Some pictures of "us"

We had wanted to get some "professional photos" of Carl and me together, so we asked if Jimmy or Regina knew of anyone who would do pictures... one of their friends from church, Phyliss, does photography and came over a few days ago to take pictures of us. We are so happy with the results!

Phyliss looked for places that were "interesting" - this one was in the big barn on the steps up to the hay loft... you can see that there were a lot of "things" around us...

But we loved this pose and this photo the best!

We tried an "American Gothic" reproduction pose, but... I don't think we achieved it! (We didn't remember much about what was in the painting other than a pitchfork.)

Here is a progression -- next to a small trailer with small rectangular hay bales on it and large round bales in the back.

Once Phyliss edited it down - so nice!

Then I got up on the hay bales on the trailer...

Phyliss said that this background made it look like I had a "halo" (a big round bale behind me) - I said it was more likely a "hay-lo"!

Again, Phyliss' edited version looks so nice!

Phyliss had done some research on Pinterest for some pose ideas - this was one from there...

I think this may have been another Pinterest pose.

Another "series" - we were walking off into the sunset...

 But we decided to come back!

Then she did a few shots beside Gracie -- in these first two you can just see Miss Doozie peeking around in the background on the right.

We enjoyed the experience (although it was VERY hot) and we are so grateful to have the pictures!