My Life

Went Downtown

to photograph some of my nephews and nieces.  

Hung out in the old alley near LVHS.  Commented about how things had changed at the school.  And what were they thinking painting the main office an ugly brownish color?  Yuck!

It was nice to get out and play with my camera.

No pressure....just hanging out and clicking away.

I have more of the skater boys than the girls edited right now.

Here's a few more.

And one of the boys with Amber.  So sweet.  She is such a good boy mom :)

I can't wait to get these all wrapped up.  There's some really cute ones of Claire.  And Sadie showing off her moves.  That girl can dance :)

It was a good day.

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Sneak Peek

Baby C

Had the chance to photograph this sweet, new baby today.

Just a sneak peek for mom :)

She was pretty alert during the whole session.

Finally, at the end, she gave up and drifted off to sleep....

Ah, the life of a baby.

Trying to get back

into the swing of things.

I just realized the kids have only two weeks left of school.

That will be nice, but it also seems frightening.....

more time to pester, make messes bug each other and be bored :)

Plus that means one whole month of my summer vacation is already over.

How did that happen so fast?

If it's any indication of how fast the summer will go, I better enjoy it :)

We are so looking forward to our week long beach trip, I can't wait.

Hoping to make lots of family memories.

Lauren & Kyle's birthday month is coming up.

I usually dread that because it's so blasted hot.  This year's mild summer temperatures have made me tolerable.  So I'm actually looking forward to those parties this year.

Lots to do, which I guess makes the days go by faster.

I have been editing like a crazy woman.

I'm kinda like that, I just want to get it done.

Steve says relax, I have time.

I don't want to worry about it anymore.

I want to get it done so I can sew curtains and paint rooms and ......

you get the idea.

There's always a project.

Here's a few more pics of my latest editing adventures.

This is the last I'm going to share of the wedding :)

Does this give you a clue?

Here's how I spent my Saturday afternoon & evening.

I was asked to be a second shooter at a wedding to help a friend out.  Quite frankly, it was exhausting, and I  now know that it is not my thing.  I have no desire to enter into wedding photography.  Kudos to those that do weddings, it's stressful and tiring!  

The couple was adorable.  With such fun families.  They were a delight to be around.  Here are a few that I have started editing....

Aren't they a cute couple?

Photo a Day

is back on track :)

check it.

I'm doing something tomorrow that I NEVER ever thought I would do.

Like not in a million years.

I have had absolutely no desire to EVER do this....

because it is serious pressure.

I'm helping a friend and I hope we totally rock it.

I'll share more later.

Family Picnic

I am loving the weather.

I am usually a cranky, grouchy lady by this time of year.

Fortunately the temperatures are so spring like that it makes me bearable :)

I needed to get some pictures of my own children to fill my many empty frames.

SO.......

for FHE we went to this cute new park and awesome future photography location.

When I stumbled upon it, my heart went pitter patter and I knew we must return.

I only made them suffer through about 10 minutes of grief.  That's all they would allow me.

But I am so happy, because I got something.

Which is better than what I had!

Come to find out, my older kids had been here with the Robbs, Berkabiles and Reils.  It is known to them as the "spinny park"  They were thrilled to play.

Later, to my surprise,  Lauren willingly let me do a solo mini session with her.

I'll share more of those later.

Finally....

I made it out to Town Square.

Cool location.  Worth the drive.

Got to meet a couple of ladies that also took Wendy's photography class.

Lesli coordinated everything and invited Kristin and I out to photograph a cute family.

Such a good time.

We really need to do that again.

Still working on editing.....

but here are a few that I loved.

Beautiful people make the job that much easier :)

I Can't Seem to Get it Together

But I did get to photograph this newborn....

Is there nothing sweeter?

Almost makes me want another.....