Photos by Robin » personal http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog Blog Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:20:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 It’s US! Our official family photos for 2010! http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/its-us-our-official-family-photos-for-2010/ http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/its-us-our-official-family-photos-for-2010/#comments Sat, 04 Sep 2010 22:51:28 +0000 Robin http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/?p=2856

Photos by www.melissalouise.com :-)

]]> http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/its-us-our-official-family-photos-for-2010/feed/ 2 August wrap-up and Save the Date! http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/august-wrap-up-and-save-the-date/ http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/august-wrap-up-and-save-the-date/#comments Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:53:53 +0000 Robin http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/?p=2850 Just our wrap-up from August.  Pretty sad, but I hardly take any photos of my own family!  Thank goodness I carry my point & shoot in my purse and Scott has his i-phone – otherwise I wouldn’t have enough to even complete the month!  Gotta get better at that!  :-) And here’s a “save the date” I did with the new template set I bought!  Papers & spiderweb from www.heatheranndesigns.com – the Ghoulish Delight kit.  

Friends, family, neighbors – you are all invited, so save the date!  :-)

]]> http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/august-wrap-up-and-save-the-date/feed/ 1 Great weekend! http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/great-weekend/ http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/great-weekend/#comments Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:42:36 +0000 Robin http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/?p=2609 Well we had a great weekend!  The weather was gorgeous – wow!  Can’t complain for sure!  Thanks for all the nice birthday wishes!  :-) I had a very fun & relaxing day! (…well, besides getting hit HARD in the arm by a whiffle ball during our back yard neighborhood game last night!) 

Got some editing done that I’ve been putting off  (and would you hate me if I said I got my Christmas card done?  haha!  just need the photos to drop in there now! yeah!!) 

Last week after it rained so hard, I took Buddy out to go to the bathroom and spotted this salamander in the yard – YUK!  I went back in the house and told the fam and Claire went running out to find it!  haha!  That’s my girly girl!! (……….NOT!)  ;-)   {btw….I spent some time on www.designerdigitals.com and downloaded some AWESOME freebies!  Everything here is from there except the frames are www.twopeasinabucket.com – Rhonna’s Photo Phun and part of the Fortune Teller kit.  font is beer dip.Then Friday night we went to dinner at  Psycho Suzi’s with my good friend Shelley and her husband Todd.  We actually started out meeting up at the studio that we’ll be sharing starting in September….I wanted Scott to see it!  So we decided to be a little adventuresome and try a place neither one of us had ever been to.  Plus it was really close to the studio so bonus!  It was super fun!  I’d highly recommend it! 

(btw….used one of Heather Ann’s quick fill kits here and some paper from the Two If By Sea kit.  fonts are AL postmaster and I can’t remember the other one).  {we both promised NOT to bring our big cameras cuz we didn’t want the guys getting all mad at us….so I only had my crappy point & shoot and Scott’s i-phone – haha!}

After Psycho Suzi’s, we dropped by my friend Jennie’s house to hang out with her and her hubby Rob!  Good times!  They are very funny & entertaining!

Saturday my parents were in town so we went to Chili’s to celebrate both my brother Jon’s b-day (8/6) and mine too.  I forgot my camera – darn!  But here’s Jon from when we took him out to Macaroni Grill for his b-day.  For my birthday, I took advantage of a couple of great FREE birthday coupon deals!  haha!  We went to Old Country Buffet for brunch (actually LUNCH since we went to church and didn’t get there until 11am - most of the breakfast stuff was GONE so bummer! ), then I got my FREE Caribou drink (I don’t drink coffee so I got  a yummy smoothie!)  For dinner, got a free burger from Ruby Tuesdays – got “Ruby Tue Go” so brought home burgers for all of us (well, except Claire who doesn’t eat hamburger…)  Then took the dog for a walk and came home to 1/2 of the neighborhood kids in our back yard playing whiffle ball!

Scott made my FAVORITE cake – cherry chip w/ cherry frosting!  And he also bought me some beautiful flowers!  :-)     That’s all!  Took today off so now it’s time to get my butt off here and go do something fun with the kids!  :-)

]]> http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/great-weekend/feed/ 1 Gotta see it… http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/gotta-see-it/ http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/gotta-see-it/#comments Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:58:32 +0000 Robin http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/?p=2533 as much as I LOVE Twilight…..I love satire even more.  :-)

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]]> http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/july-wrap-up-2/feed/ 1 Go hug your parents http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/go-hug-your-parents/ http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/go-hug-your-parents/#comments Sun, 01 Aug 2010 17:34:53 +0000 Robin http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/?p=2522 wow – a very powerful read = The Reason I Never Say Never Anymore

Take 5 minutes to read this and if it doesn’t make you appreciate your parents, there is something seriously wrong with you.

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This guy (oh, and THANK YOU whoever you are!) spent tons of time compiling a list of businesses that give you free stuff — not only for your birthday, but in some cases you get free stuff just for signing up!   examples = $30 off at Benihana!  FREE meal at Old Country Buffet just for signing up and another FREE meal on your birthday!  Ruby Tuesday = free meal!  Melting Pot = FREE chocolate fondue.  Buca = FREE dessert.  Noodles & Co. = FREE entree w/ the purchase of one.  Coldstone = FREE ice cream.  The list goes on & on!

Check it out!

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“She’s finding the strength to stand on her own tender feet, while she’s got everyone and everything on her shoulders.  She has survived it all.” – Elle

]]> http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/elle-minneapolis-photographer/feed/ 3 4th of July 2010! http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/4th-of-july-2010/ http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/4th-of-july-2010/#comments Mon, 05 Jul 2010 02:53:17 +0000 Robin http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/?p=2205 We celebrated the 4th a day early this year, so today totally didn’t feel like a holiday!  haha!  Here’s the kids getting into the holiday spirit! (used Sheye’s “Ruby shoes” action here) Our neighbor Laurie brought over these beautiful flowers!  She’s always SO thoughtful – thank you Laurie! We hosted our neighborhood party this year and boy, did we ever have a great turn out!  Some of the neighbors started out with a friendly softball game (despite the high humidity and 90 degree heat!)  The kids alternated playing wiffle ball, doing the bean bag toss, shooting waterguns, and blowing bubbles!  Once it got dark, we practiced trying to write names with sparklers!  haha!  Of course we shot off a few fireworks too but I didn’t get any good ones of those.  oh well!  (p.s. the blue one is actually a little flashlight thing that came with some glow-in-the-dark Easter eggs that Claire hid in the back yard) Here’s a quick layout I did with Heather Ann’s awesome products!  I used the “America the Beautiful“, “Great American Holiday” and “Stars and Stripes” kits – as well as the Quick Fill layout #58.  (fireworks photo was actually taken in 2006… ;-) )   Thanks to all our friends and neighbors that made it to the party!  We had a great time hosting!  :-)

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