Roaming through September

Holy moly, October starts tomorrow! I've been a huge posting slacker but here is a pretty quick glance at all the fun that was packed into September...
Starting with Angi and Scott...I took their family photos today and in between shots I caught mama and boy snuggling up. I told you people I'm a sucker for cute kid shots.


We had a Saturday morning visit to a little place in Auburn where kids can run through the corn maze, play in the corn, feed the animals and have all sorts of outside fun. Carter did not go from the corn vat quietly.


There were a couple trips up north...Jenny introduced Ethan to the joys of fishing. We picked the one freezing weekend in September to head north but it wasn't too bad.


There is a playground near the beach up there and I have these same pictures of me when I was little on this same swing. I'll have to see if I can dig them out to post here and give you some chuckles.


I love it when the lake is like glass.


My grandfather took Jenny and Jeff fishing...and Carter was none too impressed with the catch.


Ah, a man of many faces...I got these all in about three minutes. I like the one in the middle left: "you talkin' to me?!"


I. love. corn.


We took great pleasure in running the energy out of the boys by taking walks around the lake. When they'd get unruly you can always count on ChaCha to start a rousing rendition of "the ants go marching"...and so it happened that I turned around and found Carter indeed "marching".


We were going to do an experiment to change this lovely flower to another shade of color...but the discovery of a squished snake in the road broke it in two. Oh well.


This is why I love fall.

And so it begins...

There are more posts to come but I'm still finishing up a wedding disc so this is all you get for now. This was one of the first leaves I found that fell in spectacular fall colors. This was taken on a dock near the cottage as the sun was coming up. Wehaa! Fall is here!

Wedding preview!!

I was told that I wouldn't be able to set foot inside of work on Tuesday if I didn't have some pictures of Kim's wedding posted. So here are some quick ones that I just shuffled through. Without further adieu...Kim and Don, Sept 1, 2007...




The wedding thugs...(and yes, photographer friends...I know exactly what's wrong with this picture but I couldn't resist a good bride/groom thug picture.)



Great weather, great place, great everything!



Kim and Frank-O-Rama. Frankie (he's almost four) instructed me to stop taking so many pictures on several occasions throughout the night.



The table setting was gorgeous - everyone had an individual cake (believe it or not those blue boxes are actually cakes)...and it was yuuuuummy.



You'll notice the groom is not in this frame...the look should speak for itself and why he needed a quick departure.

Lunar eclipse....sort of

Had I not owned the worlds crappiest tripod that won't support "the big lens" I probably could have done better. By the time the moon would have been in my frame, the clouds came. DOH! I'm off to the tripod store....

Up north.

It's a sad thing when the second time you can get "up north" during a whole summer is August 25th. Jenny, the boys and I had a good time just chillin at the cabin. Late Saturday evening the moon was spectacular over the lake. I wasn't quick enough to get to the camera for the big moon with the sunset colors...the moon was very bright making it look like rather light out.



The boys banging out a tune on Nana Sue's piano. The racket tends to cut through the relaxing up north silence but hey, they're cute so who could argue?



A completely unprompted big brother hand holding event during our walk around the lake.



Old Carter got up on the bench all by himself...the daredevil in him is still alive and kicking eventhough the day before he had a spectacular crash backwards that landed him with chin cut that left us pondering the need for stitches. The good thing about having a close knit up-north community is that frequently you can always rustle up a doctor for a vacation consult. No stiches needed. :)



What summer is supposed to be about...a walk around the like with a cute boy.

Game Night

We needed some adult boozing after a long day at Thomas and some friends from North Carolina came up so we threw together a party evening. You know you've had a good time when you've laughed so hard someone at the table utters the phrase "i think i might have peed a little". Just ask DDrae to show you how to charade "Prez Bush" and you might end up on the floor crying too. Most of these photos are out of focus because I was laughing too dang hard to keep it still. Kudos to Don for bringing the "Celebrity" game to the Rauscherts. I couldn't resist giggling just looking at the pictures...

This would be Stephanie...SEVEN MONTHS PREGNANT. So it's a huge congratulations to old Stephanie-Broke-A-Plate and her luva John who are bakin' up a little girl. And yes, there were murmurs of throwing things at this seven-months-pregnant-and-still-really-skinny-girl. :)



See the GW Bush reference above. I think the two pictures on the right reference GWB...it's been a long time since I laughed that hard.



Misty and KimZ plotting their strategy...



That's KimZ thinking they'd better get back to plotting more strategy....



Believe it or not this was a reference to being dead. C'mon didn't you get it?



Go Don go!



Jeff at his charading best...



Sorry boys, she's taken. (haha! Misty -that's for putting scary pictures on your blog!) :)

There's two, there's four, there's six....

Exactly when I traded a Day Out with Thomas the Tank Engine instead of a sloppy day of canoeing the rifle river, I'll never know. Last Friday we headed off for a day out with Thomas and the theme song is STILL running through my brain. If you want to hear it, just ask and I can belt you out a rousing verse of it. :) Here are some shots from the day (they should give the adults "shots" on the way in). haha!



Ethan waving to the crowd as Thomas gave us a ride through the countryside.


Wanna see my tat?


I've never in my life been on a carousel...this one went about 50 MPH and I realized when you look through the peephole of a camera while going 50 MPH in a circle...it kind of makes you want to barf. Carter hung on so tight I'm pretty sure he left fingerprints in the metal.


Bye Thomas!