Meet Allyson Rebecca “Ally”….. She is the sweet baby of my friend/cousin Paulette and her hubby Matt. Baby number 4 for them, and the older siblings are so proud to have her!
One of her siblings, Cameron, making sure I am taking care of his baby sister… he kept coming right up to the bed and trying to kiss her and touch her, it was adorable!
Congrats Paulette and Matt… she is perfect!
Have I mentioned that life is busy right now? Oh yes, I’ve mentioned it, about every Monday, right?! Well, I am going to stop talking about how busy I am, and reasons for not blogging because I am starting to feel like I am making excuses. And I don’t like that. The truth is I am busy every year this time of the year till after Christmas. It is just a busy time. Personal life and the business of snapping pictures…both are busy busy busy this time of year for me.
So, with that being said, please bear with me while I may or may not blog Miscellaneous Monday on time. And thank you for asking me about it, for looking forward to my blog posts and for just being great blog readers. I love ya for that! Thank you. I hope that with each post I am able to bring a smile to your face and make your day just a little bit sweeter.
Now speaking of sweet, this little girl is sweet.
And this little girl… well she is sweet, but is also a pain to take pictures of! Ugh! When she saw me taking Bristol’s picture she said “Momma! Me too!” I asked verrrrry clearly “YOU want ME to take YOUR picture?!?” To which she replied “Yes!” And this is all I got:
Ugh! Kennedy really!?
I do love these two that I snapped of her at the fair though:
Happy Monday to you all… what is left of it anyway!
Julie brought Emerson over several weeks ago for me to snap a few more pictures of him since he is growing up SO fast! Since I am blogging on the run again (hey at least I am blogging! haha!) I’ll let the pictures do the talking….
Love the way he has his little hand up on his chin in this one!
Julie didn’t plan to get pictures of herself, but we snapped this one real quick…
Have a GREAT weekend everyone!
I know, this is amazing. I am actually blogging for the 2nd time in one week! Seriously, I am sorry for the lack of blogging lately… I just seem to be busy busy busy! In fact, I blogged in such a hurry on this post that I forgot to edit the pictures! As I stepped over Kennedy’s play vacuum cleaner on my bathroom floor to put away a load of towels it hit me - I didn’t edit the pictures I had blogged earlier that day! (weird how things will hit you at the strangest times isn’t it?!) I don’t edit my pictures a whole lot, but I do like to run them through Lightroom.. But I decided I didn’t have time to take those off, edit them, and then re-post. So I just left them.
Okay, I got totally off the subject there. Back to this post, which is all about Sol. He is adorable and he has now turned ONE! I have been taking his pictures since he was just a tiny baby. We got together about every 3 months or so to document his first year. And I have to say, I am a little bit sad that first year is over. But, they promise that I have not seen the last of them. (yes, there is more to this family than just Sol… he has a wonderful Mom, Dad and 3 older siblings! We are currently planning a family shoot, so maybe you’ll get to see them all on here soon)
And without further ado… here are some of my favorites from this session:
I snapped this one right after I got to their house, and I love it!
Right after a quick bath to get all that cake off of him:
Okay, in the rest of these pictures he is wearing a shirt that he wore the day they brought him home from hospital! His Mom said that she normally would not choose this shirt for a photoshoot, but since he could still wear it one year later she just had to include it!
Riding on Daddy’s shoulders watching 2 of his older siblings….
Favorite of the day:
Happy 1st Birthday Sol! Thanks for always being such a sweetheart in front of my camera!
I had full intentions of posting more last week. But when my friend called and suggested that we load up our kids and head to the beach, well, those intentions to blog more were put on hold! We loaded up my two girls, her little boy and headed to her parents beach house. It was last minute and we didn’t stay long, but we had SO much fun!
As much as I wanted to, I didn’t take my ‘nice’ camera and lens out on the beach, I had my hands full without the camera! But I did take a small camera, here are a few snapshots….
Kennedy loved the seashells:
Her expression as the waves hit her feet for the first time:
Not sure what she was pointing at here…. there was so much that she pointed out to me; the fishing boats, the birds, the waves, the sand, everything! She would squeal with delight when a big wave would come in and say “Look Momma! Big one!”
Easton enjoying a coke…
Bristol discovering the sand on her little toes…
Bristol has also discovered her hands… I love how she holds them up and looks at them and moves them around, it is adorable!
Um… Monday? Well, Miscellanous Monday didn’t happen because I was busy buying purple sunglasses from the dollar section at Target and cheering for Bristol as she sat up like a big girl!
Ah! Cute! She has a pair of rubber boots that she loves to wear… I need to get a picture of her in those and share with you all… talk about cute!
And then Miss Bristol has been practicing her sitting up; and doing quite a good job at it too!
yep, she’s pleased with herself!
But still falls a lot… looks like she is waving at me here!
Happy Tuesday to you all! I hope you all had a wonderful Labor Day 
Here ’round the Brown house we are busy bee’s, just living life… and I can’t seem to fit in blogging! I want too, I just have not been able to take the time to go through my shoots that need to be blogged, and pick out the pictures to blog. I decided to go to the grocery store by myself one night this week and planned to leave the girls with Stu. Well, when I went to get my shoes on Kennedy came running after me and said “Momma! Take me!” Really, how can I say no to that? So, instead of rushing through the store, getting right back home and blogging, I took her with me and proceeded to go out for ice cream after we did our grocery shopping. Nothing like a date with your toddler…. She felt like such a big girl because I let her walk through the parking lot and hold my hand
So, since I promised to blog more this week, I am sticking to that promise by quickly pulling these images out of my miscellaneous folder. And I’ll blog my shoots as soon as I find a spare minute between editing, reading books to my girls, and trying to get Bristol to sleep for more than a few minutes at a time! (she has decided that sleeping through the night is not her thing, and really doesn’t sleep for very long during the day either, which makes getting stuff done a little bit harder!)
There is something about this picture… I am not sure what… but I love it:
Kennedy loves to lick the batter off the beater I make cookies! She comes running when she hears the mixer turn off and says “Momma…I lick!”
Cheers! (one of Kennedy’s favorite things to do!)
Oh that sweet face….
And lastly; a little sneak peek of the shoot I am currently working on:
Oh yes… it’s a good one!
Better late than never, right?!
Somehow, the weekend flew by. I spent any free time I had watching J*’s online class – it was awesome, Thank you Jasmine, Creative Live and all who worked hard to make it happen! I had a date with my hubby and spent time with family… The weekend was good.
But then the weekend ended and Monday morning brought the dreaded appointment. I had to go to the dentist to have a cavity filled. (you may or may not remember me mentioning awhile back that I love the dentist, but only when I am having my teeth cleaned, I do not enjoy anything else that goes on at the dentist!) I have had two weeks to think about this visit. Two weeks to dread this visit. I doubt anyone actually likes having a cavity filled, but I act kind of silly about it I dread it so bad. Sigh, it is over now, thankfully.
And since it is late and I am ready to call it a day, I am going to leave you with one picture of my girls, Kennedy and Bristol, and a promise to blog more later!
Happy Monday night
Like most 2-year-olds, this little girl was on the move. We walked all over the park, her exploring and playing as I followed frantically adjusting my camera settings to get a good exposure in the different lighting situations Brooke decided to wonder into. Somehow I managed to get a lot of good pictures Here are some of my favorites:
Love this one:
and this one:
My artistic eye (if I have one!) loves the shapes and the feel of this next picture…
Another favorite:
Gasp!
The weekend’s over?!
Bristol thinks that is funny stuff!
I decided to let the pictures do the talking today… Happy Monday everyone!