Creative and Chaotic

The latest happenings in my world

2011-05-30T22:37:00.001-04:00

I had a little motivation to update my blog so I will stop yapping and just show you the goods :)

I am on a website!!

2011-02-20T13:31:00.005-05:00

AHHHHHH!

Ok, now that I got that out, I'm good.

So I met Tom through a friend of a friend and he was looking for someone to take pics of his car.

I thought, ok. Never done that and wouldn't mind adding new things to my list of subjects so we got together and had a blast!

This car was pretty spanky if I do say so myself and it was the easiest thing since I didn't have to spend any energy making anyone smile...Sweet!

I just found out today that those pics are on featured a website/blog with credits to me! Woo Hoo! So.... Of course I had to update and then make sure I link this so everyone who follows me here can see them too!

Without further rambling, here you go!

http://heeltoehero.com/enthusiast/featured-46th-street-hero/

Totally a terrible blogger

2011-02-20T13:23:00.004-05:00

I do so much better with my facebook page, Creative and Chaotic Photography , strictly out of convenience but excuses are for losers! I needed to post a long time ago, I had so many great shoots with some awesome families! So here is less talking and more pics! Enjoy!

The Holidays are coming....

2010-11-07T07:55:00.002-05:00

And everyone needs new family pics!! Of course I have been crazy busy with more than just family pics, so here are a few to share.

Some more recents...

2010-09-13T18:09:00.001-04:00

what I have been up to this summer

2010-09-13T17:56:00.000-04:00

I am doing that thing again where I procrastinate like crazy so I will keep the words short and sweet so I can get to the good stuff!

I have a facebook page now so if you want to "like" it, you will see it gets updated far more frequent than my blog (so sorry!)

Here is the link:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Noblesville-IN/Creative-and-Chaotic-Photography/113908775309692?ref=ts

Ok, so the good stuff:

Summer has arrived!

2010-06-09T22:42:00.000-04:00

Everything is green, weather is nice, I like summer almost as much as fall!

This one cracks me up with the finger mustache and silly bandz!

The best man here was feeling a little left out, he had nothing to hold and nothing to cuddle so I told him it was ok, he could cuddle! I am soo glad he cuddled!

Sunsets rock, just sayin'.

I love my chalkboards... The facial expression cracks me up with the ball and chain/diamond ring!

I can't remember if I shared this but that facial expression is too priceless I had to put it up here!

catching up!

2010-05-20T22:08:00.001-04:00

I have a ton of new pics to post and really should do separate posts since these all deserve their own spotlight but I'm sure no one is really going to hold it against me for posting everything at once so here goes it! Starting with Senior, to wedding, to family and then babies! :)

K is a junior and is soo much fun! I could shoot her again and again!

You would be surprised where some of these places are taken... the first ones of K are at Houlihan's in Noblesville! Don't you love them?! I do!

Aww prom Chucks!

A little Abbey Road, anyone?

Love the organ pipes in this one :)

Little B would not lay for a family pic, he would rather nap in the crib. This is what I got and I think it is going to be one of my faves!

Oh the things kids will do!

2010-05-20T16:33:00.000-04:00

So I work in a classroom full of grade 3 kiddos (27 to be exact!) and my buddy, Jack thinks I need to give him (and his youtube channel) mention on my blog.

I explained to him that I cannot post about students or put their pics up because I do not have permission... Well, he got written permission from his mom so I figured since he went out of his way to pester his mom for a note, the least I could do was blog about him haha!

So here ya go dude:

This is Jack's youtube channel if you are curious: http://www.youtube.com/user/jackfootball2

Hopefully this doesn't start a big thing (knock on wood) because I am not an advertising agency haha!

Spring is here!!!

2010-04-18T22:37:00.000-04:00

Finally got my booty in gear and updated! I spent the entire weekend either out taking pics or parked in front of my computer editing so I pounded everything out! Go me!

Sometimes they cry.....

And sometimes they smile! They're still cute though :)

finally updating!

2010-03-06T13:15:00.000-05:00

yup, not been terribly busy in the photo area, just in the life area! Here are some recents:

This is Logan's 100 day of school project, we did 100 faces of Logan on a poster! It was so much fun and we had lots of laughs doing it :)

Time flies when you're --- busy?

2009-12-20T21:02:00.000-05:00

Yup, maybe having fun in the process but busy nonetheless! Here is my quarterly (it seems that is my timeframe lately lol) update! I waited on purpose for some of these photos in case people wanted to use them as Christmas card pics and were trying to keep it a surprise but now I'm letting the cat out of the bag!
Enjoy!

This one was a favorite of mine and had to post it, she was one tough cookie! I got a couple smirks though lol!

Of course I have to add my cute little kidlets too! And can't you just feel the love in this snap??

Well, a small improvement on time lines......

2009-10-16T16:20:00.001-04:00

NOT!
Well, I'm only one month behind now rather than several so that's a baby step, right??
Well, here is a whole new slew of pics for your viewing enjoyment, including my own family whom I made suffer through torrential sunshine and a freezing temperature of 58F for a whpooing 10 minutes while I set the camera on its tripod and hit the timer while running like h-e-double hockey sticks to make sure I am in the frame HA!

What I've been up to...

2009-09-13T14:18:00.000-04:00

Obviously not here as much as I would like to.. I need my booty whipped into blogging more often!!
Here are some recents:

Yep, it's been forever....

2009-07-27T16:22:00.000-04:00

So here is a million (or like, 20) pics to update why I have been somewhere other than here!

Newborn to Senior

2009-04-29T22:06:00.000-04:00

Well, nothing new here other than the fact I am still lacking in the blogging department!
Here are some pics to make up for it!!

Little princesses!

2009-03-09T20:26:00.000-04:00

Don't you love this?! I snapped this as little J was twirling to the music!

Playing with mommy's heels!!

Sisters :)

A new baby soon to be in town!

2009-03-09T20:22:00.000-04:00

Yup, guilty again of being a bad blogger... but I will make it up with some new pics!!!

A personal fave!

I love this one.. We were trying to get Little Jakey to use the glass to listen to the baby bump, but he would rather daddy do it.. Love it!

Don't you just want to squeeze him?!

Playing Dress up

2009-01-11T23:17:00.000-05:00

I know I have not been here in forever it seems!
I have had my first baby shoot for 2009! Meet little miss "L" :) She is such a doll! ( and we treated her just like one too, changing outfits and using props LOL!
I even found a use for my super cool vintage typewriter!!! Don't you love it?!? (If you don't, I am plugging my ears and singing lalala!!)

Super Sweet Kids

2008-11-16T15:24:00.000-05:00

Ok, let me start off by saying I feel old! Not that I am ancient or anything, but I just called these guys "kids!" Sorry "C" !

I started a new job and my coworker asked me to take their family photos this weekend. It was frickin' freezing Mr. Bigglesworth!! (that would be a Dr.Evil quote from Austin Powers for those of you who do not know!) It was in the 30's. Ouch!!
Despite the frigid temps, I got some pretty great shots if I do say so myself LOL! This girl is BRAVE! They were so cute my teeth hurt (that is a good thing ha!)

Anyway, I will shut up now and get on with the real reason you are here!

I did a couple of individuals for a Christmas card in case my first card idea doesn't work out! Unfortunately, you will have to wait to see the whole fam until phase 2 is complete!! (Now I have you curious, don't I LOL)

And here is Big sis (who is just as gorgeous!)who was kind enough to stick around town one extra day to do pics since yesterday poured rain!

Double Trouble!!

2008-11-10T16:32:00.000-05:00

Or is it Double double trouble??
I had two families on Saturday, and each family had a set of twins! It was great! I had so many ideas, but it was sooo cold and dark we had to work fast!
The "T" twins were hilarious! They had to have a good photo, and a funny photo! Some of the outtakes are hilarous! Here are a few from their family:

And then I had the "S" girls, who happen to live in my neighborhood!
I just wanted to squeeze them! They were sooo cute! AND so excited to have their pictures taken! They were ear to ear the whole time with their cute little laughs and grins!
I have wanted to do this shot for a long time, where you have the two girls and wrap one scarf around both of them. I loved it! -- I think they did too! It kept them warm HA!
Here are a couple of the cuties! :

Families, families families!!

2008-11-03T17:10:00.000-05:00

Whoo! been busy this week! I have edited more photos this week than I have in a typical month! Guess it is the time of year to have Christmas card photos done and such!
This will be a picture heavy post rather than doing individual ones -- that way I talk less (maybe?) HA

Here ya go!

awww...

In case you are wondering, it is an "I love you" flower! Way more difficult to do than I imagined HA! Poor kiddos and cramping hands LOL!

Don't you love the laughter in this?!?

Whew! Are you tired of me yet?!? LOL

Lovin' the Seniors!

2008-11-03T16:58:00.000-05:00

And not the old people kind ;)
J was fun and had her dog join us. He was pretty good..For a dog LOL!

J has the most interesting eyes -- one eye is 1/2 blue and 1/2 brown. I tried to capture that individuality about her-- not that I needed much work to do that, here eyes pop right off the pics!

ok enough blabbing! here they are!!

On the hunt for some junk!

2008-10-25T20:48:00.000-04:00

I uploaded them too big, but am too lazy to re-upload! ;)

I found a local salvage yard that was willing to let me wander and take some shots of the kidlets. He was great! I am so excited to use this in the future!! they had some really cool stuff there, but it was too muddy since it had rained the night before... Here are the slaves--I er, um mean kidlets ;)

This is a Cinderella-theme I was going for and have had in my head forever! It just happened to be a fluke that the alley I used has a perfect view of the town hall's clock (and it was chiming as we were snapping away, it was great!!)

Catching Up

2008-10-23T14:25:00.000-04:00

Well, as usual, I have not been over here in a while, so I will post a few families that I have shot in the last little while! :)
Here is my wonderfrul neighbor (and her family) who has dug me out out several holes at a moment's notice! (Thanks A!)

And here we have the lovely (and HAWT!) H and her kidlets that I saw just this morning! I was a tad anxious and had to edit them asap -- can you tell why?!?!

Enjoy! I love this time of year! The cooler weather, the fabulous colors, everything in general!!

First senior of the year :)

2008-10-05T18:05:00.000-04:00

V was one cool chick! It was a blast to hang out with her and mom today! Its girls like this that make what I do so easy!!

Here is a sneek peek! Seriously, it was a chore just to pick out a few to show LOL!

My kiddos are getting so big!!

2008-08-29T21:32:00.000-04:00

Well, the baby is now going to be a toddler (and starting her terrible two's with a BANG!)
here are the kidlets looking like they are behaving LOL!

Awww! here is the little toddler (with her horns hiding somewhere!!) sporting a cute little apron I made... I have a recent obsession with owls, this will be her birthday outfit since I made her birthday invites (already -- for October!) that have owls on them too!

T the firefighter and his kidlets!

2008-08-24T17:09:00.000-04:00

have I mentioned how much I love my friend Heather??? She had a canvas done up of her family pic (look below at june 16th) and her neighbor, *the firefighter* saw it. He decided he needed some up on his wall! Lucky me!!!

Here are a few peeks:

Luke is the cutest! One tough cookie!

I know, I am a bad blogger!

2008-08-13T19:34:00.000-04:00

I went on vacation for 2 weeks and then my kidlets went back to school so those are my excuses! :P

Anyway, here are a few pics to make everyone happy!

Isn't She Cute??

2008-07-13T08:55:00.000-04:00

You have to pay her to smile, but those curls are to die for!!
Little miss H is now one years old!!

H and her Family

2008-06-16T10:34:00.000-04:00

Our sons were in the same class together and we became instant friends! Every birthday party or class party she hosted, I always brought my camera (what's new?) and would email her the pics.. This time we did some for her walls :)
It was seriously hard to pic a couple, I loved them all! Here are the ones I did manage to narrow down to:

Tahoe wedding

2008-06-11T18:46:00.000-04:00

Lake Tahoe was beautiful! Cold-- but beautiful. The wedding was so nice, very low key, casual but it totally suited them!
Here are a few highlights:

I promise! I do not have baby fever!!

2008-05-27T16:43:00.000-04:00

Now that I am done having babies, and have "closed the factory" I honestly do not feel the baby fever like some of my friends do! don't get me wrong, I love little cuddly newborns, but I do not miss the getting up every 4 hours through the night! I like sleep HA! Now, conquering diapers (which we have had in the house for the last 10 years *gasp* will be huge when Addie is all trained!
Anyhoo, here is my girlfriend, when she was pregnant with her second baby, and the same set up when she was born, around 6 weeks old.

Look at that hair!! She came out with that gorgeous black hair!! (call me green with all my little baldies!!)

Here comes Marriage!!

2008-05-19T12:47:00.000-04:00

My little boyfriend's parents are getting married!!
Here is a sneak peek of some shots I snapped yesterday :)

Don't you just love baby toes?!

Oooh! I did it!

2008-05-14T09:02:00.000-04:00

I figured out how to change my template! I could seriously have a ton of fun with html LOL!
I just created the same template I had but changed my colors...But the posts were too busy in this brown so I changed it to a solid brown to make it a tad easier on the eyes ;)
I need to find out what my colors RBG numbers are so I can change my font colors now! Baby steps HA!

My first Senior!

2008-05-12T08:17:00.001-04:00

When I was in high school, we didn't do "senior photos" and weren't called seniors for that matter! I think it is a cool concept though and wish I did this when I was graduating from high school...

Anyway, this one was totally by fluke! Word of mouth sure travels fast (and in my favor) ha!
Here are a few fun shots of my first senior!! I could totally get used to this! They are sooo much easier than little kidlets LOL!

Look at how cute her tattoo is!

just goofing off :D

And to think, she said she couldn't jump!

Like my new font??

2008-05-11T10:34:00.000-04:00

I just figured out how to change my font. I love html! Now if only I could figure out something other than the fonts and I'd be set HA!

Just the girls!

2008-05-10T21:55:00.001-04:00

I took a little adventure to A's family acerage for some pics of her and her girls. We didn't need to go far for all kinds of variety there! You can do alot with 30 acres! Here is a peek at what I got...

Look at this jump!

Out of all the group shots I took, this has to be my favorite! Even though A isn't looking, I love it! Especially in black and white!

Just in case you don't agree with me, here is one where she looked up ;)

Something different...

2008-05-09T08:55:00.000-04:00

I have been taking R and B's family pics for a while now, but I have been stepping outside the box a bit and I am having a ton of fun doing so!
here is last year's family pic, this was the norm for me, going to this location for alot of shoots:

And don't get me wrong, I love it there and I love this pic, but we had so much fun running around town going to a bunch of different places to get different shots! The kids were really good about it too (It's a good thing I keep a little bribery stash in my bag!)
Here is a few examples:

and lastly, the family jump shot. This was so fun and the kids were laughing at the million jumps we did to make sure we got everyone in the air (well, as best we could anyway!) HA!

Heather and the travelling chair

2008-04-21T14:27:00.000-04:00

Well, I found someone who was willing to go on a little adventure with me and it took all of 40 minutes TOPS-- even travelling time! It was great fun.... Here are some highlights:

This is our rendition of "Hippie mama stranded in the suburbs"

Then we travelled down the street where there is some construction going on..

Then a little further away, we found an empty field (and muddy I might add.. Let's just say I won't need a pedicure, I had a "special" mud treatment that squished through my prima crocs HA!) where a housing development will soon go up...

and hey, why not be fabulous role models and do what we tell our kids NOT to do -- play in the street? LOL!

On our way back to her house, I made a quick detour to an old raggedy, broken down shack and Heather thought she would climb the enormous tree:

Here is the side of the shack that had some cool concrete bricks

and to end our adventure, lets climb this rusted old piece of equipment!

Super fun!

Have I mentioned how much I love Thrift store shopping?

2008-04-12T20:50:00.000-04:00

cuz I do! I love how faded this chair is and you can see the original color in between the tufts (or whatever you call the in betweeners LOL!)
Excuse the background, it is currently parked in my garage because I have a chair addiction right now and I have no room in my house ....

and of course cutie pie Addison had to get on there and as soon as she realised I was going to take her pic, she tried to climb down as fast as her little legs would carry her!

I can't wait to use this in the middle of a road, or in an empty field.... Or somewhere cool! Any takers??

Out on the town!

2008-04-08T09:39:00.000-04:00

my girlfriend is getting married so I will be taking some engagement pics here soon! I drug the kiddos out to find some cool spots for this and here is a couple I found:

This one is in my husband's parking lot of his work..

I love the laughter in this one. :)

walking back to the van we saw this place called the Cuddle Kitten Sticker Girl Club and had a wall of not only a sticker sneeze, but a sticker throw up LOL!

And then Logan, who doesn't want his pics taken, but is willing to do a bit of jumping (well, as good as it gets for my 27 pounder 4 year old HA!)

This one is a cobblestone road downtown, it was sooo cool! I made DH stop so I could snap a few of Sean!

Just for fun

2008-03-27T22:43:00.000-04:00

I got called my county's school district to interpret for a parent meeting so I called up my girlfriend Heather to watch the younger kidlets. I figured, since we hadn't been there in a while I would snap some pics when I came to pick Logan and Addie up.
Sundari is such a tomboy. She was not too terribly impressed that she was wearing this dress (no matter how freakin cute she looked!) and wanted to be done so she could play with her best friend! Hey.. Why not get a shot of them together?? Heh.. Well, Logan was not too impressed that he went to someone else's house and mom dragged all of her crap over there! He thought he had ecaped the setup but nooooo..... Here is the result:

And I seem to get a couple of pics that show Sundari can be a sweet girl (while planning her escape HA!)

And then there is Quinlan... Such a happy kid who just wants to spin and spin and spin! Well, I caught a couple of him when he had to stop spinning (to prevent himself from falling over!)

It was fun anyway, and it was very quick (and semi painless for the kiddos!) and Heather now has some updated pics!
Hope you likey!

Easter is coming

2008-03-13T12:15:00.000-04:00

Just messing with my flashes and backgrounds. Addison did not really want to take part in getting her pics taken, so as soon as she saw me snapping her bunny basket, she decided to join!

My poor kids don't get a lick of hair until they are closer to 3 years old or so... So here is my sad little attempt at pigtails! She has such a baby mullet! DH calls her Don King with her crazy hair in the back (unfortunately she's got nothing on top :( )

New Prop

2008-03-06T19:06:00.000-05:00

I had a very exciting day at Goodwill. I found a neat little footstool for 5 bucks! I was pumped! Now.... what do I do with it?? Hmmm...

Little Jacob

2008-03-03T10:45:00.001-05:00

he is gettin so big! The saddest part about having babies is how fast they grow up!

Twins plus one

2008-02-22T18:21:00.000-05:00

a friend of mine has 5 year old twins and an 18month old. I took pics of them yesterday for her wall and it was good! I had my new Savage seamless paper backdrop and little miss A HATED it! It was the funniest thing to see her freaking like she was stuck on the paper and couldn't move LOL!

Don't you just love that tongue? It was sticking out in every darn snap!

Learned how to crochet this month too!

2008-01-08T10:18:00.000-05:00

I saw the cutest hat online and I thought "Hey, I could do that!"
Well, it doesn't look anything like the one I saw, but for my first project, and no pattern, I think it is pretty ok!

Here is the top (well the front really.. you get the idea)

It's a kitty by the way... You know, just in case you couldn't tell by the pointy ears and all ;)

and this is the second project. The Cindy Lou Who hat (it's not really called that, but she looks like a Dr. Seuss character in it LOL!)

Now I have all kinds of yarn left, my kids are going to have hats coming out their yin yang! maybe a scarf too, who knows!

No white Christmas here

2008-01-08T10:03:00.000-05:00

I love that we get barely any snow here... Well, in comparison to my hometown, where the white stuff goes for miles until you are blinded by it!
We did get snow for a few weeks (that called for school 2 hour delays and cancellations -- wimps!) and the kids were soo excited they got to pull out the (dusty LOL) box of snow gear!
Addie ws a litte unsure about the whole thing, but liked to watch her siblings fall in it!

Of course, now all the snow has melted and we have rain, rain, rain and we are sitting at about 60F (about 15C)

Busy busy busy!

2008-01-08T09:54:00.000-05:00

I can't believe it has been almost a month since I've been on here! Whoops!
Well, December has been (apparently) a busy month for us! We had 2 birthdays, Christmas, and a broken ankle!
Addison, the youngest, broke her ankle (fractured tibia) She had to wear a splint for just over 3 weeks. Here are a few highlights:

Day one:

Here is me washing her smelly leg after taking everything off!

The xrays: the first is the broken tibia and the second is the healed version!

All better!

Family Christmas photos

2007-12-10T08:11:00.000-05:00

Sorry, there are none of my family. Isn't that how it always goes?? I have been busy taking pics of all my friends, I used a pic of just the kids for our Christmas card. That is ok though, they are all smiling and that is all that matters. Even if it is from July HA!

Anyway, here are some of the recents that I have taken:

Here is Cali again, the do-anything-to-me dog!

I never thought it would be this hard, but getting all the kids to look in my general direction, let alone SMILE was a bit of a challenge, but that is alright. I photoshopped the chalk in because they rand out of chalk HA!

Here is M and her family:

These are just the family ones, I have tons of just kidlets on their own!
Hopefully all of this portfolio building business pays off!

Christmas is coming!

2007-11-20T11:18:00.000-05:00

I have been making gifts like crazy! My sewing machine is going to need a nice, long break after this LOL!
I found a new baby gift for the baby sling haters LOL!
I made a hooded towel for Addison and I love the way it turned out so I made another for a Christmas gift and will not be my last one either!
Here are the pics (with Logan as my lovely assistant LOL!) excuse my scrap room disaster in the background!

Will and Andrew

2007-10-31T14:23:00.000-04:00

I visited my friend who I worked with at Gymboree and took some pics of the kiddos while I was there. The entrance to her neighborhood is soo nice!
Here are a few that I got:

This one is not her favorite, but I love the expression on Will's face in this one LOL!

This one is better for the wall, but I still like the previous ;)

Tommy and Sundari

2007-10-21T23:32:00.001-04:00

My good friend Heather asked me to take pics of daughter and dad together since she had no good ones of the pair. Sundari is a little goofball, but I got a few good ones! Here is what I got:

Shannon's Kidlets

2007-10-20T08:02:00.001-04:00

Well, 'tis the season for taking Christmas pics.... Here is the start of them. I found a great place for pics! It is a new development going up down the street from me so These guys became my guinea pigs... Turns out that I will be using this place alot!

Christmas card will come, I haven't made it yet :p

Happy Birthday Addie!

2007-10-19T09:56:00.000-04:00

Well, we had a little party for Addie, just a few people, nothing major.. I made a rice krispie cake because she looves them! She wasn't quite sure why hers had a big bow on it!

She ate the bow anyway...

Of course she is still little, so she enjoyed watching her siblings play with her toys LOL!

Family grown by 2 feet

2007-10-18T10:26:00.000-04:00

My old neighbor (and still friend) had her 4th baby.. a boy! He is now surrounded by 3 older sisters to gush over him!

Too bad he knew what I was doing as soon as I unzipped my camera bag LOL! He did.not.want his pics taken!

It was a bit of a challenge, but after a feeding and a few snuggling sessions with mom and dad, he cooperated for a few snaps :)

Welcome to the world little one!

Happy Birthday Hailie

2007-10-17T08:46:00.000-04:00

We went to a Hailie's first birthday at the park in Muncie and the kids were having fun blowing bubbles and making all kinds of messes and noises with the silly string and pop its!
Here are some shots from that day:
Hailie and her mommy

Camryn blowing bubbles

Addison in her usual position LOL!

Camryn with the pop its (you can see the streamers on the very right top of the photo:

And Logan, checking out the scene... You can almost see me snapping away in his eyes' reflections!

And lastly, the birthday girl after devouring her smash cake!

Happy first Birthday!

The rest of the brat pack!

2007-09-21T17:09:00.000-04:00

Now that Addison has had her day (week, whatever LOL!) of fame, here are the rest of the kiddos and their pics ...

Camryn:

Sean:

Logan:

My baby is no longer a baby!

2007-09-20T10:34:00.000-04:00

Well, she is but she is now classified as a toddler! She is going to be one in a week and a half!

I do have pics of the other kiddos, but Addison gets her own post because she is special LOL!
Happy First Birthday (in a week and a half)!

Baby Jacob

2007-09-18T19:00:00.000-04:00

Babies babies and more babies!
Little Jacob is number 6 out of our friends who have had babies in the last 14 months!

I had the pleasure of snapping some shots of this little guy.. Here are a few of my favorites:

Look behind Jacob and you can see Cali in the background hee hee

What a cooperative dog! She did pretty much everything we wanted her to!

This one is the best doggy shot!

First day of school!

2007-08-20T10:08:00.001-04:00

Well, last week the kids headed back to school. Sean is now in first grade!
We went to the ice cream social to drop off their gear and meet the new teachers, then it's been all downhill at a fast pace from there!

Two down, two to go!

Long time, no blog!

2007-08-20T09:48:00.000-04:00

Well, summer is almost gone, kids are in school and life is getting a tad less hectic.... I hope anyway!
We took a trip to our hometown in Canada and spent 2 weeks there, visiting as many friends and family as we could, while doing some fun things in between. Jeff got to try out Kayaking for the first time, we took the kids camping (in style of course, with rv's and jet skis and golf carts LOL!) We had a blast, we just wish we had more time to space everything out!
Here are a few highlights of the trip:

Addison is 9 months old!

2007-07-10T23:06:00.000-04:00

time has flown! Addison is 9 months old! She sits, she crawls, she eats big kid food, if we held her hands to help her "walk" all day she would!

I have been working on my photoshop skills with boosting colors and contrasts so of course the brats end up being my guinea pigs:

Princess Addie in her room:

Look at those lashes!

and here are my chair shots of each kid -- Camryn:

Sean:

Logan:

Addison:

I also took ones with the boys together and girls together :

I love the look Sean is giving LOL! He is such a ham!

Baby Hayden

2007-07-05T16:19:00.000-04:00

I took pregnancy pic of my friend, C and I finally got to meet Hayden! I took pics for her baby announcement card and got a little shutter happy!
Here are my favorites:

I took a similar one like this when C was pregnant:

I love this one with her cute little mop!

She looks so tiny in this chair!

The new parents

Ghetto Couture

2007-07-03T19:23:00.000-04:00

So I put my scrapbooking tools to good use, but this one by far is my favorite! Making my own shirts using my Cricut!
This is Addison's :

(does this diaper make my butt look big?)

And here are Sean's:

(sofa king cool --read it fast! get it?)

(chicks dig me)

Logan's:

(this is how I roll)

And Camryn's:

(boys drool)

No.More.Babies!

2007-06-28T11:27:00.000-04:00

That includes puppies! We looked in our neighbor's back yard and we saw this little white thing, rabbit? Rodent of some type? Nope, it was a 6 week old Westie! Camryn was in love!

Bailey was a litter of 9 puppies raised by a dachsund! The mom was sold before they found out she was expecting and they didn't want puppies so they stayed behind. She was 6 weeks old to the day when we met her. Sooo tiny, and in dire need of a bath after being stuck in a kennel with all of her brothers and sisters LOL! but still cute!

Arrgh Matey!

2007-06-28T11:21:00.000-04:00

Logan came downstairs and said "Mommy, I'm a pirate! I'm Captum Jack Sparrow!" I turn around and look as he is coming down the stairs and sure enough, he's got his pirate gear on and nothing else LOL! All I could think of while I was snapping away is "boy, this kid is gonna hate me when he gets married and these pics show up in his slideshow" LOL!
He makes a pretty cute pirate though!

Happy 4th of July/ Canada Day!

2007-06-28T11:12:00.000-04:00

I always take pics of the kids at this place where they have hundreds of American flags set up over for Memorial day (and through the month of June) and send it to family for Canada Day ha! It gets harder and harder each year to get all the kids to cooperate for one good pic, but at least with my DSLR I can take as many as I need to get that one.good.pic.

Swimming

2007-06-24T23:46:00.000-04:00

The kids were invited to swim last week, Addison was not pleased! She loves her baths, but not the cold pool water LOL!

She was much happier poolside with me!

Sean is still a little chicken when it comes to swimming, so he went "surfing" instead

Camryn is a friggin fish, so she is all over the place doing belly flops, cannon balls -- everything! She would live in the water if she could!

Logan on the other hand, sits on the stairs of the pool the whole time.... Until he has to pee that is LOL! C told him he could just go on the grass, he thought that was fabulous.... Thumbs up!

Water slidin' fun!

2007-06-20T23:32:00.000-04:00

We have not had rain in FOREVER! it is hot, humid and I.don't.like.it.
The kids at least are enjoying the weather (unlike my grass *hmph*) on this ginormous inflatable waterslide! This bad boy holds up to 400 lbs! Not that I would be tempted in ANY way to join in on the fun, but just sayin'!

Sean gets a little bounce to his slide, it is rather humorous!

Logan does not like to slide on his bum, he prefers to go down on his belly, feet first. Then splash around in the pool. Once it got full, it was too cold, so he did a little more sliding before quitting.

And then, after the hours of being outside, my kids decide to come in and make themselves a sandwich--- Not the kind you're thinking of though! Poor Logan, he was too scared to be on the top, so he'd rather get the life squshed out of him LOL!

My babies have been Inked!

2007-06-11T21:56:00.000-04:00

Well, this year's birthday bash for Katie and Megan(who turned 5) was great! They added airbrush tatoos and face painting to the pony rides and silly safari.
The kids were soo excited to get tattoos! I even had one put on Addison. It was hilarious to see her facial expression as the air was pushing her skin. She had this look of sheer horror (or as we refer to it as "deer in headlights") when the lady was waving the pen back and forth across her arm. She wanted to grab the tool as well, but no such luck LOL

Look at my little biker babe with her cool little shades (that she REFUSED to wear) and magnetic earrings! Of course, she had to steal some of the hamburger bun that Aunty Carol made the mistake of setting it beside her HA!

Camryn got a koala on one arm and a dolphin on the other:

And Sean &Logan got the same 2: Flames and a dragon:

I just finish getting shots of the tattoos when I see Jeff get volunteered to man the sno-cone machine, so I get a quick snap of him (well 2-- one is a scowl on his face for taking the pic, the other is a forced smile because I yelled at him to smile for once LOL!)

I only got a shot of Camryn on the ponies (bad mommy!) but was so busy snapping shots of everyone else, I didn't catch them. I can't make them wait to do their own thing, I need a second set of hands and eyes on the back of my head so I can take pics at both ends of the action!

But, there were 3 cameras going on and I know for a fact my kids are in their shots, so no worries!
The kids are worn out! We get home after 9 hours of festivities! They always look forward to this party at the end of the school year!

Teeth and Toes

2007-06-09T21:04:00.000-04:00

Well, Addison has 6 teeth now! She has cut the top 4 in the past 2 weeks! If you look closely, you can see a couple in there-- she seems to be getting a rash from drooling soooo much, but oh well, it will go away soon.

I decided since I have an obession for painting my toes, I should give Addison her first pedi! Look at those piggies!

Pokemon!?

2007-06-06T13:58:00.000-04:00

When I worked in the school system years ago (like 1999) I had kids I worked with that were OBSESSED with Pokemon. Well, I hated it then, and I hate it now. My kids are loving the cartoon, cards, books -- anything Pokemon! ARRGH!
So, Sean has decided he wants a Pokemon birthday this year and he wants his invitations to have him and the Pokemon characters on it. Ok.fine.
So here it is:

From this --

to this:

I no longer control what they like anymore (insert sobbing smiley) I guess it could be worse!

Blog Challenge: Mosaic

2007-06-04T14:55:00.000-04:00

This week's challenge is to create a mosaic. My mosaic is of just random pics of our family and a few friends from the past few months. Enjoy!

Weddings!

2007-06-03T12:25:00.000-04:00

I love weddings! I actually got to photograph my first wedding (YAY!)
Anyhoo, it was only immediate family, so there were 8 people there, but it turned out great! They are going to have a reception in September, so hopefully they liked the pics enough to ask me back!
Here are a few shots:

Thanks Casey and Dishon!

Artistry

2007-05-31T22:58:00.000-04:00

"Every child is an artist.
The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
-Pablo Picasso

I am participating in a blog challenge from my scrapbooking mb, Scrapshare

So I guess I have a sad little life. I do not have ANYTHING from when I was a kid. Long story short, mom left dad, we lived with dad, saw my mom on a 1 week vacation when I was 10 with my siblings, and never went back to my dad's. He sold everything we owned so I have nothing from my childhood. Photos that my mom kept (thank GOD!), but that is all. No artwork, no clothes, no toys, no personal belongings, nothing.
And now, we have moved so many times and into a different country (USA) I purged everything I could so it was less stuff to move/unpack.

While I can't share my first piece of artwork, I can share my favorite piece, it is from my dad.

My dad is a fantatic artist. Here is a pic of our wedding "guest book" that he painted for us. I love Winnie the Pooh, so he incorporated that into it :) We left the canvas out for all of our wedding guests to sign and then framed it afterwards.

I come from a family of artists -- in one form or another -- fine art, graphic art, architecture and so on. My aunt is fairly well known for her art, in fact. (http://www.jennifergarant.com/)

I am more a jack of all trades. I can draw (somewhat) I scrapbook,stamp cards, can sew, and love photography with all of its digital editing/photoshopping. You will see if the posts to come what I do (some not so great and some better than others LOL!)

Pregnant belly pics

2007-05-31T20:15:00.000-04:00

Ok, so I LOVED being pregnant, but this factory is *closed*
I have a love for photography, but do not do it as a career (maybe I should?)
Anyway, I took pregnancy pics for a friend and they turned out sooo cute! Here is my favorite of the 100 I took!

and here it is in black and white

I have figured out how to use actions on my adobe photoshop and this black and white looks so much better than a grayscale!
Now, off to find more actions to download!

New Blog!

2007-05-31T19:55:00.000-04:00

Well, I have decided to start a blog! I tested out myspace and it has waay to much cr@p on there and spam, so I figure I'll do this instead :)