Last weekend, John, CJ and I jumped in the car and headed to Indianapolis.  We headed down there pretty early on Saturday morning. We got inside around 10ish I’d like to say? Anyways, it was RAINING and qualifying and everything was delayed pretty much until late afternoon. By the time it did start, we were sitting down on the front stretch bleachers.  CJ made friends with the lady in front of us, she gave him her little notebook and a pen to color with.  He is only 16 months old and is already fly with the ladies. CJ loved when the cars would come around, he would jump around and scream with excitement.

Sunday was a GLORIOUS day! It was sunny, a breeze came through every so often…I did get sunburned on my face but it wasn’t too bad. CJ actually fell asleep half way through the race and slept till the end. I am not sure how he can sleep when 42 cars are roaring by him, but won’t nap at home when its quiet. It was fun, I didn’t get too many photos because we weren’t going  to take the telephoto lens with us since it is so heavy and we had a lot of other things to carry around.  I really need to get a point n shoot to take along for the family trips, would make it a lot easier and I’d probably take more pictures then. It was a fun weekend, were planning to go to Talladega in the fall, and maybe Michigan at the end of this month.

CJ gets his cast off on WEDNESDAY!!! I’m SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO excited!!

I can never get photos of CJ, he either turns his head and runs the other direction or if he is stuck like in his stroller….gives me this face. I call it the “mom, get the camera out of my face” look.

I will have zoo pictures, wedding pictures and more photos of CJ coming this week!

When your brides and grooms do something like this between their ceremony and reception you KNOW you have awesome clients!

More to come from Karen and Brian sooooon!! :)

Last week, Tuesday actually, CJ decided that it would be fun to try and jump out of his highchair for no real apparent reason. Of course - you can jump off of something 500 times and not get hurt, it just takes that one time of landing differently and you’ve hurt yourself. He ended up breaking both little bones in his right arm and he is in a cast until the beginning of August.  :( It probably affects mommy more then CJ though, he doesn’t act any different and hes still his usual crazy, hyperactive self.  He even uses it to his advantage, if you tell him no, he’ll knock you with his cast and believe me…that HURTS!  I guess he is just going through that dare devilish age of climbing, jumping, and learning how far he can go before he hurts himself. I hope it passes soon as it seriously freaks me out!

Don’t mind the sposie in the following pic - he usually only wears them at night or sometimes during naps. He had just woken up from his nap. :)

See, I did change him into cloth! :) This is one of his XL StickyPea Fitteds….so soft and so cute!

I LOVE this photo. It describes our family so well if you know us!

I better go finish dinner now and pick up a little.

Coming soon photos from Jeremy and Sharon’s wedding at the Old Bag Factory in Goshen Indiana!

I hope everyone has a great 4th of July weekend!! I am shooting Karen and Brian’s fabulous wedding this weekend right in my hometown of North Webster complete with a ride on the Dixie Boat. How cool is that? Stay safe everyone!!

For the past 12 days I’ve been without the internet, a storm decided to roll in and somehow lightning stuck our telephone line and fried our DSL modem. Of course, when it rains it poors and Embarq (our DSL provider) couldn’t even send us out a new box because they were on backorder.

So, no internet meant a HALT was put on my new computer search, blogging, emailing, all of that fun stuff.

FAST FORWARD

Today ended up being a good day, I ordered my computer parts last week and Monday I took them over to one of my brothers friends to get it put together…I picked it up today so now I have absolutely NO MORE COMPUTER PROBLEMS!!! I can edit photos like a breeze and it is such a beautiful thing.  No more running out of HD space, or Photoshop seriously taking ten minutes to do ONE simple thing. I am so relieved and excited. But, it gets better! We came home and checked the mail and UPS was here yesterday I guess…(we were in Chicago picking my sister up from the airport) telling us we needed to go pick up a package…and that could only be ONE THING - - DSL MODEM! Hallelujah!

So yes, computer and internet back in the same day…how awesome is that?

I will have a lot to write about in the next few days, including blogging a fabulous wedding from the 13th.

It is now bedtime, goodnight everyone!! :)

Carrie