A Great Day...

It's like mother's day started a day early :)

It started with the boys letting me sleep in late. Until 9:00! STOP. THE. PRESS. I know you moms out there know that 9:00 is akin to noon back in my college days. It was heaven. I am hardly ever in bed later than 7:30...

Then Trey's baseball game.


I love watching him play...

After the game I ran over to a client's house to give her a photography lesson. It went great! The one-on-one really worked well...! And, while I was there, I was able to take a picture of her display of pictures :) I originally shot her family in January of 2009...


She ordered this frame display from The Red Envelope. Have you ever shopped this site? It's AMAZING! It's a great place to shop for the person who has everything... Anyway, click HERE to check out the frame set. :) I might have to get a few for myself!!

Do you see the pic of that sweet cute little guy...? He's not so little anymore! While we were working on our camera settings outside, I snapped this picture. He's so big!!!

Tracy it was really good seeing you again and chatting...

The evening brought a quick dinner out, where I suffered from the allergy-attacks of allergy attacks... red itchy eyes, complete and total nasal congestion, miserableness all around... blah. Stupid pollen.

So after a quick stop at Rite Aid for some eye drops (which only sorta helped)... we made our way to downtown Hampton for the Saturday Summer Street Fest. The boys played and we got to listen to some fun music!


One of the vendors was giving out free roses for mother's day :) Noah confiscated mine...


And Trey found the bubble-maker table... !

And the band!

The boys wouldn't dance... but we've now made it a requirement for next Saturday... we will not go to the festival unless they promise to dance. Trey swears up and down, left and right that there's no way he's dancing in front of all those people. Noah says, "Otay." As we were leaving, Noah started crying, "I want to go back to da pahrteee! Go back to da parteee!"

Oh boy.

Until next time,

~ K

Yorktown Riverwalk

Earlier this summer, the family and I ventured down to Yorktown's Riverwalk to have some Ben & Jerry's and walk along the beach... it is a beautiful area and I can't wait to go back! I want to go on the weekends when they have their Farmer's Market...



This was taken right before dusk...

Hope all is well!

Until next time,

~ K

Now Serving... Check this!

So, as most of you know, I spent roughly the last four years living on Okinawa. It was an experience that is hard to express in words. Amazing. Enlightening. Hard. Frustrating. Wonderful.

While there, I discovered and befriended some amazing women. Wives, mothers, entrepreneurs, artists, teachers, students... all wrapped up into this "military wife" label (which is such a shame, truly). It was eye-opening. (If you're totally bored to tears, you can re-hash my life on Oki by checking out my old blog here.)

One of these amazing women has started a series of websites that I have been lucky enough to be involved with. These 'Now Serving' sites are amazing! They combine social networking and web forums to bring you ONE place you can go to meet new people AND get awesome information in a way that's easy to understand and navigate. It's brilliant for us military folk that move every few years.

Think of it as social networking for not only your base, but your area. But better. Waaaay better.

Anyway, ALL this blabbering to say, the Now Serving Hampton Roads site is up and going!



If you are HERE. If you are in SOME WAY connected to the military. If you USED to be here. If you are ON YOUR WAY here. PLEASE Check this out.

And by HERE I mean: Hampton, Newport News, Yorktown, Williamsburg, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Suffolk, Poquoson, Virginia Beach (and all surrounding areas)... This is site is for all branches, all ranks, grades, and walks of life.

This is a great resource.

This is for us folks...the families, the moms & dads, the children, the ones that get carted around from city to city, state to state, and country to country. The ones that, whereupon finding out we're moving again, immediately open up the computer and "google" our new area...and then find that there is either absolutely NO useful information or WAY TOO MUCH information about our new home. This makes it easy. User-friendly. Totally do-able.

There is nothing more comforting than a little quality information when conquering the great unknown that is a PCS. And even MORE comforting is finding an online friend who went through JUST the same rigamaroll and is willing to share their experiences. It helps. It does. Trust me.

