sweetness times two!

i was so excited to have a newborn shoot scheduled for today...for twins! jaxon & jagger were too sweet & cooperated perfectly for little guys who are less than 2 weeks old. i got so many great shots, but i especially love this last one of the boys with their daddy.

first pinterest project complete!

like so many other people i know right now, i am ALL into pinterest. there are so many great ideas & creative things on there...it's hard not to be inspired! my first attempt at getting crafty turned out much better than i expected.

i wanted to try these because i thought it could be something i could offer my clients if i could get good at it. they are photo coasters! and they really did turn out pretty cool. my mother-in-law helped me with them since she had worked with resin before. after some trial & error (& using WAY too much product when we first started), i think we actually got it down.

i don't agree with how cheap the original pinner claimed it was to make these, but i have no doubt since i've only made them once, i will be able to fine tune it in time.

i am pretty excited to have something fun & different to offer my clients :-)

here is a photo of my first attempt. i did not take these photos of vivian. these are from her one year session in december with michael stepp. he is located in east louisville and has a fantastic studio set up in his basement that i'm totally jealous of. i'm going to make round 2 next week with some of my previous work so i can sharpen my coaster making skills even more!

quitters are never winners

yeah yeah yeah. i totally spaced on the challenge. 9 days in. so at least i've realized that there is probably no way in heck i'd ever complete the challenge of taking a photo every day for a year. i can't even get through 30 days! in my defense i had alot going on with vivi's first birthday & the holidays. BUT i knew the timing i was choosing, so i am feeling pretty unhappy about not finishing. i am going to pick up where i left off and finish the 30 day challenge. even if it takes me 60 days to do it!


here is the birthday girl on her big day...

day #9 someone that i love

of course this one was easy. in the aspect of knowing WHO i wanted to photograph. unfortunately, i forgot about today's assignment until naptime & it was dark by the time she woke up-so i didn't get to use the gorgeous light that was available to me this afternoon. *BIG frowny face*

i had to literally get right in front of the television to take this. when her stories are on, she is hard to distract. she was not laughing at me...it was pocoyo that was so darned funny. but her jack-o-lantern grin cracks me up.

little vivi mae is the best part of me. i never knew i could love someone so much.

day #8 a bad habit

so i snapped this yesterday but i never had time to download or post i had so much going on.
this is def one of my many bad habits...ah but how i love me an ice cold mountain dew :-)

day #7 fruit

what more is there to say really? i'm just lucky there was any real fruit in my house. otherwise i'd have been taking a photo of canned peaches. which probably wouldn't have looked as cool with todd balancing them on his head.

day #6 high angle

while i was giving vivi her bottle this afternoon, i looked down and noticed her forcep scar on her forehead. she'll be 1 this week and it's still there. so i decided i wanted to try to photograph it. (and i got her lovely long eyelashes in the process.) i wonder if she'll have that scar her whole life or if it will eventually fade? i kind of like that it's there. it's her battle scar from being born.