5 and FABULOUS!

Here's my new 5 year old!

Photo Session

I promised myself that I was going to be more positive in general, so I will attempt telling this story without being too negative....
Taking pictures of my kids is the biggest NIGHTMARE! (already I have lost the positive battle). I recently updated our bathroom, paint, flowers, vinyl lettering, the whole works. Since it's the girls bathroom it's of course a princess theme. I bought a white frame that would be just perfect with a picture of my 3 girls playing dress-up.
I tried making it fun, telling them to put on any dress-up they wanted. Then I had them sit down and I started shooting photos. No one was looking at me, or if they were it was a funny, silly, or sassy face. The Happy One was crying a majority of the time, while our Comedian is picking her nose!
I figured that out of the 20 pictures I took at least 1 would turn out? Nope, not one. I'll let you see a few examples of what I am talking about...

I came up with a list of possible problems, that I can hopefully avoid next time.

1-Don't do this at 5pm when everyone just wants to eat.

2-Blow every one's nose BEFORE so there will be nothing good in there to snack on, because like problem #1 it was dinner time.

3-Get rid of any mental picture of how I want the picture to turn out, and just shoot & print!

With Spring comes mud

The other day was nice enough, and I was at the point where I had had enough and made the girls go outside. Within a few minutes I heard The Comedian calling me from the yard. I looked out the window to see her stuck in the mud. I wasn't quite sure how to get her out since the mud patch was huge and I would have to go in myself to get her. So while I thought, I got the camera and took a few snapshots waiting any second for her to go down in the mud. Fortunately she had great balance (in this perticular moment) and held upright, even giving me enough time to get my shoes on, and fish her out.

The boots on the other hand stayed in the mud for a week, while the mud dried up!

Playdough girls

There are some things I like doing with my kids (playdough, beauty salon, coloring, to name a few) and then there are some things I don't (barbies is really the only one I can think of right now). With that said, whenever we do playdough I always create something too. So this is my lastest rendition of my girls. My playdough girls. Aren't they cute. Sorry The Youngest didn't get a character, she was sleeping. Can you tell who is who?

I'm Online!

Some of you know, and some of you don't, but after this I hope you all will. I have officially started my own company. This idea has been in the works since 2002 (or whenever Kyle and DanaLee got married), when I did their wedding announcement. So that's what I am doing now, announcements. I do weddings, birth announcements, holiday cards, valentines, we're moving, whatever you want to slap a photo on and print I will do!
I have started a website that I am hoping to doing a majority of the business through. Check it out, I would love any feedback you want to give.

http://www.dcinks.com/

Oh Happy Day!

Well it's official, I really did wonder if the day would come, when I would say this sentence, and that is "Our baby is crawling". She is 11 months now and has just barely decided to crawl. That may seem like no big deal, but she didn't even roll till 11 months either. So basically I have been holding, I repeat holding her for 11 months now. She did sit, but that was it, no mobility, none! Untill the other day when we dropped her off at Grand(ma & pa)'s house and as we were leaving she crawled after us. I was shocked and thank goodness for "Granny on the spot" because she grabbed her camera and got these pictures of her first literal crawl! Oh happy day!!! My arms can finally relax.

All About Me, now that I'm THREE!!

I had to do a highlight on our little 3 year old, who just turned 3 in December. She seems to me to have been 3 for at least a year now, whenever I hit the half birthday I start rounding up in age, so when they actually do turn the full year, it's never that monumental, in my mind at least. But either way here is what our 3 year old is like:

FAST LIKE DASH

You will often hear "Look mom I am fast like Dash!" (the Incredibles if you aren't sure what I am talking about) I was so happy, when we went out for a family photo shoot, that she just happened to do that, and I had the camera ready. So yes, she is fast like Dash!

BEAUTY & THE "BEAST"

Now you may be thinking that by the "Beast" I am referring to her personality, but, you would be wrong, she really is an easy going girl. The "beast" is her NEVER ENDING runny nose. I had really wanted to get some nice, Christmas dress pictures. Darrin took this one and did a great job. I was so excited to have some beautiful pictures. When I loaded them on my computer what did I find among the beauty?...The runny nose! I can't believe it. Here's a closer look:

I know you all really wanted to see that, but let's face it, I can't talk about this girl and not mention her nose.

GRANDMA J'S

You have to know a little about my mom and going to my mom's house to really appreciate this, but the short condensed version is she is a Yard Saler. She finds some pretty good stuff too. So this is just one of her great finds (not at a yardsale, but her ability to find random things, does exist outside of yardsales). I wish that pictures could speak because this one would be singing a Christmas Santa song to you right now, at least the hat would. I think Baylie's face is just hilarious in this. I can just see what her mind is thinking "Oh the Joy's of visiting Grandma J's!"