surprise outside our front door.

This is what we found outside our house a couple of weeks ago.




Yeah, a rattlesnake!

Portland visit.

In August, Andrew and I spent about a week up in Portland. We had such a great time..as always!

Here is my beautiful sister and mother. We went to go play mini golf!







One of my goals right now is to become a better photographer. I want to learn my camera more and all of its buttons and also just want to take pictures more. Pictures capture SO MUCH in life and I love it. I want to share this journey with you, so we'll see how it goes.

To come...my recent projects.

I am long overdue blogging and really want to get better at this whole blogging thing. Unfortunately, our internet at camp is awful! I have tried and tried to upload pictures. Without pics, it's hard for me to blog..sometimes! So, here I am at a coffee shop this very hot morning. (I've probably lost all my readers...)

Let's go back to August...when my friends Jackie and Brant and their 1 year old, Maddie visited our house! We had so much fun!

Maddie in her mom's hat! She is such a cutie!

Jackie and Brant went on the Flying Squirrel. As they flew by Maddie and I, Maddie thought her parents were leaving her forever and was totally confused on what was going on! :)




We went to the pool and had soo much fun playing in the water! I just can't get over how CUTE Maddie is.
[I am not very good at this whole posting picture thing..one of these days..ha!]

GROUP SHOT!! The Himes finally came to see Camp Hammer and where we live. Now, I suppose it is our turn to go check out Pasadena...we love you guys!