Well, I have officially earned my first cover with Erath County Living Magazine!!!  I had the pleasure of working with some great people to help get images for their ads in the magazine, as well as submit a few photos for consideration in the magazine.  They chose this pic of Carson and Cookie as well as a few others inside.  It is a great publication- very high quality and has great stories and pics of our Erath County.  Thanks to the editor Treva and the publisher Jay for using my image, for I’m sure there were many other great ones to choose from by other local photographers.  You can pick one up at the Chamber or other local businesses. 

The view from our porch this morning…..

 Off to another cold weekend at the stock show!  Good luck to Carson and Number One at the Red Angus Show!  Updates coming soon:)

A couple of moths ago, we invited all my mom’s side of the family from Dallas to come out to the ranch for a girl’s weekend.  I was wanting to experiment with some off-camera flash, and we needed and excuse to get together.  What better way than to have a bunch of beautiful sisters and cousins to model for me!  It was around the first anniversary of the death of our grandmother/mother MaBelle.  She was a classy, elegant, beautiful woman who left behind a legacy of Bell girls to fill her shoes!   She  was affectionately known as Gamma to the great-grandkids.  She always had beautiful skin, eyebrows of a movie star, and alot of the time had a little tissue in her hand or a box of kleenex nearby! 

So, in memory of her, we got together and had a fun girl’s weekend and played dress-up.  As you will see, there is no lack of beauty on my maternal side.  We had a fun session with my mom and sisters Saturday afternoon.  The only thing we were missing was cousin Kendall.  We missed her beautiful self and her great sense of humor-  we will plan earlier next time and make sure everyone can be there.  Even little sis Lauren took off from playing doctor for the weekend!  If you want to see more of this…..

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I just ordered the 2010 calendars!  They should be here in the next week or so.  They are 5×7 postcard size with rounded corners and a gloss finish.  I’m happy to share these with anyone, just help with any postage when necessary.  They are a great size for desks, refrigerators, and to keep in the car!

Ok, so I thought once the CRAZY month of May was over I would have all this time to catch up, update the blog, relax, etc……  NOT HAPPENING!  I’m sorry I haven’t posted lately, and I hope you are having a great start to the summer.  Lots going on around here- the breeding season is finally finishing up (Shiner’s mouth healed nicely), traveling to Dallas last week, the George Strait concert at the new Cowboy’s Stadium (that deserves it’s own post!), leaving for Bandera to visit sister Lauren through the weekend, and all the while lots of photo shoots in between!  Thanks to everyone for their patience on getting pictures back- I’ll hopefully be caught up next week sometime!  I still haven’t processed the pictures from HAWAII!!!  So at least you know your shoots come first.  I’ll leave you with a cute shot of the kids and one of the babies… speaking of, Tony and I got a certificate from AQHA this week to celebrate 10 years of breeding Quarter Horses- seems like yesterday.  Oh yeah, that reminds me, Tony and I have our 11th anniversary this Sunday- Happy Father’s Day and Anniversary sweetie, love ya!

my babies…..

 isn’t he wonderful…….