random phone pics

Sadly, I've barely used my camera lately.  Well, on my kids that is.  It's been really busy taking pictures of other people this last week.  I've taken a few camera phone pics though.

Our godson, Jack turned three and happened to be visiting us around his birthday.  His momma made an awesome dinosaur cake for him.

Heath has been busy turning our front room into my photography studio.  First on the list was to put four can lights in.  Those are now finished.  Next up is painting.

I got attacked by ants during a photo shoot the other night.  I guess it's only fair since I stuck my knee right into their home.  Ouch.  There's at least 75 bites.  No one told me this job was dangerous!

Peyton is really loving swimming.  I'll have to load some video.  

She's now jumping and swimming to us.

While we were over at the beach I had forgotten to pack socks for Hunter.  Socks are a requirement for sleeping.  We managed to find a pair of mens tube socks and he slept in them every night.

About Me

While building my new photography website I decided I needed a good 'head shot' of me for my About Me page.  If you've gone to the new website then you've seen this first picture.

One evening Heath and I went out and had a little photo shoot while location scouting.

I have to say that he did a really good job.  There are quite a few that I like.

Beach Summer

We've spent a good amount of time at the beach this summer.  I love it because the kids are occupied all day without having to really plan anything.  Both of my kids don't mind the sand and they love the water.  Hunter has really gotten into boogie boarding this summer.

This day was spent with Heath's family.

Then we spent a few days with various friends.  It's always more fun with playmates!

We still have a month left before school starts so much more beach time to be had!

See the beach session I did with the Wenzel kids HERE.

EverydayMomentsPhotography.com is LIVE!

We did it!  EverydayMomentsPhotography.com is up and running!  Go check it out.  Let me know what you think :)  There is still a bit I need to add as far as content goes, but take a look around at the Galleries and About Me page.  I'll be posting some sneak peeks of recent sessions in the coming days.  I give Heath most of the credit for the website.  I made it look the way it does, but he made it work!

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.