As I have mentioned before, Kennedy is not exactly easy to get pictures of.  So to say that I was a little bit excited that I managed to capture her – with a real smile and an adorable look – is an understatement. The lighting conditions were terrible in this room, so I was using flash. But still, I love these!

Happy Monday

Today I saw a quote on a water bottle, and if you know me, you know I love quotes. I loved this one right away, it said:

In a world where you can be anything, be yourself.

Happy New Year to you all! May the new year find you healthy and happy and be a wonderful year for you. And remember, be yourself.

XoXo

A little video of Kennedy talking about Santa:

Kennedy talking about Santa

(Sorry, still haven’t figured out why I can’t just  embed the video! … but if you click on the link it should take you to it)

I promise to post a ‘real’ post soon.

The last few days have been exciting. And I think the picture above shows the excitement. Along with exciting, it has been busy! I am currently going through pictures, trying to get them edited, backed up, etc. I am hearing “Momma, watch this!” and then “Did you see that Momma?!” about every 5 seconds. It is Kennedy’s most favorite thing to say right now. 

I promise to blog soon… I always feel kinda bad to see how many people visit the blog on Monday when I haven’t posted anything. So here I am posting one picture and a promise to post more soon

I hope your Christmas was Merry and bright and your Monday is wonderful!

I had all sorts of different idea’s for Christmas card pictures this year. But what did I do? I ran out to our yard, chose a spot with good light that was not my first choice but I didn’t really have another choice due to the time of day, and snapped a few. I took the easy way out for several reasons, one being that I was SO busy, and another reason is I didn’t want to make too much of a big deal about it for fear that the girls would not cooperate at all. Maybe next year.

I did find adorable pink glitter santa hats in the dollar section at Target that I thought were perfect considering I did not have them dressed in the traditional Christmas colors. And I think they turned out really cute!

This is the one we used on the Christmas cards:

And here are some out-takes:

Love that Kennedy is laughing in this one, but Bristol is interested in something in the backyard…

Then Kennedy smiles right into the camera but Bristol is still looking at something in the backyard!

Then Bristol finally turns around with a look that clearly says “What do you want?!”

Then Bristol gets tickled…

Notice the legs kicking while she laughs?

So there you go. Merry Christmas from our family to yours.

XoXo

You know the old saying “A picture is worth a thousand words“?  I do love that quote, but sometimes the thousand words one might interpret from a picture might be untrue. Take this picture for example:

Looks like Kennedy is refusing to turn around and has her fingers in her ears as if she is refusing to listen. (which is probably not a far stretch for Kennedy when it comes to  taking pictures! haha!) But, in reality she just got distracted by something while making silly faces! She did manage to get turned around towards me again though:

Today I am just barely pausing in front of my computer long enough to do this super quick post. We are counting down the days till Christmas and squeezing in all the family time and cooking making we can manage!

More to come tomorrow (?) of these two in their cute santa hats!

If you read my blog much at all you have probably heard me rave about Julie and her awesome work as an artist.  (check out her blog HERE) I did family pictures for her, her hubby Sean and their sweet baby boy Emerson awhile back… These are a few of my favorites..

I love both these next two… so I am posting both

I posted last week that the girls were sick. Well, we all ended up getting it. Lets just say that I do not want the stomach virus again anytime soon.

Moving on now.

Kennedy loves to throw a blanket over her head and be a “monster” these days…

she is wearing her Uncles hat in this picture to be an extra cool monster

She finds it hysterical when the blanket is pulled off her head!

Next, I give you a sweet picture of Bristol that I snapped last week.

And how about a little sneak peek of a shoot I recently did in the freezing cold…

Seriously, it was so cold when we did Tiffany’s pictures. Notice her hair blowing? That wind made it feel 20 degree’s cooler! But Tiffany did awesome….. full post to come later.

Short and sweet today ya’ll

Have a wonderful Monday!

Mommy-radar is on high around here right now. Both the girls have been/are sick.     I think they are getting better now. But still not feeling like themselves yet.

So, till we all get back on track and back to blogging, here is a couple of pictures of Bristol that I like…

One thing I have discovered after having baby #2. The ‘firsts’ like the learning to point (first picture) and the crawling (2nd picture), those little things and milestones are just as exciting as they were with the first baby! We laugh when she points and we cheered like crazy when she first started crawling. And to make the crawling even sweeter, Kennedy would clap and cheer right along with us, and then would say “Way to go Sissy! Way to go!”  We loved it!  However, we now here “No Sissy, no!” more often considering Bristol is all over the place and in to everything!