More Willie D

Next on the trip Willie D went inside to hang with the boy peeps and watch a little football, while taking a break til the next photo shoot. I'm not so sure he's all about the football yet. It'll probably grow on him.

Hanging with his peeps.

This is one interesting looking group of peeps.

Willie and Papa.

The dogs lost the battle for the flicker, causing them to be depressed and bummed..

More photos of William to take!

O M G

Checking out his minions outside looking at him.

Another O M G.

Adorable

How many different ways can you say cute?

Cause I need some new ones.

Who dat in the window?

It's about time to shut the shoot down.

A bird's eye view from the outside.

 The sun's going down...

And WIllie D's expiration time was coming due. 

And so ends the first day of the photo shooting weekend of William. But stay tuned to see what the rest of the peeps were doing on that same day while he was being well documented on his first ever Labor Day in Corsicana.
 
Come back for more!

I've got to close this puppy out before I leave town this week!!

What's up at Labor Day?

The next photo shoot to take place commenced in front of the pasture with the Swanders being the focus. There were no less than 50 pictures taken, and I picked the best to display. Maybe someday I'll do an outtakes post of this, because William's more about the people faces and not so much about the camera face. But he's still cute no matter!

By now you all know the drill, scroll down and see the pics. Sigh.....I'm just absolutely running out of new stuff to say.

Cute pic of Mom and boy.

Then he became mesmerized by the ground.

Still wasn't ready to focus.

Cute family pic.

Cutest family pic.

Checking out Becky's mug.

I feel a look of little old man disgust here.

Just kiddin!

 I got nothing.

Clearly, "You lookin at me?"

The classic Maggie, "You young whippersnappers!"

Serious.

Serious in profile.

 Millie and me.

Let me eat your face!

Sweetness.

And again.

And there you have it for now.

Up next?

 Who knowwwwwwssssssss.

Later taters.

It's Labor Day 2012

So begins the posting of the 2012 Labor Day weekend at the farm. It was a smaller group this year, but we still had lots of fun! Of course it was hot and the usual things happened. We sat, we ate, we sweated, we heard coyotes, we hay rode. Hay rode? I don't think so, but anyway.....it was a good time to just be. Most of what Corsicana is about is just being there, because there's no need to rush or fret, or worry. There's NO agenda when at the farm. Each time I go I can feel the peace. I've never experienced it anywhere as I have there. It's worth it just for that. It will always be my favorite place in the world, and the only thing to make it better would be if Gran and Grandma were still there. Still there sitting on the back porch or just inside the house waiting for us to arrive. And I'll never forget the delight on my face or theirs once we saw each other. I can still remember once in the driveway, my kids jumping out of the car and racing to get to them as quickly as they could. Maybe that's what heaven will look like to me....Corsicana with Gran and Grandma still there.

Now that I've depressed everyone....lets get to the business at hand. Looking at 9 million pictures of William, and a few of the other people in attendance.This is a combination of my pictures and Melanie's. Mollie and Emma took some as well, but there's absolutely NO WAY to tell who took what. Except that all the good ones were most assuredly taken by me! OK that's not true, but I'm in charge of the words here so that's my story and I'm sticking with it.


Moving on....

First night's sunset. Definitely taken by Melanie.

Perfect.

A blue eyed Olivia.

We ran out of chairs.

Emma and Hank up close and personal.

The back porch peeps, including another Maxine sighting. Anyone tired of that joke yet?

Horses looking for some oatmeal apple bites.

Carlie T became exhausted trying to finish her enormous Sonic and collapsed in the swing.

Then Willie D showed up.

And things got cute.

And he spent lots of time.

Hanging with the peeps.

In the cool zone.

He liked it a lot.

And because I can't figure out how to add more pictures to the end of this post instead of the beginning, this one ends here.

Picture me red faced, with large amounts of steam coming out of my ears, while asking, "Why God why?!?!?!?!"

Ugh to the uggers.

Here's what's been up

The new blogging method has caused me much consternation, and therefore I've completely put off new posts. I've got to find a way to work on it without wanting to spew curse words for one half hour. Up until tonight, it's been impossible. But with a little help from John, I may have made a tiny amount of progress. So we shall see. Commentary on pics is the HUGE problem.

Anyway, Since it's past midnight, it's officially less than 3 months til Christmas and 2 months to Christmas trees!! WHAT THE HECK!?!?! Where has 2012 gone?!?! Surely I do not know.

Also I'm now the official owner of the new iPhone 5, and therefore am back in the camera phone business. Which I got just in time to......

Take a picture of Olivia at the game so she could receive extra credit for a class. 

That frightening huge glow behind her is the video screen, not an alien spaceship.

I'm still not over the close game I sat through! So hard to watch without a flicker to change the channels when it gets scary!

I was able to catch Addy's impression of Rin Tin Tin.

Documented new cereal that sounds sort of not great.

Gave Austin the chance to take a weird self portrait.

Took a picture of the cypress in the bayou.

Found a super cute baby to take a picture of. This picture's a little fuzzy due to the fact I hadn't taken the plastic covering off my phone when I took this photo. Ooops!

Documented more of Caitlin's bad super market finds. Gluten free bagel chips? Did she even have to wonder?

Then I saw that same cute baby again.

So Olivia snapped away.

While he cooperated.

What did I take pictures of before he was born?

I can't remember.

Oh well, sweet dreams cute little baby boy.

Later little lambs.