First off, I had a wonderful time Friday and Saturday taking all the kid’s pictures for the kid quote book.  They all did amazing.  Oh and I have read thru some of the kid’s responses to my questions and they are too funny.  This is going to be an AWESOME book.

Before I post pictures from this weekend I want to share some thoughts.  The reason I decided to do the book was to A. do a fun project with my own kids  and B. raise money for Maggie and bring awareness to childhood cancer

Well some things happened that I didn’t expect.  I got to see some friends I went to high school with.  I even had one girlfriend drive two hours to bring her son to the shoot.  (thanks again Angie)  I got to meet my friend Melissa’s super cute soccer loving boy and chat with her about life after high school.  I seen some other mom’s that I hadn’t seen in awhile or just hadn’t had time to chat with them on other occasions.

I was told by several moms that it was nice to spend “special” time with a certain child, oh and I had grandma’s come with and the kids will be blessed to have that memory with them.

And another thing that I didn’t expect was how smart kids really are.   Devan’s mom asked me how Maggie was doing and said Devan talks about her all the time and how they pray for her at school.  He knew that she was going to Riley they other day and that she was having tests done.   I had several other kids that told their parents they wanted to take part in the project because they wanted to help Maggie.

I had a mom tell me how one day she was having a “rough” day and then she thought of Rachel (Maggie’s mom) and then realized that her problems weren’t all that bad.

Another thing this book has already done is showed Samantha that we need to do things for other people.  She over hears me talking all the time when I don’t realize it I have figured that out.  The other day she said she wanted to start a “Fun School” for little kids.  She said she was going to charge $2 a kid and then she was going to give Maggie the money.  (Isn’t that cute)  That is stuff we can’t just tell our kids to do, we can’t just tell them to be nice to others, we can’t tell them how important it is to think of other people.  We have to show them!

Okay, I know you guys are going nuts waiting to see pictures so I will get this published here on the blog and get to making the blog post with the kid’s pictures in it.  I will split it up into 2 posts so don’t freak out if your kid’s picture isn’t on right away.

****Also it isn’t too late to participate in the book.  You do have to schedule a regular session very soon though, I would really like to have all the pictures taken in the next few weeks.

Oh and one shot that my friend Sara took of me showing Madison how to pose…