Look who is 2!

It has been a slow month as far as photo sessions go. I am scheduled to have two next weekend, and hopefully booking a few more for February. I actually haven't minded the slow for a while. Before the holidays it was crazy busy, and it is good to use this time to play and enjoy my kids while they are off from school. They go back monday.....yay!

I've been spending the last couple of weeks trying to get myself organized with the business part of this job. Paperwork, forms, marketing....not really my specialty, but I'm working on it. I'm excited to have a brochure almost complete that will be sent out to all my potential clients with session information. Also, I've been creating a database and doing a little tax stuff too. It is coming together nicely if I do say so myself.

I do have some fun pics for you to enjoy though. These pics were taken at my nephew's 2nd birthday party today. He is our little miracle baby and can't be any cuter! The party was at Gymboree, so all the kids ran around and got alot of that bottled up energy out!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FINLEY!

What's wrong with these pics?

As I was messing around photoshop the other day trying to figure out how to do make my logo into a copyright image, I discovered something. Can you see what I see?







Not cool, right? The one on the left is the one that is on my business cards. I fixed the image to look like the one on the right, but I still have like 500 cards that are wrong. Ahhhh!!!!

Little Snowbunnies

We woke up to around 5 inches of snow this morning blanketing our street and front yard. Since the kids are still on their break, and I'm trying to be the cool, fun mom for two more weeks, I decided to take on the task of bundling them all up and heading outside to play. We gathered up everything we could possibly need for the most awesome snowman building experience, only to discover that the snow was a little too fluffy for rolling. Plan B.....um....I didn't have a plan B, so I let them come up with something.

They chose to build a small sledding track in the yard. One year I built a really cool mini sled slide, but again, that was not in the cards today. They seemed happy enough with their 5 foot mini track, so I let them do it.

I took a few pics of the girls having their fun and wanted to share. Didn't manage to get any good ones of Andy as he was in and out complaining of being cold.

Oh, and yes.....I finally (with great amount of help from my hubby) mangaged to figure out how to post my full logo design as my copyright. Yay!

Someone pinch me!

I can't believe it! The picture I entered in the photo contest got chosen as one of the top 5. I've been waiting ALL day, stalking the site to see who won, and during a small window of non-stalking activity I recieved an email from my cousin saying, "Congrats on the photo contest".

What? I won? I quickly went to the site and immediately saw my picture at the top. I thought I really had won the whole thing. So, stupid me posts on my facebook, "I can't believe I won!" only to find out (when i read the post) that I was just one of the top 5 cause she couldn't choose. So, to pick the final prize she put numbers 1 -5 in a hat and drew. I was #1, but #3 was drawn.

Oh well.......I'm still super excited! My picture was posted up there and my name is linked to my website. If nothing else, maybe I'll get some business out of the deal. Here's hoping!!!!

2008 Photo Contest

There is a photographer that I follow on a daily basis named Tiffany. She also has just this past year started her own photography business. You can find her link under my "Inspiration" category in the sidebar...."Follow Your Art". She is a fantastic photographer and has an extroidinary eye for lighting and compostion. I LOVE her work!

Anyway, she just recently posted about a photo contest for "favorite picture of 2008" on her blog. I have never entered a contest before, but I thought, what the heck...I'll try it. I went through a ton of pics before choosing, but I settled on the above pic of a little girl I know. She's just the cutest thing, and I love the innocence that is captured in this photo. Her eyes say so much, and I've loved this picture from the very start. The winner will be announced on her blog on Jan. 9th. I am looking forward to see who will win.

Tell me what you think of my choice and maybe what has been your favorite pic of 2008!

Christmas

I know I've been MIA for a while. It has been a busy month! Between Christmas parties, shopping, baking, annual card updates, editing, and visiting family, I haven't had any time to keep my blog updated. Sorry, for those of you that continue to visit my site only to see the same thing everytime.

I had the opportunity to shoot a Christmas Tea this year honoring single mothers. My church, along with an organization called James Research Network helped to put on the event. It was a wonderful night of great food, fun with friends and sweet single moms that were truly blessed.

My parents came in town for the holidays. The kids were so excited to see their Nannaw and Papaw for a whole week. Plus, Sissy (my sister) was here too! We played lots of games, did lots of fun shopping, and ate way too much food! It was a fantastic Christmas!

Here is a pic of our tree and all the presents early Christmas morning. That same room was trashed just a few hours later! So much fun!

Last but not least, I had to post this pic of the ornament my cousin gave me for this year. My favorite leading man, Gerard Butler and me! Photoshop is an awesome thing. Thanks, CACI!!! I love it!

A STAR is born!

Look at this sweet baby boy! This is the baby from my very first maternity shoot. It was so neat to meet him in person and play with him during this session. The parents are having so much fun loving on him!