Happy Weekend : Some Fun News!

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I am so, so excited to share some amazing news with you all! If you’ve been reading around here for a while, you will probably remember my Go Mighty project from earlier this year (click here to catch up if you have no idea what I’m talking about…). At the completion of that project, the company Olay was kind enough to make a donation to a charity of my choice, and I decided to donate the money to the Willow Domestic Violence Center in Lawrence, Kansas. The Willow Center was so excited about the project, and so thankful for the donation that will help numerous women and children trying to flee domestic violence situations and build new lives for themselves.

And now for some more good news (as if that wasn’t enough, ha!)…the Willow Center has just informed me that they will be having an art/gallery show in October to celebrate Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and they will be featuring the Motherhood Series in the show! I am so honored and feel so incredibly proud that the first art show featuring my photography will be for such a worthy cause.

I will certainly provide more details as the show gets closer, but this was too exciting not to share right away! Thank you to the Willow Center for such an amazing opportunity, and thanks again to all the mothers who participated in this project! Of course a huge thanks goes out to Go Mighty, for providing encouragement and support along the way, and to Olay for helping me do something so awesome!

Happy Weekend : Life Around Here

Sometimes pictures speak better than words…here’s what we’ve been up to these first few weeks of summer. Hope you have a great weekend full of sprinklers and popsicles!

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Trial run for our block party, making s'mores on our neighbor's driveway :) #ilovemystreet

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A magical picnic spot. It was damp and perfect. #nelsonatkins #kc

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Happy Weekend : Sneak Peek

I’m so excited it’s Friday. It’s been a fun, but full, week around here! Lucy started theater camp during the day, and along with my normal work schedule, I also had two photo shoots with some fun people. Tomorrow we have Lucy’s big performance debut as “The Narrator” in the fractured fairy tale “The Three Little Elephants,” and then we have zero plans for at least a week. I think we’ll be spending a lot of time at the pool! We’ll finally be finishing up Lucy’s redecorated room (which we’re completing with the assistance of The Land of Nod, yay!) too. Can’t wait to share the finished product with all of you!

Here a few sneak peeks from the shoots I did this week. Love these cute families!

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Kansas Prairie Wildflowers : Familiar Beauty

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During this past weekend at the farm, I decided to go for a little photo walk. After a few minutes, I found myself totally enamored by the wildflowers spotting the prairie. I know they’ve always been there, but for whatever reason, they called out to me this time. I inspected each and every one, all the little details making me smile with each click of the camera shutter. I took so many, I’m thinking of making a Blurb book of them and giving them away as holiday gifts. That’s on everyone’s list, right? A book of photos of flowers? Great.

Here are a few of my favorites. I hope they bring you a bit of joy and peace like they unexpectedly did for me. Just goes to show, sometimes you have to see something a thousand times before you appreciate it. There is so much beauty in the familiar, it can be easy to miss it. But then the wind blows another direction and you look down and at your feet is a beautiful sight, if you only take a minute to really see it.

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Happy Memorial Day!

The kids and I picked wildflowers for my uncle's grave. The Veterans Cemetery is a beautiful and somber place today. Thanks to all who serve. #memorialday

This is the grave of my sweet uncle who passed away a month and a half ago. We spent the weekend at the family farm, and yesterday Tate and I wandered the open fields picking flowers, which I left for my uncle today. It made me happy that he was so honored at the Kansas Veterans’ Cemetery and that I was able to be there. Thank you, Veterans’ and acting service people! You are amazing!

Here are a few other iPhone Instagram pics from our weekend. You can follow our fun on Instagram at @crazy_bananas!

Summer time!!! First trip to the neighborhood pool and she's graduated to the diving board!

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Grammy's peony bushes are in full bloom.

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Watering Grammy's garden in our PJs. #kansas #garden #water

Trent is pretending to be a hipster.

I am overly excited about this box of doughnuts from Varsity in Manhattan. Photo by Trent.

Home. #sky #kansas #horizon

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