Double the music in the household......

Tristons new birthday toy

hmmmmmm

This is a pic of the work calendar for tomorrow...

Oh W I N D Y day

Trying to photograph the wind (or rather it's effects) after dark, is rather tricky if not darn near impossible...... you cant tell how this fan on my back patio was blowing in the wind, but it was..... I promise :)

Last family photoshoot of 2010!!!

I had the pleasure of photographing this Military family last year around the Thanksgiving Holiday, and this year we added some more family members to the shoot (mom, dad and brother of the husband) and we headed out on the only nice day this week to capture some shots. They have the most adorable little girls, and actually the oldest is the little blondie sitting on a wooden bench in the image on my intro page to my website.

Quad time

Took the boys out to my parents house today so they could stay the night and ride their quads all over the property. Its one of their favorite things to do. I forgot my camera so I had my mom snap a few pics for me :)

Ethan- coming up the hill

And Triston on his quad

And finally, the boys, relaxing in my childhood bedroom after their ride

A very Merry Christmas

So this year Ethan was the first awake.... 5:45 to be exact! We did the hunt first this year because all of Ethans gifts went with his main gift which was hidden...........

Triston- along with Mario Cart, got a wealth of board games, which is good because him and I play almost every night and the games we currently have were getting pretty old........ :)

Our Christmas Eve traditions

We start by having dinner at Steve's mom and open presents, then we go out to my parents church for their Christmas eve candlelight service and back to their home for appetizers. This is just a shot I snapped of the Larmour kids before we left Cathy's house to head to Cottonwood

Christmas eve eve

Christmas eve eve Celebrated at Neighborhood Church

Playing with Bokeh and Reflections... Two of my many favorite things!

In search of lights........ :)

Went out on the town to look at Christmas tree lights tonight. We got some hot chocolate and drove all over town. There are so many cool places around here.

Day off treats

The Bestie introduced me to these tasty treats a while back and im in LOVE with them! She used Baguettes but I didnt have any so I used crackers, with Brie cheese and Sun dried tomatos.... YUM!!!

Finally we have Presents under the tree!!!!

Party at B.J. & christy's house :)

My work Christmas party at kobe's

Triston's winter concert & ice cream treat

Afterwards we went to Leatherbee's to celebrate the Holidays

My handsome lil man

Emily's Music & Motion winter concert

I love nature pics

hmmmm, ya... I got nothing for this day......

So here's a good quote

Party time!!!!

Had a GREAT time tonight with a bunch of W peoples!!!! :)

Oh and GREAT food too!

Getting Karaoke ready :)

Triston is trying out the machine we borrowed from Erin

for our party tomorrow

The J Larmours

Went over to J&J's house tonight to take their family photo's and snapped this of my cutie pie nephew!

Christmas at the Civic

Emily performed at the civic tonight!

All my own...

When I got my new computer, I wasnt able to transfer my CS2 program and I finally got my own CS3 today for my new pc... Im excited! Yes, I know there's a CS5 out there, but im a creature of habbit, and I dont likie to learn a new workflow...... :)

I love my returning clients :)

Ive had the pleasure of doing this families portraits for several years now, and its fun to get to see the kids grow from year to year...

Ethan & Robb

They've been friends since Kindergarten!

Trimming the Tree

Picture day 2

More fun kiddos today!

This pic makes me

L A U G H!!!!

Picture day

Picture day at my work. Had fun capturing all the kiddos

 that are so close to my heart :)

Back to school......

This morning Triddy had to take his California Relief Map back to school. It turned out pretty good if you ask me! I remember making one of these wen I was in school!

And then he brought home this "I am most thankful for....." list... so sweet, he filled it top to bottom.

First on the list, his family

then friends, pets, nature, a house, Thanksgiving, America, snow and rain, parents, school, angels, God, church, California, life, electricity, water, trees, air, and stars in the sky!!!

Such a sweet boy!

S N O W D A Y!!!!

Went to the snow today to get our tree... I love Hot Cocoa pics!!!

Happy Birthday to Aaron

Went to Guadalajara tonight for Aaron's birthday, He had this amazing Pirate cake!

Then we went back to Aaron and Jolene's with the Van Aukens and played Apples to Apples. Good times.. Thanks for the invite guys!

Thanksgiving, day 2

We celebrate Thanksgiving at my parents another day during the vacation weekend. We had Tri Tip and great side dishes, and then roasted marshmellows over the fire

Most thankful for.........

This is my newest nephew who was thoroughly enjoying his whip cream treat!

Thanksgiving day. A day to look back and reflect on the things in our life we are thankful for.... God, Family, Friends, Health, a job, a home (three families in the Redding area lost theirs today in thanksgiving day fires and my heart goes out to them. I cannot even imagine...)

Mommy will you play with me....

I think I hear this about 20 times a day from Triston. He loves to play all kinds of games. We have so many board games, and video games too. Tonight we played  "Are you Smarter than a 5th Grader" on the Wii. I actually like this game because I know some of the answers :) Plus its fun to see what Triston has learned already...

Testing 1 2 3

Today I got off early and came home to get all my photography stuff cleaned, tested and ready for picture day at my work next week. This is just a shot I took using my studio set-up. Looks like everything is all in working order :)

Thankful

Today I am thankful for Bryony because she worked so hard this weekend to get the room back together after new carpet (and I forgot it was even happening....)  I am also thankful for some awesome families who appreciate all we do with their kiddos, and brought us sweets and starbucks coffee this morning!!!!

I Didnt have my camera today, so I had to take this with my Cell phone, and didnt realize it was blurry till I got home and loaded it onto my computer.... :(

Fall Photography

I LOVE this season!!!!

Today was beautiful! Rain, overcast, a little too windy... Great day for Chili and homemade cookies! Pumpkin Spice cookies...