so blessed

I have not really been out on any shoots lately. I'll probably just be taking photos of friends and family until we move to Travis. I've truly been blessed to have met some of the most awesome people while living here. It has been one of the greatest experiences for our family. We have all grown so much.

This afternoon I was going through some photos from the past year and I found these two of Reid. I looooovvvee them! You can bet they both will be hanging on my walls. I love his 10yr old smile in this pictures and how you can see the freckles and the wrinkle across his nose that doesn't tan. He is the sweetest most tender hearted soul I have ever known. I am the luckiest mom in the world :)

this way or that way

So sorry for the repeat posts. I'm trying to change and clean my blog up a bit and I cannot make up my mind :)

To post without a picture is no fun. So here is my friend Ange's daughter miss L. They were over a few days ago and I got a few quick shots of her in for fun.
Ha! I just remembered and wanted to add that in the picture above she has a candy necklace around her neck. So the funny part is that she has an apple in her hand (not because of me might I add :) and a bag of freeze dried blueberries from Trader Joe's just outside of the picture. Which by the way she was totally content with eating. She had absolutely no clue that candy was dangeling around her neck. So close but yet so so far away. Next time she not looking miss L I promise :)

my littlest man

Now with his sweet little pouty face.

He makes me smile everyday. I am so thankful he is where he is now. A couple of years ago we were so worried for him. He seemed to hit his milestones all fairly quickly then all of a sudden at about nine months we noticed his eyes started to turn in and his development seemed to slow down. Of course I began researching online and was upset by all the disorders associated with his symptoms. We were finally able to get him in to see a pediatric opthamologist. He was diagnosed with strabismus and was fit with his very first set of glasses at 12 months. The poor little guy had to wear a patch over his stronger eye and also began therapy for his development. Even during his time in therapy he did not seem to make much of a leap. The opthamologist told us that we should consider a surgery to realign his eyes. As soon as we moved to Texas he was set up with an appointment with another ped's doctor in Dallas. He received the surgery a year ago next month. As soon as he was on the mend he just took off. It was the most awesome thing. It was like everything was new to him. All of the things around the house toddlers would be getting into that he hadn't even noticed before were now fair game :) Ha.. I had to childproof my house for the first time in a long time. He is in Pre k3 now and his teacher says you would never know he had any struggles.

This week we are going back to Dallas to have his eyes checked and to see if he needs a new prescription or even be able to be without glasses all together. Either way I am just so grateful!

snowed in...... in Texas??

I know!! It's just crazy man! Me and my boys have had so much fun the last week. When I first thought about being trapped inside for days, I thought... grr..rreatt???! I am a go go go kinda person. Luckily I had gone grocery shopping and bought wayy to many groceries a couple of days before. I of course had no clue we were about to have a snow storm :), and who would in Texas? It turned out to be the best Christmas ever. The boys got an X-box for Christmas. When I say boys I mean my husband and Reid. So my TV has been taken captive by them. Colson is still able to be convinced he is playing with the remote with no batteries. Now whats a girl to do?? No worries.. my friend Ange lended me two books a couple of weeks before. Twilight and New Moon! Can I just say perfect timing?! I could barely put them down. As soon as the ice was mostly cleared from the roads, off I went to the theater to see New Moon. So glad I read the books first. Well kinda.. I sorta cheated and went to see the movie before I was completely done with the book. I was afraid it was gonna snow again. Haha and I would be trapped. Unable to see Edward. I think I may have been the last girl on earth not sucked into this book. Okay so enough about that for now :)

I could not think of any other perfect time to take pictures of my monkey's. Both home from school and lots of snow!

Happy New Year!

So things are finally starting to settle down around here. My J graduated from pilot training this past weekend so now this long long year of craziness is starting to slow into a normal pace. We found out that we will be moving to Travis AFB in California after the kiddos are out for the summer. Travis is somewhere between San Diego San Francisco (I obviously have no clue where we are moving:) and Sacramento. I'm sooo soo excited! The best thing about the whole deal will be that Ikea is like 39 minutes from my house. Just kidding.. just kidding.. sorta :) I here there are tons of things to do in this area and I have never lived on the West coast before. Another really cool thing is that my mom and brother both live in California. My brother is in the Coast Guard and will live like thirty minutes away.

Okay so the picture above was going to be my holiday card this year :) (I purchased the template from sugarlimedesigns) But.. I was just too darn busy this time around. I saw this idea on couple of blogs last year and decided this would be a good year for our family to be green. :)

I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday and if your traveling to be with your families I wish you safe travels. Merry Christmas *hugs*

just noted: ha! I have been telling people all week somewhere between San Diego and Sacramento.. Hmmmm...... that could be anywhere in California. I'm such a goof :)

miss E turns 1

You may remember this sweet baby. I photographed her family a couple of months ago. She was just starting to walk then. Haha, she was running this time! I loved every second of it! Thank you Lara for having me capture her at this sweet age.

beautiful day with a beautiful family

The day after Thanksgiving I had the pleasure of photographing my friend Heike and her family. They are a family you wish you could be a part of. So comfortable and fun to be around. Made my job easy peasy :) Thank you so very much H family! I had a fun fun time playing in the leaves with you.

Miss B and her big brother M

My very good friend Carla was in town recently. She was able to bring her oldest son M and littlest angel B with her. M was in kindergarten with my oldest and they have been buds ever since :) We had not seen them in over a year and during that time and after three boys they had their fourth baby miss B (a.k.a. love child). I was so thrilled to be able to meet her. B is so beautiful and just the best baby. Having them in town made me miss them even more. Staying up late with some good conversation and a glass of red wine (or 2) :) I feel so blessed to have met Carla a few years ago, she is the type of friend that you want to hold onto and treasure forever. Hopefully I will be able to make a trip up to AR soon so I can hang out with the whole bunch. Until then we will have to drink our cheer over the phone :)

She is just so perfect! I was so excited when one of my neighbors gave me the honor of photographing there very first baby. Newborns are my very favorite to photograph.

We were near the air base and jets just kept flying over one after the other. C was so excited! He was more interested in the sky than me and my camera :) That's him above pretending to be an airplane. Boys.. boys..boys. I just love boys.

These guys are just so darn cute!! I have been talking to their mom about pictures since this summer when we first met. They're dad is in the same training program as my husband and the littlest guy C is in my C's pre-k3 class. Mom wanted to have some TEXAS photos to remember their time here at SAFB. I'm lovin' the way they turned out! Hope you like too J :)

a saturday afternoon

This past saturday was my birthday. Ahhh.. I'm getting older. I'm 29. My last year in my 20's. It's funny cause I was talking to some girls at a birthday dinner about how you get older and wondering what is the exact age you start to feel wiser? I still feel like I know nothing about something. Anyway.. since most of my friends were gone for a good bit this summer my friend A had a front yard chilli fest to celebrate all of the birthdays of the summer. Just happened to be on my birthday :) I tried to catch pictures of most of the kiddos but I'm sure some dodged the camera:) Thank you all for a wonderful day!

So I've been after these two for quiet some time. Since the holidays are right around the corner... they decided to have some pictures taken for there Christmas cards. Yeah for me!!:) They were so much fun and such a sweet couple at that. Hannah is for sure one of my favorite people. Are they not just gorgeous??? Even the dog :)