you never know…

The other night my family and I decided to venture out to our town square and look at the Christmas decorations before they were taken down. We hadn’t been to see them yet and it was the 2nd of January, so we knew they were coming down soon. We went up and sat in the sleigh and hung out with the kids and during our visit up there met two different groups of people, which we really enjoyed talking with.

And of course I snagged a few pics for them… I always feel for people when I see moms and dads or one person always stepping out of the photos to hop behind the camera, thus making them end up with no photos of them all together. The first group, one of the gals is an aspiring professional photographer and we talked shop (and about Vampire Diaries, which I have recently fallen addicted to) and of course I loved that! And the family we met afterwards had several mutual friends with us and needed family photos soon and they run an athletic business that has rec teams for kids, something I had just been talking to my hubby about for our kids (& of course their kids and our kids hit it off and wore themselves out… I’m pretty sure they all slept really well that night). How crazy is all that? Just in a small trip to look at Christmas lights… You never know who you might meet or what opportunities you may come into just being open and friendly to anyone you meet, even in a small last minute decision to do something simple –  Anywho, since I’m pledging to maintain my blog with you guys, I thought I’d share a couple photos from that night and the awesome people that we met.