This photo is very special to me. Me and my babies!! Being a mommy is my favorite part about life, although it can be so hard at times. I like my T.V. on Noggin and Sprout, I like carseats in my SUV. I like hotwheels in the floor,in my purse,in my pockets, basically everywhere. I like sippy cups and bottles in my sink. I like hearing bare feet run on hard wood in the middle of the night. I like keeping up with the latest toy trends, I like reading Chicka Chicka Boom Boom 10 times a night and watching Tonka Joe over and over and over. I like being the one that can make all boo boos feel better, and all monsters disapear, and no sound is more precious than is the dead of the night hearing the sleepy voice call out "mommy". I like being a mommy.... It is very heart touching seeing myself with the two of them, I rarely get to be in the photos because of course I am always taking the pictures. And if I do get someone's snapshop I am so picky and usually hate myself in photos. My sister, Jennifer, took this for me and I have to say I have taught her well, I am very pleased with the images. She got very natural shots of me interacting with my children and that is exactly what I was wanting...I am very proud of her. She listened to me and got what I wanted, although Caleb showed out a bit. I better be careful, or she will be stealing my business...haha. Thank you Jennifer for helping me make these memories. Isabella will be 10 weeks tomorrow. 8-28-08 Caleb is 4

My big boy

Caleb is growing too fast. It is weird how having Isabella has made me want to hold onto Caleb so much tighter. I dont know if it reminds me of how fast those baby years fly by or what...I remember thinking about Isabella the day she turned 4 weeks old and I how I could only think of Caleb and how he was already 4 years old in a blink we will be celebrating her 4th b-day as well. I know it sounds funny, but I guess having a new baby just makes it more real to me that my first baby isn't a baby no more....I don't think I am quite ready for that. I like to think Caleb and I have something special, yes he is mommy's boy, but he is the toughest mommy's boy around. When it comes to the 4 wheelers, dirt bikes and rough housing he is all about daddy...and poppe is his hocking buddy (that is what they call hiking)and no one is his buddy like his papaw...you know as Caleb says "me and papaw are buddies"

Easter 08

3 weeks old

I wanted to get some photos of Isabella at 3 weeks old, but it was so hard. We were having a really hard time with her because her little tummy hurt all the time. By the time I would set up the backdrops and lights and then I would end up holding her crying for hours It was just not worth putting her through a photoshoot...as a photographer and mother of a beautiful little girl you can only image how badly I wanted photographs of her. Mom would take Caleb to her house to give me time to just work with Isabella and I would still spend hours holding her crying with her tummy hurting when I wanting to be shooting. At that point being a mommy was more important than getting a good portrait. I even blamed Joe for bad fortune since he hates his picture taken so badly...he had made a comment one time that he hoped Isabella was like him about pictures since Caleb was so good for me. Well he got his wish. Although I believe he felt bad for the comment later after hearing my frustration and Isabella's cries. The doctor's finally put her on cereal and prevecid at 3 weeks old and little Ella finally found some comfort. We still battle with the tummy problems but she is a much happier baby now at 9 weeks...Here are a few photos at 3 weeks with natural light!!

Daddy's Girl

Her daddy sent her a dozen of pink roses for Valentines Day so I decided to use them in her 1 month shoot, it just makes this portrait special...daddy's little girl

I guess I better opt out on flowers from here on out, 2 dozen is a lot of money!!! Our little girl comes first, I know Joe loves me...

Easter photos 2008

I always use my own children (before just Caleb) for practice on any up coming shoots, for good lighting, locations, poses, etc...so this year's Easter shoot with live bunnies was no exception. The problem with this bright idea was, here I was just me, my so very energetic 4 yr old with all of his own ideas might I add, my 6 week old daughter that just loves photo time, two wild rabbits that had not been handled by anyone that breathes, and a camera with 4 gig worth of memory ready for some action. About an hour later, through sweat, tears, and blood shed I ended up with some shots that reminds me why I truely went into photography.... priceless photos of my own children. When I said blood shed I wasn't kidding, those rabbits had a long way to go before I let them around paying customers and you can forget around my kids...oh dont worry the blood was mine, and by the time my shoot came around the rabbits were as tame and calm as could be...A huge THANK YOU to Beth Crass and she girls for playing with and loving the bunnies to get them ready for picture day.