Pictures on Fall Part 1

Models

When you have a camera and a compulsion to take pictures as much as I do it helps to have some good models on hand...lucky for me I do...and they are FREE!!! I get quite the variety of poses that they have very near prefected.

The "over the shoulder"



Beautiful-innocent look (Yes she does have clothes on under that sweater).



Good with props too and improvising.




The stare



Action shots (and he has good fashion sense)



and the "I just really want you to take my picture with this thing in my mouth".

You can't pay money for this kind of stuff. I am one lucky mom-photographer.

I WISH YOU DANDELIONS AND MUD PUDDLES

I WISH YOU DANDELIONS AND MUD PUDDLES

"When I look at a patch of dandelions, I see a bunch of weeds that are going to take over my yard. My kids see flowers for Mom and blowing white fluff they can wish on.

When I feel the wind on my face, I brace myself against it. I feel it messing up my hair and pulling me back when I walk. My kids close their eyes, spread their arms and fly with it, until they fall to the ground laughing.

When I pray, I say “thee” and “thou” and “grant me this”, “give me that”. My kids say, “Hi God, thanks for my toys and my friends. Please keep the bad dreams away tonight. Sorry, I don’t want to go to Heaven yet. I would miss Mommy and Daddy.”

When I see a mud puddle, I step around it. I see muddy shoes and dirty carpets. My kids sit in it. They see dams to build, rivers to cross, and worms to play with.

I wonder if we are given kids to teach or to learn from? No wonder God loves the little children!! Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were big things."

~by Kelley Small, Publisher of Today’s Parent

May we all try more to "....become as a little child"! (see Matthew 18:3 & 3 Nephi 11:38)

These Days

This Guy works a lot.....
Kate is becoming my extra hands and "second mom" as she puts it....

Carter has taken to dressing in drag and his dad is thrilled!...

This little girls spends a lot of time being my model so I can try out my new camera. She is the only one who doesn't frown when I pull it out. I hope that last.

We love and miss everyone.
Oh! And isn't summer here, yet, or at least spring?

First read this article. Amen, is all I have to say.

Reality Check for Me...a Mom

I read this article tonight. If you want to feel better about yourself and also liberate yourself from many unimportant things READ IT. I think the woman who wrote it must have been talking about me because all the things she says she hates doing so do I. Yet I still have all those things on my mental to do list. Here's to make real New Year resolutions.

New Blog

This is mostly for Grandma's and anyone who wants way too know much info on my fam that I have started a new blog. The blog name is toyouloveme.blogspot.com you can go to it if you click here. I realized I haven't been using my blog very much because what I wanted to write was probably not what people were interested in. I don't have a lot of time and so the time I did have I wanted to spend in some sort of way keeping a journal for my sweet little kids about how amazing, silly, and fun they are and all of our wonderful experiences. I started this new one to do exactly that. It might be boring but I thought some of the Grandmas (and Grandpas) might enjoy...and anyone else who is interested...because I will keep stories about and things my kids do. However it is written in letter format to my kiddos, so keep that in mind. I am not writing to anyone but them. I am hoping at the end of the year to have it made into a book so that we can keep it. Let's see how it goes.

I will still update this blog but with more of the things that interest me, besides my kids. Love you all!