VLV Photography

Where is this summer going? I think I’m going to open every post with this line because I just simply don’t know how our summers seem to be feeling shorter. Every time Sunday rolls around I think to myself…”another week passed already?” Anyway, what can we do but enjoy it while it lasts?

I’m thinking we’re going to have to start planning for our 3rd Annual Halloween Party! I’m sure the stores will keep reminding me October is fast-approaching. I already saw fall decor items being put out recently in Kohl’s. I’ll realize soon enough how fast the years will pass even more once my oldest starts kindergarten this fall too. *sigh*

Toy Story 3 is playing at the drive-in movie theatre {The Pheasant Drive-In} in Mobridge, SD for the next two weeks. We plan to take the kids and I will have to bring my camera this time to document it. I haven’t done that yet and I know I want pictures for my kids to look at years from now and be reminded of the fun that place offered us as a family. It’s far less expensive than going to the theatres and wayyyy more fun! Every kid should experience it at least once! Drive-In’s have become very difficult to find through the years. I hope this one remains open for many, many more years. My husband and I said if we would ever win the lottery that is one thing we would love to do!

Sunday evening we had our t-ball potluck. A lot of good food and afterwards the adults and some of the older kids played softball. I hadn’t played since I was in school and yeah….my legs feel heavy. I’m reminded of how out of shape I am! I was never much into athletics {more of the drama/speech, arts kinda girl} but I surprised myself with a couple catches and even an out and made it around the bases a couple times So what I was always picked last for everything in school…as an adult it’s about having fun. And I had a lot of fun!

Today my kiddos start swimming lessons. They’ll go everyday for two weeks {with the exception of Fridays}. Our Alexandra is quite the little fish but we’ll see how Xavier does. He’s more cautious and gets scared he’s going to drown. He did fine with a life jacket the last time to went to the lake though so maybe a couple lessons will help boost his water confidence. If I tell him it’s good exercise he may be more likely want to stick with it. He’s on this kick lately about asking at mealtime if the food he’s eating is healthy or not, and if the activity he’s doing at the time is good exercise. Not sure where he gets that from but I’m glad he’s conscious of those things.

My hubby is quite disappointed as the big headliner this past week was Lebron James {formerly with the Cleveland Cavaliers} making the move to join the Miami Heat. He was hoping for Chicago and I was too. I guess we’ll see what this NBA season brings. My husband could watch ESPN 24/7 & with this whole Lebron soap opera it’s been on quite a bit.  The only sports I will watch with him are football and I’m more likely to start watching more basketball after March Maddness when it gets closer to the end and more interesting…determining whose going to make it to the playoffs & finals. The season is just too darn long for me to follow the whole time. I find baseball rather boring to watch on tv….in person might be different. But anyway…Lebron has gotten some backlash for his decision and understandably to some degree; however, he had the free will to decide for himself and no one can blame him for choosing what he thought was best for himself…and he took a $3 million paycut I believe doing so. So nobody can say it’s about the money…he just wants to win…and 7 years with no championship ring….again, who can blame him?

I was going to throw in a recipe today for some strawberry pretzel squares I made but this post has gotten long the way it is so I think I’ll close for today. Instead I’ll post a couple images of my packaging. When you choose VLV Photography for your portrait session, I want it to feel like Christmas when you get your prints. It’s taken me the past 3 months to get to this point with packaging….a lot of researching, a lot of trial and error but I like how everything came together. I still have a few ideas that may bring some changes to the look of my packaging and some tweaking here and there but overall, I’m happy with how it turned out. I do have some images ready to post of my products and I think I’ll just have to post everything on one page under my “Products” link. I was hoping to get a fly-out menu with the different products so you don’t have to search through everything if all you want to see are the different birth announcements I offer but the technical side of that has been a challenge. Anyway, here is my packaging…yay!

Until next time…Live, Laugh, & Love the one you’re with {even if they have a secret love affair with ESPN}