Whew! What a weekend! Our Sunday morning was so crazy trying to get ready and off to church we managed to forget Bristol’s bottle, when we came back home to get it I found a dish towel in the fridge! Uhh, yeah. Not sure what that was doing in there. Or even who put it there!

Speaking of Bristol, I grabbed a few recent pictures to share with you today…. she is growing up way to fast. She is 3 months old now! How did that happen?! And she thinks her Mommy is funny!

Love this shot of her little hand….

And here she is giving me her ‘serious’ look:

Happy Monday!

When Regina booked this shoot Leah was not yet crawling, but could sit up. “Perfect” I thought, because that is such an easy age/stage to shoot. They can’t get away from you yet!

Well, Miss Leah learned to crawl right before the shoot and was all over the place by the time I met her! So, even though she was only interested in crawling and exploring we managed to get some adorable shots of her.

Love this shot!

Leah was waving at some bikers going past! Love it!

Leah has an endless supply of adorable hairbows; most of which her Grandmother made. I loved them!

Her Grandmother also made this diaper cover… LOVE!

Thanks Regina and Lenny for asking me to take your pictures… and again, welcome to the South! (They moved here from New York a couple of years ago…)

“I want you to be bluntly honest with me” she said, then she asked if I would do her bridal pictures that afternoon! Now, anyone who knows me knows that I can be ‘bluntly honest’. I had a 4 week old baby and had not done a shoot in about 5 weeks, so I was bluntly honest and told Abby that I would love to do her bridal pictures!

I was a little sad about leaving my newborn for the first time, but was super excited to get behind the camera again!

Her wedding photographer planned to do her bridal pictures but then the forcast showed rain and it was just easier for Abby to get the pictures done before the rain hit, and her photographer was not able to work that out. So, that is why Abby called me and asked me to do a last minute shoot for her. And I was happy to help!

Abby had already picked out all the locations she wanted to shoot at, so she just came by and picked me up and we had some fun and captured some great pictures. I love shooting Bridal pictures or Day After pictures because I love to shoot girls all dressed up in their wedding gowns, and since I don’t do weddings that is the only way it happens for me!

Here are some of my favorites:

Each of the locations Abby chose had some special meaning to her fiancée, and she wanted these pictures to be special to him.

I personally love the look and feel of these last two! I love the contrast of her spinning around in her gown in a this old store setting…. Add in the fact that this store is an old hang-out spot for her new husband and it makes the picture extra special!

Happy Fathers Day a day late to all the wonderful Daddy’s out there!

I got my computer back – it has been fixed again - so I plan on posting several shoots this week! As for today, I am going to share with you a few shots of Kennedy I took yesterday that make me smile, well, they make me laugh actually! She was playing in her room (notice the mess?!) and I went in there with my camera… I told her to say “cheese” then to make a silly face and this is what I got:

Haha! Love it!

As for something random about me on this Miscellaneous Monday; I keep a blog for both of my girls. I had started keeping a journal for Kennedy awhile back but quickly found that it is time consuming to keep up with a journal. I can type a whole lot faster than I can write and so I started keeping a private blog for each of them. I use it to document the little moments that I want to remember, things they say or do, milestones, random stuff. I hope to one day have each of the blogs printed and made into a book for them.  So far I love it! But I have only been doing it a couple of months, so hopefully I’ll keep it up.

Happy Monday, and first day of summer, to you all!!

So, as I mentioned last Monday, I have pictures of myself getting Holly’s good news (click here to see the story on that, and thank you Shanda for thinking to snap these for me! Shanda’s pictures will be up soon…) and as promised, here are the pictures of my reaction:

Haha! Love it!

So, in other random Miscellaneous Monday news, my computer is down.

Again.

I will try to get this weeks posts up this week, but can’t promise anything.

I just had my hard-drive replaced a couple of weeks ago, and now suddenly it will not turn on. UGH!

Wish me luck ya’ll… I might need it! (Did I just type “ya’ll” ? Yes, I do believe I did!)

Happy Monday!

These two brothers are the same ages as my girls… As I mentioned in this post, we ended up in the hospital at the same time in rooms next to each other with our first babies. This time around we had our babies about 4 weeks apart but had the same room, how is that for ironic?!  

These boys are adorable, here are some of my favorites…..

Love, love, love this old fire truck!

Love!

It is hard to believe that Jillie is graduating high school. This gal holds a special place in my heart. She is my cousin and I used to babysit her when she was just a little thing, and now she is all grown up and getting ready for college! Wow.

We plan to do a full senior shoot, but for now we only did a couple in her cap and gown. Here are my favorites:

Love me some jumping action!

I don’t often get pictures of myself since I am normally the one taking the pictures.  But, my friend Alicia recently stopped by and snapped a few of me and my girls. I really wanted pictures of us snuggling on my bed and just playing around. I was not under any illusions that Kennedy would cooperate, but I was sort of hoping. What we ended up with was mostly Kennedy on the move. And really, I love it because it is real! Here are a couple of my favorites.

First one is Bristol and I….

This next one is my favorite!

Kennedy may be a blur in this one but I love the feeling of movement!

Thanks Alicia! I am looking forward to our family shoot!

In other news my sister, Holly, got engaged this weekend! I am super excited for both her and her fiancée Jonathan! She actually called me on the phone to tell me the news, I was out taking pictures and she had come to my house to tell me in person, but when she found I was shooting she just called so they could call everyone else. (Sisters have to be among the first to know of course!) Luckily I knew the family I was shooting, because I started screaming and yelling and if I had not have known them I am pretty sure they would have thought I was a lunatic! But instead she looked at me and said “Is your sister getting married?!” Then: “Give me your camera!” and she started snapping away while I was yelling and screaming into the phone! Haha! I am so glad she thought to do that…. I’ll have to post them as soon as I get a chance!

Meanwhile, here are a couple of pictures I snapped of Holly and Jonathan last year….

Think we could get them to do that in their wedding attire? I think so! Congrats to you both! XoXo!

Aja, Lauren and Madison gave their Mom the gift of pictures for Mothers Day. Which in my opinion is the best kind of gift! They actually had a tough time surprising her. Because like most Mom’s she didn’t make it easy. But they were able to pull it off and she loved the pictures! Here are some of my favorites…..

I’ve mentioned before that I love pictures with laughter in them…. so I am posting a few here! To me these are the best kind. They just make me happy!

This little cutie belongs to my cousin Ginny and her hubby Kyle. She came over one afternoon awhile back for a little photo shoot on my makeshift backdrop. Here are a few of my favorites!

I have people ask me all the time if they should bring anything when getting their kids pictures taken. I always tell them to bring anything ‘meaningful’. It does not matter what it is, if the child loves it then you are sure to love the pictures because it captures that ‘special something’. Ginny brought a taggie and monkey that Jax adores… and I love the pictures we got with them!

Seriously! I think this picture is the sweetest!

Love.

At the time we took these he was just about to start crawling (he is all over the place now!) but I love this one with his little tongue out trying to figure out how to do it!