In the past, just Michael and I have enjoyed browsing through the Seed Savers Exchange magazine together. This year I have found my kids picking up the magazine circling and making little stars or hearts next to the produce they want to grow this year. I couldn't be more proud!!! It has been so fun to include them in this stage of the process. I hope that this will help them feel even more ownership in the garden.
Do you plant heirloom seeds? What is your favorite thing to grow?
I don't know if you remember "my terrible mistake", you know, when I shaved my babies head completely bald. Well, we can all move past that now, Maya found enough hair to put into a little piggie tail. Hurray!
One of my good friends made this adorable skirt and embellished the shirt to match, and I just had to share the pictures I took of Madelyn in it. I have been anxiously awaiting her to grow into this outfit, and it is even more adorable worn.
Spring. It is getting close, and I'm getting excited. There is so much to look forward to in the garden during the warmer months. Here are some things I'm excited about:
Freshly picked strawberries.
Power Rangers protecting my garden.
Filling my kitchen with greenery.
Freshly picked melons.
When the kids ask for a snack, I just have to send them out to the garden. This is Reece munching on a raw beet.
Hey mom, did you see who grabbed my spoon and thinks they are going to feed me?
Yeah, Mason, the kid that can't even remember to flush the toilet,
The one that calls me "Big Fella", The one that thinks he is going to be a Power Ranger when he grows up, The kid that is ONLY FOUR YEARS OLD! I guess I will give this a try. Not bad, I think he's got it.
Look what he's done to my face!
Mom, you seriously are going to let this continue?
Check out this ridiculous face he is making!
You are just going to stand there taking pictures the entire time?
You don't need to put the spoon in my esophagus.
Only one of us is enjoying this!
OK, now I'm just getting mad. What do you mean say ahhh? I just need to open my mouth.
HELP!
Can we be done here?
Nothing like a full belly, no matter how the job gets done!
Hey ladies, Megan and I are so excited about our photography workshop for beginner's . We are so excited about it because we know that it will enable people to leap like 5 years ahead in their photography skills. And we are also giving away a scholarship to the workshop for which the contest starts today!!!
If you don't know what the workshop is about or want to know what to expect you can go here.
If you didn't catch the reference to the Brady Bunch reference in the title, I so kindly left you the 'you tube' video below.
With that said, Moondoggie Photography is making a few changes of it's own, and there is no better time than at the beginning of the year. Not only for tax reasons, but it seems that everyone is inspired and ready to push forward full speed ahead.
Megan and I have been friends since I first met her at a birthday party 20 years ago when I first moved to Texas. We have had a lot of the same interests over the years, (surprisingly enough, never in the same guy) but photography has been a common interest over the past 6 or more years. Megan was in Texas, I in Utah. We both started our businesses at the same time with the same equipment, and with daily phone calls we shared all our photography secrets and business ideas. When Megan moved to Utah, it just seemed right that we would abandon our old businesses and start one together.
The journey building Moondoggie Photography has been amazing! We have both had a great time and learned a lot in the process. But, it is time for a change. We found that coordinating the business aspects, managing a website and blog, managing the finances, and driving an hour round trip between our homes took away from the time we could be talking about how to be better photographers. We lost all that we loved about our businesses because we were "coordinating".
Marisa will be keeping Moondoggie Photography, and Megan will be reinstating Megan Knorpp Photography. We are happy to say that Megan and I agreed that there won't be any awkwardness between the two of us. So, if you are a previous client of mine, and want to give Megan's a try, I won't be offended, and visa versa.
Megan and I are still calling each other every day exchanging tips and ideas. My phone rang today, and my son Reece said, "it is either dad, or Megan", it was Megan. We are still planning on doing weddings together as well. So if you book a wedding with one of us, you can pretty much plan on seeing the other. Most importantly, we are still working vigorously on our Joyography Workshop! We will be giving away a scholarship to our workshop, so start thinking of all the reasons YOU deserve it.