Come on over, sign up, share your knowledge, get some knowledge! We need you! So go forth and disseminate information... now. do it.

Be good,
~ K


Oh... and if you're connected to (in one way or another) Quantico OR a base on Okinawa, there's sites for you too! Click on the 'Hampton Roads' site and you'll see the banners for the other two active sites on the left.

Go forth and network!!!

Cape Charles

This past weekend was GORGEOUS. The kind of gorgeous day that just draws you outside even if you have a gagillion things to do inside. Saturday Trey's tee-ball game was canceled so we decided to drive over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and see part of the Eastern Shore of VA. Incidentally, the bridge is considered one of the 7 Engineering Marvels of the world... did you know that? I didn't...

The Eastern Shore is a, roughly, 70 mile long peninsula that juts into the Chesapeake Bay and connects to southern Maryland at the top. It took us around an hour to get there from our house in Hampton. We stopped at the first little city on the shore, Cape Charles. Eventually we want to make our way up the peninsula to Chincoteague and Tangier Island, but those trips will probably have to be a bit less spontaneous. :)

Anyway, it's not prime tourist season yet so the little town was quiet, sleepy almost. It's one of those places you can see yourself living when your 80... your grandkids and great-grandkids coming to visit... and throwing their stuff down in the living room, yelling "HEY GRAN!" then running down to the beach. And you wouldn't worry. Because this town has that kind of feel...

After lunch at a cute little artsy cafe, we walked across the street to some old train graveyard place? I'm not really sure what it was, but it was a photographer's flippin' DREAM!



We walked around the town a bit more and ended up down on the beach... ahh the beach. My family just loves the beach...





DJ managed to wrangle the camera from me so I appear in a few shots. Ack. I DESPISE being in front of the camera...



But I remedied that right quick... LOL...

And then Trey got gutsy and started sticking his head in the water... he's a crazy kid.



All in all, it was a great little trip!

Any photography clients want to drive over an hour to your location?! Because this would be PERFECT!!! :)

If you want to see the rest of the pictures, check them out here.

Oh and I've still got some business stuff to post! Stay tuned :)

~ Kassia

More of My kids...

So sorry. I am addicted to photographing these adorable children of mine. I am also addicted to posting them here for you to ooh and ahh over them.

When the sun actually shines (which has been rare lately) we immediately head OUT of the house to find something to do.

This day it was a new park we'd heard about... Fantasy Farm Playground at Riverview Farm Park in Newport News...the boys loved it!





Ahhh. *sigh* I love my punks.

Well, in other news I've made same changes on the business-side of things... will post that stuff soon.

I've also got a cool new venture a friend of mine is starting I want to share too...

Soon soon I swear.

Oo! My new RAM came in today. I. AM. SO. EXCITED! Tomorrow I will install it and zippity zip zip zoom... :)

Until next time,

~ K

Bubble

Last weekend, in an effort to entertain the children on a rainy dreary Saturday afternoon, my friend and I took our kids to the Children's Museum in Portsmouth. It's a great place where they can run around, touch as many things as they like... and maybe, just maybe, learn something too.

Well, I don't know if Trey learned much as he was running from one exhibit to the other pushing as many buttons as he possibly could...and then moving on. It went something like this...

TREY: "Mama! Mama...what does this one say?"

I would begin reading the display... then *swwooosh* he was off and running again...

TREY: "Hey Mama! Come HEEEERE! Hurry! Look at this!"

*banging, flipping, pushing*

TREY: "What does this one say?"

ME (reading): "The concept of static electricity..."

*swwwoooosh* Gone. Again.

TREY: "Hey Mama! OVER HEEERE!" "Hey, what does this button do? Can I take this home?"

ME: "Well it says here that if you push this...."

*swwoooosh*

Okay. You get the idea. And I didn't even add in Noah's pointed observations... "EH! EHHHHH! EH EH! EH EH!" So, by the end of the afternoon I was tired. So tired.

But here's a cool picture from the Bubble exhibit...



Yep, that's my boy, IN a bubble... :)

Until next time,

~K