Springfield Photographer's Play Date 2010

Meet Blake and Ashley :) So cute! Just one of our awesome couples that modeled for us Saturday at our awesome group shoot. 5 photographers, 1 videographer, 8 models and rockin' downtown Springfield. Some of the coolest locations I've gotten to shoot in yet! You can walk from block to block and everything changes. What a great experience :) See what you think!!

Finally!

I know, I know.. it's been FOREVER since I blogged last.. But I do have (somewhat) a good excuse. My family has always always lived in Arizona, and then in August of '09
we moved to Springfield, Missouri.. and lucky for us, this winter has been the coldest winter they've had in 12 years! More snow, more FREEZING days, more rain... MORE AWFULNESS! So the point of all this is, in November I came down with a horrible cold. .. seriously horrible. I was in bed for almost 2 solid weeks before I ever went to the E.R., then one particular bad night I decided I couldn't take it anymore.. and we went. Only to be admitted and kept in the hospital for 3 days and treated for pnemonia. After I came home, I spent another 2 weeks in bed, thank goodness my wonderful mother was able to fly out and save the day.. but after all that.. it's taken me months to get into the swing of things. This weekend, I was lucky enough to be invited by the coolest Jared Hoffpauir of J. Design Studios to join a "group shoot"! It was so great to get out again, shoot again, and have new friends again! :) All the models were incredibly gorgeous and all of the photogs were tons of fun to hang out with. I can't wait to do it again! Here's a sneak peak of one moment I caught of our fun-filled afternoon!

cookies. smiles. <3

April and her cookies, it just doesn't get any cuter than this. I had to capture the moment and share with everyone else just how adorable my baby girl really is ;)

a couple more <3

I've had so much fun editing these pictures, it's the first session with April that I was really really happy about! Just thought I'd share a couple more :)

Soccer days have started!!!

So we finally get to watch BOTH our awesome little athletes play soccer this season. James is on the pre-K team and Calli is playing on the 2-3rd grade team. Here is just an intro into our Saturday mornings, I'll have to get some pictures Calli up this next week.. I didn't take as many this weekend, when we got to the field it was 32 degrees outside and there was ice on the grass!! I spent most of the morning bundled up instead of clicking away like usual :)

April <3 Mary Pig

I finally convinced April to go with me to take some pictures today, I was so excited :) We got her out some cute clothes, a super cute hat, the famous chair she's been waiting to use.. and as we headed out the door she ran back for MARY PIG!! This is the new favorite toy of the month, that goes every where she goes. It turned out to be lots of fun and April was totally into it today! Smiling, posing and doing all the goofy things I asked her to.. :)and ofcourse, threw in her own sillyness!

yogurt!

... for breakfast... two cuties just for fun!!

BFF's

I wanted to take Calli out last Friday and take some new pictures of her and try some new spots. I haven't had the opportunity to take very many lately (like I do of James and April) because she spends a lot of her day at school and then doing homework and soccer! Well, when I mentioned this to Calli she got so excited because her and her friends had already talked about doing a "modeling" session together! I couldn't resist, she seemed so excited, so we picked up the girls and headed out for some new locations!! This is what we came up with, and I've very happy with the results :) Thanks girls for coming along and being my beautiful models !!

~~sneak peak~~

Surprisingly enough April let me put a new dress on her and curl her hair and take a couple pictures of her today.. it didn't last long and it was honestly not the most fun pictures I've taken, but she is just so dang cute I just keep trying!! We went "vintage store" shopping the other day and came home with this adorable little dress, I have big plans for it, today was just practice!! Real "vintage" shoot to come soon! Can't wait <3<3 !!

two tigers...

Here's my two little ones being tigers in our jungle in the backyard! Yes we've been here over a month and this side of our 2 1/2 acres hasn't been mowed yet.. (not our fault!) So in the mean time, James and April think it is the best place in the whole city to play :)