Another precious little boy. He was pretty little but fully awake for the majority of the time. Once we were outdoors he snoozed away. I loved some of his looks. It was almost as though he tolerated all of the poses so we could just be done and he could go home. Hope you enjoy your sneak peek:)
Doesn’t he totally look like he’s humoring us? Like, let’s just get this over with people.
I really admire these two. He is in the military and will be leaving this Wednesday for a year. I’m so thankful to him and to every single person that serves our Country. And then the spouses and families that are left behind. It takes a special strength to live this life. I can only imagine how hard it must be and how hard it is especially to leave your young child who will change so much during that year. Because of this I really wanted to capture pictures that show these 3 as a family unit at this point in their life…interacting and enjoying each other. There were some typical posed pictures but more than anything I hope they can cherish the unposed pictures, the ones that show their love for each other and their adorable son.
I really hope you enjoy these guys. Be careful Rob, and thank you for doing what you do and for the sacrifices you make.
I’m calling it now. Mr. Taft here is going to be the next big name in the racing world! He lives on our street and anything with wheels and he’s on it and he’s going f a s t! I mean FAST. And he’s been like that for as long as I can remember. Luckily, he was really good for the pictures and didn’t use his speed to get away from me:)
We had quite the adventure for this photo shoot. We started out at an abandoned house with a barn that I had spotted the day before. We also wanted to take some pictures at my usual field so I mentioned that I didn’t feel that comfortable there with only she and I and kids. It’s kind of secluded and some strange people have come by before. So, we conned another neighbor into coming to be our bodyguard. We were only there for a few minutes before an old van (yeah, it’s always a van, right?) drove by slowly, checking us out. A few minutes later I look up and he had turned around and parked just a little ways down the street and was watching us. We decide to jet. Probably nothing, but we were a little uncomfortable. So then we headed to a local park to finish up. Then I realize that I left my camera bag at the first location…the abandoned house. It’s getting dark, we’re hoping no one found the camera bag, and we drive up. There’s a suv now parked there and we can see a man walking around the abandoned house and we would have to pass him to get to the barn. We park across the street and wait for him to leave. Finally he did and we go over there, my bodyguard makes a mad dash for the barn to get the camera bag, and we make it home. We’re a bunch of chickens… I know!
But chickens need their camera bags, too! Hope you enjoy Catherine!
Not often. Hardly ever…that a senior boy is so easy to work with. These were his senior/head shot pictures for some future things he may be doing. You may wonder if there are any of him smiling…and there are, but I am just drawn to the serious ones. (I did throw a couple of happy-face ones in there though). Hope you enjoy!
Here’s another super photogenic family. There’s so many pictures of everyone looking and smiling…I had such a hard time narrowing it down. We met at the Japanese Gardens and although parking is a little bit of an issue the Gardens offer lots of photo ops. (Except for the group of people that decided to take up camp in one of the little huts that we had to boot out). I hope you enjoy your sneak peek:)
Now, doesn’t that wide open-mouth smile just make you grin when you look at it?!
Ok…I have 3 kids…AND I know they all go through this, but Drew is in the Why, Mom? phase and it is driving me batty!!
Why do puppies have sharp teeth?
Why do cars live in garages?
Why do we live in a house?
Why do lions have tails?
Why do the girls have school tomorrow?
Why does the computer make noises?
and Dear Drew, Why are you making mommy crazy with a capital C?
I try and be as patient as I possibly can and answer each question as best that I can so that he learns from the explanations but that’s where I think I’m going wrong. I’m patient, patient, patient, and then BAM I’ve had enough and I have to tell him to give mommy a break! and then I feel bad. Inquisitiveness is not a bad thing…I just don’t want to be the only person that has to have all of these crazy answers. And I’m now declaring that it’s ok to answer, “Because I said so.” Any advice out there??
I also have a few questions myself (if anyone can enlighten me)
1. Why do the itches on your back change location if you have someone scratch them?
2. Why are yawns contagious?
3. And I still don’t understand how I can talk to someone on a phone thousands of miles away, across oceans and at the same time as millions of other people that are on phone lines. I just don’t “get” how that works.
Ok, on to the pictures.
The precious little peanut in this post is a little carbon copy of her big sister. I didn’t notice it so much at first but after being around her for a little while I saw it more and more and more. And now looking at the pictures, wow, she’s such a little mini of big sis’. She is a tiny little one and was really good for the pics.
