It's been a long time...

I can't believe I didn't blog in July at all! Wow...I'm a slacker. It's been really, REALLY busy with work for both of us, photoshoots, travel, etc. In between, we've done some fun stuff with the kids, celebrated Sean's birthday and now, we're preparing for school to start for both Dec and Harper.

Here's a little bit of a catch up. Note: all of these pics were taken with my iPhone. Now that I'm doing more photoshoots I find that it's easier (and fun) to take every day shots with my phone. I still bust out the camera for some stuff but generally, I'm not lugging it around as much which is actually pretty nice.

Enjoy the marathon blog post!

In June, Dec and Sean went to the USA Soccer game versus Panama. In true Doherty fashion, they dressed as Captain America and got lots of attention. The loss was pretty impactful to Dec -- he still talks about it and when ever we play soccer the opposing player is always Panama.

Took this of Harp, one Friday night. It seemed to be a good representation of how we all felt after a long week.

Sean went to VA for Shan Shan's 30th. While he was there, the kids and I checked out AirHeads. This is the kids with their game faces on :)

Just happened to be a good capture of the melt down that occurs at least once a day. She is drama. 

Cow Appreciation Day at our VERY favorite place. Need I say more :)

Just looking cute before church :)

I was in Boston for work and got to see my second cousin, Jack. We figured that we hadn't see each other since I was 6 or so. We had a fun time touring through Boston and catching up.

In NYC for work and saw the Manhattan "Hinge" -- the sunset lines up with the East/West streets exactly. Pretty awesome!

We went to an Arena Football Game and got awesome seats. Kids had a blast and ended up on the big screen a couple times (dancing).

Kids sporting their shades and pretending to love each other.

This is one of my favorite shots in a while. We went out in rain jackets expecting a standard afternoon thunderstorm. When it didn't happen we busted out the hose and it led to this.

Date night for Sean's birthday. Dinner and Captain America. (I paid extra for the rainbow :))

We spent the rest of Sean's birthday weekend in Orlando. Things didn't go exactly has planned due to weather but we went to SeaWorld and Aquatica. I HIGHLY recommend Aquatica...it's definitely the best water park I've ever been too. The kids LOVED it! And our hotel had their own little water park with an amazing pool. Lots of water and lots of fun.

Captain America cake, of course. Kids helped me decorate.

We've been teaching Dec about thinking of others, sharing, being grateful, etc. He had a chart where he earned stickers and when he got to the end he could pick out a toy. He got a Transformer :)

Jen and I have been trying to skype FOREVER. It finally happened. Loved seeing Susannah and Nicholas. Love them!

We spend most Saturday/Sunday afternoons (when we're home) in the pool. These kids are fish. Seriously.

One Friday night, Dec REALLY wanted to wear Christmas PJs. It just so happened that the Saturday morning following we randomly decided to go to Dunkin Donuts for breakfast (not something we've ever done before). Yes, we let him wear Christmas PJs to DD and eat a donut FULL of sugar. It really was like Christmas. 

Another random Saturday or Sunday but I LOVE tis pic. 

Funny story behind this pic. As Declan was playing with his logos, we had this conversation:

ME: "Dec, what are you building?"

DEC: "A meeting"

ME: "A meeting" (perplex and suddenly concerned that Sean and I talk too much about our day jobs in front of our 4 year old)

DEC: "Yeah, a meeting"

ME: "Who's at the meeting?"

DEC: "You and Daddy...and your friends"

ME: "What are we doing at the meeting?"

DEC: "Praying" 

ME: (thinking...thank goodness we took the kids to church that day or knows what he would have said) -- "What are we praying about?"

DEC: "God"

ME: "That's nice, Declan" (and walking away...thought I'd leave while we were having good thoughts about meetings :))

Dec's been working on his name...he's getting better and doing an good job working on it! (Sorry, I don't know how to rotate the pic)

If I can find more time, I'll try to post fourth of July pics and some recent ones of the kids (that I didn't take with the iPhone). Stay tuned.

Hope everyone is having an AWESOME summer :)