Teresa Collins Photography

Me and Ryan in the ball. Still feel like we are digging out from Christmas….

What rain? We had a great Halloween! The transfer trailer of kids leaves from our driveway every year which gives me costumed kids to photograph before we leave. I had a blast. These are just a few….the Transformers belong to me. We are certain that in the original Transformer’s script, Optimus Prime had a pacifier…so Drew is perfectly within character to keep his. As you can see, T-Pain and the other rappers whose names escape me at the moment, stopped by and I was thrilled. I still say this would make a great babysitting poster for the girls.

I want to do Halloween again this weekend!

Every year we are fortunate to have some pretty great friends in our neighborhood who don’t find it the least bit stressful to have 100 or so of their friends, neighbors, strangers and whatnot, converge at their residences to celebrate the Red, White, and Blue. 

They go all out, from a fireworks show just for the kids (complete with Parachute Men!) to tons of decorations and goody bags for the little ones.  When it’s time for the show, you can grab a great seat on the lawn or in one of the many pontoon boats anchored behind the house.

I wasn’t sure if Ryan and Drew were going to make it to Party Time or not since their day had been spent shopping with us and then swimming….but we decided to chance it and head over.  As usual, the Wheats and Matthews outdid themselves and the show was great. 

Drew fell asleep right at the end, sitting next to the speaker that was the size of my Odyssey in the middle of  Sweet Home Alabama. 

Thanks again guys, we had a great time!

4th of July.  afternoon at the pool. 

We found these during our Easter Egg hunt out at my dad’s house on Sunday. We were very careful and didn’t touch them–they were nestled in one of the hanging ferns on the front porch. Drew would have been more than happy to put them in his Elmo Easter basket!

Happy New Year, originally uploaded by RW Keepsakes.

Happy New Year. Belated, I know.

Here are my boys on New Year’s Eve, enjoying the fireworks in our driveway. This photo was taken right before the glass vase blew up AND Russ caught the yard on fire.

We went inside after that.

So many exciting things planned for 2009. Santa delivered some new gear and I am really looking forward to testing it out next weekend when the super talented folks from ILP converge in my hometown for an outdoor session near the square.

I can’t wait!

As luck would have it, they are calling for SNOW next weekend.

Hopefully things will turn around by then and we will have a beautiful day to shoot instead.

Hope everyone had a great holiday.

Happy Weekend!