I love a big canvas print.

I knew before we had our family pictures done that I wanted to blow one up big on a canvas.

It came last week and I love it!  It's 16x24.  The biggest one I've ever had printed.  Bigger is always better though.

It has a 2 inch wrap which really makes it stand out on the wall.

For now, this is where it will live in our house.

I'll be spending some time at the beach this week so no more posting for a couple of days.

My Boy

In two months this boy will be FIVE.  Hard to believe.  I'm kind of thankful he was born past the cut off date for school.  That means we have another year before I have to send him off to Kindergarten.

I'm pretty sure his hair glows in the dark.  I always envisioned I'd have blonde haired, blue eyes kids and somehow that's exactly what I got!

I would kill for those eyelashes!

I asked him to roll his tongue so he did, but then he stuck his finger in it and called it a hot dog.  Where do they learn these things?!  I'm sure someone is responsible for teaching him that :)

Oh, and I made the bow tie.  So easy and no sewing involved!

Tutorial here.

Embrace the Camera: July 21

I mentioned before that Hunter and I went on a photo date followed by ice cream.  I don't get a lot of one on one time with Hunter aside from Peyton's nap time so this was special time together.  Hunter enjoyed it more than I expected.  He's been saying every day since that he wants another Mommy Date.  I guess we better make that a regular occurrence.

Fun with Silhouettes

I took Hunter out the other night for some pictures.  I needed one of him to go with our family pictures.  I was only able to choose 5 photos from our family shoot and I decided to go with mostly family pictures, but I still needed one of just him.  We went up to our neighborhood golf course.  I knew that I could end our shoot with some silhouette pictures.  There's a hill that's just perfect for them.  It was a decent sunset, too!  Here's what we got.

Hunter managed to take this one of me.  My camera is so big and heavy that I just had to stand still, but he did good!

Here's a link to a good tutorial on how to shoot a silhouette.

We went out for ice cream afterwards :)

a sting ray and a crab

One morning at the beach the tide was going out.  As it went out it left little shallow pools between the sand bar.  It was perfect for the kids to play in.  Heath hollered to me to bring him a bucket.  He had seen a small sting ray.  It was caught in the shallow part and couldn't get back into the big ocean.  Before I could get him the bucket he lost sight of it.  If you know Heath he doesn't give up easily.  He found it again and after half a dozen swipes with the bucket he had caught himself a sting ray.

Another day my niece caught a tiny little crab.  One that managed to pinch her and draw a dab of blood even with those tiny little claws.

Some beach pictures

These are from our few days in Ormond Beach with my family.

Because of past hurricanes they've pumped in a lot of sand and it's now more shelly than it used to be.

Makes for a pretty picture at least.

Trying to perfect his surfing skills.

My most favorite bathing suit of hers.  Love the ruffles!

I should probably buy a lotto ticket after getting this picture.

If I had a beach house I would hang this in it.

Ormond Beach

We spent a few days in Ormond Beach with my parents, sisters, and niece.

I compiled some video of our fun.  It included (but isn't limited to) using the pull out couch as a trampoline, building sandcastles, boogie board slinging, and catching a sting ray. 

Pictures to come!

Random

Here are just some pictures from July 4th weekend.

We just got back from a few days at the beach so lots of pictures to go through and share.

Also, some big (to me) photography business news coming in the next week maybe.

He's getting so big and so grown up.

There she goes hollerin' something as usual.

Don't let that innocent little smirk fool you!

It's amazing to me how much her hair has grown since Christmas.  

I should do a comparison. She barely had any 6 months ago!