she loves her Daddy

Think he plays golf much?  : ) 

Her birthday present for her Daddy. 

That's her in the back of the cart with him. 

He loves it. 

Happy birthday Mark.

Better Late than Never

As usual I'm a little behind.  Poor Elizabeth has been so patient waiting on these pictures.  I wanted to have them last week, but we had a little emergency, my son fell off a golf cart and broke his collar bone.  It was quite the ordeal and took my entire week away from me.  But what matters is he's going to be fine and I at least finally have a few pictures for a very patient Elizabeth to see.  Hope they were worth the wait my friend.  Can't wait to meet that baby girl due to arrive around the same time as Santa.

New Tricks

I'm very resistant to change, always have been.  But in photography as in most things in life that is not an asset.  You have to learn new programs, new devices, new tricks.  I recently converted to Mac with much resistance.  That meant of course new photoshop software.  It's all definitely going to take some getting used to.  But here's the first image I edited with my new mac and my fancy new CS6 (which I have to say I'm more impressed with than my Mac...so far).  I am putting the image on here to see how it compares to my old stuff.

First Up

Even though it's still quite hot down here in Houston I hear it's Fall and for me that means picture craziness.  First up for my Fall mini sessions is this gorgeous momma with all her handsome boys.  For their shoot I got to try out our new sports complex right in my neighborhood and I think it worked out great.  I have been waiting for it to get done for years now.  So happy it's finally ready.

Destin 2012

Thought I better get these done before I start working on everyone else,s photos.  Just a few I took while we were on vacation in Destin back in May.  These were all done super early in the morning since my kids decided to wake up before the sun almost every day we were there.  Lucky for me it was the perfect time for a photo session.  Also lucky for me I finally got some good shots of the two of them together.  Those are so hard to get.

Organization Bliss

I'm always doing projects around my house that I think I should post to my blog, but by the time I'm finished I'm too tired to mess with it.  This one was too good to let go though.  I'm a girl who LOVES organization.  And I have been annoyed with my laundry room for a while now.  You know the room where everything lands when you walk in the door?  That's the room.  It was basically a nightmare.  So I convinced my handy husband to build me the laundry/mudroom of my dreams.  Ok, it's not really the one of my dreams because that would have involved tearing down some walls, but it's as close as it gets with the space I had. 

I poured over Pinterest for inspiration and came up with a design I thought would work.  My math minded husband came up with the plans.  It took the kids being away at Nanny's for a week, some very late nights for us, lots of sweat and mathematical calculations.  But we finally got it done!!

Isn't she lovely?  My new favorite and most useful room in my house...

I owe my lawyer by day - handyman by night husband for all his incredible hard work on this.  He and I did this totally by ourselves.

But so worth it!!!

 

the big Kindergarten

Can't believe it's finally here.  I have a Kindergartner.  Since I figured the actual first day of school would be nuts I staged a little early photo session with my girl.

And I brought my camera for the actual first day as well.  It was crazy.  No, I didn't cry.  Yes, she loves it.  She's adjusting so much better than Mommy.  I'm having a hard time with a few things.  But it's getting easier day by day :)

She's doing fabulous in her class.  And she actually comes home and tells me all about her day which according to the other moms around here is a luxury they aren't getting so I'm feeling quite lucky.  She was already trusted to walk to the office and pick up stickers for the class with just one other classmate.  I'm told it was a successful trip.  So proud of my big girl.

Destin 2012...a first glimpse

We went in May so why am I just getting around to looking at these?  I have probably 200 to edit...yikes.  Here are the first two I touched...

K is for Kindergarten Kick-off Party

What to do when your daughter's very best friend in the whole world decides to move right before they're supposed to start Kindergarten together?  Throw a party for her to meet new friends of course.  Can't have her not knowing anyone when she starts school.  And I am pretty sure this is my last party of the year.  I am just partied out plus I have to switch gears to family photo session mode very soon.

But for now here's a little look at the small get together we had for Celia and a few other girls from the neighborhood who will be starting Kindergarten with her.

We had about 10 girls in the pool together with no drama, seriously.  And Celia told me she "loved, loved, loved" her Kindergarten party.  Total success!

Blue is for Baby Boys

One of my most fabulous and dearest friends is having a little boy soon.  So one of the first things I did after she told me the news was start thinking about what to do for her shower.  Yes I love planning parties, but I also just thought she deserved a really great day to celebrate her very first baby.  She was basically my first friend in Houston and I just love her and know she is going to make such an incredible Mommy.  So what else could I do, but throw her a party as fabulous as she is?  Here's a little glimpse of the celebration done in none other than blues and greens of course.  I used a "peacock" inspired color theme throughout.  I'm loving these colors...

The printed pages were for words of wisdom for the new Mommy to Be that I put in an album for her.

Is she not the cutest pregnant lady ever? 

For a different spin on onesie decorating we decorated bibs.  I'm thinking these might actually get used.  It took some persuading, but once the ladies sat down their inner artist came out and everyone really had fun doing it.

Then presents...she has no idea what this is, ha! 

Congrats my friend.  I am so ready to meet your new little guy.