bad blogger....

O.k. so I know I have been a BAD blogger lately. I just seem to ALWAYS have something to fill up my time. It has been a really busy month. June will be even more busy.

My sister-in-law and her family have been here since Wed. and we FINALLY got some pictures of the kids together. It was fun....but challenging to say the least. I would say these were my hardest "clients" yet, but definitely the cutest so far!!! :) Soon my friend Ronna is having her baby and I JUST CAN'T WAIT to take some newborn pictures!!!!!

My cousin graduated.....

Welcome to the real world Cara! She graduated yesterday she is only 19. I was still a Fresh. in college at 19. A long time ago. I am really proud of her. She didn't know I was coming and didn't see me until she was up on the stage and her mouth dropped open. Cara was really excited to see me there. We had a great afternoon. After some pictures (below) I went to her apartment and hung out with the family and then to dinner at Razzoo's. Great day!! Mia had a blast too.

New pool.....

Mia got a new swimming pool yesterday and a new bathing suit too! I just love the colors in these pictures!!! The top is my favorite!!!!
She wasn't quite sure what to do at first in the pool since the water was pretty cold just out of the hose. She got into in just a few minutes though and was trying to splash and play even though she was shivering so bad she could barely stand up. Poor thing. Remember not wanting to get out of the pool even though you couldn't feel your lips.

A family.....

This family was my first try at using the full manual settings on my camera. I had to choose the shutter speed and f/stop number. I have been practicing, but was really nervous about it because it takes alot of concentration to check the light meter and make sure everything in set right AND focus AND get everyone to look at the camera. I think I did o.k.

One thing that made the shoot difficult was about 10 mins. into the little girl (19 months) hopped out in the water on the waterfall and slid on a rock and started sliding towards the edge of the fall. It's about an 8 ft. drop. Her mom dove for her and caught her in plenty of time, but it scared me to death. The mom also only managed to get the bottom of her jeans wet so we finished up, but the parents seemed to be really nervous about letting the girls get very far from them (don't blame them) and I had to edit the dad's hand out of just about every shot. Very Stressful, but overall came out o.k.

You can see more of their pics HERE. It will only be there for a few days.

Wearing mommy's shoes....

I took these last week of Mia wearing my shoes. She has a bit of a fasination with shoes. She always plays with Saylor's boots when he takes them off after work and she always trys to put on my flip-flops. She also very paitently trys to put her own shoes on all the time. This morning she wanted to go into the backyard to play. Since it rained last night I told her she had to put on her shoes first. She disappeared into the other room for a few minutes and reappeared with her tennis shoes which she put in my face and said "shoes (?)". Actually is sounded more like chews, or juice, but I knew what she meant.

cool quote...

I came across this quote today and just had to share it......

"If you follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open the doors to you. I say follow your bliss and don't be afraid and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be."
Joseph Campbell

This is so true! It is just perfect that I read this quote today, because this morning I received an e-mail from a woman that wants family portraits this weekend. She was referred to me by another photographer........It took me awhile to figure out who the other photographer was. She is the sister of a girl who was my cashier at Barnes and Noble over a month ago. I noticed the cashier had a cool picture of a little boy on her name tag and I asked about it. She said it was her nephew.....her sister...or sister in law?....is a photographer. I said...Oh really...so am i...i am just getting started etc. and she asked if I had a business card. Evidently her sister was about to go on maternity leave and looking for another photographer to refer her clients to. I was sure I would never hear from her but......today I did. Well, from someone referred by her.

See.....I'm following my bliss and doors are being opened for me! I am sharing it with everyone I know and meet and doors are opening where I had NO IDEA they would be. I can't wait to share with more people.