Taking pictures of my own children is challenging. Especially when I try to get pictures of them together. It seems like they are never into it, they give me a fit, and my patience runs out fast! I guess it is because I am the Mom and the photographer. I find myself telling Moms all the time “don’t worry about it, let them go…we’ll get the shot…” If only I could practice that more with my own!

On Easter Sunday I didn’t get any pictures of Kennedy and Bristol dressed in their matching dresses… so I decided it wasn’t a big deal, we’d just put the dresses back on later in the week and get the shots. Which I did, trying hard to not make a big deal of it the whole time. (the bigger a deal it is, the more they disagree it seems!) Anyway, it only lasted a few minutes before they were all “Okay, I’m done!” but I do like what I got…I had more idea’s and hopes, but I’ll roll with what I can get

Going through these pictures makes me wonder… in a few short weeks, will we have another sweet girl? Or will our world of pink be crashed with blue? As a Mother, I of course just want a healthy baby, but I have to admit I’d love to experience a boy and all that they are Either way, boy or girl, I am so so excited!

Brittany and Mark have two adorable boys, Holdyn and Stratton, we got together awhile back for an urban shoot. And these, are just a few of my favortites

Love these two of the boys together!

Brittany, thanks again for asking me to do these for ya! XoXo

Yesterday morning as I made dessert for our Easter dinner with family, Kennedy came into the kitchen, looked at me with her big brown eyes and asked a loaded question for a 3-year-old… “Momma, what makes your heart happy?”

Really? I love that kid. I replied that her hugs and kisses makes my heart happy and she broke out in a big smile and delivered one of her hugs and kisses right then.

I got to thinking about it later and realized that I have heard my Mother-in-law tell her that she and Bristol make her heart happy…Kennedy does not forget anything and apparently decided to find out what makes my heart happy. Ahhh, the precious moments of childhood, and Motherhood. (lets just not talk about the sassiness that has become my 3-year-old lately!)

I really don’t have a blog post prepared for today, and since I am busy with editing and shooting (among other things), I decided to concentrate on getting up a blog post for tomorrow, since it obviously didn’t happen last week! But…I just had to share a little peek of the cuteness you have to look forward too….this dude rocks

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter…I’ll try to blog some pictures from our Easter Sunday later this week.

Happy Monday to all!

I am half asleep while typing this… it is Sunday night, and I am posting this while the girls (and the hubby) are sleeping, knowing that when my feet hit the floor tomorrow it will be non-stop go-go-go. For the rest of the week. Yeah, that may be a little dramatic, but that is how it feels! Last night after listening to me move from room to room doing anything and everything and basically leaving a mess all over the place while cleaning out and organizing other things, Stuart looks up from the couch where he is snuggled with the girls and says “Babe, are you nesting?”

Um yeah. I think I might be. Now could you please go clean out the shirts you no longer wear from the closet?!

Apperantly I think he should be nesting too. Poor guy.

Only 4 weeks and 2 days (but hey, who is counting?!) till my due date, and I am feeling it! The need to get things done, the feeling that every other person says to me “wow, you are out there!” and “looks like your about ready to have that baby!” but they mean well, I have taken no offence so far, which is saying a lot for a hormonal pregnant woman

Okay, moving on now…

I am going to share a few sneak peeks of the sweetness I’ve had in front of my camera lately… since blogging does not always make my ‘nesting list’ I am a little bit behind But, I’ll be sharing the full posts in good time, I promise!

First up is Sol, always a joy to have him in front of my camera….

Violetta…love her gorgeous blue eyes and pigtails!

This little bundle of sweetness is only 9 days old, I just pulled this shot off my camera from doing his shoot today…. (Liam)

And this cutie is big brother to little Liam…

Happy Monday everyone! Thanks for looking

Getting a big family together for a family photo shoot always takes a little bit of effort (at least!) but so worth it
Meet the Watkins:

We got together a couple of weeks ago and captured their family, as they are today…

Momma and her boys…

and with her girls… well, daughters-in-law

‘MawMaw’ with all her grandkids….

The 3 oldest kids wanted a picture together…

Often, it is the ‘in-between’ pictures that I like best…here are two that I love from this shoot….

 Thank you all so much for asking me to do these for you… XoXo

Loving….

• Bristol’s ‘rocker’ version of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
• Bare feet and the warm spring weather….summer dresses, shorts and sun-kissed skin
• Strawberries
• My new Toms (Birthday gift from my sisters – thanks ya’ll!)
• The way Kennedy points out random fields as we drive down the road and says “Momma that will be a good place for pictures!”
• Fresh Lemonade

And of course I am always loving random pictures…I’ll leave you with a few today

Bristol was still in her jammies with sleepy eyes and bed hair

Happy Monday

Two years ago I held my sweet Bristol Lynn for the first time….

It is hard to believe that two short years ago, she was this tiny…

Here she is now… an adorable little blond haired girl with a mind of her own. She keeps us laughing most of the time and gets into trouble a lot too

Bristol Bee, we love you SO much! Happy Birthday sweet girl!

Whew! It has been a kinda ca-razy around here…hence the late post today…and I’ll go ahead and warn you, it is a small pile of pictures from my little camera I keep in my purse, nothing more… Enjoy!

Kennedy:

Bristol:

Kennedy likes to use my camera too…she took these first two pictures of me. See how she cut off the top of my head in the first one? Well, she made sure not to in the 2nd one

A few more random shots, the girls playing…

Lunch with Mimi…

Bristol and Daddy….

I still love the convenience of this little camera! I love pulling it out and just capturing the moment. No, they aren’t perfect shots, far from it. And yes, I could do so much better with my ‘big’ camera, but the point is, I wouldn’t have it handy in my purse, and therefore, I’d miss these shots entirely… So I am loving these moments, imperfections and all

A new Mommy, a sweet baby girl, precious moments captured…
I did Lindens maternity shoot awhile back (you can see it HERE) and now here she is at home with her adorable baby girl, Lila.

I love all of these images, but these two (below) are favorites for sure

Another favorite:

Thanks for looking

This weekend, I stepped out of my comfort zone…twice. (whoohoo! Go me!)

First, while doing a photoshoot, I moved two little girls out into a field that was in full mid-day sun. Not my kind of shooting preference, at all. But, I fired off a few shots and totally love the outcome

Aren’t they adorable?! Once I got back to where I could actually see the pictures (it was too bright to even see my LCD screen when I was out there, so I had no idea what I was getting) I love that we did them in the sun. I feel like it adds to their ‘summery dresses’ (which I loved, by the way) and their carefree, happy personalities… (I’ll be posting more from this shoot soon).  

Then, yesterday I made yeast rolls. Yep, that is definitely stepping out of my comfort zone. Bread - and crusts of any kind – scare me. In fact, I make apple pies once or twice a year, and every time I roll out my dough I hear my Mom’s voice “Don’t let the dough work you…YOU work the dough!” Ah, she makes it sound so easy. Anyway, back to this weekend, I found these Yeast rolls on Pinterest and decided to give it a go. I had never even used my ‘dough hook’ that came with my mixer and when I saw that on the recipe I was like “uhhhh, I guess this is what I use…” haha!

They turned out good. Not the best I’ve ever had, but good for a first time.

Happy Monday!