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John and I road-tripped it to Boulder, CO last week for a few days. We have good friends who live there and we love going to visit them in the summer. Boulder is such an amazing town and I grow to love it more each time I visit.

Before we left Omaha we stopped for coffee and donuts at HyVee (grocery store). I thought their slogan was so funny. Very modest and humble.

This visit was short and sweet and John and I spent a day on Pearl St. bumming around with our cameras. I've been teaching John how to use an SLR, so it was fun to see some of his shots (maybe I'll post some of his later).

P.S. I buzzed John's hair off before we left (at his request). I like it and think it makes his blue eyes pop. It's also really soft, like petting a chinchilla. Yes, I HAVE touched a chinchilla and they are ridiculously soft.

The night before leaving we went out for a romantic dinner at a great restaurant called Carelli's.

Thank you Brad, Teresa and little Kai for hosting us again!

Our friend James came to visit last week and we spent a day at the College World Series. Actually John and James went down there a few days in a row, but I joined them for two games.

It was a beautiful day but ver hot. In fact, at one point James remembered that he had a bag of almonds and chocolate in his pocket. But when he took it out it had turned into chocolate soup.

He still ate it.

I love this kid, reading the sports page at a live baseball game.

This sign was made by a Arkansas Razorbacks fan. Well, I thought it was funny.

We had fun!!

This was my second session with little Paityn. I photographed her as a newborn and now she's already 4 months old. Her family clearly loves her so much!

After all that work she took a quick nap. So sweet!

When she woke up she was refreshed and ready to laugh at her big brother's funny faces. I told him I should hire him as my assistant because he really knows how to make a baby smile : )

I'm super excited to be attending the Blogher conference for the first time this year. The Blogher conference brings together women who blog with two days of seminars, parties and networking. It'll be great to gain some information and meet some of my favorite bloggers. But what I am even more excited about is that all 10 Shutter Sisters will be together for the first time ever! I haven't met any of them (although I feel like I have), so I can't wait to connect with them. We have all worked hard (lead by the fabulous Tracey Clark) over the last year and a half to make ShutterSisters.com a place where women can come and share their love of photography. We welcome anyone, no matter their experience or equipment.

And Tracey has put together a killer Shutter Sisters suite at the Sheraton, complete with fabulous sponsors like Blurb, Aurora, HP and Lensbaby. It'll be a great place for our Shutter Sisters readers to hang out and connect. Everyone is welcome!

So in a few weeks I'll be making the trip to Chicago for Blogher followed up by some time with the friends I miss dearly. I can't believe my luck that Blogher decided to go to Chicago this year. It couldn't be more perfect.