Happy Valentine's Day!

Getting Ready for the Festivities

July 4th really snuck up on us! I normally try to do holiday pics well in advance, but we had to squeeze them in at the last minute this time.

I got a few of the girls together in their dresses. They were as cooperative as ever:


Someone suggested the caption "this 4th of july has me all choked up!" for this one :)



My little one thought it was SO COOL how when she bobbed her head up and down the stars on her headband wiggled around.



Efforts to get them both to look at me and smile--or at least appear to enjoy themselves--were, of course, fruitless.



They did this themselves, but it took several candy bribes to get them to stay like this long enough so I could get a few shots. LOL


...and even then, the silliness abounds

Happy Easter!

*NOTE: the base of the card was a template shared by a fellow photographer on a forum i belong to. i appreciate all the templates shared by these generous people! :)

My Little Nephew

I have been anxious to share the Easter pics I took of my little nephew, but I wanted to make sure I didn't post them before my sister got a chance to email them to everyone this time. :) I think it's probably safe now, so here are some of my favorites of this little guy:








*Whew* That was a lot of Easter pictures this month! :)

Three Cousins and their Easter Pics

Every major holiday my sister and I get this crazy idea to try to get a photo of our children together in their fancy outfits. The chaos that always ensues is entertaining, to say the least! Trying to get three children under the age of 3 to even remain in the same ROOM together, let alone in one spot in front of the camera, is quite the undertaking! I will admit, though, even when we miraculously get several great shots of them, the photos we enjoy the most continue to be the ones taken in between. I have already posted my favorite photo from this session in a recent post, but with Easter quickly approaching I thought I would share some more:

Always a great way to start out the session--everybody falling over. So glad I had my camera ready to catch this!


Aww...


The "falling over" problems continue...


It's best to have my sister present to help keep the children corraled; but a drawback to this is that my kids (who suffer from severe "photographer's child syndrome") frequently want to look at HER, rather than me. Oh well.


1-2-3, let's all be unphotogenic! :)


This one is definitely a "keeper"


As you can see, my younger daughter IS capable of a pretty smile...she would just prefer to make her "scary monster" face for the camera. (The other two were apparently off in la-la land for this shot)


...and reposting this one, just because it's definitely my favorite, scary monster face and all! :)

The Almost-Perfect Easter Picture

sigh...

Easter bunny

I can't resist sharing these, even though it's a bit early for Easter! :) This was just a fun idea I had, after I saw my friend's baby in the little bunny outfit I bought for him. I talked her into bringing him over in the bunny suit so I could try this on my new blue seamless paper...had a lot of fun with these!







This is how he *really* felt about being placed in a basket!

Happy Valentine's Day!