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Long time coming

I couldn't sleep tonight. Every once in a while my hubby snores a little bit louder than a freight train, and I have to seek respite elsewhere. I laid down by Cooper, but his humidifier rivals the sounds coming from my room. (now I know why the kid can sleep through anything) So I finally got up, came into my office and sat down at my computer. After checking up on some blogs, I went through emails. And then came the guilt. A notification of a blog comment from my older sister's sister-in-law.....Christina....who came to visit in the summer.....and allowed me to shoot her kids with my canon....(that joke is always so funny to me at 1am). I've had the images sitting at my computer forever. I look at them and smile, then think I have to get these to Christina...and then it never seems to happen......and then she comments on my blog here and there, and never mentions, not even hints at the images being held hostage. Such a nice girl, that Christina. So finally, Christina, here are some peaks at your adorable boys....the rest are coming...I promise...

 

 
  This is a series every parent should have of their child at this age. You can't help but smile.

 
  

Oh the joy of having cousins. I grew up with lots and lots of cousins, and these last images remind me of how great it is to have cousins.

 
And now that I've shed myself of at least a little of the guilt inside, I'm going to try and get some sleep. Anyone know where to get some really good earplugs? 

Is this Legal?!

Is it Legal to be this cute?! My good friend and neighbor Chrissy asked me to take little Nicholas' 6 month pictures on monday. A couple of hours before we were scheduled to shoot, I heard a knock on the door. I opened it up to see Natalie, Nicholas' big sister standing there looking sooo cute. She heard Nicholas was having a photo shoot, and wasn't about to not get one herself! So we did a little impromptu session for her, and then one for Nicholas when he woke up from his nap later that day. They are so cute aren't they!

 

This face just cracks me up!

It was amazing we got any shots at all since Cooper decided that he wanted to be between me and the camera the entire time! Poor boy kept getting whisked (is that the right word?) away by Chrissy, and would come running back as soon as she put him on the floor. He's quite the helper! Here he is in action!

Chrissy, I hope you enjoy these! Thanks for being such a great friend and neighbor!

Baby Brody

My cousins Ryan and Kristin are two of my favorite people. Last year we found out they were expecting their fourth child... in four years. Don't choke on your drink now, I'm not kidding. After three girls, and lots of teasing, we were all super excited to find out they were expecting a boy. Our excitement turned to fear and endless prayers when Kristin's pregnancy turned high risk. After months in the hospital, emergency surgery and a few very close calls, the world welcomed Brody Vaughn Liljenquist. My eyes well up with tears just thinking of everything that Kristin went through to have little Brody, and so his birth on Mother's Day seems to be much more than coincidence.

Christian and I went over to spend some time with Kristin and Ryan on the 4th of July, and to have a newborn session with Brody. At two months old, he was still a month shy of his due date, and absolutely precious! Kristin and Ryan, enjoy these images of your sweet little miracle!

 

Til next time, Cin

Lil' Blue Eyes

Just a quick pick of the little man that has mommy and daddy wrapped around his chubby little fingers. You gotta love those big blues.

Old is new

There is a trend going on lately in photography to make new things look old, and old things look new. I love all the textures that are popular, like those of the talented Jesh De Rox. I can't stand how in love I am with the stuff he does. Well, I have been wanting to get some images of textures and try my hand at them. I didn't have to go far to get some interesting images....in fact all I had to do was go to my wasteland of a backyard.

We have lived in our house for two years, and have yet to successfully landscape our little patch of backyard. I say succesfully, because shortly after we moved in we were given a pallet of free grass. Well who can turn away free grass. Not us. So we put the grass down, water the yard faithfully and get beautiful green grass in a square that is about 3 feet shorter than our yard on all sides... only problem is we don't own a lawnmower. So our square of grass gets long, then dies. So now we have a square of dead long grass surrounded by orange desert dirt in our backyard. It could pass as the terrain of Mars! It's a different look for sure. Well, I walked around the backyard the other day taking pictures of all the different textures, and found some that I really liked.

All that explaing to lead up to one picture! When I took this image of my neice I thought it would work so well with texture. What do you think, does it work? Is it old school enough? Subtle enough? I love it.

Crazy Fun in the Sun!!!!

So earlier this week my sister and sister-in-law invited me and the Coopster to join them, their kids and grandma for some slip-n-slide fun. I didn't think Cooper would enjoy the slip-n-slide quite yet, but I would certainly enjoy the conversation with family, and taking pictures of the kiddos having a good time. Well, my brother was in charge of purchasing the said slip-n-slide and decided that the traditional little yellow one was just not going to cut it, so this is what I showed up to......

How fun is that! My neice took one look and said "Oh I wish my daddy were here, he would LOVE this!" It kind of reminded me of that show Home Improvement with Tim Allen....I could see him looking at this and grunting with pride!!! Well it was so much fun, that I had to take a try at it with Cooper.....and well, lets just say that we'll try to have better luck next year! But I did have fun taking pictures of the kids having a blast............

Can't beat a day of supersized slip-n-sliden' now can ya...

 

My little fairy friends

Time has flown by! I started this blog and had the great intentions of updating daily, but man, life gets chugging along, and each time I sit down to post, something pulls me in the other direction. So the 8 month old baby is sleeping, I am sitting down, and letting the phone go to voicemail and updating. Yeah!

These are a couple of little fairies that I know. They are so cute!

 

These images make me smile each time I see them. That is what I love about photography. It can make you smile, laugh, cry, reminisce, rejoice, remember.... the full scope of emotions can sweep over you with one simple image. That is powerful to me, and why I have a passion for photography. I can't get enough of it. I love to look at other people's blogs to see what the world looks like through their images. I have to admit, if  a blog doesn't contain images, I lose interest really fast. Hopefully the images I post will have as much impact on others as the images I come across daily on blogs like Audrey Woulard, Jessica Claire, De Ette and JB Sallee, and Scott Robert Lim. These are amazing photographers who get what it is to capture the emotion and beauty of life. There are so many more that I love and find inspiration from! Well, I'll finish this post with a couple of the last little fairy getting some flying lessons from mom.