11/52

Sorry to ya'll who read both of my blogs, you get the exact same photos on each!! HA! Guess I'd better take more, eh? Anyways, so this week we gave rice cereal a try on Sam and the little piggie LOVES it!! Almost as much as Brooklyn loves to feed it to him! Between them both, they make quite the mess...

Here's my Brooklyn favorite of the week. We had a face painting playdate and she wanted to be a kitty. It was a lot better before she totally destroyed the bottom half of her face, but she was in heaven!! We're off to the store tomorrow to pick up some face paints...
My favorite of Sam this week. He has recently discovered other kids and himself and LOVES them!! The mirror is the best way to keep this guy occupied! So I had to break out the camera.
And I didn't have one of just Sam and Brooklyn together (I forgot about it, actually), so you get to see me in a swimming suit...eek. This was Sam's first experience with the ocean. He did great, considering he got sopping wet up to his armpits!! After about 10 minutes of it though he was overstimulated and passed out in my arms.
And as requested....I'm going to try and start doing Daddy & Me photos...ya'll are keeping me busy!!! Ha! I'll try and keep up though because I LOVE having all of these photos. Anyways, we like to take a walk after dinner every night, and Brooklyn never fails to remind us. So, here are all my goobers. :)

10/52

We have gotten into the habit of taking evening walks before bedtime and our kids love it. It's more of a scavenger hunt than a walk as we're always finding new things and just playing on the way, but we really enjoy it as our family time at the end of the day.

This just totally reminds me that my sweet baby girl is turning into a big girl...sniff sniff. Today she took a nap in her undies and no accident!! We are SO proud of her.
I haven't really taken many of the Chunkster, but of course had to show off my new art piece to our collection. I am addicted to canvases now. They never seem very big on the wall though, so I thought a 20x24 would be big enough...I put it on the wall and...not quite. lol, but we'll wait awhile before I venture for bigger. I just had to show it off though because I am SOOOOO in love with it. I was worried that it would become outdated soon since Sam is growing so fast, but is absolutely priceless to me.
And one of both of the rugrats. I had Sam sitting in the chair and Brooklyn thought he looked bored so brought her some of her babies to play with (she only has about a million of 'em...). I soon looked over and he was up to his ears in babies, but they were both having a blast! I'm so excited for them to grow up together, they play so good now, I hope they will be close.

9/52

My girl n' me in Daddy's motorcycle mirror. We were all playing outside one fabulous evening. We grilled hotdogs, made s'mores and ran and played. It was SO much fun!! This cooler weather is so nice to have so we can actually venture outside these days...

And here are a couple of my favorite kiddo shots from this week. Sam was chillin' outside while we were grilling our hotdogs over the fire, just loving it. Both my kids are total outdoors kids.
And my Goobie...sigh. I put WAAAYYY too much trust in her. She is a FANTASTIC kid and it was totally my fault as I let her play and watch a movie while I had my nose in a book and I should have known when it got WAY too quiet. Yup, that's baby powder...whoops.

The H Family.

I was soooooo thrilled when these guys contacted me to do a family session (and even more thrilled when we struck up a deal for Mommy H to do my family's hair--anybody in Wilmington need someone for hair stuff? Contact me, I will hook you up!!! She ROCKS!). What a gorgeous family, right? So not only are they gorgeous and super duper nice, they are a lot of fun and we're up for anything. AND (yeah, I know, it gets better!) their girls did SUCH a great job. It was almost a 2 hour ordeal and not one complaint!! Thanks you guys, and hopefully you all are feeling a bit better...

8/52

So yeah...I am REALLY slacking. I should be on like...week 10 by now. Oh well, it'll be a long year. :) And if you haven't noticed by now, I'm all about the "real life" shots for these things. If I stress about trying to get that "perfect shot", it ain't never gonna happen! So ignore the I-haven't-been-outta-the-house-in-two-days look I've got goin' on. And if you can't tell by the shampoo bottle in the background, this is bathtime--I just had to prop my camera up on a half-empty toothpaste bottle, on top of the counter (hence the counter showing in the bottom half). We love bathtime though (all except the getting clean part...).

I've also decided that in addition to my Mommy & Me photos I'll post my favorite photo of my kids this week.

Here's my Chunker. At almost 4 months old, this kid is nearing (if not there already) 20 pounds. He is also the sweetest, easiest, smiley baby. And such a momma's boy....I loooove it. His big accomplishment this week is that he's figured out how to grab things. Woo hoo!!

Here's my Goobie. She wanted me to take a photo of her "mad face". What a sweetheart she is. This week she's taken to calling us all "Honey" a lot. I never realized that I called her and Sam "Honey" so much until she started saying it.

Happy Birthday Miss Tanis!!

Happy Birthday Tanis!! I sure had a blast racing and jumping and spinning, oh yeah, and taking a few photos here and there! :) Thank you for letting me capture you as a 5 year old--you were a fabulous model and sure know how to turn the 'tude on! Here's a sneak peek of one of each of your cute outfits. We can't wait to see you at your birthday party!!

Waiting for Baby G.

This session started off a bit crazy at first as I went to the WRONG ISLAND! Then a storm moved in and those sunset photos that J wanted went out the window, but there were some amazing clouds. And I cannot say enough great things about this couple--they were a complete DREAM to photograph!! And you can tell just by talking to them that they will be amazing parents--what a lucky little boy to be born to this couple! Thank you guys for opening your makeshift home to me and letting me invade--and a special thank you to the clothing holders and "backdrop stands"!! :)