SIMPLY LIFE

Off To The Beach!

Tomorrow we leave for the beach until the 3rd of August.  YIPEEE!!  I am sure you all can hear my excitement - because I am totally pumped!  I will still be available off and on via email and voicemail; however, all shipping and order placement will be much slower for the rest of the month.  I will be working some, but I am fully expecting to really relax and enjoy my family and friends~

Last night I ventured out with our new sitters.  WOW - do I luck out or what - I seem to get the cutest and sweetest sitters.  These girls asked of I would take their pictures and how could I turn them down?  We had a great time and we dodged a huge storm rolling in  - that made for beautiful night skies.  Here are a few that I loved.  I will try and post occasionally from the beach!  Hope everyone has a great summer!

Summer is Here!

I hope everyone is having an awesome summer!  We have had a great couple of weekends!  Friends, food, swimming, more food.  I definitely need to make it to the gym tomorrow!  Here are some of my favorite images I took from over the weekend.  I love kids in swimsuits, the bright colors and tan skin just always make for good pictures.  I hope everyone had a very happy 4th.  I have many more pictures to post, but here are a few for our friends who had us over!  Thanks again A family!

On a side note, we leave for the beach this week, so we will be unavailable for the rest of the month.  I will be working some and occasionally posting, but I am really going to take some time to spend with my family and friends at the beach!

A Baby Sister

One of my favorite little people became a big sister recently.  I started photographing her when she was about 6 months old - before she could even sit up.  Well, now she is helping to take care of this precious new baby girl in her house.  Little girl L has the best hair of any two year old I know.  Here are some of the adorable images we got that day.

It is Raining Red Heads!

Have I mentioned how much I love a red head!  Oh my goodness - I am beside myself with all of the red headed cuteness that I have encountered lately!  Here are some of my favorites!

Becoming a Little Girl

Today a friend of mine dropped off a bag for Annabelle.  It was a bag of old dance costumes, princess outfits, etc . . that had been her daughter's.  Well, Annabelle was beyond thrilled.  She immediately stripped naked and started putting these clothes on.  This is what walked out no less than 10 minutes later.  It made me laugh so hard I almost cried - It also makes me sad - she is no longer my baby, but has morphed into a little girl who loves to play dress up.  I don't have any idea when this happened, but it sure seems like it happened just last night.  Enjoy!

Trying Again!

I have not been blogging lately because my posts have looked awful.  You see, Typepad has done something weird to its settings that have caused my pictures to look awful once uploaded.  I received an email that they had fixed this problem, so here goes.  This is a precious family who the Dad was our best man, so needless to say, they are pretty special to us.  So, I got in my car and drove to Oklahoma to take this new little pumpkin before he got too big.  He is about a month old now and growing like a weed.  His big brother might have stolen the show though.  Here are some of my favorites from their session.  The one in the basket was taken with poison ivy all around.  I have the get in and get out mentality and I will go anywhere - Hope no one has been itching!  

My Nephew

I am spending the weekend with my Dad and my sister's family.  This morning it briefly rained outside and I caught this one of my nephew!  He and my son have the exact same hair - weird how genetics work!  His of course, is totally white blonde though - He is so precious and I just had to share this picture of him~  Hope all those Dad's are having a Happy Father's Day.

One Of My Favorite Family's

Last night I drove to downtown Rockwall where one of my very favorite family's lives.  These parents are probably some the most styling and hippest parents in all of Dallas - not to mention they are both absolutely beautiful!  Combine two really beautiful people and you get three really beautiful kids!  Check out some of my favorites from last night!

Because I Don't Know Where I Left Off!

I am so far behind on blog posts - I don't even know where I left off - So instead of figuring that out, I decided to work backwards.  I am going to post the client's I shot today and go backwards from there - I promise I will try and include everyone.  June has been a very busy month for us so far.  It seemed that all of my sessions that got rained out in May rescheduled for June!  AHhhh!  I am on the count down though!  Three weeks until the beach!  YIPEE!!!!  I can't wait!  

Meet baby C.  He is two weeks old and was absolutely perfect!  He slept the entire session.  Here are some of my favorites from today - there are so many though - I am not sure how this Mommy will ever decide!  BTW - These pictures look a million times better than this - I have no idea what Typepad has done to their program, but the color is way off now!  YUCK - Sorry!  I have no idea how to fix it either!

Beautiful Baby Belly!

I feel like the luckiest photographer ever right now - Last week I went to a couple's home to shoot a maternity session.  This couple has signed up for my baby plan and she requested a maternity session too.  I walked in and I was almost giddy when I laid eyes on this beautiful pregnant woman. She is stunning and I am so excited to meet the precious little girl in her Mommy's tummy. This couple is so much fun and I loved spending time with them. Now I get to see them four more times in the next year - they are probably going to get sick of me!  Ha!