One day after school last week, we went over to “the Cousin’s house”, as Elias says, for a quick photo session for Valentine cards. Here are a few of my favorites! I have a ton of my own kids to post, hopefully I can get to those later this week:) Happy Valentine’s Day!
Isn’t she just the Cutest! If you follow my blog, I am sure you have seen her before! She belongs to my dear friend and photography buddy Megan. This past weekend, Megan and I got together with our girls and did a little photo session. Here are a few pictures of Rory!
It is really too bad she isn’t cute at all…
It is also too bad she has no personality;)
I bet you are smiling at your screen by now! She has the biggest, best, most contagious smile (and laugh). She looks a lot like her momma!
Thanks for the fun afternoon girls! Hope to do it again soon!
First off, let me start by saying….where does the time go! I absolutely LOVE being home with our kids, but the days seem to go even faster then when I worked! We have been in Williston for two months now and are feeling at home here and are settled into our cozy little rental house!
This was taken on Christmas Eve day, right before we headed to church. Who would have thought it would be nice enough to take an outdoor photo on Christmas Eve!
Each year the kids do the Nativity at my in-laws house
Elias loves his baby sister and Julia loves her big brother!
This one just cracked me up!
Toes or toys?
Elias spends lots of time building with Legos!
Who would have thought my mom, Julia, and I would be walking lots in January! Aren’t these two pretty?:)
Buddies:) He is SO good to her!
We love play dates with the cousins!
and lazy days coloring! Elias spends A LOT of time in costume!
Walking and riding scooter in January! I LOVE it!
Julia loves her jumperoo, I should try to post a video….she can really get going!
Although I cannot wait to play girly stuff with Julia, I have to admit, I love playing legos and Star Wars with Elias. He is so fun.
He is now building by himself and is able to follow directions with just a little help. Julia is rolling all through the house, so we have had to move the Legos and all the other small toys up, so when she naps he loves to play on the floor!
He created this by himself and it is always a good idea to have a large sign marking a “Secret Lair”-haha! This Kleenex box has provided days of entertainment:)
Look who turned 6 months last week!
Ok, this is getting long….I am almost done, but really, isn’t she cute! Julia and I are meeting up my my friend Megan this weekend and Megan is going to take some six month pictures. I LOVE seeing my kiddos through Megan’s lens! Cannot wait!
Julia is close to sitting and is just starting solids. Elias has been busy helping me prepare her baby food.
These are just the kind of things I want to remember years from now!
On a business note, I am thinking of offering a workshop geared towards moms (or Dads) who would like to learn to use their cameras better and take better photos of their children. Anyone interested? If you are, leave a comment or send me an email, I would love to hear from you!
I went to high school with these cute kiddo’s mom, so when their grandma contacted me to do a photo shoot, I was so excited. Up until the day of their session, the weather had been nice enough to go outside, but last weekend was too cold, so we stayed in! Joycee was full of spunk and poses for me and Jett was sure a good sport too! Look at these smiles!
My goal has been to get a blog post of our kids up before Christmas:) I am cutting it close, so here it goes. I can hardly believe another month has gone by. My New Years resolution is to blog more snapshots of my kids…I have hundreds just sitting on my computer! Maybe I could do one post a month….
Julia was baptized the weekend after Thanksgiving. We had her baptized at the nursing home my Grandpa is a resident in, it was wonderful and such a blessing he could be there. Her gown was made from my wedding dress and it turned out just beautiful!
Growing up, we always had chocolate advent calendars, but when I saw this one, I couldn’t resist:) As soon as Elias wakes up each morning he brings this into my room and we build the creation for the day.
Love this picture of my babies together and Julia went through a phase a few weeks ago where he tongue was always sticking out, so it is perfect!
Elias is such a happy kid and I LOVE spending my days with him and Julia. We miss him when he is at school, I don’t know what we will do next year when he is gone all day.
She is full of smiles all day long! The way she looks at Elias just melts my heart!
