Showing posts with label photos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photos. Show all posts

11.16.2012

Merry Christmas!


  I had to post some outtakes from our family photo shoot-done with a tripod, a camera, and a remote. It was an adventure... but we've done it every year and ended up with a great Christmas card, so surely we could do it with one extra kid, right?









yeah....right.

I couldn't help laughing when I saw this one. I like to call it, "The Secret Hand".


 Pax's face reminds me sooooo much a certain middle-sister cousin whose photos I'm working on right now...






....and here, you can see what happens when Mama tries to be IN the picture and big brother finds the bribery just-smile-and-look-nice M&Ms. At least he's sharing...

..but this one takes the cake. My favorite by far. "Hey, Sis, you've got something in your eye!!"

12.13.2009

Mike&Sarah

I remeber when "Mike & Sarah" started...or, actually, before they started...Adam came up to me during the Passion Play last spring and said, "Guess what I just heard? Mike asked Sarah out..." or something to this effect. We weren't too sure what Sarah's reply would be, and Adam didn't want to eavesdrop long enough to find out (why not??), so that was all I knew for the night. But a week or so later, after hearing from my good friend Megan that Sarah had, indeed, said "yes," (don't you just love small churches??) I was looking forward to seeing Sarah at worship practice. She didn't know that I knew...but the way she floated into practice would've given it away, anyway. I oh-so-casually brought up the subject of Mike; she, of course, jumped at the chance to tell me all about it. Listening to her talk, that night and many other Thursday nights during practice, I knew something was happening...a love story. sigh. I looove a good love story. And I knew all that God had worked through to orchestrate their story, which just made it that much cooler! So, this fall, I asked Sarah if she and Mike would do a fun couple's shoot for me during Thanksgiving break, knowing that Sarah wouldn't say no..the girl is so stinkin' spunky and loves to be the center of attention. Plus, who'd turn down free pictures of you and the guy you love?? I knew she'd love the idea-and that Mike couldn't say no to her :) Secrectly, I was hoping it would turn out to be an E-session (engagement pics, that is...) AND IT DID!! (thanks, Mike, for reading my mind!) When they showed up, Sarah was rarin' to go. Mike obviously wasn't as into it...not too sure what he'd said yes to, I think. BUT I have it on good authority (Miss Sarah) that he ended up relaxing and enjoying himself a lot...and I sure had fun with them! They were up for anything and anywhere I mentioned; Sarah had their outfits planned to perfection; and I had peacock feathers! Mike describes himself as "black and white" while Sarah says she's "more of a peacock" in personality...so I HAD to incorporate the two ideas into the shoot. SOOOOOO fun!! These are just a few of my favorites of the day..hard to choose!



This picture is just very Sarah, to me...Fun, spunky, and joyful!





*mike and sarah, thanks so much for doing this shoot with me! I had so much fun with the two of you...I loved seeing your personalities play off each other and trying to catch it! Congratulations, you two!

3.21.2009

a fun photoshoot


















A month or so ago, a friend of ours (Jan) asked if she could use Pax as a photo model. She's trying to build up her portfolio and start a photography business, and needed some more kiddo pictures. She also wanted to use the bakery downtown, and figured we have a pretty good "in" seeing as we're realted and all. So a couple of weeks ago, we finally did it! Very fun...Pax loves the bakery and runs all over, and since he is the little French prince (not the Fresh prince) his PePe and Grandma let him do pretty much whatever he wants....playing the piano during breakfast service, checking things out, and seeing which waitresses he can get goodies from. A few pictures of our fun morning....at least, it was fun until Pax decided he was DONE taking pictures and threw a royal fit. But even those pictures turned out cute :) And we got some good ones of the fam, which was great. The one at the top of the page is from the shoot, also. Sorry there are so many; I couldn't decide!!







Can't decide which of these last two is my favorite....