Some of my Best Photos

Last night I had the chance to break out my camera to shoot my niece Taylor's tee ball game. The camera has not been out of the bag for a long time and I was hoping to capture some good moments. I locked on my 50mm lens and just shot. I went home to review the pictures while Anne and Cameron went for a walk. I was actually surprised by some of the pictures I had taken. I would say my best set since I got into photography. The pictures made me realize I need to get out and shoot more. Below are some pictures of Taylor. The rest can be seen on FLICKR

Family Pizza Night

Last night was an exciting night at the Gee/Rutledge residence. I usually do the cooking, but we all worked together to create mini pizzas. Anne bought some cookbooks for me as a wedding gift and she was excited to use one of the recipes. For the most part Anne did all the cooking. I snapped some pictures of the night. One...to capture the moments. Two...to have proof that Anne really did cook. The highlight of the night was Anne telling Cameron that she cooked the pizza. Cameron quickly followed up by saying "Mommy cooked this?" As if he was surprised. The pizza was good and I think Anne was proud of her cooking skills. I was proud of her as well. Enjoy the pictures!

-Robert

Life Update

Well...it has been a crazy 3 months and I think things are somewhat slowing down. I want to blog more, but I am finding it hard to keep up. The most exciting news in my life is that I am a married man now. I married my soul mate Anne on May 16th and it was the best day of my life! All of the planning produced an unbelievable rehearsal dinner, ceremony, and reception. Anne is definitely a planner (I think she'll be a wedding planner one day). I think she would agree with me that it was a dream wedding. Looking through piles of planning notes, I still can't believe it has been almost 2 weeks since we became husband and wife....and a family. I feel like the luckiest guy in the world.

With the wedding behind us, we had to get up 4:30am the next morning to fly to Florida for our honeymoon. Let's just say we were both drained and ready to relax. A family from church let us use one of their condos on New Smyrna Beach so we had to drive from Orlando. We ended up renting a Toyota Yarus for the trip and I had some major difficulties driving it the whole time. I will never own one of those cars. So we arrived at the condo and the weather was decent, but we decided to relax and take a nap. We woke up and ended up ordering pizza from Manny's and ate out on the balcony. That was the end of day one. The weather for the next three days was not all that good. It rained every single day...to the point where the area had flood, wind, and erosion warnings. We made use of the time by relaxing and eating at some local restaurants. We were definitely ready to head back to Indiana where the weather had been nice the whole week. We also missed Cameron and wanted to see him. After 4 days, we were back home and wanted to take Cameron somewhere fun. We ended up booking a cabin in Brown County, IN because they had an indoor water park. Cameron loved the water park so much, that we went there 3 times in a 24 hour period. He was a big boy and went down the 2-3 story-high water slide all by himself. We were all exhausted after that trip and it was back to work for us on Tuesday. It was nice not having to worry about anything for a whole week.

Now that the wedding and vacation is over, Anne and I are in the process of organizing the house to make it a home. We received a ton of wedding gifts and have to find a place for them (not to mention all the stuff from my house). I'm ready to cook with our new pots, pans, and dishes. I cannot wait until things settle down even more. It seems like there is not enough time in a day to do everything. All in due time though. I do not care what I am doing as long as it is with my wife and little Cameron.

Another update in my life is that my house finally got leased. I found this out on my honeymoon so that was a great wedding gift. I wish it would have sold, but it is better than nothing in this crazy housing market. I just pray everything goes well because I never thought I would become a landlord. So no double mortgage and utility bills for us for a whole year. YAY!

Other than those two big updates, I'm just looking forward to the rest of year. We plan on taking a mini vacation the last week of July, throwing Cameron a luau-themed birthday party in August, working vacation bible school at church next month, sitting down with the wedding photographers to review our pictures, and me graduating from IWU in December. I also hope to get back into photography and playing the guitar soon.

Well that is what I've been up to lately. I will try to blog more later.

-Robert

Cameron

I haven't blogged in a long time, but I just wanted to share some pictures of Mr. Cameron. We had fun while mommy was getting her taxes done this past Saturday.