to be their mom. i think they are pretty awesome.

and a shout out to my own wonderful mom and my wonderful mother in law as well!

happy mother's day to all of the beautiful women in my life!

p.s. i finally got a nike + and i cannot wait to try it out tomorrow!

happy.

we are all mostly happy over here.

and that feels good.

i am beyond thrilled to say that my hip is healing up wonderfully!

i started walking a couple weeks ago and today i walked

THREE MILES.

(actually 3.3 miles in 60 minutes)

seriously so happy about that.

it's been just 3 months and 8 days since my crazy hip surgery.

night time is still a challenge for me because my hip gets realllly achey.

but overall i'm really happy about my progress!

the kids are both doing great in school.

although this little girl of mine has been getting sick WAY too often.

i can't believe the school year is almost over!

here's to more progress + sunshine + happiness!

 

meet buddy.

buddy is an 8 year old boston terrier.

who is very well behaved + loves kissing the kids faces.

buddy belonged to my dear friend lisa's dad joe...

and joe passed away this week at the age of 91. 

so buddy needed someone new to love him.

and we are happy to have him here!

Fireflies Photography: I'm ready!

So here's the deal. I'm SO ready to be back at doing photo shoots.

I posted this on my FB fan page but thought I'd post here too since I know more people read this. :)

The first person to book a session will get $50 off their session fee, the second person will get $30 off and the third person will get $20 off! Pass along my info if you know anyone who might be interested! Pictures can be taken any time from now through the middle of August. (I'm still unsure if/when my other hip will be getting operated on)

Come on people! I'm ready to take some pictures!

cows and baby cows.

we got to go over to my friend lisa's house this evening to get a peek at their 2 latest additions!

the baby cows are soooooo cute!

and the big ones are pretty cute too.

the kids loved getting to feed them some hay!

and this momma is due any day now.

thanks sooooo much lisa!

note: this is where we get our beef from now...

it's really good and i love that we know where it comes from!