Severs Corn Maze - Family Fun with Verizon

Every fall, we have a few 'traditions' if you will.

One of those traditions is Sever's Corn Maze!

We just love heading out to Sever's as a family, and this year - 

We brought friends!

Thanks to our good friend Albert from Provident Partners, 

we were able to spend an afternoon at Sever's Corn Maze, with friends.

Albert is someone who likes pictures and videos as much as myself!

Even though I feel like a goof where video is involved...

I agreed to be interviewed, in a corn field!

Albert set up a little tutorial by local photographer Cary Rothschild ~ 

A person can never have too many tips and pointers for taking good photos, 

so we sat on haybale benches and learned a thing or two or ten.

After that, we wandered the corn maze for a pit ~ 

(Fun fact, Corn Mazes Stress. Me. Out!)

Sever's Corn Maze has this amazing Corn Pit.

This may sound weird to some of you, reading in other parts of the country - but here in the great state of Minnesota, in the fall, one of the favorite past times, is jumping in, swinging into, playing in...giant pits of corn!

Albert asks me about my photo taking...

And here's the thing, important things happen in life every. single. day.

For me, it's important not just to document the 'milestones' if you will.

Sure, new Babies, Birthdays, & Band Concerts are important, 

but so are lots of other things...

I'm not always comfortable in my own skin, getting in front of the camera, 

but it's so so sooo important.

I try my best to do it a couple/few times each month, and I document that here.

I cannot tell you how many times I've read back on my very own blog & said 

'oh my gosh! remember that! I totally forgot that!'

That's why this here blog serves such a HUGE purpose for me and for my family.

We can look back and see that we came, we saw, we conquered.

Gone are the days of developing pictures a couple of times a year.

Take pictures every. single. day!!

Anyway - back to Sever's Corn Maze...

The day got away from us, and we ran out of time to do more of the amazing things out there...

But we did stop and visit a few of their cool exhibits...

The day, like the year has also done...

completely ran away from us...

but we had a great time.

And now, on to the next not-so-big but HUGE adventure!

If you'd like to see the finished product that Albert produced...

Here it is!

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*** I was not compensated for this post, however, our admission to Sever's Corn Maze was covered, as was the use of various Verizon 4G phones to snap these photos. *** 

Project Me. Project You.

It's a really tiny space, this world wide web.

Oh sure, it's big and vast and endless...but it's also a really tiny space.  When something is 'big' - it's really big. Things go 'viral' ~ as in, 259 of your 265 friends on Facebook have all reposted it in the last 24 hours. This can be good, or this can be bad, depending on what it is I suppose.

This week, there's been an amazing, remarkable 'Stand Up to Bullying' story...
I just LOVED seeing her response, her powerful words, and all of the media attention and positive response that has ensued. I love that she has used her position to speak out ~ I hope her words sink in to those who may be silently struggling...

The other 'viral', if you will, story, going around (and around and around and around) my social media streams, is another awesome, feel good story.

The story 'Mom stays in the picture'

~ Sooo many people can relate to that one...young, old, thin, not thin...
I bet everyone has felt that way at one point or another - some of us, far more than others...

This is not a new subject to me...

It was almost three years ago that I launched a blog, devoted specifically to getting in the picture with one or both of my kids.

I call it
Project Me. Project You.

My first post was December 15th, 2009.

And when it started out, I had good intentions of taking a picture of me and the kids every day...and we did really good for an entire couple of months...but then one day I forgot...
And one day it just got old, taking the same shot, at arms length...looking pretty much the same day in, day out...

Sometimes the participants were not willing, but then other times they were...

Some of the pictures turned out really well ~
And some not so much ~

Some should barely even count, but they do...
at least in my world...

Some days we include the Daddy in the pictures, though he tends to be in far more pictures anyway - since it's usually Mom with the camera...

This blog, these blogs, they are all about the kids, one day, knowing that I was here, with them.

I want them to know how we might have looked, together...the good, the bad, the ugly.
And trust me...there is a lot of good, a lot of bad, and a lot of ugly ~ but there is also a lot of great too.

A lot of smiles.
A lot laughs.
A lot of tears.

It's what life is all about ~ regardless of what is staring back at us in the mirror, regardless of what your memory card captures...

It's what your heart captures...

Case in point -
we couldn't get a decent picture to save our souls last weekend at a family wedding -

 But I suppose that depends on who you ask...

Or when you ask it...

I don't care how tired and run down and frumpy I look - (I was tired, I was run down, I was frumpy. It's life.

I care that we were together, that we had a great time...and that one day, we will look back at these pictures and say 'Remember when...............'

Without pictures, at least some pictures, we cannot possibly remember every moment. Some of the quiet, mundane, unimportant moments are some of the best ones ~

& I'll do what I can to document at least some of them!

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