Friday Fractured Thought | Milwaukee Wedding Photographer

Actually on a Friday this time! Who-da-thunk-it?

* Casa Foreclosure's transformation from neighborhood eyesore to livable space is nearly complete! All the rooms are freshly painted, the deck is repaired and stained, window treatments are going up, we have appliances and Monday the Pièce de résistance: New carpet throughout! Can't wait to see it and yes, I will be annoying everyone with pictures once we actually move in!

* Speaking of annoying everyone, I will be sending out another mass email soon with my new contact phone number as well.

* This is a bullet point for all the Beloiters....2011 wedding planning is upon us, believe it or not! I would love to add some hometown love to my roster for next wedding season! Pass the info along if you know someone getting married in Beloit!

* So so sad about Rue McClanahan dying. Now all we have left is Betty White, and if she goes I'll be a very sad lady indeed. I love Betty White.

* I actually had to meet a bride at McDonald's today....because the coffee shop I had chosen closed at 2pm. Not a smart business move, coffee shop. Who is your target market that only needs the services of a coffee shop in the early afternoon and not after? A head scratcher.

* I'm starting to actually need maternity shirts...which is completely unfair. I'm in that "is she pregnant or does she just have a beer belly" stage of pregnancy. It's a baby belly...trust me. At least if I wear a maternity shirt I look pregnant. However, there are precious few cute maternity outfits to wear to weddings. So, forgive me summer brides if I look like I'm wearing a muu-muu all summer. I'm really not normally this fashion inept.

* Brewers......seriously? Cmon.

* Betty has been through the errand running ringer lately, with all the new house stuff and adjusting to a new town. Today I ran her around to the bank, and Hobby Lobby, and a few other stops and I promised her a stop at Toys R Us if she behaved.

Now, normally I'm not the bribing type of mom, but she has been a trooper lately and I figured if she could make it through all those boring trips whine-free she deserved a treat.

She was good, so we ran over to the toy store and I told her she could pick one toy. The Holy Grail of offers to toddlers. She quietly and with purpose went down every aisle, passing the baby dolls (though she did poke a few in the stomach) and Spongebob toys. We ended up in the boy aisles....and she lands on a Triceratops about the size of a loaf of bread.

" I want THIS!"
"You sure about that?"
"Yes!" She cuddled the spiky animal.
Gotta love a kid who doesn't conform to gender roles, even when I try to force babydolls down her throat (Look Betty! This one cries!!)

Though, when we got the dinosaur home she DID clip a tiny pink bow on one of it's spiky things...so there is a pink, frilly girl in her yet!

Betty Claire, Action Toddler: golfing, Flashdancing, holding tea-parties!

"He's SO CUTE!" Betty says!

Now, this is, admittedly, an absolutely terrible picture. The composition stinks, I cut off her fingers, no catchlights...just not a keeper....but look.at.that.face.

Coming up this weekend: TWO weddings....stay tuned for sneak peeks of the lovliness!