Summertime, delicious-ain't-so-nutritious, summertime. I've been so guilty of taking the easy route drive-thru for mealtimes. The heat wave that's beseiged the Austin area is quite unwelcome and I so hate to complain, but really... if temps are already in the 100s how are we ever going to live until October when temps have been known to stay in the 100s then??  You think I jest but when you don't hear from me perhaps you should send out the search parties and comb the hot pavement for a shriveled up K-Ro (that's me). I wonder what my obit will say. I wonder if there will be anyone alive in Austin to read it. <Sigh> Nobody said the livin' was especially easy, but nobody said it would be this hard. Oh take me back to the staaarrt. (coldplay lyrics)

Without further ado from the comforts of my home studio AC, I now present to you the loveliest of families in a more formal set up than usual, but sometimes that's what it takes to document a family of many branches. I consider all my client families dear friends upon completion of our sessions. I just love my job to bits -- working with all shapes and sizes and attitudes and preconceived notions and best of all love.

Enjoy the sneaky peek and say cool! I mean that -- the cool part -- from the bottom of my heart. I love you, man. Choose Life and Live on strong.

Incidentally, "choose life" is another motto in my home. I use it whenever my daughter, Rosa Jane, is choking on her steak.  "Choose life, kid! Keep breathing. Fight for it!" and it always seems to work to our advantage... so far. Anything can happen!

(I really hope you can sense my dark sense of humor from over there at your computer. I'm practically laughing my head off. Blame my dad.  He always said you could drown in a teaspoon of water. He's a family practitioner and his laughter echos through the office with the sicker his patients tell him they are. Then everybody is laughing and the pain o' life seems to be a little bit less.)