Birthday Girl

I finally finished up 3 year photos of my little monster today, so figured I'd jump on and share a few! We did some in her bedroom a couple weeks ago, I always need to think of creative locations for my own kids' photos, since the poor things get their pix taken so often! Today we just went outside and jumped on front of a blooming PJ rhody for some color in the background!





These are from a recent session. They came for some 1st Communion photos (from the Monthly Special I'm running, if anyone is interested) and it was such a beautiful dress! She looked like a little bride. Her little sister jumped in for a couple too...the photo of the two of them may need to be recreated 20 years from now on her actual wedding day!!!

Time Flies

Who can believe it's mid-March already?! I can't. Mid-March means that my baby girl just turned "3", and my son turns 6 next month. My daughter's cowgirl birthday party is this weekend. I actually haven't done her 3 year photos yet (Geez, what's her Mom do for a living anyway?), but I will share her invitation which shows her in her snazzy cowgirl outfit! Pretty cute, huh? The little talk bubble says "Don't make me come after y'all".



I also had another killer maternity session yesterday, so SO much fun! I just love sessions like this, there are just too many incredible shots to even show them all to you. We did a lot of different things, she just completely rocked it! This is her 4th baby, and I swear I didn't edit a single stretch mark. Sigh.

Sneak Peeks

In case you know of anybody, I am going to be looking for several "Senior Reps" come Springtime. These will be local high school students who are willing to "play model", get lots of photos taken at no expense, and then help me recruit people from their schools for Senior portraits for the Fall. This would have to be someone who likes to "play dress up", considers themself photogenic, and isn't scared of the camera...I have lots of ideas in mind that I want to try out! If you know of anybody in any local schools, please forward them my website and/or email address. This is a niche I'm very excited to start doing more of!

These are from a couple of sessions from the past 2 days, just quick little sneak peeks, and then I'm off to edit some more of them! I had another ballerina in the house today!!!

Happy Valentines Day

I was weeding through some albums tonight, and thought I'd post some of my personal favorites of the past year of my own little Valentines. Some of my favorites are on my website already, so I'll spare you those.

Stay tuned...I'm going to be posting my favorite client images of 2007 pretty soon, with a poll attached to see what everyone's favorite is!!! The owner of the winning image will get a FREE 8x10 of that image, and a gift certificate for another free 8x10 of their favorite shot from their next session!



My son and one of his good friends this past Summer.




A girl after my own heart, she loves her Sox hat!

Slacking

Keeping up to day with my blog was seriously one of my New years Resolutions. But you know how those things go, right?

My daughter started ballet recently, so I of course had to put her the grueling process of some snazzy photos in her ridiculously cute little outfit. This first one is my favorite, even though it doesn't scream "her" to me...the 2nd one does that moreso!







This little guy had the funnest little personality!



I have more to add, but this is about all the time I have for now...check back soon!

Happy New Year (and my favorite Holiday card)!

What an insane end to the year it was, lots of fun! And a tad of stress, I'll admit to that. I hope everyone had a wonderful Holiday, here's to a Healthy & Happy New Year for us all!

We had an oh-so-exciting night last night, we stayed home with the kids and fondued, played Connect 4, and watched a movie together. I woke up at 10:30pm, and all 4 of us were konked out on the sofa together, kind of cute...kind of pathetic! Such is life, and I'd have it no other way!

The year started off with a "bang". Let me explain first, before I get reported to the "Bad-Mom-Police". My Father-In-Law was one of the first Jamestown "Penguin Plunge"-ers, some 32 years ago. My husband has been going in for maybe 25 years now. If you are unfamiliar, a very large group of fruitcakes jump into the freezing cold ocean on 12 noon New Years Day...to raise money for the Special Olympics. For those of you wondering, I've only done this myself once, in high school, back when a bathing suit and I went well together in 35 degree weather. I have always told my husband that when my son turned 5, I would agree to his doing the Penguin Plunge IF and ONLY IF he wanted to. (Between you and I, I had my doubts that a 5 year old, let alone MY 5 year old, would actually choose to do this).

But today my 5 year old chose to...he went into the water, did a cannonball, and came back out. Oddly, he didn't complain of being cold...he was more annoyed with that itchiness you get after being in the salt water. I was more concerned with warming my little man afterwards than taking my camera back out in the rain to get an "After" shot, but here is the "Before".



Sorry Santa! Wow did he get an earful that day. She wanted a kitchen, some cinnamon toast (yes, toast), and some clothes for her baby...and she made sure Santa knew all of this! Doesn't she kind of look like she wants to backhand him here???!


One of my final clients of 2007, such a precious shot!


And DRUM ROLL please............
My favorite Holiday card of 2007!!!


I obviously changed the names for privacy reasons. This card just cracks me up every time I look at it! It kind of summarized what the session was like, and Mom said it summarizes what their house is like...so we ran with that, and I LOVE how original it is!

You just have to love people with a great sense of humor! Happy 2008!

Hustle & Bustle

Don't panic, but there's only 2 1/2 weeks until Christmas! What the heck, when did that happen?! Monday is officially my very last session, so I'll be kicking it into high gear, getting orders done and to everybody. For those needing cards, we should get cracking and have them ordered by midweek this week. For those needing prints before the Holiday, I'd like to have everything ordered by the end of the week. If you had a session the second half of this week, I'm almost done!

Just a couple to share, then I must edit a few more, shower and get to a Christmas party!


Had to share this because it's festive...and she has some rockin' baby blues!


For those of you that stalk my blog (you know who you are, and I still find it hysterical that anyone even reads/looks at this), you may recognize this as the 34 week pregnant woman who I said I wanted to kick in the shin because she looked so good pregnant! This is her new baby girl, just a few weeks old!


And one my favorite clients' little ones! The younger one is the baby on my home page with the beautiful blue eyes...just a little bigger now!