Birthday-Eve

I'm posting me & Mallory A.K.A the Birthday-girl's FAVORITE song...
so then we can push play and SING our GUTS out....
(and maybe...just maybe.... will get out our lighters and wave them)
And YES..
Mallory is learning this song on the guitar...
it's going to ROCK..like-freakin'-madly...
And YES..
I have a MAD-TEENAGE-GIRL-CRUSH(like I want to put a poster of him in my bedroom...but Billy forbid it...fun-hater)
on the lead singer (Brad Arnold) of 3 doors down ...
(so push play and join in our birthday-eve party.......* be sure to stop the music at the bottom of the blog first)


I just included this video for the GIRLS...
after watching it your going to TOTALLY want a poster of BRAD too!...
And YES..
you CAN totally come with me to their next concert....
We'll rent a bus....
and bring "ballad-lighters" to wave...

{Really...Already?!}

I know your Birthday isn't until tommorow..

But we will be PARTYING way too hard for me to blog....

I can't believe it's been 17 years since you came into our lives....

you have brought us nothing but absolute JOY

Everyone loves you...

You are

Sunshine

Nice to everyone

Laughter

Beauty

Fearless

Smart

Did I say FUNNY

TRUE to YOURSELF

The BEST

We LOVE you more than words can ever express

HAPPY-BIRTHDAY

{DEETS}

I was here.....

{Your photography is a record of your living}
Paul Strand~

Yes....

Those are LEGWARMERS she is wearing with her Sunday-Dress...

Yes....She Rocks-it-Hard-Core...

And Yes...

She

Turns 17 this week

And Yes...we are going to PARTY (like it's 1999...in raspberry beret's)

Instantly...

I instantly knew when these two flashed their smiles...

that the shoot was going to be AWESOME..

& just LOOK at this baby...

totally-yummy!!!

more tomorrow on my photo-blog...

HUH?! Everybody knows that?

So,

Hunka & I are picking up Parker Brady Rayce ( it is a true-story, one of my twins has 3 names, LONG-STORY) from school and I flip down that horrible visor mirror ...or as I call it the visor-mirror-of-depression-and- gloom...And of-course I instantly see IT.....

40, Yep, you can actually SEE the age 40 ALL OVER YOUR FACE..ugghhhhh!

And I say to Hunka, "You know you look good at almost 50...your wrinkles make you look like the Marlboro Man...all rugged and hunky....

I am just looking OLD..and errrrr, not-so-hunky"

And he says back to me...

"Well, you know it's the new "thing" for younger guys to like older women, look at CHER..she always has a young boyfriend"

Then he says it..(quite possibly the craziest thing he has EVER said)

"But the young guys never stay with her ...because ...

NO-ONE wants to be ..."MR. CHER"

And then I say...

"How in thee world do you KNOW that?!!"

And then he replies..."Everyone knows that"

.....(OK, I don't even want to know why he knows this or why in the world CHER would even POP into his crazy-OLD-mind!!!!

And BTW, Hunka..I DON'T think EVERYONE knows that?!! hahahaha)

(Billy and his favorite younger man....singer/songwriter...Joshua James)

{C}

http://thestoryphotography.blogspot.com/

I gained 10 pounds...

CHRIS...

How many did you gain? LOL!!!!!!!

I don't know if it was the..

Crack-Laden-Sugar-Cookies

Homemade CARAMEL Apples-with Apples right from the farm

The-Pumpkin Roll

Smoked Turkey-with Brown-Sugar-Yams

Drive-In-Burgers & Fries w/Fry Sauce

Coq-Au-Riesling-Chicken-with Spaetzle and Cream Sauce

Or the Boys Halloween Candy...

Hmmmm , what do you think it was????

This TOTALLY wasn't OVERKILL of Chris' visit was it??!

I know...I know....

It's a problem, I need to SEEK HELP....

But I must capture EVERY moment with a picture...

POOR CHRIS!!

But Hey...we got to pretend we were on the TYRA show...

Work it for the picture...

come on bring it...