2021 Fall Photos!

I think I mentioned last year that one of the hard things about moving away from home was losing our beloved photographer, Barb. She had photographed us for three straight years and also served as the photographer at my 40th birthday party, and we loved her. We knew she would probably come up here to do a photo shoot for us, but we couldn't swing the cost of the shoot AND travel, so last year we had to look for a new photographer.

We hadn't been here long and had no idea who to ask. Rob suggested we talk to the wives of one of the Gateway employees, and she was kind to do a shoot for us. However, she wasn't really pursuing photography anymore, so this year we resumed our search. Happily, another of the employees at Gateway has started doing photography on the side, and she worked us in! She's so much fun and was so good to us this year, because...

We had the photo shoot scheduled for a day off...and it rained. So we rescheduled for another day off, and literally as we drove in the parking lot at the park for the photo shoot, it started raining. Hadn't rained a drop all day. Drove in? Started raining. Of course it did!

She was such a good sport and tried for the entire hour anyway. We all hid under umbrellas for a good chunk of the time, and all the curl fell out of my hair before we went home, BUT!!!! We did get a few winners of poses in between rain drops. Here's a sampling:

And then, bless her sweet heart, she felt so bad for us that our shoot had been rained out TWICE, she squeezed us in a few days later in the middle of an afternoon. I think I was on 4th day hair at that point, but the sun was shining and we had so much fun!

And that's a wrap on photos! I'm looking forward to updating some frames in our house - and seeing the finished products of our Christmas cards! (Those photos are still a secret.)