the digs

spidey and the punk princess.

watch out candy- here we come.

Camiron at her Moms's Club Halloween party.

This costume was an original.  picked out and put together

by the princess herself.  Right down to her princess shoes.

the crafts

with her buddy madeline

Do you get the feeling camiron is done taking pictures at this point.  she just looks

so cheerful.  Doesn't she know pounds of candy is just coming her way?

The ward Trunk or Treat

And there they go.  And there goes my diet with them.

pumpkin mania...

 we headed to the pumpkin patch on our annual trip with Moms club.

it was hot, sweaty and ohhh soo dirty.   

It has taken me four years- but i was finally ready this year. 

the hay ride

hunting the fields for that perfect pumpkin.

and done...

too bad they were rotten before halloween and were thrown away.

that is what happens when it is hot and humid for halloween.  one day kids you

will "feel" what halloween is all about.

hottest hike ever

We put our house up for sale (any takers?) which means

we are kicked out every sunday afternoon for the open houses.

our first sunday out we thought we would take a nice stroll to the lighthouse.

umm.. hottest hike ever. beautiful. but miserable hot.

we'll prepare a little better next time

swimmers

B and C love swimming- a little on the obsessive side actually.

Braders moved up a level in swim class and loves it. he is on the go in the pool and has a lot of confidence which is great.

Camers also has a lot of confidence.. which is scary. the teacher let her have a practice private session to see if she could be in the class. he doesn't take kids until they turn 3 and since she is barely 2 1/2 he didn't believe me that she could swim. well she did great in the private so he put her in a class where she cried hysterically for the next 3 weeks and refused to do anything- but choke on water and cry. So out of class she is. maybe next year.

but in the meantime- here she is swimming- what she taught herself. :)

big balloons make a perfect picture

The kiddos were so jealous over mason's picture shoot with the balloons

they wanted their own. had i known they were going to be so cute

about it- i might have put something cute on them. But they are still

pretty darling at the end of a hot hot hot sweaty day!

Mr. Mas

This little guy was so much fun to shoot. I mean look at those eyes! could you not just eat him up!

But I did learn some good lessons.....

I love natural light and a 10 am shoot with a 6 month old means it is just too hot and sunny for the little guy! so we ended up doing most of our shots inside and the light just isn't the same. bummer! next time 5pm

lesson number 2- i love balloons in a shot- but with this age, it ended up being a lot of strings in his face. i had fun ideas of tying them to his foot and taking a picture outside from far away- but refer to thought number one.... and it just didn't happen. :)

but overall- i think we got some fun shots and really- could you go wrong with him. he is just darling! thanks lynn for letting me do this!

first shot

all of my photo friends out there- i need some help!

I had my first "real" photo shoot this week. 

here are a few shots i took

I would love love love some real feedback. 

please help me to improve- where can I do better? 

this was actually a really fun shoot. 

I was taking these for her senior pics.  she was up for anything-

as long as she was listening to her i-pod. 

I was totally surprised when she showed up in this. her style is a little more

striped tights and shirts that say "team edward" 

this is my favorite shot. i love the sun catching  her mid jump- with ipod in hand