Yearly Archives: 2007

Nov 26 2007

Thanksgiving

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I have lots to be thankful for this year. I think I am like most parents: when my children are happy, I am happy. I feel so fortunate to live with these really interesting kids who are kooky, silly, and just a blast to be with. It does not matter what my house looks like, how much my bathroom does or does not smell like pee, how well or not our businesses are doing…when the kids are OK, life is beautiful.

We had a great weekend at home seeing family, spending time with friends, and just being together. Hope all of you (my faithful few readers) had a great Holiday.


I love these turkey hand prints. A childhood rite of passage. Eli did his the old fashioned way and Cal did his on the computer. I love how Cal’s school teaches writing…they let the kids sound it out so we see some cool creative spelling.


Thanks Uncle Ed for spending Thanksgiving with us, playing football, and for your incredible pumpkin pie…we cant stop talking about it!

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Nov 09 2007

Haircut

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My first rule in parenting is that if you are about to throw your head against a brick wall…something has to change. I used to cut my kids hair. I had this romantic notion of repeating this memory from my own childhood of sitting on the front steps, getting my hair cut and then getting a lollipop. I tried to repeat this little fantasy of mine. I failed miserably. Instead creating this sweet memory for my kids I manged to turn a haircut into this high anxiety induced affair complete with yelling, screaming, massive amounts of whining, and making myself and my children miserable. They would classify a haircut from mom as cruel and unusual punishment.

So I gave up the ghost. Now we make an afternoon of going to this sweet little barbershop where the men are older enough to be my grandfather and and stop at McDonald’s on the way home. Sounds pretty sweet to me.

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Nov 01 2007

Halloween

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I am slacker mom and proud of it. I know there are moms out there that feel the need to release their inner Martha Stewart and make an elaborate costume for their kids. Not me. I am happy to skip off to Target and find the cheapest costume I can corral my kids in to wearing. I have found other ways in which to release my Martha Stewart…you should have seen the alligator birthday cake I made for Cal one year. So here they are in their glorious store bought costumes.

Eli in his “recycled” Power Ranger costume…probably should have spot cleaned this before we set out

Cal in his ninja costume…cost me less than $1o

Cal without the hood, cant miss an opportunity to capture his amazing steel blue eyes

And the vanity “W” pumpkin to match the vanity “W” we have on the sports court in the back yard

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Oct 24 2007

The “D” Brothers

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Hold onto your girls and watch out for the “D” brothers because they are some kind of wonderful!

I had the pleasure of spending a Sunday afternoon with these three extremely handsome young men and I wanted to pack them up and take them all home with me. They were awesome. Such great kids. All three so different, but so unique and interesting.

I should not even be looking at this session but I could not help myself!


Oct 22 2007

Miss “C”

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Miss “C” and I and met on the one day this past month that it actually rained! So our session was cut a bit short but I still manged to get some great images of her before the much needed rain. She was a bit shy and slow to warm up at first…but after awhile she was having fun. Mom said she is more of a tomboy so they borrowed a few dresses for our session. You would have never guessed that she not a regular dress wearer…she was so gorgeous in all her borrowed dresses.

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Oct 21 2007

Holiday Cards

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This year I will be offering clients Holiday Cards. All cards are 5×7 flat cards. They come in a boxed set of 25 cards with envelopes. Clients should book their session before November 15th in order to get Cards printed before the Holiday Season.

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Oct 12 2007

Papaya

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Today I met little miss “Papaya”…gotta love a redhead. Her folks told me she is know as Pebbles around the neighborhood. When they put her hair into a pony tail I instantly knew why. They were an awesome family to work with and we had a blast hanging out in one of DC’s beautiful urban parks. Here is your sneak peek Papaya…I mean Pebbles!

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Oct 10 2007

Workshop

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This past weekend I had the honor of hostessing a photography workshop led by Skye Hardwick and hanging out with 25 other talented photographers who are just as passionate and excited about photography as I am. How fun is it when you find 25 other people who want to talk shop and never get that glazed look in their eyes?

I learned a lot about finding my style, and got some good tips on how to mange and run my business. I asked some friends to lend their kids out as models for all of us photograph. They all were the perfect models…cooperative, easy going, and up for anything. Even Cal and Eli got into it.

I did not get as much shooting time since I was trying to manage the paparazzi but I did mange to get off a few images.

Skye with Cal and Eli…I am so excited to have images of them, since they NEVER pose for me anymore
And “miss happy”. Never saw a child so happy to be photographed…I know it freaked her mom out quite a bit.


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