My puppy dogs {Lawrence, KS pet photographer}

Although it is just Thursday it is the start of the weekend for us around here. Kids are out of school today and tomorrow (parent teacher conferences), a nice little break. Just wish it was warm outside so we could be out and enjoy our time at home instead of being trapped inside. Although we won't really be trapped inside, it is a busy weekend. PTC, a night in Kansas City, gymnastics meet among other things to keep us on the go!

So as we jump into the weekend I wanted to post a few pics of the other "children" in our home. You have met Piper HERE. Well, she is a new pup this week! She got her dreadful pins removed from her leg on Monday! YIPEE!!! This was only after 6 weeks and the vet had prepared me for 12. Being a pup still made for a quick healer and we are happy with that! She also got spade and a hernia fixed. CHA CHING! Oh add to the bill the fact that she ate a hole in my Uggs last week. Not happy!!!! Guess I will have to get new ones, might have to watch for end of season sales. She is a little slow but healing.

Now let me introduce you to Petey. Oh Petey. Neither Derek or I had ever been the owner of a small dog until Mr. Pete. Hate to admit but he was a totally spontaneous purchase too. We went out one morning for new dog collars (for our two big dogs who are sadly not with us anymore) and came home with collars and a dachshund. Makes sense doesn't it? Perfect sense. At the time Josie was 4, Emme was 12 weeks old and we had two other dogs, why not add some more craziness! Let me start by saying dachshund's aren't easy to potty train! He can't stand to be cold, wet, hot or much else unless it is in your warm comfy lap. A wimp, but a lovable one! He takes abuse from the girls and now they fight over who gets to sleep with him at night. Rough life buddy.

I snapped these pictures of them both just yesterday. Petey isn't very photogenic and I have to say these are the my favorite pictures I have ever gotten of him. Dogs can be difficult. Piper is especially hard because the minute you get down on her level to get a good shot she is on top of you. Just another fun challenge!

Have a good weekend!

This picture cracks me up, one-eyed puppy Piper

Chewing our ball up instead of fetching...and me letting her so I can get some pictures.

We will work on that soon, she of course is a natural.

towers and horses

A frequently asked question I get when referring to my husband, Derek, is "what does he do?" This gets asked so often because he works from home and most days can be found in his casual t-shirt and shorts. Just a year ago we transformed our dining room to an office to better accommodate him. {He was growing tired of sharing his office with our guests} I would say he enjoys this set-up most of the time... but as you can imagine, it isn't the quietest of environments, as I am home with our two youngest. Our kids have no idea how fortunate and rare it is that there daddy is here almost everyday. Don't get me wrong though, there are times we are both a little relieved to see a short business trip on the schedule.

Well, anyway, this is what he does.

Towers.

He works for SBA Communications. I can't tell you a whole lot more because they speak a different language than I do. Simply put, he tries to find the need/space to build new towers for his company. Like I said, much more to it than that but that is as good as I can do.

His company sent out an email a few weeks ago that they were going to hold a photo contest for a picture to go on their annual report. Of course my ears perked up. Contest. Photography. Fun, you are in! Well, truth be told, towers aren't very pretty and aren't really that easy to get creative with. Especially in the middle of Kansas winter. We didn't have the best weather during the time frame given to do this. Freezing, snow, fog! But we went for it anyway. We loaded up the girls last weekend and drove out to see a couple of his towers that were close to home. Bad news, it was so darn foggy you could hardly even find those huge eye sores. I was really hoping for a cool silhouette picture at sunset. No such luck.

We got this one in my hometown, it wasn't foggy but freezing cold out. Not that you can tell. Pretty representative of a typical tower out in Kansas though.

Trying to get a creative view

These next ones are what we got on that foggy Saturday afternoon last week. Much to my excitement as we pulled up to the gate of the tower I saw some horses in the field. I got out to unlock the gate and they were not shy at all. In fact what started at two horses quickly turned into about 15 horses... running towards me. Feed truck, nope sorry, we are just here for the tower. Country girl I am not, so I will admit I wasn't sure how to react.
But what they did next cracked me up. The pretty much started attacking our suburban. Licking it all over. My assumption is all the salt that is on the truck from the roads. We were a huge salt lick for them. To say the girls liked this would be an understatement. {We get asked for horse all the time.} Sitting in the car was funny as huge horse tongues are working up and down all the windows. We did end up getting kicked (the truck that is) and have teeth marks on our front hood. Derek didn't find it as entertaining as we girls did.

Like I said, the girls thought it was great!

Bye horses, thanks for upstaging the tower!