I Voted -- Did You?

Here's to hoping it counted ;D

As a reward (not really) when I went grocery shopping today, I bought a single serve slice of Death by Chocolate Cake. It was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!! The ensuing sugar rush may explain thethis post. Consider yourself warned :)

People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing. ~Walter H. Judd

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. ~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952

The future depends on what we do in the present. ~Mahatma Gandhi

How about a little funny for you. I watched part of Bambi with N's class today, and A) it is still an awesome movie that I haven't seen in far too long. And B) when the owl is explaining to Bambi, Thumper, and Flower about falling in love, he calls it 'Twitter-pated'!!!! Do you think that's where twitter got it's name? Oh and C) when Thumper falls for his lady? That's still magic over 20yrs later.

Okay one more. Here is a 4yr olds definition of a math equation: dirt + water = MUD! You can thank my darling N for that nugget of wisdom.

Now about that wedding... Yeah. Hats off to the Wedding Photographers out there! I've never been so stressed about pictures in my whole life. I didn't even care this much about MY wedding pictures. On the bright side, the bride and groom are both very cool people. So we had lots of fun. Case in point: The picture below was in line with our 'standard' shots. The rule was: serious first, well then there were no rules later lol.

Did You Miss Me?

Dear November,

Oh how I have missed you! Your falling leaves, pre- Christmas craziness, Thankful gathering, and my favorite parade! Not to mention all of your cool weather foods: sweet potato casserole, pumpkin muffins, hot cocoa, smores, soups galore, and of course 'the turkey'. Unfortunately your buddy October took the term 'overachiever' to the extreme, and I find myself terribly unprepared for all of your goodness. So as a dear old friend I ask that you hold your horses, and give me some time to get my groove back! :D Thanks in advance.

Yours Truly,

~K

....and what a month October was! Goodnight! I'm not sure I even had time to breathe. Well obviously I did, because you know, I'm still here ;D But seriously it was very much a 'oye' kind of month. Then Halloween this year almost did me in. Z's cape for his costume wasn't finished until the morning of... eeeek! Then of course there was that wedding I shot! You know me the 'not a wedding photographer even in my wildest dreams!' Imagine the stress; can you feel it through the computer? More on that in another post though. Tease much?

I did develop a new obsession since my last post. Twitter! Yes I am again late to the party, but I'm partying-hardy now that I'm here. I've had an account for over a year I believe, but never saw the point. I can't say that I have found the point, but I have figured out why 'I' like it. There is nothing quite like being able to immediately share your thoughts in 140 characters or less with the world (because they are all dying to know). Or in my case the whopping 8 people I have following me lol. Yesterday I did a run down on halloween costumes. The highlight of my night was a mom dressed up as an obsessed nkotb fan. Then her daughter (10 or 12yrs) was dressed as Donnie Wahlberg's love child! Which I 'think' means mom didn't really dress up at all :D If you care I'm @KrystleHill on there *wink wink*

Well it is time to start work on dinner, so I leave you with my little trick or treater's. I think they are self explanatory. Excuse the kodak p&s photos here, but my 'real' camera hasn't had a chance to meet them yet.

...and a quote: Everyone has a photographic memory, it's just some don't have any film.

It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown

I am exhausted, so this post is going to be short, sweet, and to the point... or something like that ;) Why you might ask am I so tired? Think 45+ children and all their moms lol. Today 'N' took his first ever field trip. This was very exciting for him, and he has been talking about it for days!!!! Four classes from his school all went to Bandy's Pumpkin Patch. They played in the play barn, watched Mr. Bandy carve a pumpkin in about two minutes(from start to finish I kid you not!), then they went on a hayride! The best part of the trip for 'N' though, came when he got to pick out his very own pumpkin. He was sooo EXCITED.

Since hopefully sometime this weekend we will be making or own jack-o-lantern(though I have no illusions that I am Mr. Bandy). We went out and got a few shots of him and his pumpkin after school as a keepsake. So without further ado: 'N' with his pumpkin before it goes under the knife!

P.S. Here is a joke from their site that cracked me up!

Why do jack-o-lanterns have stupid smiles on their faces?
You'd have a stupid smile, too, if you had just had all your brains scooped out!

A Day Spent Waiting

...on the man in brown.

It is amazing to me how quickly a day usually passes. I drop the boys off at school, and not 10 minutes later(it seems), it's time to go pick them up. But not today. Oh no; today c-r-a-w-l-e-d by. Not even turtle slow, more like a slug.

Finally at 2:20 I could wait no longer; I had to leave and go get my boys. Which meant I had to cancel my meet-up to deliver 'the goods' at 3:15. When we arrived back home I expected to see a box sitting smugly on my top step. Laughing at me for my wasted day. There was no box. By 3:45 I was beginning to wonder if aliens do exist... and if they had abducted my man in brown!

Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock.... 4:00.... 4:35.... 4:57....

Wait; what's that sound? Could it be? Is it possible? Yes at last... MY MAN IN BROWN! Finally at 5:27pm(10am is his usual!) the big brown truck pulled up in my drive. Then out he came with my long awaited box! What you might ask was so amazing to completely steal my day away? 'This' storyboard of beautiful baby 'A'. I needed it to complete her Mommy's order, so that I could do my own impersonation of the man in brown ;D

Whew! Now that we have THAT out of the way... lol. Here is my POTD. The theme of the week is 'windows and doors'. In July I took a Girls Weekend to South Carolina, and had the opportunity to tour the USS Yorktown. This is a picture I happened to take of a...... well whatever the Navy calls a door ;) I processed it in B&W and grainy because I was inspired by the amazing pictures hanging onboard from the bygone era.