I decided to take the kids to the park early this morning and we had so much fun. That’s the great part of taking several weeks off from the business side of photography. As much as I love my job, sometimes it feels so good to just take my camera and the kids to the park and have a good time. I was looking forward to a little good outdoor cooperation from both Ty and Taryn, but Ty’s plans changed quick when his best friend that lives down the street showed up at the park. So he ditched Taryn and I at the swings and took off with Cade to the monkey bars. I didn’t dare follow with the camera, […]

I am loving Ty being out of school. So is Taryn. I managed to catch a few while they were busy playing with their new Christmas toys in the den this morning. Imagine my delight when I saw these pop up during the download! Not technically perfect, but it’s so them, playing, telling secrets and showin’ a little love. Makes the Mommy in me go “awwwww”. I always worried about Ty having that only child syndrome, but he doesn’t. He totally loves Taryn. But the biggest surprise in having two children? Seeing them interact and watching how much they love one another, they treat each other as a gift and I just love that!

I promised photos of the jewelry I am now offering to clients (and that I gave as Christmas gifts to all the Grandma’s in the family). I was planning on taking just a few casual shots to post on the blog but last night I was contacted by the owner of the jewelry company. I had sent her a copy of the photograph of the ornament in the previous post thanking her and she asked me to do a product shoot with the pieces I have on hand. How cool is that!! We traded services, photos for free jewelry, and given the fact that she is a pro photographer herself, I think it’s pretty cool! I have to tell you […]

I hope everyone has had a wonderful, joyous holiday! We did! Our day was filled with smiles, laughter, dancing, we stayed in our pj’s all day, played with toys, ate and played some more. It was perfect! Ty loves his new Shuffle iPod, a MegaZooka and Lego’s galore. Taryn adores everything she got, baby doll house, play kitchen, bouncin zebra and more belive it or not! Today was perfect, we were comfortable and happy!!! I’ll be posting more photos of our day soon but tonight I promised Ty my laptop to download music onto his iPod… Ok, so all the grandparents have opened their gifts and I can finally post this! I ordered three of these ornaments and absolutely love […]

Frederique challenged everyone to post their top 10 favorite images from 2006. I am posting a little late but still wanted to play! I don’t have a full year to choose from as I haven’t had my dslr that long, but it was still so hard to choose, I have had so many amazing clients this year! My favorite of Taryn, one of the very first images I took with my new camera. A gift of momentary cooperation from Ty. Finally, after suffering with the learning curve on my new 85 mm, I started to “get it” with this photo. It took me 3 sessions and around 400 exposures to get this, total and complete lack of cooperation. This photo […]

…to last year. At this time on Christmas Eve, we were “moving” from the trailer in our front yard into the house. I still can’t believe we did that, but we did. The house was NO WHERE near ready, concrete floors, no furniture, no kitchen, a functioning toilet on one side of the house and a functioning shower on the other, and that was it. Jason and I took shifts painting into the wee hours of the night the week before Christmas, and got it done just in time. We had the two chairs my Mom’s neighbor had given us, a bed for Ty, a bed for us and we had Taryn’s pack-n-play in the closet in her room. It […]