{Sneak Peek} It's a "Mom" Monday

I met these two lovely ladies at Preschool.  Monday's is now my regular work day, never passing up an opportunity to sharpen my skills, we met up one Monday a couple weeks ago for a morning of "Mom's time out" (aka: kids are at school, hang out with girlfriends, chat & just be free for a few hours). What a fabulous morning we had. I'm very blessed to call these gals my friends, and they're gorgeous, making them perfect to be models for the morning.

See you ladies tomorrow morning.  Looking forward to our next adventure...

{Entered} Hands - I Heart Faces

A while back, when I first started following (also read: before becoming addicted to) Pinterest I pinned this adorable photo of a baby's hands that I just loved. I finally got to do my version of this a few weeks ago when I got to photograph newborn Baby C.  As soon as I saw what the theme of the week was going to be this week at www.iheartfaces.com I knew exactly the photograph I would submit and here it is:

 Have a great day & be sure to swing by the photo challenge & take a peek at the other hands being showcased this week.

{Entered} Just a Touch of Sun - I Heart Faces

I'm doing something a little different this week for Monday Minute (which I realize, I've been horrible about posting, in fact that whole schedule of things I've got marked on the calender...yea, slacking!!).

I'm entering the I {Heart} Faces weekly photo challenge.  The theme this week is A Touch of Sun.

This photo was entered into the I Heart Faces photo challenge – www.iheartfaces.com

{Monday Minute} Splash of Summer

It's been a while since I've done the Monday Minute, so tonight, here goes a little Splash of Summer, summer colors, summer rains, summer skies, I love almost everything about summer, except the super hot.

We had some unusually cool days & some extra rain this month... it was lovely. 

I've been working on a little project for me as well, getting the kids out & about as much as possible & just taking a few minutes to shoot some photos for me. Here are a few of summers beautiful blooms & bugs (& my first ever butterfly close up capture).
 

And it wouldn't be summer without the bluest of blue skies & some white puffy clouds surrounding the beautiful mountain we are so blessed to live in the shadows of.

Hope you had a great Monday. Ours was fabulous. Hoping that I will get back on a regular blogging schedule.

{Monday Minute} Wedding Edition

After months of planning & lots of prep, my cousin is finally married.  It was a gorgeous day, she was a STUNNING bride.  I wasn't the actual even photographer, sort of hard to be in 2 places at once, but here are a few image I did manage to capture on Saturday (Richie got to man the camera for a bit ).

Since I wasn't the photographer, who was so fabulous & wonderful to watch, I didn't take anything except my 50mm lens & the camera body. No flash. No zooms. Just plain & simple.

Happy Monday!!

Perfect Sessions {Monday Minute}

I don't know that there is such a thing as a perfect session, especially when photographing your own child. I'm sure that plenty of other photographers out there will tell you the exact same thing.

It's like an unspoken curse or maybe just a higher expectation (& lower tolerance) from your own kids to behave the way you want them to & to make  pretty faces, or follow instructions. Either way, photographing my own children is almost always 100 times harder & more exhausting than any other session, hands down.

If you see an image you like or even love, you can bet that there are at least 15 like this for every one of those:

Oh the unpredictability of childhood, it's pure bliss!

Just for laughs, {Minute Monday}

Okay, so it's barely Monday, but Mondays have a bad rap & could use a little sense of humor. So, for this quick, minute Monday, here's a little something to keep your chin up.

Before you ask... yes, it's a real photo, that I took, one morning when we were down feeding Mr. 101.