You know that feeling you get sometimes when you take a picture and you just know your gonna love it? Well, I snapped an un-planned, un-posed picture of my cousin Leah this weekend and I got that feeling. Once I got it on my computer I sure enough did love it. So, I decided I’d share it with you all.

I hear a lot of different opinions on color versus black and white pictures. Some love color, some love black and white. Me? Well I tend to lean towards color. I love great color in a picture. But, I also love black and white. B&W gives a picture such a classic and simple feel.  In fact, I have a hard time deciding which to blog sometimes! So, for this little shot of Leah that I like so well I decided to process it in color, B&W and sepia. I want to know, which do YOU like best?

#1 Color

#2 B&W

#3 Sepia

As much as I love all three of these; I think I’ll have to choose the color one as my favorite!

Hope you all have a fabulous Monday!

Megan and I are cousins and friends. We grew up together, we worked together, we went on double dates together, and now suddenly I am taking her family pictures! What?! Honestly, as I went through these pictures I found myself thinking “Wow, we have our own families now! We are married, we have kids, we are all grown up!”

Meg, thanks for trusting me to capture these moments for you. I had so much fun!

Seriously, Tylan is so cute!

Haha! Love this next one!

I love these next two of Megan… Every girl needs a great picture by herself!

Two of my favorites from the day….

Okay, so these next two are two of my favorites also!

Love this image I captured while doing a shoot recently! It felt so good to be shooting again, I had scheduled shoots for 6 weeks after my due date, then Bristol was 5 days late… But I have been feeling so good I decided I could go ahead and do one earlier than what I had planned. And to all you ‘Mother Hens’ out there clucking your tongues in disapproval; I promise I am taking it easy! I did not have to chase any kids around for this shoot and I did not get in any of my signature crazy positions!

Anyway, back to the image I am loving… I would be printing this one on a big canvas and hanging in my living room if it were me and my family! It just has a good feeling about it somehow…

I’ll be posting more from this shoot soon… till then, Happy Monday!

I seem to have a never-ending supply of ‘favorite’ pictures of Kennedy lately; which is a good thing! I just hope you all don’t get tired of seeing her on here! She is really showing off lately and I love capturing it. But that is not an easy thing to do. She just does not stay still for long at all, which results in lots of blurry pictures! But, it is all worth it when I get ones like these:

She dropped a piece of her popsicle; but did that stop her from eating it?

No way Mom! Still tastes good to me!

Cameron came over to play with her one day….

And Ryan…

And last, but not least, Morgan came over too..

Happy Monday!

Just a few shots of Bristol that I have taken recently…

Love this one of her yawning!

Good Monday Morning!

Today I bring you pictures of our Easter Sunday. My family gets together at my parents house and we always play kickball – it is a tradition of ours - we play kickball after lunch on Easter Sunday…. And it is always a lot of fun and a lot of laughs!

Kennedy and Tori played a little game of ball too….

Max played with MawMaw and Poppa on the sidelines…

I liked this picture in color and B&W…. so I am posting both!

Staying cool under the umbrella!

Love the lip in this one!

A self-portrait of me and my hubby (with my Dad in the background)!

Kennedy trying to blow bubbles… but she couldn’t understand to hold it in front of her mouth, not in her mouth!

Bristol just chilled all afternoon:

The guys also practice their golf swing…. here is my hubs practicing his!

All in all, we have a wonderful day… I hope yours was as good!

And last but not least, Happy Anniversary to my parents who have been married for 29 years today! I love you both very much Mom and Dad!

Achoo! That is me when spring rolls around! But, despite the allergies I love spring and all it brings – warm weather and oh-so-much color! And it inspires me! I found myself wondering around with my camera one day snapping pictures of the blooms…. when I got them off my card I decided they were pretty enough to blog.

This last one is a shot of flowers that Kennedy picked for me….

Today, it’s all about my firstborn         These are just a few pictures I have snapped of Kennedy this past week. She still does not cooperate with me when it comes to taking her pictures. Actually, she does not cooperate with me on much at all these days! But, I am determined to get her picture; especially now that we have Bristol, it feels to me like Kennedy has suddenly gotten so big! I find myself  looking at her and thinking when did she gets so big? She is so tall…. her hair is thicker…. Even her hands are big!      She stays on the move all the time, so I just followed her around snapping…

Love this one of her kissing Bristol!

 Hope your Monday has been fabulous thus far!

Missing In Action. That seems to be me as far as this blog goes these days – sorry! I am settling into being a Mommy of two, and just taking it all in. So, blogging may be little bit off-schedule for awhile. Once I get back to shooting I’ll be blogging those shoots and I will start posting Miscellaneous Monday posts every Monday again. Till then, I will just blog randomly…. It may be on Monday, or it may not be! I want to enjoy these days with my girls….Bristol being a newborn and Kennedy trying to get used to being a big sister. I know these days will fly by; even though it does not always feel like it when you are up late at night bouncing, burping, and feeding. But, it does fly by, I can’t believe Bristol is already a week and a half old!

Here is a shot of Bristol sticking her tongue out at me… I think she is trying to tell me how she feels about having her picture made, because so far I haven’t had a lot of luck taking her pictures… If it were any other baby I would be able to get an entire shoot full of great shots, but my own baby? Nope, she just will not cooperate!

This is another I snapped of her….

And I love this one… I saw Kennedy sitting with her hand on Bristol and I just fell in love with the simplicity of it. Sisters. I grabbed my camera and got the shot before she decided to move on, she does not stay in one place for too long!

Finally our little girl decided to make her appearance on Monday, March 22, 2010.  Who knew I’d go into labor after posting my Misc. Monday post?!

Bristol Lynn …. 7lbs. 15 ounces, 20 inches long. She is just perfect and we are in love!

Here are a few shots taken at the hospital…. I will have more to come soon I am sure!  Thanks to all of you who found out about her and sent me well wishes and congrats… I appreciate it – they made me feel good!