I had the pleasure of attending the Love Affair Workshop in Dallas this week put on by 4 fabulous photographers.  They devoted hours of time and energy into providing 60 woman an amazing experience.  I made some great new friends and am grateful for the opportunity to be a part of it all!

We had a day where we were given a couple of hours with a model to take them wherever we wanted and photograph them.  Sydney was our model and she was gorgeous, fun and I LOVED her look.  Here are some images I came up with from our time together.  Thank you Sydney for devoting your time and talent!

Thanks Kelly, Davina, Lauren and Millie for sharing your talents and giving so freely of yourselves!  And of course everyone behind the scenes who made the workshop run seamlessly.

This here is my perfect child.  He never does anything wrong.  He makes my heart sing.  Except sometimes.  Sometimes he can be a bit of a stinker.  Like when he’s decided that right now he wants, no he NEEDS to ride a tractor this very instant.  Only the tractor is 30 minutes away at Daddy’s work and Daddy needs to actually do some work that does not involve a tractor.  Times like those he’s not the perfect child.  Today, we went to Daddy’s work so he could ride on the tractors.  He even got to dig dirt.  He rode tractors for almost an hour and guess what?  He cried the whole way home because he wanted to ride on the tractor.  Any other time, he’s the perfect child.

And who could possibly resist these eyes!  He IS the perfect child!

My friend Debra invited our family to tour Berry Patch Farm up in Brighten with their home school group today.  I have SO much proofing that needs to be finished that I almost declined.  But then I remembered the feeling I had last year at the end of summer.  I was so disappointed that I had forgot my priorities and as the cold set in I was longing to have a warm sunny day to take my kids to the pool or the berry patch.  This year I vowed that I needed a healthy balance between my work and my family.  I vowed to work very hard, as always but also to play very hard and enjoy every minute I could of the ever too short, Colorado summer with my kids.  So, I said yes, we would come and I’m so glad I did.

Maiza turns 8 next week!

Julian enjoyed his strawberries right on the spot.

Debra’s sweet boys:

The fruit of our labor:

Okay, so Julian was way more labor than the actual picking of strawberries but my kids had a blast and my prayer is that they will remember mommy spending quality with them way more than they remember me in front of a laptop.

For those of you anxiously waiting for your images, tomorrow is my BIG WORK DAY and I’ll be catching up on a ton of proofing so thanks for hanging in there one more day!

Happy Thursday!