September Photo Challenge: Pets

This weeks challenge at Rock the Shot is Pets and I love animals!! Check out their site www.rocktheshotforum.com to see more adorable animals!! :)

I would everyone to meet Dewey, for those of you who don't know him! He is my 5 year old mini Dachshund and is spoiled rotten! But I love him! As you can see he is very photogenic as long as there are treats involved! :) 

Rock the Shot August Photography Challenge - Macro Photography

I've participated in a few online photography challenges but not for some time now.  :)  I saw some macro photography posted on facebook and thought I would check it out! And I found this site  www.rocktheshotforum.com . They are having a macro photography challenge! I love macro photography!! So I was looking back on my photos and remember taking this photo! It is my all time favorite macro photo I have ever taken! Enjoy!

I Heart Faces: Anything But A Face challenge

Ok..so it has been way too long that I have actually posted something on my blog..but we have been so busy. :) My sister had her sweet little girl! Which I had the privilege of taking her pictures. Love her! So I have tried to visit her a lot! :) I have started taking photography classes at our college here! It is so much fun and I'm learning so much.

Anyways this post is mainly for this weeks challenge at I heart faces. It is "Anything But A Face". And I have decided to use a picture of my son Tristan. He absolutely loves water! Well other than his cars. :)

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Love That Shot!

Ok..so this is my first time entering on Love that shot. This weeks judges are Angie and Amy from i heart faces (another site I absolutely love). I love entering photography contests! I love to look at everyone's work! It really gets me inspired to try new things! So my photo entry is of my niece. She is such a sweetie pie! And I fell in love with this photo as soon as I took it! I just love the vintage look to it! This photo took lots of fruit snacks..haha..but it was well worth it. When I am taking portraits..I try to have lots of fun with the kids! Take a couple pictures and then let them play for a while. Then take a few more..It has seemed to work very well for me. :)

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I Heart Faces: Photojournalism

This weeks theme at i heart faces is Photojournalism! You can either submit one photo telling a story or you can submit a collage of 5 photos telling a story! I have chosen to do a collage because they are so much fun to put together! And I always like looking at more photos! :) So here is my entry! This summer all our son loved to do was play in the water! He would play all day in the water if I would let him. I mean what kid wouldn't?!

Head on over to www.iheartfaces.com and check out more photojournalism entries! Everyone have a fun and safe Labor Day weekend!!!

Beach Fun!!

Well I haven't participated in an I Heart Faces challenge in a long time..Been so busy lately! So this weeks challenge is Beach fun! Oh how I love the beach! I love searching for shells and anything else I can find. Last time we were at the beach we found lots of jellyfish washed ashore and also a sea horse. It was pretty cool! Wish I could go there again soon. :)

My entry is of my son while we were in Sarasota, Florida. My parents have a condo on Siesta Beach..we were down there February of this year and it wasn't very warm..So if you can't tell by the picture, Tristan is a little cold..Seriously after we were done playing in the sand he was shivering b/c it was so cold..felt so bad for him. We were maybe on the beach for only 10 minutes. Couldn't believe how cold it was. The rest of the days that we were on the beach, we were dressed in pants and sweatshirts. Brrr....!

Head on over to (http://www.iheartfaces.com/) and see everyone's fun at the beach photos!

I Heart Faces: All about babies!

The theme for I heart faces is "all about babies". Now it doesn't just have to be any baby..but it can also be baby animals! :) I love baby animals! So much fun to capture them when they are young! So I am going to introduce the newest member of our family. Well we have had him for about 1 month and a half now, but I just have to share him with everyone b/c he is so darn cute! Everyone- Meet Gus! He's a long haired dapple dachshund! As of now he is about 3 months old!





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I Heart Faces: Play!

Haven't posted on I heart faces for a while now..been so busy this summer! Anyways...this weeks theme is Play! Of course I have a ton of those pictures! :) There isn't a minute I don't have my camera out when my son is playing! This past weekend we had my son's 2nd birthday party! He had a blast as you can see by the picture! This was pry one of his favorite parts of the day, running through water with his 2 aunts! Enjoy! Head on over to I heart faces(www.iheartfaces.com) and check out everyone's entry!

Just an idea...

I know I haven't posted in a while..I didn't even post any pictures of when we moved into our new house! Ok..I'll share some photos with you. But I this wasn't the idea of my post today. :)

We had this truck plus my dad's trailor, and the rest of our cars filled with boxes. It was nuts!

Our house!

Some of our help! :)

Tristan and Addison played really good together!

