Love photographing families!

I love to photograph families!

There is so much love and not just with Mommy and Daddy, siblings as well!

Check out this great looking family!

Enjoy your peek!

I heart faces-Week 23- Sepia Photo Challenge

I am going to participate in both categories this week for adult and kids for i heart faces! I am so excited. If you haven't checked them out, DO IT NOW!!!!!! They are GREAT!

Adult Category

I took this photo last fall for a family generation of girls. These two ladies are sisters and I just love this photo. Actually my daughter asked me about these two while I was editing and I will never forget what she asked, "Will we (her and her sister) be sisters forever or just for a little while?" Nope, sisters are FOREVER sweetheart!

Kids Category

This photo was taken this spring. I love to photograph little girls in their tutu's! I think it is just so cute. This little one took off running, but turned around just to see if we were watching, and she had her tongue out! It was too cute!

Can you guess what we are up to now?

It's been a while since my last posting, sorry, but I think this one picture says it all what I have been up to.

Yep you guessed it, potty training!

Someone please tell me why I actually thought my last kid would be easy! AAAAAAAAAAA He is anything but easy with this last "baby" hurdle. If we can get past this then we will be to the point of no more bag needed when we go somewhere! How great is that feeling when you reach that point. Seemed like every time I got to that point I was pregnant again. This will really put me in the "grown up" kids category after we get this conquered. I can hardly wait, maybe that is why I am pushing so hard for this and he is pushing back so hard!

How cool is this!!!

Last weekend I took one year pictures of my friends daughter (I can't believe it has been a year), I also made her an adorable pillowcase dress for her birthday (yes it was about a month late, but hey better late then never!). While we were taking pictures, we had her try on the dress and snap a few shots of her in it. She is tooooooo stinking cute!!!! And those blue eyes are to die for!

Anywhoo, the dress and my friends daughter was featured on the blog of the dress designer, Frog Legs and Ponytails. Isn't that the cutest name!!!! LOVE IT! You should check out her blog today! If you are interested in purchasing the pattern, just head over to her etsy shop and get it!

More pictures of this little cutie pie to come soon!

Look what I've been up to...

....making a rag quilt! These are so fun to make! I love matching up the fabrics to design a unique rainbow of colors and styles. I made the two loveys, which are a smaller size for travel or just to snuggle with. They measure about 15"x15". The other is more of a crib size quilt. I made the last one for a friends baby gift. It measures 24"x 25".

I am going to list the 2 loveys in Etsy if you are interested.

Maybe you want to design one of your own,
let me know what colors you want and I'll do the rest!

FRONT

BACK (fun soft minky)
FRONT
BACK (fun soft minky dots)
FRONT
BACK (fabric back)

What a family!

I had the honor of photographing 3 generations for a family. It was a very smooth and rather fast session even with the number of people we had.

This first photo is where it all started, when they fell in love!


Here is the whole family. What a great bunch to work with! Check out how great they coordinated together! Everything flows but you can see each family! Great choice!


What a family! Thank you for letting me be apart of this time in your lives!

Ashley's new do!

Mother's Day weekend we all went home to South GA to visit the family. While we were at the Mall, Rachel said she wanted to get her hair cut. She has been asking me for a while to cut it, so I finally decided we would go for it since we didn't have Jacob it would be the perfect opportunity. Rachel got a simple bob just at the chin. Cute Cute Cute on her!!!

Ashley of course wanted hers cut as well, gotta do everything the older sister does! Ashley got about the same but I asked the lady to stack Ashley's in the back. Well she got a whack job on her hair. It was terrible, like the lady used a weed whacker on Ashley. Once we got home I took Ashley to my stylist to fix her hair. She did a GREAT job as usual! I love Ashley's hair, it is very inspiring!

I don't know what she is doing in this photo but I thought it was such a funny face and kind of scary also!

Aaaaaa that is so much better. That is the Ashley smile I know and love!

Miracle Moment

Can you believe the picture below!?!?!? BOTH, yes I said BOTH girls, fell asleep on the couch this past Saturday. We had a long Friday night at the church and then the girls and I went to a birthday party at one of those run, jump, run, and jump some more play places. Once we got home they were pretty beat but would never admit it. Michael told them to sit with him on the couch and just relax for a little while. After about 20 minutes both girls fell asleep. Ashley I wasn't too surprised about, hence my posting on her last week falling asleep in her closet. She falls asleep so often just watching SpongeBob while I cook dinner, but Rachel, well that is another story! She actually feel asleep first, even more amazing! I don't know if it was the birthday party or Michael making them sit on the coach and watch golf with him, but whichever it was praise the Lord for both!!!! I did my happy dance and gave my praise and thanks to the Lord above for complete silence!

PS Check out the sweat on Rachel's head. YUCK!!! That girls sweats like a boy! :)
And Ashley's hair is dry as a bone!

Field Day Whoo!

Oh I use to LOVE this day at school, the sweat, the competition, the ribbons, the FUN!!!! Rachel had her Field Day last week. She was the green team. She had a blast, even despite the rain. There are times when she hates the camera and other times when she loves it. She was definitely LOVING it this time. Posing all by herself, even giving me an action shot of her running!

Such a beautiful and FUN family

This was a rescheduled session. About an hour before the session was to begin, it started to sprinkle. I was wondering if this session was actually ever going to happen. After chatting with the mom, we decided to stick it out and try to get the shots. I think that decision was a good one and paid off!
It actually seemed like it stopped while we did our shoot for an hour, must have been that praying to God I was doing to hold off the rain for just a bit, PLEASE GOD!!!! :) He is so good! The youngest was great for the first half, but quickly lost attention and soon we lost her toward the end of the shoot.

