graduation party. { frost on flower }

I'm playing catch up.

In early June I photographed my brother-in-law's high school graduation party.  We were supposed to arrive in time for a surprise graduation ceremony which I was also to photograph but, getting somewhere out of state on time when you have to wake our toddler up in the morning.. that's just not doable.  We tried and we drove quickly but we arrived for the start of the party and missed the ceremony.  So here are some favorite photos from the party:



Sister-in-law, Joy



Tyler's grandpa



Tyler's uncle manned the hot food



Tyler's aunt and cousin



Sister-in-law and cousins



My stepdad, Wally



My mom and my stepdad drove in from Illinois







The graduate, gracefully eating





As a photographer, I'm really blessed to be married to this super photogenic, always excited to have his photo taken, guy.



Father-in-law





Brother-in-law, Doug





















If it weren't for the clouds of millions of gnats outside this day would have been really great!  Overall it was great... but the gnats made it not really great.

Congratulations, Kyle.  :)

ups & downs.

Maybe this will be a new Tuesday thing.  My ups & downs.  I'll start with downs so we can end on a good note.

Downs:
* Our car is leaking transmission fluid.
* Tomorrow morning I need to call around, pick out a place to have the car taken, call a tow truck, and cross my fingers that it gets fixed.
* We potentially need to rent a car to get to Olive's baby shower that's in Iowa on Saturday.
* I don't like to talk about money. It makes me feel weird.
* Talking about money leads to other down thoughts such as: why did we buy this house? I wish I didn't have this house. Why is this house in Minneapolis? And so on.
* I found a barely used lens on craiglist that I really really want. But it's too expensive. Oh, there's that money thing again.
* Our pup sheds too much this time of year - it makes me want to cry, scream, and send her to a distant relative's home for approximately one month.
* I keep trying to make cookies but it keeps not happening.
* I've been really bad at reading blogs so far this week. And I'm behind on posting on my own.

Ups:
* We're not crazy about our car so maybe we could get a new one?
* Olive is having a baby shower on Saturday - or maybe a welcome Olive shower? What's it called after the baby has arrived?
* We might get to rent a car for the weekend.
* The weather is nice.
* I won a store credit to Along for the Ride @ etsy on Much Love Illy's blog today. At least my day started off lovely! I've decided to get some of these:


I'm really excited.

* Olive is cute.