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Summertime Giggles!

If you think these kids are darling just wait till you see them all together giggling and playing and sharing secrets and really showing how much they love each other! 

 

 

 

Bathing Beauty!

 

I am an unemployed photographer these days and it kind of feels good!  I am thoroughly enjoying taking "in the moment" pictures!  Doesn't this little angel just look dreamy as she makes the most of a summer day in Texas? 

So maybe the hobo life is the life for me!  Just joking!  You can hire me...yes please hire me!

A Little Something for You!

 

 

My go to magazine for all things kid related is Cookie!

When I need a party theme idea or a glimpse at an exotic family vacation I can only dream of ... I pick up the Cookie!  So when it came time to choose end of year gifts for the kids at school, I found these two cuties in where else...the Cookie! The above photos are Audrey and Jake's end of school gifts for their friends.  The girls get a baby food jar filled with wooden beads and tied with cord that they will use to make their necklace, and the boys get a parachute guy with a rolled up US (you color it) map.  Both of these were very affordable to do and has a little crafty twist the Kindergarten teacher in me just adores! 

Every moment has a story to tell...

 

My Dear Sweet 50 How Did I Ever Take Photos Without You!?

 

A new baby arrived via the UPS stork yesterday.  It is a 50MM lens that will get a lot of loving from me in the near future.  I will name her and hold her and rub her and spend lots of time making her feel loved and special!  I don't know how I lived without her for so long.  This is the first picture I took with my new baby and didn't she do a fine job!?  This is SOOC, and my her clarity and colors are making her Mamma so proud!  Sorry if this sounds weird, but if you are a fellow photographer you will totally get it and you'll be saying "wooshegaga" right along with me!

Sing Along With Me..."I Love My Addison!"

Mom and Ethan sang the cutest song to get little Princess hear to make pretty eyes at the camera.  It went something like this "I love my Addison, my crazy, crazy Addison".  I can here them now and it makes me giggle!  They are truly in love with this little doll and man does she love them right back!  I could post about 100 pictures of her cuteness right now, but I'm gonna help Mom out and try to narrow it down some! 

 

This guy, you just want to squeeze him with all of your heart and a piece of your liver!  Ethan caught my eye months ago when he started at Holy Trinity.  I wanted to go ahead and pull him out of the three year old class and promote him to Kindergarten for my own selfish reasons of having that smile around all day!  You can have him this year Ms. Hanks, but my time will come!

The afternoon I spent with this family was just delightful!  We played and laughed and worked Dad's arm really hard as he was our "sitter upper" for Baby Addison.  But let me tell you no one complained - not even Ms. Addison!  This family is full of heart, and when I finally had to leave them I smiled all the way home!

To Hang Out With a Fella Like This...Oh Lucky Day!

 

   

Little Boys Always Make A Day More Interesting!

 

 

These Beauties are Sugar and Spice!

 

 

   

 

I was truly delighted to have the chance to chase these fairies through the forest.  When you bring kids to Mercer they are enchanted with the surroundings.  They forget that they are having their picture taken and they just breathe in the fresh spring air and frolic in grass and skip down pathways that lead to charming little spots to rest and take in the beauty of our world.  It was so fun seeing how different these sisters were and how playful they are with each other.  Makes me want to hold hands with a sister and then chase her through a labyrinth and probably pinch her when I catch her...softly of course!

I'm Certain There Are Angels Among Us...I Saw One Today!

Here's the deal, I think when you decide you want to take photographs of people you better not just think you are going to point and click like the Sears Portrait Studio.  No you have to go deeper than that so I'd like to say I am a "soul catcher" not a photographer.  The most wonderful pictures I have taken have been pictures that resulted from me engaging and laughing and connecting with the people in the pictures.  We spend an hour together and we get to know each other.  We always have something in common and I get to tell all the goofy humiliating things about myself.  It is in this way that they let me in.  That I get to see not only their smile, but see their soul.  I love drama in photos and the only way to get that is to become part of their world for that hour.  Yes, it may just be a "single-serving" friendship, but I always have the photographs to remember the person and know I made them smile and to delight in the fact that they let me get that close.

 

 

  

 

Plain old every day beauty...

 

   

  

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Upside up or upside down...you decide!

As Mothers, we spend much of our time yearning for things to be perfectly in place and "just so",  but what if you sat back and let the winds howl and didn't take shelter from the every day madness that is your life?  You just laugh in the face of the storm and toss your umbrella...how alive that might make you feel!  So here's to keeping your upside up, even when your umbrella is upside down!

 

Bought this vintage umbrella for $5 at the flea market.  It makes me dream of, and wish for, rain.

Pretty is as Pretty does!

  

  

 

This brown eyed girl came over last night about 8:30 needing a quick headshot for a pageant she is entering.  Now as a photographer, this is a dilemma.  It was dark so I would have to use overhead lights (yuck) and my external flash (which helped).  But as you can see, it doesn't matter what the conditions are this beauty can't take a bad picture!  The real kicker is she's got a pretty heart to match those pretty eyes! 

I Fell Hard For This One!

I have said before that the reason I love photography is the connection to people who make me see the beauty in their life!  It's a gift they give me without even trying!  I got a major  "crush" on this family.  I just wanted them to put me in the van at the end of the shoot and call me "Auntie Tiff".  The dear senile Aunt that likes her feet massaged, talks alot, and needs Starbucks and wine in massive quantities. 

These guys are just easy, and it is that ease with one another that makes an outsider feel she's known them all her life.    Looking at their pictures kind of pulls hard on my heart strings.  Dad is now in California and these were the last pictures they took before he left.  The Daddy in our house was called out West about 3 years ago and ended up in California for about six months, so I know this feeling all too well.  The spring days will come and go and before you know it there he'll be...home.  So until then, you will miss him, and laugh when you talk about him so you don't lose it, and write him letters, and it'll almost be enough.  So you'll hold on and before you know it, it's spring again!

 

 

 

 

Graceful Bend on the market!

 

 

 

 

These are pictures of our home that is for sale.  I adore my house and can honestly say I am so happy for whomever ends up living in it because I know it will bring them many happy memories.  I am certain the right family is going to be as crazy about it as we are!

What's in your box of attachments?

My adorably sentimental friend Crystal spotted this box at the flea market and bought it to put her special somethins in.  It's actually on old sewing attachments box, but how perfect to have something like this sitting on your shelf to remind you of what you hold dear in your world.  As we are selling our house, attachments are definitely on my mind.  I am happy to report that as much as I cherish my home, I'm not having a hard time letting it go.  I'm just old enough to know what to hold tight to and it's not material things.  Do I like my BMW, Tiffany jewelry, and my one little Louis Vitton purse?  you better know it!  But I have grown enough to know that my heart is not rooted in a building or a car or a job, etc ....  My roots are my family, friends, and God and those are things that would never let me go even if I tried!