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I'm a stay at home mom who's found blogging to be the best way to vent rationally. I love spending time with my family. This blog is my journal, since I find journaling to be somewhat tedious, so if you visit often, just know that things will be "real."

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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Photography Challenge Day 6

I know I'm not technically on Day 6, but Day 5 wasn't advantageous today. Day 6 of the challenge was, so I will come back to it. Cause that's how I roll :)

Day 6 challenge is to photo something from a low angle. Since Teaghan and I were hanging out together today and I needed a model to come with me to check out a new venue, she became said model. So before I win "Bad parent of the year award" for letting my child stay out of school, in my defense she was getting her bottom braces on, and then I used the opportunity to hang out with her and help her with some of her Christmas shopping. And yes, it was fun. It is ever so nice to hang out with my children one by one!

As I was going through the photos I had taken I realized that one of them could be used for Day 6. Voila! If I can do things in bulk I will:)





Of course, at least for me, it's easy to photograph my children. I know their individual looks.... I can predict their behavior so I know whether to follow them around or stay put... I know what I want to capture in their smile. Today wasn't any different. I was there to just make sure I knew how I wanted to work my lighting for a photo session I'm doing on Saturday, and I knew that Teaghan would go where I needed her to go and not gripe as I fiddled with my settings. What I didn't account for was that she used the opportunity to get some photos done. I mean, why not right? I found myself getting into it too. It really was very fun!! Especially when you're 14 and EVERYTHING is an adventure and EVERYTHING is silly in some way. Makes me feel young.

*sigh*

So I figured I would share a few cause they just turned out so stinking cute. I know I'm biased, but I still think the girl is striking:) And she's got a great personality to boot!

Now just where does she get that from?

:)












But here's the really great part. I hardly had to edit these!! It was super fast cause I had the lighting SOOC exactly how I like it.

Woo hoo!!

Light bulb moment: Manual really is better. Who knew? :)

I leave you with...

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Monday, December 5, 2011

Leah Baptism Photos

Leah...

This girl is spunky, has a great smile, is COMPLETELY photogenic, and was such a trooper while taking pictures in the cold cold morning. I don't think she ever complained!! How easy it was to photo Leah for her special day, and I feel very privileged to have been asked. Thanks Angela!! I hope you and Leah like them!















I mentioned that she's a trooper right? So I saw this picture of blowing confetti on Pinterest, and since I haven't been able to get one of my girls to do it, I thought... why not ask Leah? So she did! And I do think they turned out cute! I was able to use an edit that I rarely use too so I am one happy photographer:)



She also humored me when I gave her some bubbles too. I just love bubbles!!



Thanks Leah for being such a good subject to photograph!! You're the best!

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Funny Things The Kids Say

One day Andon and I were talking about our hearts. He asked me how they worked, I gave him an explanation a 4 y r old could understand, (the only one I understand.) The very next day, I said something to Zak. Something that went along the lines of, "quit that!" or some such demand. Andon then says to me: "Mommy, listen to your heart. That's not very nice." Needless to say I felt like a complete and total toad. Just goes to show that you can always learn more from your children than you could ever teach them yourself.

While we were camping, Andon and our friend's son were sitting next to one another. Brayden who is 15 says to Andon, "I've known you since you were a baby." Andon replies, "I've known me since I was a baby too!"


Brittnee is our funny bone. The things she says sometimes are so dang funny! One day, as she was walking by Doug she says, "Hello, my good man." We both looked at her and we both began cracking up. This is how she's referred to him lately.


I was sitting on the couch taking a breather after dinner and Andon walks past me into the kitchen. He had a car in his hand and as he walked by the fridge he must have dropped it because I heard him say, "tartar sauce!" I suppose I should limit his sponge bob watching.


I was in the car with the kids coming home from Britt's tap class and she was telling me about the school BBQ that day. She mentioned that her friend got sick. I asked her what happened and she said, "Layla has lots of diseases so she had to go home." I didn't think I heard her clearly, so I repeated back, "diseases?" Britt said, "Yes, Diseases." By this time I was truly perplexed because I knew she didn't really mean disease, but I couldn't figure out what she DID mean. Then Teaghan pipes up and says, "You mean ALLERGIES?" Brittnee says, "Oh yeah, that's what it is. ALLERGIES!" I laughed heartily, the kind where your shoulders shake and your stomach hurts.


We were at the school today, and on one of the playgrounds is these cubes that turn. On them are the states and their capitols. There's quite a few of them, and they're all blue. Zakry starts playing with them and turning them all, and then I hear, "mommy, look, a car wash." I suppose the large blue cubes reminded him of the car wash we went on last week. So funny!!