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Congratulations to the Troublemakers. They won the 16 and Under Fall Softball Tournament in Harrisburg.


Cindy's eldest, Brittany plays on the team. That's her to the right of the trophy. She got three doubles and seven RBIs in the last two games.

Cindy was there as says that everyone on the team did what they needed to do to make it happen.

Way to go girls!

Okay. This was the big test.

I decided to use a green marker to write "Does this work?" right in the middle of the white board we painted on our wall a few days ago. Then I drew an Expo marker so I could feel like Bob Ross.

To my horror - it wouldn't erase!! I tried the Expo eraser. I tried the Expo spray stuff. I tried elbow grease.











But the white board isn't a total loss. I tried the blue marker and it worked. I don't know why blue would be any different from the other colors, but I'm glad it is. I'm also glad I got another chance to feel like Bob Ross. I wish I could have found a cadmium yellow marker to try.





"Use blue. It works." - Bob Ross

Look out Richard Simmons!




There's a new fitness guru in town.

It's important to get a client warmed up before his or her shoot. In this case, Aaron chose windmills to get the blood pumping.

He's clearly not as limber as he used to be. Watch those knees bend. Aren't your legs supposed to remain straight during windmills? I can't remember.

Little Photography is all about innovation. In our photography. In our products. Especially in our white boarding.

We do a lot of brainstorming and our lighting bolts of brilliance need a large enough board to contain it all. So when Aaron saw this product, we were all over it.

I painted a 4x7 foot rectangle of it in our office and a roughly 2X3 rectangle of it in our framing room.You have to wait two days for it to cure, so we'll let you know how it goes when we try to write on it for the first time.

So exciting!

We finally got rid of the gigantic computer monitor from our front desk. It was so huge that we could barely see clients when they came in.

Cindy grew up around here, and in the process she learned some Stanly County slang that I've never heard before. I grew up in Monroe, near New Salem; so I have a pretty well established arsenal of country slang, but she whips out phrases I've never heard all the time.

So I've decided to publish Cindy Slang exclusively on the Secret Blog. Leave a comment and let me know if you've heard these phrases before. I sure haven't. Also, let me know if you have any country slang of your own that you're particularly proud of.


Cindy Slang for September 15:

"Gully washer" - a heavy rain storm

"she could tear up an anvil with a rubber hammer" - she's prone to tear things up

"he about laid a gold egg" - not really sure what this one means

"I was squawking" - I was crying

Kennedy is Cindy's youngest daughter and yesterday was her birthday. She turned 10-years-old. Double digits.


Here she is shortly before a giant baseball rolled over her.




Here she is with big sis, Brittany.

We had a little boy who didn't want to smile today. Aaron leapt into action and onto a tiny tractor. Luckily I was able to capture a few shots.

I have been on a tour of Charlotte and its outlying areas hand delivering Fall on the Farm invitations and I have the arm to prove it.

I placed each invitation in people's paper boxes as I drove through select neighborhoods. To do this I had to extend my left arm into the sunlight roughly 3,000 times.

This is my right arm, pasty white as usual.