My Son's Birthday

Four years ago today, my son was born. Suddenly, he's four years old! Where did the time go. Yesterday he was a little baby. Today, he's a big boy and fun to be around. Here are some photos from Tuesday's celebration.


Cupcakes ready for his class at Kindercare. In the fall, he's going to be moving into the 4 year old room.


After eating a blue cupcake. Blue is his favorite color because Thomas the Tank Engine is blue.


Here's his cake. Same cake as last year. He knew it but was thrilled to have a Thomas cake anyway!


Baloo just doesn't care!

Catching Up

As some of you folks are aware, I fell way behind. No matter how hard I worked, I just could not seem to catch up. I finally decided to farm all of the kids out and devote a full work week to catching up. As my previous post mentioned I've finally had some time to breathe.

I realize that since I did not have a chance to blog while I was catching up (and honestly I didn't think I should be blogging when there was tons of work to do), there are several recent events and photo sessions which I did not have a chance to feature. So here are some photos from recent events.

From Brad and Catherine's Reception. Brad and Catherine had a destination wedding with a small local reception at Pheasant Run. It was a nice intimate affair with just close friends and family celebrating with them.



Next was Brad and Kristin's wedding. We had a great day. It was absolutely beautiful. Kristin wanted some unique photos so we went to the Schaumburg sculpture garden. Here is a composite image I created just for them!



A great big welcome to Brady. The proud parents are Kevin and Kelly!


Another great wedding day. This time it was Amy and Randy. I don't think I will ever forget the snack stop we made at all places, Home Depot!


But later on after Randy had his snack he did have time for a romantic moment.


Finally, we have Chrisie and Brian's wedding from a week or so ago. I guess I've been lucky in that I've had great weather and great clients this year.

Finally, a Moment to Breathe

Yes, I know it has been slightly over a month since my last update. It seemed like I could never get the time to update the blog. It was one thing after another. Either the kids, the house, Magical Moments, the dog or some other crisis. During all of the chaos, by the time I was at the end of the day, I was too tired to think about blogging or what to say. All I wanted was sleep! So please forgive me.

The house is coming along. Here is the transition of the basement family room/kitchen into my office and family room. I know that when this is completed it will be a huge improvement over what we had. Sheryl tell me it is like having a child. A pain while you are going through it but worth the joy in the end.