location scouting

 I hauled my kids all over town today scouting out some new locations.  Here are a couple that I really liked.  Molly wasn't really cooperating and I hated leaving Easton in the car alone so this is about all I got.

 

sisters & bro

These sweet girls are belong to the baby below.  I got to go hang out with their cute family again.  Good times folks.... now Jenn, we need to get together when we can just sit around and chit-chat.  BTW....my friend Jenn has an amazing house and has decorated it really nice.  It makes for a nice backdrop for pictures.  She has the greatest stuff like this ottoman that I drool over.  It's the most humongest (sp?) thing I've seen.....I love it!  And I love sweet M (Easton's future wife).

and how cool is this chair?  love these!

and finally with their new baby brother.  I think this is my favorite one.

random kid stuff

so funny story.  Easton is potty trained, not sure if I announced this, it is a big deal.  He's my first to go through it and I was terrified to even think about training him.  It ended up being really easy.  I waited until he was ready because I knew that if I forced him to do it, it would never happen (he's as stubborn as I am).  Anyway, long story short.  He was at preschool the other day (he goes with his cousin Brecken) and she had to go potty, so Easton of course told his teacher that he needed to go too.  Why on earth she let the two of them go in the bathroom together.  

alone. 

unsupervised. 

is beyond me.  After being in there a while, Brecken comes out and she's had an accident,  Easton had beaten her to the toilet.  Then Easton bounces into his classroom bare naked and says, "Hello Everybody"!  Man what I would have given to be there.  Anyway, this picture was inspired by an incredible photographer Rebecca Mudrick.  After I saw hers, I needed my own "honda" shot.

This is a classic look into my daily life.

This is from last weekend when we went up to the cabin with my husbands family.  Easton and his cousin Sydney had just a tad bit fun playing in the sap speckled dirt.  It was a bear to get them clean but they had fun.  I guess that's all that matters sometimes.  I constantly have to remind myself that its what kids do.  There is nothing I hate more than having dirty kids.  I really hate the grime and mess.  I hate washing their clothes afterwards and the dirt that gets trailed into my house.  It's my least favorite thing.  Anyway, I guess my point is, I have to let my kids be kids sometimes.  I need to let them splash in puddles when it rains, and dig for worms in the dirt, it's just a part of being a kid.  I liked doing it, why wouldn't they?  It's just something I have to get used to.

And a quick one of Molly, she loves talking on the phone.  She puts it up to her ear like this and says, "HELLOOOOO, howr YOUUUU".  It's got to be the cutest thing ever!

promotion closed

Thank you everyone for your response to my fall promotion!  My fall schedule is full (newborns excluded from this, I'll squeeze you in no matter what!) for the rest of the year and that will be it for 2008!  I'm so excited to get started on these sessions, it will be so much fun!  If you sent me an email to book something and we haven't yet scheduled a date, no worries, I have you on a list and will still give you the promotion package of your choice.

To those of you who missed out this go around, don't be sad.  There will be more fun things happening next year!  I love that each year I see my little business growing and changing so I look forward to what the next year will bring.  I'm so grateful to all you loyal blog readers and especially to the families I get to work with!  Here are just a few things to look forward to:

• A Client Referral Program
• High School Senior Ambassador Contest
• Another "new face" contest 

So thank you, thank you, thank you!  Oh, and leave a comment would you all?  I'd love to know who's hanging around my new blog, yup Mom, that means you, I'm still waiting :)

more sweetness

two faves from the last baby i posted.  just cuz.

something about this one, i can't put my finger on it, but i love it.  another smile out of this guy.

baby ii

I am so lucky to have so many friends having babies.  That means I get to hang out with the tiny things without having to have my own :)

So this little guy belongs to another one of my really good friends.  We don't get to hang out as often since they moved but Jenn and Code, we love ya to pieces!  Little M made it into this world with a little bit of a rough start and was in the NICU for a week with respiratory problems.  We're so glad that you are home safe and sound you handsome little man!  He is so sweet and a cute little smiler.  I think I have 2-3 good smiley images.  This expression is my favorite.

This is a little different conversion than I normally do.  Clean and simple...for all you photography nerds this is SOOC with just a slight S-curve.

This image is similar to the one above but I could help but show it, he loves having his hands in his face and he kept pulling at his hat.  I love that one eye is covered.

You guys make the cutest babies!  Congrats and I'm so happy that he's doing well.

baby

This sweet little girl's mommy is a good friend of mine.  She was the best baby to take pictures of.  We formed, shaped and molded this little one and she was as content as could be.  Thanks Jen for calling me over and letting me play.  Babies are hard work but well worth it!

If anyone is thinking about scheduling for their newborns pictures, just a reminder, try to schedule me within the first 2 weeks after the baby is born.  Reason being, they are still curly, any longer and they start to spread eagle showing all those baby parts that we try to keep hidden.  They are also more sleepy and willing to let us do more without fussing.  I keep room open in my schedule to squeeze newborns in within that time frame too, so it's easy to get an appointment.

I'm a sucker for belly buttons!

Gotta love the baby smiles!

 

for him

Easton is growing up, and along with it he is looking and acting so much older than he should.  Oh, age 3.  I think this has been the toughest age so far.  He has learned to talk back which frustrates me to no end.  He has learned phrases such as "shut-up" and he does things even though he knows better.  Good comes with the bad though.  It's so fun to watch him go to pre-school and then come home so excited to show me what he's made for me that day.  He comes home and tells me "happy butterfly mom".  He tells me he loves me "so much", I could never hear that enough.  He can be really kind and sweet (when he chooses) to his sister, which gives me hope that they will be good friends someday and that I'm actually doing something right.  He has to be the first to go into her room in the morning when she wakes up.  He walks in and say's "GOOD MORNING SWEETY" in he sweetest little voice.  He keeps me busy, it's never a dull moment when Easton is around that's for sure.  Gotta love him.

A lot of photographers have been over-saturating their color and I thought I'd play around with some vibrant color on these.  This brick wall was perfect and definitely needed something other than my normal processing.  Let me know what you think - good or bad.

Just playing around with B&W

by golly it's molly

The reason I love these pictures are because she still looks like a baby.  She is acting waaaaay too old.  Love her to pieces!

Love her sassyness!  She has a lot of it lately.