Oh boy… it is Monday AND the week of Thankgiving… What?! Where did the weekend go? I can hardly believe it is the week of Thanksgiving already.

And I still haven’t blogged like I keep ‘planning’ too     But, I’ll catch up one of these days… till then, enjoy a picture of my bathroom (it is not a great picture, and we aren’t done yet) but, I looooove the bird cages my friend Julie painted for me:

Happy Monday to you all!

You thought my Mommy was going to blog a shoot today?!

Hahahaha!

Nope, she just talks about it, but at least you get to see me!

Hahahahhahhahaha!

Okay, that was lame. Pretending that Bristol had taken over my blog. But, maybe it made you smile along with the eye-rolling! 

I don’t have time for a full post of a shoot (what’s new, right?) so that is why you are seeing this, I had to post something! And I am hitting publish before I change my mind..

Have a great day 

Hello! (I am so tempted to type “Hello World”, I have that song stuck in my head right now … I love it, if you haven’t heard it yet, go hear it! Hello World by Lady Antebellum) Love that song as well as a few others right now. (Bon Jovi – What do you got and Blake Shelton – Who are you when I’m not looking to name a couple more).  And I have managed to type most of this post in parentheses thus far… (Okay, enough of the parentheses) (Pun intended!)

Hope your weekend was wonderful We are back to Monday again, and I am again ‘planning’ to blog more this week. As I have mentioned a few times now, this time of year is just a little bit busy for me. And my blog tends to go lacking because of it. One thing that has made us extra busy around here is the fact we have had to re-do our bathroom. (we had a small mildew problem that forced us to tear down wallpaper, paint, etc. and here I am using parentheses again!) Anyway, we are getting close to being finished and I cleaned it one night last week. I was feeling really good about it, everything looked so good and we could actually use it again. I’ll have to post a picture when we get done. Julie is going to put a little bit of her magic in there So, back to feeling good about getting the bathroom back in working order, I got it all cleaned, went to the other bathroom to shower and we have one of those hand-held shower heads… well, the hose blew and sprayed water all over the walls and ceiling! I kid you not. We get one bathroom usable again and something goes wrong in the other! And yes, it was replaceable and has already been replaced. But now we have a nice brown spot on our ceiling from the water spray.

I talk about High/Low, I guess you could say that was one high and low from my week. Another sweet spot in my week would be keeping this little girl for a few hours, Ally:

Isn’t she a cutie?! And, she obviously thinks I am funny  

Happy Monday!

Happy 1st Birthday to Leah!

We got together for some ’fallish’ pictures and to capture sweet little Leah smashing her 1st birthday cake

She was a little ‘neat’ at first, but she quickly got into it!

I also took pictures at her birthday party… here are a few detail shots:

And I’ll end with this picture because I think it is just so sweet…

Hello! Hope your weekend was wonderful… I had a great weekend myself, thanks for asking

Driving down the road on Saturday I noticed how gorgeous the sky was, a beautiful blue with big white fluffy clouds… so I snapped a picture with my phone, it really does not do it justice, but here it is anyway:

I actually managed to get Kennedy to stand ‘sort of’ still and smile while I snapped a few pictures of her the other day!!!!!!!!!!!! (wondering why I put all the exclamation marks? because Kennedy normally refuses to let me take her picture) We played a very silly game that I made up on the spur of the moment, and I love these sweet, laughing images I got

I also love this picture I snapped of Bristol a couple of weeks ago:

And this next one is (from left) Tori, Kennedy and Kourtnie at MawMaw’s house blowing bubbles: 

Tori has gorgeous blue eyes and I love how they pop in this picture…

There you go, a hodge-podge of miscellaneous pictures for Miscellaneous Monday! Have a happy day everyone

Whew! It has been a crazy busy week! Most of the time you hear the phrase “I am so glad it’s Friday!” Well, not that I am not glad it’s Friday, but I could have used two Wednesdays this week

I am terribly behind blogging my shoots. I have just been so busy shooting and editing (yes, that is a good thing and I am very happy to have all the shoots!) My weekend was especially busy with 5 shoots in 3 days. (Uh, yeah… FIVE shoots in THREE days!) Two of those were on Sunday, Halloween. So, when I got back to Mimi’s house to pick up my girls (and hubby) they were all decked out in their little lady bug costumes and I just swooned. They looked SO cute! We didn’t have much time  at all for pictures, but as Stuart loaded up our car to head home for trick or treating I snapped a few… (then told myself I would put them back in their costumes later in the week for ‘better’ pictures.. yeah right, that didn’t happen!)

 My Bristol Bug:

And my Kennedy bug:

Mimi taught Kennedy how to fly and “Bzzzz” like a lady bug… She refused to get her picture taken with Bristol and instead would fly and “Bzzzz”…

 Bristol of course found that very funny!

Have a fab weekend everyone!

(Thank you for the costumes Carol!)

This little guy is absolutely precious! Check out Tylan and how much he has grown since our  last shoot…

I love this shot of his sweet little feet!

Love the lips… isn’t he precious?!

Ah! Those eyes!

Megan (his Mom) brought the coolest prop; this car belongs to her Dad and I LOVE it! (So did Tylan!)

We ended the shoot taking a ‘bath’ in a tin bucket complete with bubbles and a rubber duck… LOVE IT!

And again, Tylan loved it too! Can you tell?!

So, I got on the ‘other side’ of the camera several weeks ago. I ran around like a crazy lady getting myself ready, Kennedy and Bristol ready, picking out a shirt for my hubby, etc.  We finally made it to our shoot location – 9 minutes late. (and if you know me, I am not generally a ’late’ person, but we were late that day!) Then Kennedy refused to stand/sit/lay/anything(!) for even 5 seconds. Which, if we weren’t trying to get a picture with all 4 of us then it would not have been such a big deal. If it was just pictures of her we could chase her around, right?  But you really can’t chase around a family of four and expect to get a good picture! So, I tried everything. I bribed with candy, I ran while holding her – in an effort to entertain her – then I would run up to Stu and Bristol who would be waiting patiently for us, my hair flying all over the place and Kennedy saying “No Mommy!” every time I stopped running. Yeah. It was an experience.

By the time we left I said if she got one – just one! – good picture then she did good.

Alicia, Thanks again girl. You managed to get more than just one good picture. You did great!

Here are a few of my favorites… to see Alicia’s blog post with her picks, click HERE.

(All images taken by http://www.monaalicia.com/)

Haha! LOVE this!

I took my old vintage camera along for a few shots… I like this one Alicia got:  

 I think it is good for photographers to be on the other side of the camera every once in a while. In fact, I was really looking forward to ‘striking a pose’ and playing with my family and having that captured, these moments, they go by so fast. I want to capture them and be able to look back on them. It may not have been as easy as I expected, but hey, I have a 2-year-old! (not to mention a 7 month old) And I’d do it all over again for sure! It’s real life, and we just roll with it.

Alicia feels the same way about capturing her family, and so we traded out, you can see the shoot I did for her and her girls back in the summer by clicking HERE.

And I have to say I big Thank You to Monica for the hair flowers my girls are wearing… love them!

Meet Adah; a sweet little blond hair, blue eyed 1 year old:

LOVE her blanket!

I snapped a couple of her and her Mommy… love the ‘kissing’ lips she is doing here!

Ah! This pictures makes me yawn just seeing it!

Anna, thanks again for asking me to capture your sweet little girl!

I did a family shoot at the beach several weeks ago - I’ll blog some images from that shoot soon For now, here are a few random shots I got – nothing perfect by any means, but I like them anyway.

Bristol looking like cutie-pie in her little swimsuit:

Happy Monday!