Here is your peek into what is to come! Enjoy and I'll send everything later!
Thanks for a great shoot!!!!


I told her there was a monkey in my lens and she had to look really hard to see him jumping around. Check out the intense look on her face searching for that monkey. Too funny!


Oh what we will do as parents to get our child's attention. :)

Fix-It Friday!

I finally decided to participate in a Fix-It Friday from I heart faces. If you are not familiar with what that is, I'm gonna let you know now! I heart faces is a blog for anyone, amateur or professional, who just loves taking pictures. It has great tips and suggestions for all levels and every Friday they post a photo to see how you "Fix-It." So without further anticipation that I am sure you all have :) , here is my "Fix-It" photo!

BEFORE

AFTER #1

AFTER #2

(Couldn't help myself, had to edit twice!)

Crazy Hair Day!

Rachel had crazy hair day to help raise money for a needy child at school. She brought in her $1 to wear her hair crazy. Well this is what we came up with when she left for school. Yikes, pretty crazy I would say. She actually wore it like this all day. How would I know, because this is what she looked like when she got of the bus in the afternoon! HAHAHA

Sleepy girl~

Ashley has such a hard time keeping up with the family or maybe I should say Rachel. I think we all have a hard time keeping up with Rachel's energy. I found Ashley asleep in her closet about 5 in the afternoon, well, Jacob actually found her.

"Ashy, wake up, Ashy Ashy WAKE UP!!!" said Jacob. :)

Girls just wanna have fun!

We headed south for Mother's Day this year. And it was warm down there! While Jacob was napping one day, Rachel and Ashley wanted to cool off with their new swimsuits and new haircuts!

You may notice I have been playing with my photos and creating different effects. I would love to hear what you think, yeah or nay, love them or hate them, tell me, tell me!

Prop Insanity

This is just what it sounds like, a great site to find photography props or just cool stuff for you and your baby. What that's not what you were thinking?!?!

It's insanity, hence prop insanity! Check it out!!! www.propinsanity.com

Bokeh please~

This is a wish item for me! I have added it to my photography wish list, but have a chance to win this item through a great blog iheartfaces! Very neat site, check it out if you have a chance. Bokeh is offered through Alien Skin Software. I WANT IT! heehee

Oh the places I could go with this software...........

Little sisters

These two little girls are just ADORABLE!!!! They were a joy to photograph, so easy! They did all their own poses all on their own. It was too cute! All I did was say look at the camera and they would switch into model mode! Took all I could from laughing at these little cuties!

I got so many great shots that I could hardly pick 5 favs for the blog, so I choose 8 this time. Oops!

Enjoy your sneak peak Momma and Grandma (she was there to enjoy the moment also) and thanks for letting me photography your beautiful girls!

Cousins

How good looking is this bunch of cousins! The 3 girls came to visit the boy for a week of fun, fun, fun! I think that was accomplished.

You might remember this ladies...

You might remember these ladies from a maternity session I did about a month ago. Sister Isabella has arrived! Just check out how cute she is! A little doll, I think that is what older sister thinks. You can tell she adores her and was very protective of sister, even with momma.
It was very cute!

Little sis' looks a lot like older sis'.

Older sister wanna to wear the flower head band as well!

Loving sisters!

Spring Family Fun

This family was so easy to shoot.
I think we finished in about 40 minutes!
The weather was PERFECT, maybe a little chilly, but bearable. Maybe that is why we finished early, hum.....

This one is my favorite! I am a huge fan of color, but I love how dramatic this shot looks in black and white. Maybe its her little tongue hanging out while she was running who knows, but
I LOVE IT.

Little bitty baby!

I had the privilege this weekend of photographing one of my youngest subjects yet!

Please meet Hadley.

Is she not one of the cutest little week one babies you have ever seen?!?!

She was an angel!

Not very sleepy but very cooperative.

I got most of the shots I wanted, so no complaints here.

Enjoy your sneak peek momma if you have time! :)

Fun at lunch!

Ashley and Jacob decided to have a hot dog for lunch Wednesday afternoon. As I was getting something out of the frig, Jacob noticed the olives and started begging, "som pease, som pease, som pease." Since he asked so sweetly, I said SURE! I had to suck the peminto out of each olive for both kiddos so they could stick them on their fingers. It was quite a funny event for all of us.

On Friday while the oldest was in school.....

Ashley, Jacob, and I tried out a new "toy" of mommy's. I was thinking of making these for the next snack day. They are rice crispy lollipops! How cute and fun are these! I got the "toy," which was a pan at Michael's. You can make it with either your favorite cookie recipe or rice crispy recipe to make lollipops. I used rice crispy recipe but used strawberry marshmallows, which gave it a little different yummy flavor. We all loved them! Only thing was that the crispy treat was a little too soft to really stay on the stick. I might need to do some more mushing around the stick to make it stronger, but they kept falling off while we were eating.

Next time we are going to add some peanut butter to our regular recipe. I think that will be YUUUUUUUMMY!

Baby, Baby, Oh Baby!

My first maternity photo session, oh I was so excited. It was a great session and look how beautiful she is. Easy as pie! Thanks Kim, I enjoyed it!

Decisions, decisions, decisions!

There are times when I LOVE color in a picture, just makes the photo feel very rich and like a piece of artwork. Then there are other times when I LOVE black and white photos. B/W makes photos feel very traditional and like timeless classics that will make the moment last forever.

The kids were playing with daddy again this evening and I snapped a few shots. I can't decided which I like better the color or B/W. They really look great in both settings.
(And yes, poor Jacob is wearing a pink helmet, borrowed from his sister of course.)
Maybe I should go with the B/W. :)

What do you think?