A Busy Weekend

Wow! What a weekend! First of all, congratulations to Kelly and Casey. they were married at My Old Kentucky Home on Saturday. Without a doubt that has to be one of the best venues that I have photographed a wedding at. I would encourage any brides that want to get married next year to select that location and be sure and retain me as your wedding photographer. That place was awesome.

I had a new assistant at this wedding. Angella Watson, a photographer from Columbia, KY was gracious enough to help me out. She took this picture of me in action as the bride and her father were beginning to walk up the isle at the Rotunda. I can't wait to get the pictures from this wedding posted because it was a very cool place to photograph. For those of you that know Kelly's father Chuck, he is retiring this month, so July 2007 is going to be a month to remember for their family.

Donna, Dawson and I got up this morning and went to church. Dawson behaved very well this morning and I was proud of him.

Dawson is starting to recognize the value of money. I know this because he puts every penny, dime, or quarter that I leave laying around in his pocket.

This morning at church I noticed that he had some change in his pocket (now keep this in mind, Dawson is two years old). As the offering plate came around this morning I thought it would be a good time to teach him about the church offering. I pulled out about half of the money in his pocket and put it in his hand. I know, the good man upstairs requires only 10% but we were a little behind and I didn't think Dawson would notice. I was wrong. As the offering plate came around, with a little encouragement, Dawson put the money in the plate. The plate then went down the isle and Dawson decided that he wanted his money back.

Oh boy, I had to come up with some new change fast or we were on the verge of an early breakdown. Fortunately, I got the other half of the money out of Dawson's pocket without him noticing and everything turned out fine.

I've got a feeling Dawson is going to be frugal with his money as he gets older. He must get that from his Dad and Pa Danny.

I spent the rest of the afternoon finishing his swing set. Last month I built a tower with a slide, now he has a swing for Grandma to push him on. I am slowly but surely working on my to do list. If only I could get my deck stained and painted, shrubs mulched, car and truck washed and waxed, etc. etc. etc, then I could relax. I guess you never truly get caught up because if you did there wouldn't be anything left to do.

It's about bedtime so I will post more later in the week.

Jason