Me and Tristan hanging out in our new backyard! He loves hearing and watching the birds!

My little sweety pie!

I also realized that I have tea growing in my backyard! Yay! I love garden tea!

Ok..so maybe I'll show you our entire house tomorrow! How does that sound?! :)

Have a great week everyone!!!

I Heart Desserts!

This week's challenge at I Heart Faces is "Desserts"! And I absolutely LOVE desserts! I don't eat them too often b/c my husbands never lets me order them, but I still love them! Here is my entry- This, I believe, is a chocolate mousse cake. While my mom and me were vacationing in Florida, we went to this French cafe. They had so many desserts that looked good but this is what I picked out. And let me tell you, it was delicious! Not too rich but just right! :)
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Have a great week!!

My Story in Photos: Dessert Recipe

This weeks challenge for I Heart Faces is "My Story in Photos: Dessert Recipe". We are to pick our favorite dessert and tell a story on how it is made! :) I love desserts..I have a very BIG sweet tooth! For Easter this year..I searched the Pillsbury website for a yummy recipe and found this: Easter Nest Cookies! I thought it would be a cute idea and also a yummy cookie recipe to try! So first..

Ingredients:
1 pkg. (16oz) Pillsbury Ready to bake sugar cookies
1 container (12oz) Fluffy white frosting
1 cup flaked coconut
food coloring
jelly beans (I used speckled M&Ms)

Directions:

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Bake cookies as directed on pkg. Cool completely.

2. Frost cookies. Add coconut to a resealable plastic baggie. Add 2 to 3 drops of your favorite food color, shake bag to blend color. Sprinkle about 1 tsp. coconut on each cookie.

3. Top with speckled candy (in my case M&Ms)

I used neon food coloring to get spring colors for the coconut

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Have a great week everyone!!

Another beautiful day outside!

Today has been another beautiful day to play outside with Tristan..I tried to do bubbles with him but it was just a little windy for that, so instead he ran around our yard chasing after our dog, Dewey. He had so much fun! Here are a few pictures from today!

He was picking all the loose pieces of our table off..

Then he would organize them on our chair..

Then pick some more off..

Cheesy face..

Giving Dewey a hug..

Love this picture!

And on a side note: I entered a contest a couple weeks ago to win a newborn sling for newborn photography from Keri Meyers!! And I won!!!! Yay!! I'm so excited!!!! I've always wanted to get one, but they were just a little too expensive for me to get.

Visit her website to see what I won! :) I picked out the dark chocolate sling!

http://newbornslingsbykerimeyersphotography.bigcartel.com/

Have a good rest of the week everyone!!

Dramatic B&W Photo Challenge: {I Heart Faces}

This weeks challenge at I Heart Faces is "Dramatic black and white photo"! I love black and white photos. I'm a real sucker for them. :) As soon as I saw this challenge I knew what photo I wanted to use, though my entry is several years old, I still wanted to enter it! My entry is at my brother's wedding. My brother and his wife are cutting their cake in this photo! :) I just love their expression! He is being so careful when cutting the cake and she just looks like she's ready to dig in! Ha! Enjoy!

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Have a great week everyone!!

I heart faces: Focusing on Angles!

I love taking pictures with angles! I try to do it as much as I can. That is the challenge this week at I heart faces, Angles! I took this photo the other day when we had beautiful weather outside. We took Tristan to the park b/c we figured he would want to play on the playground. But instead of playing we enjoyed watching all the other kids play. So that is why he's not really paying attention to me in the photo. He was watching the kids! Would've been a better picture if he was actually looking at me, but I still love this photo!

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Enjoy your week everyone!!

Update on our lives!

Happy St. Patricks Day!!!! Hope everyone wore green today!

Haven't really posted much about our lives lately. So here goes...

1. We sold our house!!!!!!!!!! Yay! only bad thing is our closing date is April 16. great..we did go look at about 9 different houses last weekend. And now we have a top 3!

2. Yesterday was a B-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l day!! We took Tristan to the park..he loved it!! He really didn't want to do anything but watch all the kids..he did however walk around the whole park. And that's a long way for him. :) good exercise though! Here are a few pictures from yesterday.

3. Still working at JCPenney photography studio. I love it..but don't work as much as I want to.

4. The other day Tristan wasn't watching where he was going and ran right into a door..Stupid door didn't move. So that left a big bump on his forehead..now it's just bruised..but it looked awful. Can you see his nice bump?

5. And we are just enjoying life! Here are a few pictures I have taken recently. Enjoy and have a good rest of the week!