295 Me and Nature. We Don't Really Get Along...

We had dinner tonight with some friends. As per usual with the army, just a day after seeing a family reunited early, this family got the surprise "you're deploying in 2 weeks" notice just a few days ago. Such is life...but I digress...

We were enjoying a lovely meal outside when I looked down at my phone to find this:

I had to use the LT's phone for this screen shot

Gross!!!

On the plus side... I am thankful it was my phone and not my head...or my food!!

294 This is What It's All About

I did a photo sesh a few months ago with a friend who had a baby while her husband was in Afghanistan. He was able to "attend" the birth via Skype, but obviously, that is not the same as actually meeting your baby.

She texted me two days ago and said she just found out he would be coming home early and asked if I would come along to take pictures.

Um. Of course!!!

What a beautiful experience it was!!

It wasn't like you see on TV where there are 400 soldiers looking for their loved ones, there were only a handful of soldiers who came back and so they had this intimate moment in the parking lot.

I suppose I don't really need to say anything more. I'll just let the picture speak for itself.

293 Green Surprise

I was sweeping out some dead leaves from our driveway and a bright green tiny thing came flying out! Upon closer examination, I realized it was an itty bitty frog! It's hard to judge the size by this photo, and the thing was so darn fast I couldn't get a great shot, but this is in concrete, and those pebbles in the concrete are pretty tiny! 

This was the cutest critter that I could have been surprised by while sweeping leaves. (Other things found - black widows, roaches, giant brown spiders, worms...)

292 Doughboy

I was out doing a photo session with a family this evening and we ended up at Doughboy Stadium. I realized that there are some pretty gorgeous buildings here at Benning, and we only have a few more weeks here (yay!) so I thought I'd try to capture some of it's beauty. (not our house of course)

291 Landforms

Bean and I have been studying the earth and the different landforms all around. Today we made a relief map out of salt dough with various major forms. Her favorite to make was the volcano.

We are really excited to paint it. I wonder how long it will take to dry...?

290 Abracadabra!

We went to the library today and Bean found some books on magic tricks. She found a princess wand and a scarf for a costume, but was saddened to learn we do not have a top lying around.

The clever girl substituted a bucket for the hat and pranced around the house making things disappear.

289 Sunset Dining

We drove out to Auburn tonight in the hopes of procuring 2 chairs to use as photography props. The seller hadn't gotten back to me, but we drove out there anyway, in the hopes that he would so that I could have them for a session tomorrow.

Unfortunately, no word back.

We consoled ourselves with dinner at Chipotle.

It was well worth the drive.

Chipotle is across the street from the engineering building at Auburn. This is the gorgeous view!