Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful...

Beautiful Boys! We had an impromptu photo shoot tonight with my cousin's twins Deacon and Drake. They have changed so much since I last saw them and it has only been a couple of months!

Drake and Deacon

Such a happy boy, Drake!

They are sitting in a rocking chair that their Great Uncle John (my dad) built for their dad.
Deacon

I can't get over those curls!!!

This is their Uncle Den who just came in from Barcelona for a visit.

I think we can all agree that Den has found his mini me.

Dear Lindsey,

IhadneverdoneweddingflowersbeforeyourweddingandwhenIrealizedthatIwouldbe
doingyoursIwasscaredtodeath. Phew....I feel so much better now that I have that off my chest. For those of you who don't know me that well, I have to confess that I may have a slight problem with committing to projects that I have no idea how to do. (Ask me to tell you about the head board story one day.) Now having said that, I think that everything turned out well in the end. (Thank you Lord!)

This is a close up of the bridal bouquet. Such pretty rings.

Here is shot of one of the bridesmaid's bouquets. Thanks to my sister for the toilet paper roll idea. Can you find it?

The mother of the bride and the mother of the groom didn't want to wear corsages, so we made them each a mini bouquet.

And here is a picture of the happy couple. She has the most beautiful smile. Thanks Lindsey, for letting me stumble through your wedding flowers...and thanks mom for stumbling through it with me!

The Pink Tutu

A few weeks ago, I bought the cutest pink tutu in hopes that I could get my niece to wear it for some pictures. Unfortunately no amount of pleading, begging, or bribing would convince her to put it on. Who knew a six year old girl would turn down the chance to dance around in a pink tutu?!?!

So I went in search of a cute little girl who would be willing to wear the tutu and smile for the camera. Luckily, I didn't have to look very far. Let me introduce to you, Willow Grace.


She definitely knows how to wear a tutu.

Hopefully there will be more "photoshoots" to come!

Just Practicing

Since I am new to this blogging thing I thought I would play around with the website to get familiar with how all this works. My class isn't going to start until September so I have some time to get things working here before things get so crazy with work.

I played around with Photoshop and created a new header, and then used some of my borders that I bought over at Polkadotpotato on a few of my pics and thought I would post them here.

We will see what else I can come up with during the last bit of my summer break to make this spot more cozy. By the way, I am looking for some volunteers for photoshoots. So if you are interested shoot me an email!

Why am I doing this?!?!

I love to take pictures. LOVE IT!!! I like the idea of not only making a moment last forever, but also capturing all of the emotions that go along with it. Over the years I have slowly upgraded my cameras to my current digital slr and will be taking a pretty intense 10 week photography course. So I thought I would start this blog to help me gauge my progress and to invite any constructive criticism in the spirit of "self improvement." (Please be kind...I cry easily.) And since someone once told me that a post isn't a post without a picture...here you go!