This look says “Mommy, go away”….and in her tutu and bathing suit no less. She dressed herself. Well, she brought me the bathing suit from her room, and then about 30 minutes later starting banging on the door to our extra bedroom where I keep all my props, “tututututututu”. Granted, this is the 4th outfit she requested before noon. Is there anything better than watching Teletubbies in a tutu though? Yeah, if your mommy would just get that camera out of your face so you could enjoy it in peace! Jeesh!! Oh and I have to add that I used the speedlight for this shot in my living room. So excited to finally start getting some good results. I really […]

I see you! My handsome husband makes his photography debut! He actually picked up the 5D and managed to capture Taryn and I with her most favorite book. I’ve lost 23 lbs and am starting to toy with the idea of being on the other side of the camera every now and then. Baby steps right?

The LRA Grant Program states that they don’t expect us to fix our home ourselves, it can be contracted out. But if we did do work ourselves, we are allowed to pay ourselves back for labor costs. This means we got some money for all those long hours Jason put in working on the house doing so much of it himself and I got some for all those hours of painting too. We decided to most of that money towards clothes for everyone, we need them so badly. I did a ton of shopping for the kids online and the first box arrived yesterday from Gymboree for Taryn. She had a complete BLAST going through it all. She got shoes, […]

I seem to have a lot of new viewers lately as my blog stats recently have doubled, my counter hit almost 500 yesterday – holy smokes that’s crazy!! Who ever dreamed so many people would be so interested in our little world?! So whoever you are out there, welcome! Feel free to post comments, say hi and ask questions, I’m an open book! I was so astonished by the hit counter here yesterday I decided to check the Giggles n Grins website counter, which I never do because I can never remember my password. I almost fell over when I saw it had over 7000 hits in the last week….uhm wow. Who looks at it? I can’t help but wonder […]

It’s imperfect in almost every technical aspect, and yet to me, it’s perfect in every way.

I’m so excited! One of my photographs has been chosen to appear on the front page of the newly designed Heart to Heart Studios jewelry website. And even better, it features both of my kiddos 🙂 The owner of H2H asked me to take a few shots of the jewelry I ordered as Christmas gifts, here are all the images I submitted if you wonna take a peek. Melissa makes awesome jewelry and her customer service rocks. Check out her stuff, I’m loving the new photo business card holders too!