The tooth fairy visited our house a couple weeks ago!
Like I said, she is HAPPY and we are all so in love with her! Oh, and we think she is kinda cute too:)
She loves to sit up and be a part of the action!
She started eating cereal a couple weeks ago and she goes wild when she sees the bowl coming. Elias loves to feed her.
We didn’t bake much this Christmas, because my mom gave us a ton of wonderful goodies, but we did make a few special treats to deliver to Elias’ friends.
I am still getting use to seeing that missing tooth….he is growing up to fast.
We also made gingerbread houses with “the cousins” and it was a blast!
Our family is making the move back to Williston, ND. Alex and I are both from Williston and a great job opportunity came up for Alex, so this Wednesday we will head out to begin our new adventure! We are so excited to raise our kiddos with family. I have such great memories with my Grandparents growing up and am excited for my kids to have those memories too.
Leaving Thief River Falls will be difficult! Alex and I have been here for seven years. We purchased our first home here, brought our babies home here, and have made SO MANY wonderful friendships. Our time here has truly been a blessing and we will always have fond memories of our life here.
Now onto the pictures…..
The last six weeks has been a whirlwind, full of decision making and all of the wonderful events of everyday life! I looked at the date of this photo and it is from October, 4th! I have so many photos, I just picked a few.
Elias absolutely adores Julia and I am sure she feels the same, you should see how she looks at him!
Julia was almost three months in these photos….she will be four months in nine days! I can’t believe it!
Her three month photo: I can just hear her squealing when I look at this. My Aunt Mary made her the quilt, it is so special to have handmade things from family!
We lucked out with a pretty nice day for Trick-or-Treating.
Elias had so much fun going around the neighborhood with the Hughes boys! Of all the things we will miss most about Thief River, this sweet family tops the list! We just love these boys!
Is he not the perfect little Yoda?
Elias turned FIVE on November 3rd! He had a pirate themed party and I had so much fun crafting for it. I also had big plans for photographing all the details, but the party was a busy one!
Like I said, it was a BUSY party! Swords and a pinata….we are lucky no one was hurt!!
Elias hasn’t napped for a long time, but he rests everyday and during this time, he usually fills his bed with books and reads. His new favorite is this Star Wars Character Encyclopedia from his birthday:)
I took pictures of Julia’s nursery a week or so ago, here is one for now….we will see if I get to posting more later:)
Elias also loves LEGOs and has gotten quite good at them.
Do you remember this darling family from last year? Megan is a photographer in the Bismarck area and we have become great friends over the past couple years. We email each other several times a week and I always look forward to hearing from her! This time we met up in Fargo for our session swap and although it was cool and windy, we still managed to get some great shots.
These two kiddos are so adorable and have such fun personalities!
Isn’t this just about the cutest family!
Thanks for the opportunity to photograph your family again this year! I am already looking forward to the next time we get together!
I always love photographing my nieces! While we were visiting a month ago we went out for a quick shoot and got some great shots. Here are a few favorites:)
Aren’t these three girls beautiful! They each have such different personalities and are each wonderful in their own way!
We really did get some great family shots, but I thought we would save them for their Christmas card. I love this!
This adorable family lives right behind us and we have been fortunate to become friends over the years, what a gift! The first set of pictures was take a month ago or so. Kelton’s 2nd birthday is in November, so we decided to do the session while it was warm. He was getting a tooth, so he was pretty serious, but still adorable!
I LOVE Kelton’s face on the picture on the right….that must have been one sour apple:)
These next few pictures were taken on a gorgeous evening a couple weeks ago. Since the fall colors were only around for such a brief time, we were lucky to capture a few fall photos.
This has been such a busy fall. I have been enjoying my days with the kids as well as staying busy with photos! Of course I take a ton of photos of these two, but many of them sit in folders on my computer until they get into their yearly books:) These are a few favorites from a recent evening outside:)
This guy will be 5 in less than a month
and I can’t believe she will be three months on the 21st….time goes too quickly!
