{wordy wednesday} Just My Kid & other random images

I have a lens on rental for the rest of this month & I must say that after just 1 day, I am smitten with this thing. It's super sharp, clear, quiet & ohhhh... so lovely!
I can.not. put it down. I think I've taken more images in the last couple of days than I did all of last month. It's gorgeous!

 

 A quick attempt at a portrait of the rug-rats...not so wall worthy...but totally captures the craziness of our everyday life.

 (no I didn't get an extra kid, our nephew stayed with us last night & was in the field playing hide & seek with our munchkins)

 

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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!

Wordless Wednesday

Baby's bath time edition, in B&W:

Just catching up...{Weekend Fun}

It was quite an eventful weekend for us.
{Saturday}
Saturday morning, hubby and I loaded up the girls, stroller & lots of stuff, and headed out for the Photowalk in Jacksonville, OR. It was the first time I'd ever done something like that, and we both decided we should do something similar every month. It was fun being a tourist & exploring someplace new.

...we met up with the group in front of Bella Union, a resturant, these are 2 of the first things I captured that beautifully warm summer mid-morning...

...then broke out into smaller groups (there were about 15 photographers there) and started walking. We stopped and there were TONS of bees on these flowers...

...on our way back to the group meeting place I thought these were interesting and the lily, beautiful...

{Sunday}

Started out just like anyother Sunday, we got up, got the girls up and ready, & went to church. Afterwards, joined my favorite family for my cousins 19th birthday, which also ended up being somewhat of an engagement party. **CONGRATS** Around 3pm a wildfire broke out about 40 minutes drive from where we live (next section). It added to the beauty of the summer sun setting. I just couldn't pass up the beautiful colors that were being painted across the sky.

...swather...

...the view from 'home'...

...Murray & Huey...

{Monday}

The aforementioned wildfire, was still burning, rather hot from the looks of the Ice Caps forming. We could see huge plumes of smoke from our area, which is on the west side of where the fires are burning. So we took a drive...which just so happened to lead us to my Pa's house, which is considerably closer to where the fire is.

...as we're driving, getting closer to the fire...

...passing through part of the burn, it was on both sides of the highway at one point....

...we watched the boarade planes & choppers drop for about an hour, a view from Pa's place...

A crazy and eventful couple of days. Ready for some fun this coming weekend, we'll either be heading out for a camping adventure, or going back to Pa's, so hubby can be a releif driver for a couple water tenders.

Family Camping Trip

::A Lake that I can't remember the name to, somewhere up by Gumboot::

Our first camping trip of the season was over Memorial Day weekend. Granted we didn't go far (Lake Siskiyou, 40 miles from home), we still took the trailer out and had a wonderful famly time.

Saturday morning we headed out with a low tire, with plans to stop at the tire shop on the way out of town, only to find that he was shut for the holiday weekend. Plan B, drive 6 miles to the gas station that's right on the way. Get there, put air in the tire, it's not holding, rubber around the vavle stem is cracked; put on the spare. Off and running, stop to pick up paycheck that was supposed to be ready Friday, look in the envelope, check is wrong dollar amount, made out to wrong person, check out spare tire, its going flat. On our way, stop at the tire shop, fix original tire, air up spare, on our way again.

::6 miles from home, and already a flat!::

::My entertainment while tire changing is going on (the little 'soso' theif)::

Get to where we are camping, hubby gets out to register, slams his hand in the door, the whole hand. Finally at our campsite, setting up camp, unhitching the 5th wheel, lever breaks off. Things are going along just fine, looks like we're in the clear....WRONG. Eating lunch and hear water flowing, look under the trailer only to find that the hose split in half...ugh. Oh well, fix it later, right now we're going to go down to the lake for a bit and try out the raft. On the last trip in, broke a paddle. And it's only 2pm. Thankfully, nothing else went wrong for the rest of the trip & it was a wonderful time.

We spent our days fishing and just being a family. The oldest caught her first fish while in the 'boat' with Daddy. We would have gotten a picture, but the fish totally freaked her out. I think it was the flopping around. Or could have been the fish that hit her in the head as it came out on a pole?!? Regardless, she LOVES fishing with her own Princess pole.

::"Sishin, roun' it in" (2 year old for I'm fishing, reeling it in"::

::My try at something other than faces::

Some Practice Shots

I've been a bad blogger this past week or so and haven't posted anything new. Even better than that, I haven't hardly picked up my camera, and when I did, it took me until now to get the photos offloaded! And only because I needed to clear some space so I could use the camera today for the lil' miss' 2nd birthday party (those will post tomorrow).

Here are a few from last week. I was trying a few new things and just hanging out with my little girl. The weather was actually nice enough to go out and play for a little bit without freezing our buns off.

Trying to capture her attention before she ran the other direction...it actually worked.

Trying a little sunflare...wish she would have looked at me for that one, but nope...too busy digging in the dirt with the BBQ tongs. Then there's the "ooooohhhh" don't interupt me while I'm digging in the dirt with the tractors face.

And the aforementioned tractor...this was actually my husbands when he was a lil' fella. An actual die cast Tonka, we pretty much have the whole construction crew covered.

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And one I didn't actually take, but an updated photo of our Lil' Baby girl, who will actually be arriving this week. If not sometime before, it will be Thursday and we'll have many photos to post after that.

She's actually sucking on her fingers in this shot. At 37 weeks 6 days, they are guesstimating her to be between 9 & 10.5 pounds when she arrives in this big wide world.

--Just My Kid--

I finally made an attempt to try out my new camera today (on something other than craft projects)...it wasn't for very long, but we went out on the back patio and my little one actually let me take 3 photos.

Then it was back to being uncooperative, bossy, and all other things a 2 year old can be!

I'm hoping that with my hubbys assistance this weekend we can get out and do a little mini-shoot for her birthday invites. You'll definately get to see this outfit again once our Little Grace arrives, her auntie got the little misses' matching outfits for Christmas.