A Blog About A Whole Lot of Picture Goodness: the year of the lucky fourteen

i haven't blogged in awhile so i figured i'd take part of yesterday's sunday afternoon while liam was napping and start this post of some of the kids from this summer's festivities. busy, which is an understatement, is what the schmidt family usually is every summer....or really just all year long. but this summer i finally cut back to part time in doing project management for ABC Computers to try and focus more on the business during the actual week time hours. i'm probably not quite as far behind as i was last summer, however i at least get to sleep 7 hours each night instead of the normal 3-4 hours which is a really nice thing to enjoy. and nights that i don't have sessions and sundays have been a lot more focused on the family which is even better than sleeping. so between all the chaos this summer, we managed to extend our family by a puppy and two kittens, take a mini trip to dubuque iowa over Memorial Day weekend, play in the pool, swimming lessons (twice!), upcoming dance camp this week, a family vacation to south dakota, family reunion trip to iowa, the fair, great-grandparents 60th anniversary party, pick through grandpa's garden, and of course lots of ranger rides and wildflower picking which is our favorite.

i apologize in advance of the really, really long post. i'm surprised at how many pictures i actually took of the family this summer despite feeling like i haven't taken any! ....and this isn't even a quarter of what i took. some of which may include lexi's portrait work ;)

and maybe someday before 2015 i'll get to reviewing and sharing our south dakota trip....just maybe.

random early summer happenings around the farm: