I am a big baby about bugs of any kind. I just don’t like them. Especially spiders, ugh! I’ll kill one if I have too, which is only when I am by myself, but you can bet that if anyone is around I’ll be asking them to take care of it for me! And if I do have to kill it myself, well, lets just say I am glad no one is around to witness it.

I act ridiculous.

I found some sort of insect with way to many legs in my house the other day and I nearly had a heart attack. I kid you not I heard myself saying  ”Die! Die!” TO THE INSECT as I went at it with a shoe.  Seriously! It sounds awful I know, and it sounds even worse now that I typed it out… But at the time I obviously thought that was going to help.

Meanwhile, Kennedy is standing there watching with a look that clearly said “Mommy has lost her mind”. She would have gone right up to it and just picked it up. She loves bugs!

When my husband and I were dating we were at a restaurant with indoor and outdoor seating. We were seated inside next to the windows overlooking the patio. There was another couple sitting at the table just outside our window and at one point I looked up and saw a HUGE bug on the back of the guys  shirt. It was a collared shirt and the bug was crawling up towards his neck and I could just imagine it getting into his shirt… so, I had to do something of course! Much to Stuart’s horror I jumped up, ran out the door that went to the patio, ran up to their table in a state of panic and, nearly shouting at the couple, said something like “Excuse me for interrupting! But you have a huge bug on your shoulder!”

I’ll never forget the look on the girls face (she had been in the middle of talking when I came up to them) she seriously thought I was crazy. They both did.  But, when she saw the bug I think she understood, and after swatting it off of him and jumping around in a little bit – all of which she did - they seemed to not think I was so crazy anymore. Or at least that is what I like to tell myself!

Who knows, they may be sitting around right now talking about that ‘crazy’ girl! Haha!   

So, there ya go. I am a big baby about bugs. Now snakes, that is another story. But believe me, it is the same in the sense of I am terrified!

Now I am going to share a few of my favorite pictures from Bristol’s weekly shoot last week… For those of you who do not know, I took a picture every week for the first year of my first daughter and put them in a book in an effort to ‘see’ her grow that first year. And now I am trying to do the same with my 2nd daughter. So far so good! These are from week 9:

Did I mention she can wink now?!

Ah! I love her!

Happy Memorial Day to you all!

 We concentrated mostly on Claire and Piper (the two adorable little girls) in this shoot, but we also got a few with Mom and Dad too…

Silly faces!

I am really into shots from behind these days, and I LOVE this one!

These next three are very similar, but I loved each of them for different reasons so I am posting all three!

Another shot from behind and I really love this one! Love that Claire is walking next to Piper crawling, both in their matching blue dresses… sweet!

I have done several shoots with Sol now, I am capturing his first year - and hopefully more after he turns one year old! Each shoot we have done I have had so much fun, but this one is my favorite so far. I went to their house and just captured him doing his everyday stuff. Eating, playing in his room, I loved shooting these because it was just laid back and fun, but I also love the fact that these capture Sol just being Sol.

I noticed he had his feet crossed while eating so I had to get a shot of that!

Sol has 3 older siblings and this toy bunny belonged to his older brother, now 17, and is one of Sol’s favorite toys to play with!

LOVE this shot:

I snapped a few details in his nursery:

A friendly reminder to everyone: Back up your images! Don’t just put them on your computer and then delete them from your camera, because if your computer crashes (like mine did) you’ll most likely lose everything. I had all mine backed up, but it just made me think of how awful it would be if I didn’t.

Being a photographer definitely helps me to back up my images. I have too, it is what I do, I can’t lose peoples pictures! But, the pictures that you Mom’s take of your kids are just as important. No Mom wants to lose those pictures! The same goes for any pictures - family, friends, they are all important. So go out and buy you a pack of CD’s and put those pictures on them!

Okay, now that I have that out of the way(!)…….. I’ll share with you a couple of snapshots I took of Bristol. First, in her car seat:

Then finding something very funny!

I know, I know, we think she is adorable too!

Now, for my ‘something random about me’… I love to have my teeth cleaned – at the dentist! I know I am probably one of the few (or am I?) but I love the feeling of having my teeth scraped and cleaned! I would just say ‘I love going to the dentist’ but that would not be entirely true. Because I don’t like having anything done to my mouth except having my teeth cleaned, if I have to go for anything else I dread it terribly! And believe me I have had enough dental work!

So there you go… my something random! I have some great shoots to share with you this week, so stay tuned!

Happy Monday!

Isn’t it funny how certain things become very …. familiar to us? Like your computer for example. And then it decides to just not come on one day. Yep, that is what mine did over the weekend. And I am feeling a bit lost without it!  Hopefully it will be fixed soon…It is in good hands right now!

I have decided I am going to try to add a little something random about myself every Monday, because well, it is Miscellaneous Monday after all! And I love random stuff! 

Okay, so for something random this week… I pulled out a recipe book over the weekend in hopes of finding something new to cook for supper and found that I am definitely a ‘visual’ person when it comes to food!  The book didn’t have pictures of the recipes, and honestly I found it very hard to flip through a huge book with no pictures! I want to see what I am going to be cooking! I want to turn pages and see something that looks good then read the recipe. I didn’t find anything I wanted to try… probably because I couldn’t see a picture! haha! But if you have something yummy you’d like to share with me, please do!

By popular demand I am posting a picture of  my sweet baby Bristol! This is a shot of her I took last week. I’ll be posting more of her, and other shoots, when I get my computer back. Till then, take care and have a fabulous Monday!

My brothers girlfriends brother (did you follow all that?!) plays baseball for a local high school, Piedmont High, and since he is a senior and will be graduating this year I went out and took some pictures of him playing. Here are a few of my favorites….

My cousin wanted to get a few pictures taken of her family before she had baby #4, then after the baby comes in August, get some more done. So, we did a quick shoot and got some great pictures!

I especially love these of Paulette and Matt…. they entertain each other and make each other laugh easily, and when I get pictures of people laughing they always end up being my favorites! There is just something about laughter that I love…. It just feels so natural and happy!

Happy Mothers Day - a day late – to all of you Mothers out there. I hope your day was wonderful!

I still consider myself a ‘new’ Mom since Kennedy is only 18 months old, but this Mothers Day was even more special since she is a little older and understands a little more. (Like how to give me my gifts and get all excited about it!) Stu let her ‘sign’ my card then she came running into the kitchen and gave it to me. She was so excited! I squatted down on the floor next to her and opened it and she would literally hop from one foot to the other from excitement! It was definitely one of the highlights of my day!

These are a few pictures I took of Kennedy several weeks ago that I love just because they are so real… This girl keeps me busy!

and a cute shot I got of Bristol last week…

Happy Monday everyone!

A good friend of mine recently had a baby boy, so when I went by to see them I snapped a few pictures…… These were un-planned and done really quick, but we plan to do a real shoot soon, so you’ll get to see more of this adorable little boy!

Congrats Clint and Stephanie! He sure is a cutie pie!

Or just teasing me?

Every once in a while I get this:

But it is normally followed by something like this:

I’ll have a few more of this little cutie – and his family – to share with you later! I just couldn’t help but post these two when I came across them!