School has begun and with it comes the last bits of summer. This summer has been an adventure and has certainly turned out much different than we expected. We have been living at my Mom and Dad’s house for a little more than a month now and things are going very well. In case you don’t know, we are living here while we build our house. The kids are loving it. There is so much to do outside . . . golf cart riding, rollerblading, blackberry + sweet corn + tomato picking . . . and they are enjoying it all. We have started school in our RV. It is not large enough to live in, but for school it is perfect. I love schooling in the RV! There are less distractions like computers and laundry. The kids don’t wander off between each subject; and everything is right at my fingertips . . . literally. Things are going very well. This year in school our focus is turning toward the classics. We just finished reading Peter Pan and are about to watch the Disney movie version. My goal is to get the kids excited about reading . . . to inspire them to want to read . . . and to enjoy it!
I’m trying to document our time spent here at grandma and grandpa’s. It has been a summer like no other. We are very thankful to my parents for putting us up for 9 months or so. It is a huge sacrifice on their part and one I hope all of us look back on with gratefulness. That is my son in the picture . . . eating sweet corn. Their are fields of corn all around us here. Across the road is field corn, but on my parent’s property is the juiciest of sweet corn and we have been trying to eat our summer share.
This was one of those sessions where, when I talked with mom on the phone prior to our meeting and asked her about her kids . . . well, it was so obvious the love she has for them as she began describing their personalities to me. I was so excited to meet them! They were, of course, delightful! I enjoyed every minute with them. Mom thought the little guy would be hard to capture, but as you can see, he was easy peasy. They were all such good sports too . . . it was hot, hot, hot on this night.
And as you can probably tell, I have a thing for reading . . . capturing families together while reading. I love it! I gotta say, Mom was such an expressive reader I didn’t want to interrupt the story!
I love kids! And I love to capture them having fun! That’s exactly what we did at this session.
The metro park system in our city has some of the best parks! This park, complete with treehouse, is definitely one of my favs.
In other news: we are moving in less than 2 weeks! Eek! Our house is full of plastic storage bins, items to take to the thrift store and things to throw out! I love getting rid of stuff. Surprisingly, I actually like the moving process. My husband is not a fan. I’m ridiculously excited about the adventure that lies ahead of us. I’ll be documenting the building of our house on the blog, along with our homeschooling adventures (we are homeschooling in our RV this year while we temporarily stay at my parent’s house). And of course I’ll keep posting session images here too!! Thanks for following along.
Julie
Fair to say we had a great time. Love their expressions in this one!
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