Recent Senior Session...

I think that I love Senior Sessions! It's so much fun to be able to tell your client how you want them to pose and have them actually do it. :) Not that I don't love my toddlers, it's just that this was so easy compared to....
Anyway, "B" was soooo fun to work with. She was so willing to try different places, poses, etc...
I'm excited to see what her and her mom's favorites end up being, but for now here's a few of mine.





Thanks so much! I had a blast!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!....

...and a bunch of crappy pictures..... and a little bit of me.....
So it's pumpkin carving time and I need to take pictures, but i'm too lazy to go and get my flash and put it on my camera. I'm pregnant! A walk downstairs is just a little too much sometimes. So.. these beauties were all taken at 3200 ISO! Ha... But hey - I documented the event so that's just gonna have to be good enough for now.
So here are our pumpkins...

Haley's Jack-O-Lantern

Bella's Jack-O-Lantern

Jack's Jack-O-Lantern ( I think that face came after cliff asked him to make a pumpkin face)

and... Baby Brother's Jack-O-Lantern ( we couldn't leave him out! )

:)
K- that's all you'll ever see of me preggo. Consider this my very own maternity photo-session shot by photographer, Cliff! The kids had so much fun painting the orange on my belly, but Cliff was the black-paint artist. I don't know what he was doing with the eyeballs and nostrils, but oh well. Haley asked me if we could do this again next year.... Hmmm..... How long does that kid think I'm gonna be pregnant?
Here are the kids in action...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Pity Hair...

... or atleast that's what He calls it. I sent him upstairs to my room to get the babywipes so that I could change his diaper and he came downstairs looking like this. He walked all the way down the stairs with a big grin on his face proclaiming that he had pity hair now. I couldn't tell what he had done till he got close enough. Looks like I'll be taking a trip to store later to replace my pomade. Silly dude used almost the whole jar!

More of Cohen....

Okay, I promised everyone more pics of this little guy so here we go... There's a lot so I'll warn you in advance of a photo-overload. AND.. I have more to proof and will probably be sharing more later so stay tuned....





and that cute first one in black and white..

My New Nephew!

Okay, so I'm just gonna share one for now, but PROMISE that i'll have more later. I have sooosooooo many pictures to go through but this one was on the top of the stack and so scrunchy cute that I thought i better share it.
This cute little guy was born last Wednesday at about 3am and I got in to Ohio on Thursday at around 11pm. Yay me! I got to see him soooo brand new! So this pic was taken Friday on baby Cohen's day 3!

Sneak Peek for "L" and her fam...

I had such a fun newborn shoot yesterday. This little babe was such a sweetie! I told mom to give me a week or 2 to proof everything, but i'm going through them like crazy. I leave tomorrow to take pics of my brandnew nephew (born this morning at 2:45 - Congrats Laurie!!!) and i want to have as much of these done as possible. And ... they've been so much fun to proof. How could I resist pulling this one out of the stack and playing with it?!?

It's become a new fav of mine!
and I gave this one a try with a square crop. What d'ya think?

anyway... There's a ton more. I better get to work if I want to finish them. Wish me Luck with the Nephew!!! and look for him next week....

My New BABY...

.... NOT that one.... he's still safe and sound inside my belly. As for this baby, I've actually been asking for, planning for, saving for, begging for, for longer than the little dude we're all waiting for. I was pregnant with Jack when I told Cliff that we "need" a sedan. We live 45 minutes from the nearest "real" city. 45 minutes from any shopping other than Walmart. 45 minutes from my doctor and hospital. 45 minutes from a real restaurant. 45 minutes for a good date......etc,etc,etc,etc...... We have 2 gas hoggin' suv's and I almost feel guilty jumpin in and taking a trip by myself at 12mpg and $3/gallon. So you see... I "needed" a sedan. Right?!? Well I finally got the ball rollin' by test driving some little sedans myself last thursday. I had it narrowed down to a Camry, an Accord, or an Altima. Cliff said let's wait and make sure there's nothing else in Boise that we might want. He got on line and looked around and found a Maxima that he wanted me to look at. So Friday we got a babysitter and set out for a car-shopping adventure. Before we left and the whole (45 minute) drive there he lectured me about how we might not go home with a car that day and would i be okay with that. Would I be okay with one not so nice cuz maybe we didn't want to pay for "pimped" out. AND... We're not gonna buy the first car we drive...let's just be patient. okayokayokay.... I was just glad that he finally agreed to go shopping with me on this and even though i dreaded the long day ahead of us filled with cars and (even better)car salesmans, I was ready for the adventure.
So how did it turn out???? The first salesman we met, lucky Ted, directed us to a nice used sedan. It was pretty, in excellent condition, low miles and just about the price we'd been looking at. So, sure, we gave it a test drive. Well.... apparently Ted had Cliff read like a book the minute he saw him cuz he didn't even want to SIT in another car much less test drive one after sitting in, yes, the first car we drove. So my friends, this is my New Baby....

Thanks Cliff! I love ya too!