one more for the night

Here's your sneak-peek, Jordan. Thanks for the laughs :)

See.... I told you you could do a good serious face. You thought I was crazy... ha! :)

I will have the rest of your images up on my website in the next week.

getting caught up...

I met up with another sweet family this past weekend to get some family shots while the grandparents were in town. Little Mr. Finn was just as cute as he could be with his sweet red hair. He is a brand spankin' new walker- in fact mom told me he had just figured it all out less than a week before our session. He was quite the little trooper but by the end I think he was sick and tired of me and my big ole' scary camera. Thanks, you guys, for another enjoyable morning.

Meet Miss Paisley. She is just UH-dorable. Her mommy trusted me to take her newborn pictures just nine short months ago. She was one of my first babies to photograph. I will always cherish the friends that gave me a chance in those first few months. :) Look how much she has grown in the last 9 months! She could not have been any easier... She just sat there and let me snap. snap. snap. We'd change scenery and do it again.

Thanks Paisley for playing with me! I can't wait to chase you around and photograph you in the future!

Cassie and Jordan- I will work on getting the rest of your images edited on the long drive to Lubbock tomorrow. They should be up in the next few days. Thanks for being patient.

a boy and his dog...

This is my neighbor, Weston. I talked to his mom a few weeks ago about taking his senior portraits and she had a few ideas about incorporating his dog, his love for hunting and the outdoors and his truck. What else is a boy to want? :) She wasn't able to make it to the session but I think we were able to capture his laid back personality in these images. Thanks, Weston, for having a great attitude and being so patient...

windy. windy. windy.

I don't think the wind could have blown any harder during this session. Honestly, I wasn't even sure if I was going to get ANY shots of poor Danica's hair looking halfway normal. We spent the whole time fighting with the wind and saying... "Ok, well let's just see what we get. If we have to meet again then we will." About half of the session, all of the hair on the left side of her head was flopped over the top of her head and trying to lay on the right side of her head. So, I was pleasantly surprised when I got home and uploaded the images to find that there actually were some good shots. Enjoy a few of my favorites!

because I know her mommy is waiting...

there's more where these came from :)

fun. fun. fun

is exactly what this family is... I had so much fun photographing them. They were on time, ready to go and looked great when I pulled up. These pictures are actually for their mom. This group is two sisters and a brother and their kids. I think grandma is going to love her Mother's Day gift. :)

I will have the rest of your images for you to view on my website in a few days. I'll email you once they are up. Thanks again!!

Not so emotional this time... haha.

**Warning, Warning** This post contains pictures of

strange animals that look gross but taste oh. so. yummmmmy.

We (my dad, my sister, my hubby, my baby and me) left Friday evening and hauled our cookies to Louisiana to visit my dad's side of the family for our Annual Crawfish Boil. We had such a great time spending time with family and friends. Here are just a few of the many that I snapped that night. I got a picture of almost everyone either making a silly face or shoving food in their mouth. But, I decided to leave those off and keep them for my own laughs. :)This was only about a third of all of the crawfish! My dad says this one should be made into a puzzle... sounds like a pretty frustrating puzzle to me.Ok, I will admit. When I saw this picture I thought to myself "wow we eat those?!" haha... yup, we sure do and they were SO GOOD.
The poor mud bugs get tortured by the girls every year... well I guess that's not that bad seeing whats about to happen.The cooks. Plus a few.The Louisiana gang.My sweet dad.mmmm mmmmm yummmmy! My lips are burning just thinking about it!There were some big ones!! I think a few of them look like they should have been served as lobsters!Audrey was sooo good... She played. and played. and played some more.And then played some more.

We took a picture that was very similar to this last year... except there was one slight difference. The squirmy little girl in the front wasn't so squirmy last year. She wasn't even mobile. Last year's was much easier... :)

My dad, Aunt Lori, Uncle Shane, and Uncle Gary.

Big Audrey teaching Audrey how to use the IPOD. She even let us stick the ear buds in her ears and she jammed out to Raffi.

Thanks again to my awesome family. We had so much fun!

**Don't worry family... You will be receiving your CD with these images and many, many more in the next week or so. I just got finished playing with them so give me a chance to burn them onto a CD and then I will get them to you. ahem. Dad.... ahem, ahem**

8lbs 2oz 21in

When I got the text message that Miss Keira was here that's exactly what it said "8lbs 2oz 21in." As soon as I read it I had this stream of emotion come over me. I was walking out the door trying to get Audrey in the car and off to work and when I read it I thought- that is EXACTLY the same size my sweet baby was when she was born. Its so easy to get swept up in the business of being a wife and mommy and the everyday stuff, that I often forget about the first few days of my baby's life and what she looked like. Tiny hands, tiny lips, tiny feet. As I sat here editing these few favorites tonight I was reminded about what life was like that first week. I think we were just in survival mode. hehe. It took us a while to get the hang of things but once we did... wow what an amazing change in our lives. I look back and think- I was an incredibly selfish person before I had a baby. I love my life now. Jonathan and I often look at each other and think... What in the world did we do before we had her?!? This first picture is so similar to a picture I have of Audrey when she was a newborn... There goes that wave of emotion again.. haha I'm being sappy. Ok, that's enough. Enjoy this time, Misti. As you know- it will go by way too fast. It won't be long until she, too, will be eating Wheat Thins and pulling every piece of clothing out of her dresser.