My kiddos

Mr. Mike, Emily's dad, is also a photographer. He was nice enough to shoot some images of my daughters and nephews. We got one of all 5 of them. A feat in and of itself. I am so happy I will be having this one printed big!

Emily

Hi all,

I know it has been a long time, but I wanted to share with all of you these beautiful images from a photoshoot today.

This is Emily, we took these for a ceremony. She is being awarded a community service award. She is a super sweet girl and we had lots of fun this morning!







Check her website below, and her baby brother's website who was her inspiration for her non profit charity that she created.

Baby Jude, The diary of a baby and a stroke: http://cjengo.blogspot.com/

Emily's smile boxes inc. a non profit charity, spreading smiles through hospitals; http://www.emilyssmileboxes.com/

Sarah's 1!

So my little baby is now a toddler. Walking all over the place and so pretty! Her birthday party was yesterday and while the party place ruined the party, the lady assigned to our party helped with making it better. I am sad she is getting so big, but so happy to see her growing into such a beautiful big girl! I will post pictures in another post after I am done complaining about her party:

We went to Jump for Fun in Southlake. So just take note that if you ever want to have a party that has good customer service you will want to never use this company. They will input your information wrong and tell you that they don't remember you calling to fix it. They won't call to confirm your party and see if you want to order anything for the party. They will however tell you they called and that you didn't want anything. WTF!

This company can book another party during yours. As long as it is within 2 years. So they booked a party for a 4 and 5 year old double party with close to 20 - 25 kids at it. It was the classmates of each of the kids celebrating. The manager tried to tell me that the party was for a 3 year old and a 5 year old, but the kids at that party were much too old for that. And what class is a 3 year old in? Most 3 year olds don't attend pre K.

So 20 minutes into our party we our bombarded by 25 loud kids. Sarah now no longer wants to play. So we spend the rest of our time in their party room holding her because she is now to afraid to play. I go in to talk to the guy in charge and he says that they have no record that Sarah was turning one. I booked on the phone. Really?? They must not know how to input information into their computers. Because I know how old my little girl is. Why would I say she is 3??? So their way of making it up to us that Sarah is now too scared to play is to give us a Jump for Fun t shirt and comp us the cheapest pizza we bought. Are you kidding me? Thanks for the cheap shirt and the free $12 pizza after I just spent $300 to rent your place and buy pizza!!!!! Are they out of their minds!!

So I write them a letter letting them know I am upset and they blame me. They tell me that I never told them she was 1 so how could they know. Why would I book a random aged party for my kid?

And of course he believes they did their best to compensate me for her party.

I digress from my soap box to say that while I know Sarah won't remember this, it cost me $300!!!! Does anyone else thing that I should be happy about this.

Don't take your kids to Jump for Fun!! Go to Pump it Up in Grapevine instead. It's cheaper, you don't have to share your room with kids that are way to old to play with your baby.

So pretty!

I just wanted to post this one from a session with one of my best friends! Her daughter is so pretty and we had such a good time!

More Little Heroes

This is little J. He is the sweetest baby. Born with just 3 chambers to his heart. I could have looked at his sweet little face all day long! He was just happy and sweet. He and his parents are an inspiration to me. What a beautiful family! Pray for them as he has surgery soon, and we want the Lord to give them strength and success to see many many years watching this handsome boy grow up!

Sweet Littlest Hero

This sweet little baby boy was part of the Charity Littlest Heroes. He is baby Jude. He had a stroke in Utero and he is my hero. If you would like to read more about his story or about what his big sister is doing to give to other children in the hospital you can see below:

Baby Jude, The diary of a baby and a stroke: http://cjengo.blogspot.com/

Our family's reviews: http://ourfamviews.blogspot.com/

Emily's smile boxes: http://www.emilyssmileboxes.com/

Who says you can't take pretty pictures while driving?

I took this while driving home from a senior session the other night. I know it isn't as good as most sunset pictures but it is pretty to me all the same.

Seniors Are So Fun!

We had a great time in Grapevine the other day. What beautiful weather and a very handsome senior.

A Beautiful Family

A sneak peek for a fun family! And don't worry, their teens weren't that serious, those were just my favs!

Even me...

I even managed to take a picture of myself. For all of you to see. Don't make too much fun of me, it is harder than you think to take a self portrait.

Today I thought about something that is just me. (In my search for who I am) and I really like chocolate, but not dark chocolate. So I know that without influence I don't like dark chocolate. Tell me something about you that is unique.

A long awaited update

Well I am such a slacker. This blog hasn't had a new post in so long. I have to tell you that it is hard work being a wife, a mom, an assistant and a photographer. I feel overwhelmed most of the time.

I am currently on a search to find out who I am. I know who I am in Christ, a beloved daughter. But I think I am not quite sure who I am as a person.

Well I wanted to show you an update so here it is: The kids are great, I am ALWAYS busy and I hope to take a break to breath soon! SO many pictures to post so here is the first post. Updated pictures of all of the children. THen the next post will be Faith's birthday!

My Chubby baby!

Here is my Sarah. She is getting so big. And she is finally starting to feel better. I never got to come on here and post about our sickness. There really just wasn't any time. So I will post about it now. We all got sick and sadly Sarah got rsv. She is recovering well now. We did have to take breathing treatments and she has a monitor that we hook up when she sleeps to make sure her breathing is good. It has been hard to watch her suffer but she is on the mend now. So without any further ado, here she is:

NYIP

Hi Everyone. Sorry that it has been so long since my last post. Our house was invaded by the RSV virus and even our littlest one got it. So now that we are all on the mend I am ready to get back into the game.

I wanted to share some images with you from a random driving around shoot. Some of these I am using for my photo assignments. I am attending the New York Institute for Photography. You can never know enough about what you love.

These first 3 pictures I am turning in this week. One is panning the subject. That would be my swinging Aimee. The second picture was to have very little depth of field and isolate the subject and the last one was to have great depth of field showing the viewer a great deal in focus.





This one was just for fun. More to come when I get some more time.

Merry Christmas

Painting with Light

Merry Christmas everyone! I am so happy to have made it through another year! I just want to say that GOD is amazing! The things we have been through this year have surely made us stronger. I pray that in the coming new year that everyone is blessed and that GOD does a work in your lives that makes you stronger and gives you a peace that transcends understanding.


With that said, here is my Christmas tree this year. A little painted.