Fat Lip

He fell (while running indoors...) and got a fat lip. This is his first ever.

Tara!

Is she glowing or what?

After Dinner

This one SO fits the personalities of the kids.

Working on Blog

I'm working on customizing my blog. I downloaded the cutest bracket frame and background paper from Jen Furlotte at Pixels and Ice Cream. We'll see how it goes!

Buzz Lightyear Toy

This toy was original my nephew's and has made its way down to my two. They both love it. They did NOT have stuff like this when I was a kid!

A family portrait and a little AI

So here is the family portrait I did last weekend. Of course, I'm not in it, but I still think it conveyed the wildness appropriately.

Also, as a side note, I am totally drinking the Adam Lambert Kool Aid tonight. Man, that kid can sing! Still loving Jessie, as well!

Class Session

Today our class shot at a really cool house. One of the models belonged to some friends of mine. He is totally gorgeous, and has the energy of three of me, so most of the shots I got were "action" shots. Here are a couple of my favorites:

Monkey

I tried to get a particular shot today of the fam sitting on the bed. I'm still not sure if it worked or not, but when I was done, I let Cole jump on the bed for a while. Just for the record, he makes this exact face before he jumps into the pool (he'll hold his nose and close his mouth, and the second he jumps, his mouth opens and his hand comes off his nose!)

New Seamless Paper

So I wanted to try out my new seamless paper, and (slightly sunburned) Cole agreed to be my model. We go in the guest bedroom, I mean, studio, and get everything set up. Then I tell him to sit on the ottoman. "But Mommy, I want to get IN the ottoman". So, here's what we have. (I won't even post the one where he has a sock monkey wrapped around his head like a bandana)




Here's one where he is not in the ottoman. So, what do we think of Holly? I wanted an apple green, but this was the closest I could find.

Happy Spring!

Yay! Spring is finally here. We've been playing outside after school the last few days. This was shortly before a little bit of crash and burn.

Say What?

Sometimes you really just have to wonder what is going on in the head of a 3 and 3/4 year old. This morning as I was leaving, this was the conversation:

Me: You know what, Cole? I love you like crazy.
Cole: Mommy, I love you like pieces of a door.

Dresses!

Today a couple of my friends and I did pictures of my cousin and her BFF in fun thrift store prom dresses. It will take forever for me to edit the pics, but here are a couple to tide them over:

Gabe

So, I haven't posted much of Gabe lately. He is at that age where he is hard to catch. I was trying to get a nice picture of him in his Easter sweater. I did get a couple I liked, though no sign of the chick in my favorite! Well, if at first you don't succeed, try try again with a cookie. Right?!

A couple of the boys

Well, I've been far too whiny over my sore throat to do any shooting, but tonight Cole asked me to take some pictures of him in his stripey jim jams, so I did! I sure do like those jammies.

And since I can't get Gabe still for long enough to take his picture, I thought I'd post my most recent favorite of him, taken on the same backdrop a few weeks ago.

Spring!

Spring is definitely thinking about getting here (probably after one last freeze that will kill my hydrangea buds, that is). I sincerely hope that this will be the end of runny noses and sore throats for a while!Here is our peach tree (that we've never actually gotten a peach off of!). It is surrounded by drunken bees today.

Birthday!

Today is Jake's 30th birthday. Here are my thoughts:

1) I am no longer married to a man in his 20's, so now I don't feel so OLD and

2) I wish I had taken a cake decorating class at some point

Here's Cole (well, his hand anyway), decorating Daddy's cupcakes. The icing is a cream cheese coolwhip icing, which is delicious in spite of the generally blobby look of it.

The next birthday is Cole's. He is getting so big. It wasn't that long ago that whenever anyone said "Happy Birthday" he would jump up and down and yell "Happy Birthday CAKE!" The kid definitely has his priorities in order...

Sweet Newborn Girl

She is so sweet. It took quite a while to get her to sleep, but I think it was worth it!

You might be taking too many photography classes if...

Every time the song changes on your ipod, you stop working for a minute to carefully scrutinize the cover art. Even if you've already listened to the song (and looked at the picture) three times just today.

Has anyone seen the cover art for The Flys song "Got You Where I Want You"? What does that picture mean? Are those Snow White apples? Hmmm...

Mr. Personality

Here are a couple from Saturday of Baby Eric. We had to bring a model for studio lighting class to do a 30 minute session, and I chose him because a) he can't crawl (the importance of this cannot be overstated!) and b) the child has some major personality. He is an adorable, squishy bundle. Thanks for bringing him for me, Lesli!

Snow Day!

We got about an inch of snow this morning and Cole was ecstatic. He's never played in the snow before! It's really too bad it melted so quickly.