sweet baby N

Take a deep breathe can't you just smell the sweet baby smell of him?  Doesn't he just make you want to pick him up and hold him for a bit.  Cuddle him until he falls asleep then hold him just a bit longer.  Ah, the joys of newborns, they grow so fast and one day they're no longer babies to hug and hold tightly in your arms.

Baby N

hands and blossom

A blooming tree on such a pretty spring day, it's hard not to pick a blossom and looking at the beauty of it.  The beauty of spring.

lil miss M and a big hug

A couple weeks ago I did a great sitting with 3 beautiful kiddos.  Twins who just turned 2 and their big sister who is 5.  It was such a pleasure to photograph both her and her brother and sister.

Head to toes in pink

Just really like the way it looks.  I didn't do anything to this photo.  The close up, wondering what she's thinking.  Her face just a little out of focus giving her a dreamy quality.  The little bit of dried grass on her hat....I don't know something about it that gives me pause.

And down to her feet.  From her head to her toes dressed in pink.  The focus is all on the foot with the "boot".  Life is all about the little things that we see and others wonder about....

wink

Is it Chomper winking?  Edd's big beautiful blue eyes?  Something about this photo makes you want to take a second look.

Edd likes RED

My Daughter loves the color red and musicals.  Today she found an umbrella opened it and started singing, nope it wasn't "Singing In The Rain," just something she made up on the spot.  It was really cute watching dance with the umbrella.  She comes over and ask me if I could take her picture.  I did, I made her model for me.  Here are 3 of them.  Her eyes are so blue with the red behind her.  In the last photo she looks like a little imp!

eye's have it.

I was doing some self portraits and as I was looking at this one (before I cropped it) I saw the refection in my eye.  How it matched the color of my hair, so different then the blue of my eye.  If you know about the color wheel you know that blues and greens are opposite of oranges and reds.

leaf in snow

The night before the first ~and maybe only~ snowy day we had there was a leaf on the walkway up to the steps.  I couldn't wait for the snow to cover it so I could take some photos of it.  I was overjoyed with some of the pictures that what I got.  :-D  Here are a couple of that I took.

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Snowy day

My youngest 2 daughters and I went outside to play on the first snowy day of the season.   We don't get much snow around here so we didn't stay out long, but I got some wonderful shots of them.  The air was crisp and clear.  The way the snow was just a covering of the ground but still the girls had fun playing in the snow.

The one of T looks like it belongs in a Gap advertisement.  

E's face is full of joy at the first snow this year.

acorn squash

I went out and a couple of new LED lights for the kitchen.  And for the heck of it I turned one on in the dark and it lite up the acorn squash just beautiful.  I had to grab my camera and snap it.  I think I took about 6 shots.  I just sharped it up a bit and cropped it the way it is now.  I think it looks pretty cool and tomorrow it's going in a soup.  Yum!

Christmas morn

Got to see my son and his wife for Christmas day.  It was nice.  Before they left I wanted a photo of them together so I had them stand in front of the tree (so cliché ) and I snapped 4 shots of them being silly. I like this one the best.  I was messing around with it on photobucket and came up with this.  Don't they look so in love?

Little Miss Scrooge

Little Miss Scrooge

I was taking photos of my girls and they were being really good in the beginning, but you know it's time to end it when the 4 yr old turns away and makes that "mm-uhm" sound.  BUT I had to take that one last photo.  This is just too cute, in a few years she's going to look at it and cringe, but for now it's cute and so full of it.   The I'm done and there is nothing you can do about it look. ;-)~