365 Project Week 3

15/365: Collecting



16/365: Tunnel
 


17/365: Window
 


18/365: Smile
 


19/365: Dinosaurs
 

20/365: Book

 

 21/365: Jump!

 

Family Beach Photos

I'm super late posting these but wanted to get them up anyway. A few weeks before we went to Hawaii, I made a post on Clickin Moms, a photography forum I am on looking for someone to take some family photos of us on our trip.  I knew it was a long shot so was shocked that I actually got a response from someone who lived there and was looking for people to take photos of for FREE to build her portfolio!  I couldn't believe our luck on that one!

When I scheduled the photos, one thing I did not know is how frequently it rains on the north shore of Kauai. (where we were staying) It is never a constant rain, just quick little showers during the day that literally come out of no where. So the day of our photos I was happy to see blue skies! We get ready, I actually do my hair for the first time on the trip and we go to meet the photographer. We go out on this pier and then it happens. Literally the second we get to the spot and too far from our car to go back it starts POURING out of nowhere. The kids are freaking out, we are trying to keep smiling for the camera, I'm trying to keep my hair from becoming a frizzy mess.  What a disaster! Needless to say, we did the best we could which wasn't so great. We did end up with some usable shots and I am so grateful to our sweet photographer for driving to meet us! She did amazing despite having to deal with rain and uncooperative children. Here are the shots we got...I had to include some that we took in the rain just to prove how bad it was! LOL This is just another reason we will have to go back to Kauai...to get more family photos!








 And now some of the usable ones!

365 Project ~ Week 2

I made it another week of my photo a day project! Here's what we were up to this week!


 8/365 After school treat (sorry for the quality this was with my phone!)


9/365 ARGGH!
 


10/365 Sunshine!

11/365 Waiting for Daddy

 


 12/365 Little Superheroes
 

13/365 Cars
 

14/365 PEEK A BOO!
 

365 Project ~ Week 1

One thing I realized when I started a photography business was that I was so busy taking photos of other people's kids, I didn't take as many of my own kids. Yes I would take them for little photo shoots here and there, but I stopped bringing my camera with me places and capturing candid moments with them. I had heard of the 365 project last year and never got around to starting it so I made a goal to start it on January 1st this year! Basically, you take a picture every day for a year and post them all to a blog. I'm planning to turn them into a book at the end of the year to have a fun record of our day to day activities for an entire year! I have one week down now and I am hoping to keep it up as we go through the year. Here is week one!

1/365: Bedhead




2/365: Morning Cartoons




3/365: Reading
 


4/365: Indoors
 

5/365: Dinner Date
 

6/365: Daddy time

   

 7/365: Bike trailer
 

Christmas 2012!

We had a great Christmas and loved having a white one for 2nd time in three years!

We spent Christmas Eve with my parents, then hosted Christmas with Jared's family at our house the next day! On the day after Christmas we spent the morning enjoying the snow and Mason got to go sledding for the first time!


Connor trying out his Christmas pj's




Opening presents at Mimi and Papaws!
 


Connor got a rocking horse from my parents and you can tell by this picture how he felt about it!

 

Mason in his personalized Pirate gear to match his pirate book!

 

On Christmas morning the boys couldn't wait to see what Santa had brought them!

 



Jared with his brothers
 


The Sister in laws!
 

Just as we set down to eat, the snow started falling! SO fun!
 

 Day after Christmas fun!
 

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!!