steppin' out with otters?

don't worry, we'll get to the otters.

this week's steppin' out post is kind of a fail.  i gave my camera to sam with some miscalculated settings & the results are a couple of blown out faces.  ooops.  at least you can probably make out parker's sad "put-me-down-i-don't-want-you-to-hold-me-i-just-want-to-run-around" face.  that face?  is the reason why we didn't attempt any more pictures... it just got worse.  until he was put down & running around again.

this is just about what you'll find me wearing pretty much 95% of the time.  jeans & a t-shirt.  yup, that's my mom uniform pretty much how i've always dressed.

{linking up with mandy at harper's happenings for steppin' out saturday.  woohoo!}

our weekend was pretty sweet.  we had lots of fun visitors, lots of good food, an insanity-fitness-test-off, & i got to play photographer not once but twice.  saturday night i met up with mandy for a group mentorship session which was uh-mazing & then i also got to shoot our friends' maternity pictures.  check them out here.  love them!

sam & i ended our weekend with a walk in the park.  we got to enjoy the perfect weather & parker got to spend some time climbing on the playground & going down the slide all by himself for the first time.  sorry, i was too busy being an excited mom to get pictures of it.  but here he is making his way up to the top & gearing up for the ride back down.

oooh, the anticipation.

after the playground it was off to explore everything else.  parker enjoyed picking up & throwing rocks, dancing along park benches, & climbing over curbs.  you know, the important things.

and here's the part where there may or may not be otters.  we walked along the lake & saw three or four weird floating things that were very nessie-esque.  i'm 75% sure they were otters though, & not monsters.  although i wasn't aware there were otters in our neck of the woods & it wouldn't take much to convince me that there are monsters in that lake, so it's still up for debate.

you be the judge.

either way, parker was pretty excited about it.

that's the face i make every single time you vote for this blog.  i promise.