Where are you Christmas?

We are counting down to Christmas with our advent calender and in our family we have an activity and a piece of chocolate every day at the time mom, me, appoints :) And the other night the activity was 'watch The Grinch as a family,' the day before that we read The Grinch who stole Christmas. SO anyways, it lead to this impromptu photo shoot with Gunner in his 'super hero,' red long johns. He was asking me about Christmas, the baby Jesus, and all the Christmas stories we've been reading. Anyways, I had a lot of fun taking these pictures, it brings back the first stirrings I have in my mind about Christmas and all it's wonder: the big BRIGHT lights surrounded by the darkness of our Christmas tree, family outings, sugar cookies, and noisy malls. I just love the impression Christmas left on me when I was a kid, the memories never fade.

Baby Stafford

Another picture of baby Stafford.
Congratulations Ike and Jackie he's a keeper!

The biggest Blue Eyes EVER!

Isn't she to die for! This is Baby Paisley I just love her big blue eyes and chubby cheeks! Scott and Ashley you two did a good job!






I know I just can't get enough of her!

Natalie + Clifford

These are our AMAZING Friends, The Hares. Natalie and Cliff are THE original Cupcake tasters for The Cupcake Company. We actually named the PB Cliff Dive cupcake after Cliff because he inspired it. And here are some couple shots of the Hares workin it!







In these last two shots Natalie is fabulous and Cliff is just workin it! So I give Cliff a sincere compliment about how he totally rocks because frankly guys can be difficult to get to loosen up for the camera. Then Cliff confesses that its all about the Fruit of the loom, he just pictures himself in some nice tighty whities and he's in the zone! I almost peed my pants, I was laughing so hard.

Happy Labor Day, Jackie! [wink, wink!]

I did a maternity shoot with my friend Jackie the other day, she's beautiful, glowing, kind, and a wonderful mom. Baby Isaak is due any day now and I'm excited for Jackie to hold her new baby boy. Here's a sneak peak, I'll post some more as soon as I can get the rest of my computer up and going. Johnny's been re-doing it into a dream machine, unfortunately it takes time . . . but he's doing wonderful and we are almost done - THANK-YOU Love of my life, I know you work so hard!

The Foutch Coutch Family Album

This is my photographer friend that I told you about in my last post, Missy Katelyn Foutch and her beautiful family, three beautiful girls all lined up in a row - so cute and so much pink, I'm envious ;) Katelyn is doing an amazing impression of the Afghani refugee with the piercing green eyes photographed by Steve McCurry in the 1980's -the one that made the cover of National Geographic and makes me feel like a bloated pop tart . . . I probably shouldn't draw an anecdotal comparison between a refugee and food . . .




I really love this marlbo-esch shot of Katelyn and hubby Brian, you know no one can resist a cowboy, Brain you are a natural.







In this picture I told Lauren to look directly into my camera so I could take a picture of her brain . . . it took a few pictures before her careful staring loosened-up and started to look more natural so I could get the shot I wanted. She was totally into it, I love kids, boys or girls, they love bugs, cupcakes, brains, and farts.

Family Pictures . . . sneak peak

We finally got some family pictures done that I am way excited about! My good friend, Katelyn Foutch shot these pictures with my camera and she did a way awesome job! And it was a very pleasant experience working with another photographer, Kate you ROCK! We actually swapped taking family pictures I took the Foutch's and Kate took ours - one of the perks of photography! And my other good friend Jackie Stafford did my AMAZING hair and let me borrow her her fabulous earrings, Thank-you Jackie!

I only have a few pictures to showcase because Johnny - my AMAZING husband - is re-doing our computer into a fabulous dream machine. And he's accomplishing this in between Law school, our family schedule, and his busy schedule. So my access has been limited . . . hopefully everything will be up and going by next week. THANKS to Johnny! Then I will post all the blogging pics that I'm behind on ;)




I love this collage of Gunner and Johnny!