Archive for May, 2009
I just finished Amanda’s amazing senior coffee table book and wanted to share. This is just one example of the designs that are available to showcase your senior portraits.
There is nothing like new life and the anticipation of it’s arrival!
My day…..
I’m sitting here getting ready to wrap up another birthday. How about having your birthday on Memorial Day? Cool, huh? This was my exciting, extraordinary, ordinary birthday day:
- Waking up at 6:30….(why I can’t sleep in eludes me).
- A nice quiet time with some creamy, dreamy coffee and Rick Renner’s Sparkling Gems, an awesome daily bible study.
- Fiber One, because fiber is your friend!
- A little sweet, hot pink polish on my short little fingernails. Maybe next year I’ll get a mani/pedi!
- Watching Full House with Leah…the episode where Uncle Jesse takes the kids to the museum and they knock over a dinosaur and Danny proves that being the “fun” dad can go terribly wrong.
- A great trip to Borders with Bryan to get a photography book and a gift card for a friend.
- Oh yeah, baby…. old school LAND OF THE LOST on the Sci-Fi channel! I never missed that show on Saturday mornings as a kid. I was soooo scared of the Sleestacks! I am sure I will see the Land of the Lost remake with Will Ferrell because I love Will Ferrell.
- The entire Abbott family surrendered their phones for some FAMILY TIME! Believe it or not, everyone lived!!
- A fun time bowling together complete with sister fights, attitudes, tons of gutter balls, but totally worth it all. We figure it may be our last family bowling time.
- A fattening dinner at Red Robin to be followed up shortly with my favorite dessert….BROWNIE SUNDAES!
It was a relaxing day and I am very thankful today for the blessings in my life; every one of them! This past year was filled with ups and downs and many, many changes. God is so faithful. God is so good. My family is a gift from Him and spending the day with them was a gift itself. Thank you to everyone who sent me birthday wishes today. I am so grateful for you!
When babies are four months old, I wonder if they get frustrated? Frustrated that they are sooo close to sitting up, rolling over and getting around to all the things surrounding them. I mean, I think that if Mr. Preston could do it, he would be movin’ and grovin’ all over the place. When he was on his back, his legs just never stopped moving. He actually pushes off with them and “scoots”. When we put him on his tummy, he kept banging the floor with this hands. I said I thought he could be a drummer some day. But, without a doubt, he is a gorgeous little boy and extremely, extremely, extremely loved! We just plumb tuckered him out with all the picture taking, but I got some cute pictures of this little man.
O, what a tremendous, tremendous thrill it was to do an urban maternity session yesterday with the adorable couple, Kristi and Colin! What a joy it is to be expecting your first child. 20 years ago, I was exactly as pregnant as Kristi (although undoubtedly much larger!). Their son is due on July 17th and 20 years ago, my son was born on July 15th. 20 years goes by too fast! I am beyond excited over the shots I took. Colin is on the worship team at Evangel Temple and naturally, we had to work his guitar into the shoot. I was giddy over the clothesline pictures….taken in the middle of the city with about a million dogs and owners in the park behind us.
Kristi and Colin, thank you! Thank you for being so adorable, so in love, so excited and sooo photogenic. I am so glad that Amanda blessed you with the gift of custom photography to document this very special moment in your lives. I am praying God’s greatest blessings over this baby and your family.
Nick and Jen have been together for 7 years and married for 3, but have never had portraits taken together! I personally think they still seem like newlyweds and it was fun hanging out with them to capture some special shots. Jen is an actress and involved in local theater and Nick is also involved in film and some community theater. It seemed appropriate to get some shots outside the old theater in downtown OP and we couldn’t have asked for a more picture perfect day.
