MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!

What a busy week! Midnight mass, up early for presents, off to mamma's house, then great-mamma, then grandma's.....the kids still aren't back to their 'normal' schedules yet! We had such a great Christmas with Evan this year, understanding the whole concept of opening presents...Ella was just there to taste test the wrapping!! He was quite the trooper, opening all Ella's presents for her. They are so great together....I just hope it lasts when they are older! We hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. And I should clarify the post below....Evan has a kids digital camera. It's one of those 'indestructible' camera's made for young kids.

Evan's Work

I present you with Evan's favorite present in the world....it goes everywhere with him. My mom and dad got him a digital camera for Christmas and he absolutely loves it!! Here is some of his work. Hope you all enjoy. I will eventually get some of my pictures on here too.

No one was safe....he photographed everyone and everything!!

A little self portrait
An intense game of slap uno! Fun

Mae...Evan's favorite

New Favorite Picture!!

It's a Beautiful day in our neighborhood!! This is what Van Wert looks like right now....and apparently it's not going away for a few days. This is one of my favorite tree lines and I finally got some pictures there. It's really cool in the fall too.

Our attempt at Santa Claus. He was at the Old Barn Out Back last night and we met Lisa, Cathy and the kids there to see The Big Man! Well you can tell from Ella's grip on Joe how well it went, and notice how Evan isn't even in the picture. Didn't want anything to do with Santa.

Photography Services

So I've decided to officially put myself 'on the market'...so to speak!! I would love to begin offering photography services to those interested. I prefer lifestyle photography, which means I don't do studio photography. I do on location photography, whether it be outdoors or in your home. I enjoy photographing children...as you can tell from my blog! And I'm willing to try anything. If you are interested, please contact me via e-mail, which can be found on the right side of this page.

Early x-mas....

We had x-mas last night with my mom's side of the family....all I can say is Evan's going to have lots of presents to open this year. All Ella wanted to do was climb on top of the present!! Too cute. Once she got Tiger out of the box though she was all about loving on him. Thanks Mamma and Pappa for the wonderful presents.

Schroeder Family

I had the great opportunity to photography Amy and Ryan's family last weekend. Their girls were wonderful to work with and full of energy. Amy has her house looking terrific for the holidays....and I was very jealous! Not only did she have up two trees...you can see her fireplace in this first picture and the rest of the house was decked out too. And the girls each have their own trees in their rooms! Beautiful house, adorable family, and wonderful first clients!! Thanks guys I hope you enjoy your pictures.

Christmas Tree Fun

So Evan helped me put up the tree....and he was very excited, and everyday we get home he has to plug it in right away. Too cute!! Here are some fun pictures we took before bed time this evening. He even says 'goodnight' to baby Jesus in the nativity scene....how precious.

Look at how big she's getting...

Pile up on daddy

Can you find the boy in this picture??

I just liked this one...

Round Two....my kids love me!!

I'm at it again! This weekend was with Joe's mom and dad's grandkids. There's not as much of a variety in size/age....so we made due with what we had. We also took our family pictures (thanks Doug) and we took Jess and Doug's family pictures....so now you'll have to wait for her to update to see their pictures. We took these at my new office....which has some very cool spaces, so I was having lots of fun.

Happy Thanksgiving

So we attempted some holiday photos with my mom and dad's grandkids....needless to say, Holden was the only one that cooperated!! This was one of the best ones. Then afterwards some of the kids wanted individual pictures taken....go figure!

DonDon's Fun!!

Check out that smile.....I'm pretty sure Evan's face was stuck like that the whole 3 hours we played at McDonald's with Ryan and Emma. So Ella decided she'd try out the trampoline too. It was tons of fun....Joe and I enjoyed hanging out with Lisa and the kids wore themselves out running around and playing. Seriously.....look at that smile!!

Cute Pictures

They really do grow up too fast......

9 Month Pictures

So while the girls are on vacation I decided to surprise them and have their 9 month pictures of the babies taken for them when they get back. So while they were living it up on the beach in Mexico....I was putting their children through one of my wonderful photo sessions!! They both did great and we got some pretty cute pictures too.

The first three are Hadley, the second three are Macayla and of course we had to sit Ella in on one....Evan refused to have his picture taken with three girls.

Boo

I'm back by popular demand!! :) Sorry it's been so long....some days it's just impossible to find time to pick up the camera. We did a little trick-or-treating and as you can see Evan was Tiger (a small tiger). I didn't recruit my mom early enough to make him an outfit...maybe next year....so we borrowed one she had already made. Ella was just in an outfit with a little ghost on it.