Happy Turkey Day, everyone!

9Hope everybody had a wonderful Thanksgiving - my family certainly did! We did Turkey Day yesterday with my parents, here at our house. Then my parents decided to take both kids overnight while they went to stay at Kim's house (to do "real" Thanksgiving today with her and Danielle).

Before I get to the pictures and fun, I'd like to copy our MySpace announcement here for you guys - if you're local to Bandera, go ahead and book your kiddos!

Good evening mates! I hope you guys are ready to rock Thanksgiving break! It's going to be a fun week, no doubt.


I wanted to share first with our MySpace mates that we are doing our first-ever Children's Christmas Portraits special event on Sunday, Nov. 30, beginning at 1 p.m. by appointment only. As always, you guys get first wind of our best specials and offers. We're timing this event to help you get your prints back in time to send out with Christmas cards to family and friends!
The format is the same as our Easter special, which was a huge success. You pay $20 for your session, which includes a free 8x10, and you're welcome to purchase additional prints during your post-shoot viewing. And as always with our Uniquely Wonderful 100% satisfaction guarantee, there is no risk to come in and shoot!
Jacklen will be photographing all the kiddos for this event. Her Lil' Outlaws children's division of Outlaw Photography has really taken off this fall. She is hard at work as I type this building props for this awesome Christmas special event.
The shoot will be held at our new studio location in the Athletic Academy office next door to Taquerias Aguascalientes in the strip mall in Bandera.
We are limiting this event to 12 sessions, so book your shoot today! Our official announcement will go out to all our clients and on our web sites this weekend.
To book, e-mail James@outlawphotography. net, or call 830-688-1564.
Thank you for supporting Outlaw!
James Taylor
The Outlaw Photographer
OutlawPhotography. net
830-688-1564


And now for the boring stuff LOL

The kids made handprint/footprint Turkeys out of construction paper on Tuesday - they are SO cute!

And yesterday while we were making T-Day dinner, McCayla got to help me crumble the cornbread for the dressing. It's a family tradition - my mom has pictures of me helping her, at just about every age from birth to adulthood. McCayla has helped me since she was 7 months old :)

..and we got to spend a little time with my parents. They live a couple of hours away, so it's always great when they get a chance to come on out to lil' ol' Tarpley :D


Dinner was delicious - turkey, dressing, cranberry sauce, green beans, crusty bread, mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes, deviled eggs, lemon meringue pie, and pumpkin cheesecake. Yum-O!!!

Today I went out to pick the kids up from Kim's house - while we were there, her cat Tux decided that my mom was a pirate.. Arrrgh!
(and I must add, while I was at Kim's I was lucky enough to indulge in her apple pie and deeeeeelicious fudge!!)

I took some product photos on my way home, but they're on James' camera so I'll add those when he gets them to me - I'm THRILLED with how they came out, and I hope Jen (the owner of the products) likes them as much as I do! My favorites were down at "Heaven" - and any of you Bandera locals know exactly where that is!

Then I came home and worked (and worked and worked..) on my big letter order. I guaranteed it to ship by Saturday so I'm trying to work on it as much as possible. And today really helped - I'm almost done!
Here's the progress so far:

**John Deere "M" and weathered black "C"**

**"Family" in weathered hunter/cream


**monogram kCc in pink/brown elephants** (it's sitting in the wrong order)

**monogram cCk to match the Aloha bedding from Pottery Barn**

and then separate from that order, I'm working on a Oakland Raiders themed wooden cross for my friend Terri - it's a Christmas present for her hubby, JT.

More later, maybe! :) (edited to add this little doohickey I stole from my dad's Opera page)