The Non-stop Weekend O Fun...Part 1

Kicked off the holiday weekend with a fun night at Brian and Melissa's.   There was swimming, great food, fun, smores, explosives....what more could you need.  Now I give you the only photo that I took that was worth posting.

Ooooh...aaaah...be impressed. :)

Next up...Brownsburg parade this morning. Rachel was dreaming big; notice the size of her candy bag!

This is apparently what Santa Claus does in the off season

And this is the new training that our motorcycle cops have been doing

And there were treats to go around...even for the adults. I have decided that what has been missing from my parade experiences in the past has been Lisa Herrera's color commentary. Thanks for the fun!

Now I'm off to get ready for the social event of the year at our church - Dan and Lissa's Wedding. Gotta run!

Night Shots

Messed around with long exposure times last night.  I would really like to drive out of town where it's really dark and try these shots with the sky.

Airplane going through the frame

Yawn!!

I know that's what you're thinking....more photos of the sky.  The sunset was beautiful a couple nights ago.  A storm had rolled through & the sky was shades of pink, purple, blue, yellow, and orange.  I have a nice 360 degree video of it, but the movie file isn't jiving with the computer and it's WAY to large of a file to upload as is.  I may have to consult someone smarter than I to work it out.  Or at the very least break down and look at my camera manual.

More Dunes

I tried to put all of these pics in a slideshow, but blogger wasn't cooperating.  So...fair warning...there's a lot of pics in this post.

Lakeside

Spent a couple days up at Indiana Dunes camping and enjoying the beach.  Of course a family photo op was in order.  Here's just a few quick ones for tonight

Our family: the outtake! I can't remember what Paul said when he was taking this, but it must have been good. Actually, this may be my favorite one of the bunch. Perhaps it will end up as a 16x20 over the couch.

With my friends

Alternate title:  Everyone at our church shops at the same store.  Did a shoot today with Chloe and Jasmine and since Rachel had the same dress a friends photo was necessary.  I also happen to know that at least 2 more girls from our church have this dress as well.  Another photo is sure to be coming soon!

Happy Father's Day

We celebrated Father's day by taking Dusty to a fancy pants dinner at.....Fazoli's!  He scarfed down a meatball submarino and seemed very happy. :)  His gift was a DVD of Macgyver TV movies and we let him spend most of the day reading fiction.  Around 5PM I decided we needed to venture out.  We headed to the Indy Arts Park that had just opened today.  We arrived after all of the activities, but no matter we walked around to see what we could see.  Several cool sculptures including one that looks like a basketball court with metal arches to resemble the path of a ball.  It's a neat place to take pics, but it needed to be about 15 degrees cooler!  A sample of the day: