A Girl!

I feel like I have been shooting a LOT of boys lately, don’t get me wrong, I LOVE little boys, but I was glad to get to go out with Briley and her mom today to get some special photographs of her before her new baby sister arrives in a couple weeks! This is Briley. (Oh and stay tuned for the beginning of my product shoots, Briley helped me out with that today.)

Also, I can tell my monitor calibration is off (AGAIN cursed acer!) because I am seeing hot spots that Photoshop tell me are not there, so bare with me as I beg Anne for another favor again ;).

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Sadness

So Brian left for Kenya Friday and finally arrived in the place he is staying this morning. Yesterday Josiah got a bad rash all over him and today I at least fractured my toe and possibly broke it. I miss him like crazy! I realize all of what he does for our family and for me and how I couldn’t live without him (although that part I knew!). It is weird to be alone so much. We got married almost as soon as I moved out of the house so Brian’s companionship is basically all I have known. I guess that is all I have to say. What a shock, my husband is on another continent and I miss him right? Well I just needed to vent and I have a blog -so there. Here are some pictures of the day he left.

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Brian got a really short hair cut for the trip, makes him look so young! I could just pinch those cheeks 😉

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Feeling the sadness in the air.

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Wearing a new dress to see daddy off!

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That might we went to go see Blue’s Clues Live put on by a local Arts Camp. Fun stuff in Ruston!

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Thankfully we were accompanied by plenty of boys despite Brian being gone. Uncle Stevan, Uncle Caleb and Cousin Gabriel all joined us!

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Josiah sporting his homemade Blue’s Clues shirt, and his handy dandy notebook, his souvenir from the show.

Happy Birthday Kristi!

Today is my wonderful friend Kristi’s birthday! She is probably the most generous and down to earth person I know. Kristi you have been a wonderful friend to me, I only wish we had met sooner. In your honor here are few more of your little Rowdy from yesterday!

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Autumn and Rowdy playing in the yard, or rather, little Brian and little Randall. 🙂 When they are beside each other you realize how dark/pale they are!

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They did this; we did not pose them! And we quickly broke it up, but I had to take a picture first!

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This is what Rowdy thought of the next picture!

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Frogs and snails, what little Rowdy is made of!

Sorry I have been away, it was crazy last week with VBS and getting Brian ready to leave for Kenya! Here is a sneak peak from today with Rowdy for his 6 month pictures. Also, I am ordering pictures for the Peach Fest Baby Photo Contest. If you would like one a professional 5X7 print to enter let me know right away as the images are due Friday!

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By the way this is a real toad, my sweet sister caught it for me, don’t worry he was not harmed and we let him hop away right after this was taken!

Christi and Greg

I had the pleasure of shooting two people who were outside of my normal clientele today. Christi and Greg got married last December and hadn’t had any pictures taken of them together so we set out for a fun new location north of town to make some memories. Christi is the grandmother of Layla who you may remember from her 9 month session, and she looks way too cool to be a grandmother!

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