My New Love

What does it mean when you stay up until 1:30am working on a "project"? It means that you are either working against a tight deadline, insane, or found something you love. With me - it's the latter.

Turns out, I love photography. Lesley was nice enough to let me come snap some candids at her wedding on Saturday. Most of all, I loved taking the cute Bjorkman girls photos. I want to be a children's photographer - in the photojournalist style.

I've thought lots of starting a business over the last 7 years.

Making cards?

Takes too much time... and I'm not patient enough to make multiple of one design unless I have to.

Craftiness?

Matt DID buy me a Cricut for Christmas last year. I totally love it, but not sure I want to do something down this vein. (Lisa made these tags. I can't take credit... but she made them with my cricut and paper!)

I even thought about doing a sewing tote bags business after Lisa/Dottie taught me how...

But, I don't have the patience to sew bag upon bag upon bag... and when they turn out oh-so-cute, I think I need one too. (Which I don't.)

But Children's PHOTOGRAPHY. I think I've hit upon something here. I love working with kids and catching their personality "on film" (though mostly digitally these days). I'm ever inspired by Rebecca Mudrick's blog (Jared and Mary's friend).

Here are some of my favorites from our photo shoot. First of the twins Abby and Savy:









I love this sepia set with Jocelyn:







Lastly... I can't leave without a few pics from the wedding!







On that vein... I'm investigating this little love of mine further. I'm especially interested in shooting pics of newborns and other young'uns. If you live in or around me and would let me practice by having a little photo shoot of your kids, please let me know!

Sam's Antics

Sam's inquisitive nature has shown recently. Since I've been a poor blogger recently, here's an onslaught of pictures.

This is how we found Sam when we accidentally left the lock undone on our TV console.



Sam systematically took everything off the 2nd shelf of his changing table and then put each of his snuggle things on it. Then, he climbed on in and had a snuggly good time.



Sam likes to "help". This is how he helps me clean up:


Sam also has a thing about lining thing up while he's playing with them. This was one of the latest.


After Sophie left last month, Sam decided that the booster seat was THE COOLEST toy ever. He loves to sit in it and do up the buckles, play with his toys or stuffed animals, etc.



Pics from our trip to the Children's Museum. They had dollar nights on Fridays! I LOVE it! Such a fun place to go - especially when I know Matt will be working late that night...





Sam loves reading books - or siting in the rocker and throwing them on the floor. This was not staged!


trying on Dad's shoes...


..playing under the dining room table...


... and throwing all the silverware onto the floor. Lovely, ehhh?

Playing with Mom's Headband...

Sam LOVES my headbands. I can hardly wear one because he always wants to take it off my head and put it on his own. Here's some pics from lunch the other day...

"Patience Gets the Picture"

...says Matt to me after waiting around Monticello forEVER for him to get just the right shot with no people in it, etc. My response? "And an angry wife." The photo did turn out quite well, though. Does this mean I have to admit Matt was right??? :)

Happy 4th!

We had a blast last week with the Romneys in DC. We went on a whirlwind tour of everything within reach. Here are just a few of the things we did:
-National Aquarium in Baltimore
-Fireworks on the Mall (after the Mall was evacuated due to a tornado warning)
-the new American Indian Smithsonian museum
-a tour of the Capitol
-International Spy Museum
-Monticello
-Williamsburg
-Yorktown

It was so much fun - despite the fact that I lost my cell phone. BLARG!

Enjoy the pics from our adventures! Thanks, Romneys, for such a fun trip! We loved spending time with you last week... and miss you already!

Fleurs

Well, I snapped a few pics of the gorgeous flowers around the Joseph Smith birthplace monument. This one turned out the best. What can I say? I'll always be partial to pink.

SNOW CONES!!! and taking pictures for the blog

Despite Lisa's unmitigated requests for more posts and the fact that I take a bajillion pictures, I just yesterday pulled out my camera to capture a memory for the sole reason of posting on this blog. All the previous pics I've taken are either for other reasons entirely or for more reasons than just to post on my blog.

Enter Snow Cone Night with Gaylynn.

One of my friends (Gaylynn) whose hubby's flight back to Boston was delayed for several hours last night called me to get together. Luckily enough, I too was going to be alone last night since Matt was "burning the midnight oil" at work. We had a yummy dinner and played games.

Gaylynn also brought a surprise treat. She had found a forgotten wedding present in her basement and brought it over to try. A SNOW CONE MAKER complete with a selection of syrup flavors! We had to make our snowcones in the living room since Sam was already asleep... but they were AWESOME! I haven't had one of those in years!

And you know what it reminded me of just perfectly???

SUN RIVER.

Come on... I know some of you reading know JUST what I mean. That little stand that was by the candy store? Yep. Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm.

Razzle Dazzle Blue Raspberry perfection.