another friday on the go

time for maddux' 9-month pictures, so of course he and mason have runny noses and red rimmed eyes...erg. i like to get there early enough to nurse maddux (for maximum happiness) and get the boys dressed (why risk any drool or other mess).  unfortunately, this jcp doesn't open as early (for photos) as the one in wisconsin.  oh well.  i nursed maddux in the car while we waited.

we were the first ones in the photo studio.  they asked if i was "amy".  i said, no, i was michelle and we were early.  oh, okay, here you are - it will be just a few minutes.  then the photographer spoke with me about backgrounds, etc. and told us to come on back.

NOTE - i have been writing the post for three days now (because i can only seem to get 5 or 10 mintues) and i finally went to post it - only to loose the whole thing when i tried to post it!  ugh!  i am not going to bother rewriting this because the main point was the pictures, so here is the short version...

it wasn't really our turn at jcp and the family whose appointment it was first were late and complain-y so i told the photographer that we would step out and let them go first.  jcp's computer system was down and we were there for about 3 hours.  since the kids were perfect (other than all looking at the camera and smiling together) i took them to the zoo after lunch.

 

 

we went to the zoo and i only took this one picture of maddux.  we had a really great time on a beautiful day!

after getting cleaned up we went to a 'closed to the public' dinner for the parade of homes and enjoyed a nice (free) meal and got some cute sister/brother pictures during the speeches about the builders.

my original draft was much more entertaining than this version, but the points are the same.  love.