Hope you enjoy:)
for several reasons. One, we had so much fun on our three, yes three, photo shoots. The first time we lasted about 20 minutes and decided that the weather — mainly gusts of 30 mph wind — was not going to cooperate. The next time we had a blast but I was a little unhappy with how fast we lost the sunlight (and I love some setting sunlight) so we went back a third time to get it just right. We laughed so much that it didn’t feel like work…at all. I also adore Melissa because she was Mackenzie’s kindergarten teacher. She was straight out of college and I knew right away that we were going to love her as Kenz’s first teacher. By the end of the year I swear every single student in that class wanted to go to Texas A&M where their teacher had gone. Mackenzie would come home and tell us that when they did something good they would get an A&M sticker or drawing on their hand. We joked that we were going to send her to school with a University of Texas longhorn symbol on her cheek and tell her to tell her teacher that she had cleaned her room really good that weekend:) (Just for the record neither I nor my husband are Aggies or Longhorns, heehee!) Mackenzie indeed had an awesome kindergarten experience and I’m so appreciative! I think it’s so important that the kindergartners learn that school and learning can be fun. And now Melissa has moved to 2nd grade so I’m hoping that Cassidy gets her next year. *Crossing my fingers & toes*
Well, school starts back tomorrow and the kids were in bed by 8:30. I won’t mention the fact that they kept coming in to the study to tell me they couldn’t fall asleep. One would come complain and I’d send her back to her room and 2 minutes later the other would come in. It was like they were tag teaming for their whine fest. I had to finally pull out the punishment that really works around here…”The next person that gets out of bed and comes in here to tell me they can’t fall asleep is going to clean house after school tomorrow.” It worked! Haven’t seen them since. They may still be awake in there, but I get credit for being a bedtime stickler.) This past summer I got so tired of hearing, “I’m bored.” I tried several things to break that cycle and finally started using a 15 minutes of cleaning if I heard it and it’s amazing how non-bored they became.
I hope everyone is having a great start to their New Year! Enjoy your sneak peek guys:)
I lost the sun the first time in the field, so this time I was hoping to catch some sun flare.
Bring it on…
is what she was. She was just so laid back and happy. Hope you enjoy your sneak peek:)
I’m usually mostly a color picture kind of girl, but my friend Jennifer here is 99.9% a B&W picture kind of girl…so here you go:) Hope you enjoy!
Ok, ok, I had to throw in a couple of colored pictures:)
This is crazy…I’m sitting here and I can hear my kiddos playing the wii. There wouldn’t be anything wrong at all with their joyous, playful sounds except….except that it’s 11:30 at night and they should really be in bed. The problem is that neither my husband nor myself are bedtime sticklers. When some of our best friends, The Jones’, stayed with us in November I was so impressed because Rob (the dad) said that it was time to get the kids to bed (and it was pretty early). I mentioned that I was impressed and Kristen (the mom) said well, he’s a stickler on bed times. Chad and I laughed and announced that that was our problem…neither of us are sticklers. I get busy working in the study late at night and he gets busy doing whatever he’s doing and before we know it it’s way past bed time! They do get to bed at a somewhat decent time on school nights but there’s definite room for improvement. So check back with me later in 2009 and see if I’ve been able to stick to my resolve to become a better bed time stickler.
The pictures on this post are more from December sessions that I didn’t have time to do sneak peeks of. And also a couple of our new baby Cosmo. Then there’s one of the beautiful red heart leaf hanging in our backyard. It has a little bit of a story. We added a pave stone patio last June and pulled out a palm tree from the corner. I wanted to add another type of tree but it needed to be a small tree. I already knew what I wanted, a Redbud tree. We went to a local nursery in search of one but all of the ones they had weren’t very pretty. We found out that they grew more in a back area and they offered to show us. A worker took us in a golf cart to the back and as soon as we drove up I saw “the one”. We snagged it, took it home, and planted it. A couple of months later Hurricane Ike came to town. I watched in horror as my new little hand-picked Redbud tree swayed back and forth in the strong hurricane winds. I didn’t know if it would survive. It did survive but wasn’t left with many leaves after it was all over with. About a month ago I noticed it had 3 leaves left on it. Two of them were brown and about to fall off, but this one, I noticed was perfect. A deep red that is shaped like a perfect little heart. I keep expecting to see it gone, but it’s been the lone leaf for about 3 weeks now and just keeps hanging on to the tiny little tree.
