Today was dark, rainy and windy. One of those days that left me feeling a little down. But at about 4:30, the clouds started to clear and the sun made an appearance. It was so beautiful and the perfect end to a dreary day.

Believe it or not, I did not photoshop these in any way. They are straight out of the camera.

Things I did this weekend:

walked around Dundee with John on Friday evening

ate many homemade chocolate chip cookies made by John

two fun family photo sessions on Saturday

watched the Huskers at friends house on Saturday night, ate pizza, drank beer

went to the music store with John on Sunday so he could pick out his guitar (birthday gift from family members and me).

watched the Bears almost win the game last night

Things I see around me right now:

baby hats

coffee mugs

colorful felt

the Martha Stewart Show

Things I am feeling right now:

scatter-brained

creative

procrastinatorial (made that word up)

hopeful

hopeless

Things I am wanting right now:

plain colored, cotton, long sleeved t-shirts

cardigan sweaters

a new computer

a new car

green bean casserole

sunshine

Things I want to do right now, but can't:

go to Italy

take pictures for fun

paint

shop

How about you? Pick a category (or more) and leave your list in the comments. I need some company : )

I'm a little behind on blogging! This tends to be a busy time of year in the world of family photography so I've been working hard to stay on top of it. But I wanted to post some photos from our visit from our good friends Mitch, Kathleen and baby Henry. It was fun to have a them here and to have such a sweet, happy baby to play with all weekend!

John and Henry jam out and sing some songs.

Henry has the longest eyelashes I've ever seen on a baby! Beautiful.

All of us!

Henry plays on the floor and gets fed grapes by dad. What a life!

How gorgeous is this little girl?! And she's got great tast in clothes too :)

Wow. And her family is beautiful too.

It was great to see you again Paityn and fam!

I'm still working on editing this session, but really wanted to get a sneak peek up for Carmen while she waits! I'm so excited about these photos because we did a more "urban" shoot at her request. It's fun for me to shake things up a bit, so I was thrilled to do a session in a unique location like this small town's downtown.

Ok I have to show you something cool. I took a look at this shot...

and it instantly reminded me of one I took of them when baby Tyson was a newborn:

Check out the side by side comparison.

It's kind of freaking me out how similar they are! The colors and positions are exactly the same!!

Ok moving on...

I hope everyone had a great Halloween! John and I laid low, carved pumpkins and ate handed out candy. This was one of the only years I can remember that I didn't dress up in a costume. But there's always next year! I better start planning now.