Off to Paradise
Not much more to say. Will return soon. Most likely won’t be checking email. But will be answering my phone… sometimes.
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Terrarium
India was invited to a birthday party for a boy. What to make him came up in conversation. I wasn’t quite sure, but I thought a terrarium might work. Just so long as we didn’t mention putting an animal inside this tank, for the parents’ sake.
I must say this gift was the largest and heaviest at the party. Have you ever given the largest present. It is sort of a strange feeling. Almost like we were trumping the grandparents… which I hope we didn’t. I think their gifts came on his actual birthday.
Once he pulled off the wrapping all the kids crowded around it. They ooooo-d and ahhhh-d (i’m making up how that is spelled. It’s allowed, I read it in a bookmaking book… for kids. hmmmm) for quite awhile.
Then India dropped the bomb. She let him know that he could put a fish in there. I had to remind her that we weren’t going to bring up that idea.
Whenever we give a homemade gift I always wonder if it is played with. I wonder if he will dig through this dirt like he does in his backyard. Maybe in the winter months. Who knows.
India’s filling it up with little dinosaurs and we hung a fly, butterfly and dragonfly from the ceiling of the tank. Yes, that is a real tree… hopefully it lives long enough. We also put in a little Hot Wheels car. If only to give him an idea of what to do with this mammoth of a gift.
I felt like this gift needed to come with instructions. I hope it is faring well and that it will have a long a prosperous life.
After the Rain
It rained for 3 days in a row. A strange time of the year to have that much rain, but I’ll take it as it comes. Our garden and grass needed the cool weather and moisture badly. After the rain the days were crisp and felt like Fall (today we’re back to 93 degrees). Monday was the perfect day to photograph and I had two willing subjects who were a lot of fun to get to know. Here’s “A Man and his Dog”:
Afternoon Shoot
My friend Heather and I decided we should shoot together at least once a month. July was her pick of location. This awesome mural wall on Colfax is what she chose. Lots of fun for her Transformer loving boy.
Stay tuned for future installments…
Then on the swing afterward while the sun was setting.
The party to end all parties
How could you beat the rock n’ roll birthday party? What will you do next year?
The kids dressed up, played rock band for awhile, had a watermelon spitting contest (which I won, hehe), were handed golden cd awards, and even had a cd cover photoshoot a la Stacie. Here are the results.
I’ll try to name who I can:
Here’s the birthday boy; AKA Tommy Lee
Guns N’ Roses? No… Lars from Metalica
Ozzie
Singer from “Green Day”
Hannah Montana
The girl from “Camp Rock”
Dude from “Foo Fighters”
Gene Simmons
