Fun Flower pics

Here are a lot of pictures that I took of Arlie the other night. There were just so many good ones that I wanted to share. Josh and I took the kids on a walk that morning and found a really pretty open grassy area with all these really pretty yellow flowers. I had to go back and get some pics there before the flowers all got mowed away. So here they are.

Testing out my new background

So I got a new background for my studio and I wanted to test it out to see how it was going to look. I know you don't see much of it in these shots but I like how it looks. Very fun.

Pictures of Arlie

So I went to a Sandy Puc's Tots to Teens photography seminar last night and it got me all pumped up and excited to play around in my own studio. So I took some pictures of Arlie and practiced my techniques I learned on her. I think it worked pretty well. It was a lot of fun. Here are a few of my favorites. Also a quick pic of her painting. She loves to paint.




Josh is gone again. He will supposedly be back a day or two before my birthday. We will see. We miss him alot and can't wait till he comes home but it sure has been nice to have Alyssa around to talk to and help out with things. I don't know what I would do without her. Nothing much happening here besides that. We had a great Easter and Arlie enjoyed coloring eggs and going on an Easter Egg Hunt around our house. I will have to download those pics later.

So I decided to make a one year album of Deacon so I have been taking pictures of him every month for his book. Here are some of the images from our shoot today. Deacon is now 5 months old. I can't believe how fast the time has gone by. He now has two teeth and he is the sweetest baby ever. He is so happy and laughs all the time. He is such a joy to have in our family. I am loving him more and more everyday.

Deacon's New Obsession

Family Trip

My mother in law came to visit this past week and so my family went on a trip to upstate New York-Palmyra to see the church history sites, Niagra Falls, and also did some touring around D.C. So here are some fun pictures from our adventure. I also went to a really great photoshop seminar tonight and learned a whole bunch of cool stuff. So it is now 2:00am and I am still up playing around with it all. So here is what I have been up to this past week. Sorry about all of the pictures of me. I haven't been too busy shooting others so I have resorted to shooting my sister in law and myself a lot. There will be more pictures to come. I haven't got around to going through many pictures from our trip to Palmyra. So these are mostly just the pictures that were fun for me to play with my new photoshop techniques. Look who has a tooth!! Can you believe it? He is only four months old. My baby is growing so fast!

This is where the kids spent most of their time. I love my double stroller!
Taking a break after our tour of the capitol building. We were tired and hungry. But it was really neat to see the inside of the building and to hear all of the history. I love my cute boys!!!
I think these pictures of Arlie turned out so cool looking. She is so stinking photogenic.

We had so much fun visiting Niagra Falls. It was absolutely breathtaking!We stopped at the DC Temple on our way home from our DC touring to catch a few pictures. The lighting was perfect. The sun had just gone down and the sky was so blue. I love this picture.

Big Lips- This is for you mom!

So my mom sent us a late valentines package and inside was this sucker for Arlie. She had lots of fun with it. And so did I.

I also got my hair cut today. I like it. I put a lot more layers in it this time. Its a fun change. And a few self portraits. Kinda hard to get back far enough to get my whole face in it.