23/365 Lowe's Garden Center

The garden is a sure-fire place to find great subjects to shoot.

22/365 Book Worm Buddies and more

Today the Upper School and Lower School club - Book Worm Buddies - got together for their year book club photo and I was there to capture it.

These are very lucky 2nd graders to have so many Upper School students who care about them.

Some of them are very very lucky!

There is a lot of love here at MVA

Afterwards - a book run to the library

21/365 After Care Fun

Another great day with the Lower School students

Next week is Spirit Week and some kids just can't wait!

20/365

First off - Happy Birthday Dad!!!!!!!!!!!

Today is Assembly. Every Wednesday the Upper School gathers together for an hour. They listen to the members of the Senior class present speeches, compete in games, receive announcements and connect with the student body as a whole.

Here are some photos from today's assembly.

Senior Speeches.

The Sorting Hat - to place new students in their team houses.

The audience

19/365 Birthday Cake

The last of my birthday cake

18/365 Happy Birthday to me!

Today is my birthday and it was a good day.

My husband gave me this lovely necklace - thanks Matt!

A quick family portrait in front of my new backdrop stand.

Then we had a wonderful brunch with my family before they left. I love eggs benedict. Miss you guys!

My mom and I just before they left...

The rest of the day was quiet and just a little lonely. It's also a little sad when my family leaves. But Matt did take me out to dinner to celebrate and that was nice. It was a wonderful birthday weekend and I'm so thankful to everyone.

17/365 A full day!

Today we spent the whole day hanging out and doing fun things together in celebration of my family being here and my birthday.

he day began with geocaching. We found a couple of really clever ones!

Check out this one my mom is next too. It's a fake tree branch that flips open. Took us FOREVER to find.

Leaving some swag

Dad logging the find

My goofball husband

Matt and I with the hills of Clermont in the background.

After lunch, we hit some more caches. Here are the bunch of Travel Bugs we dropped off (after having them way tooooooooooooo long).

David going through another cache

Mom and dad had already found this one, so they enjoyed the view.

This was part of the cache - very clever!

David and Matt in silhouette

The final cache of the day - up high on a hill just as the sun was setting.

Dad, me and Matt

My goofy brother

Every once in a while I can get some good photos of him...

My amazing in-laws gifted me with a lights and backdrop set. I'm still learning how to use them, but today was the first time they were set up

And my parents were my first victims

My birthday cake! Matt did the writing himself!

Blowing out the candles.