Family Session

While I was in St. George Utah I got to do a family session for someone I know from church.  She is also a photographer and had taken our family pictures the week before.  It was nice to trade services and not pay! WOO HOO  haha  Also I just love taking pictures and haven't had many chances since moving to do so.  We took these at the tabernacle.  The colors in the trees were beautiful.

Best Words Ever

I think one of the best compliments for a photographer is when you hear the words, "Would you mind taking these pictures for me?" This happened to me while on vacation.

My Father in law grew up in a SMALL town in Utah called Alton.  They still have a farm there that his parents left him and his sister Glenna.  They have TONS of land and someday we will own a couple of acres.  We want to build a cabin on ours if we can.  It's beautiful there.  It has harsh winters I am told.  My husband said he remembers seeing a picture or being told that one winter that the snow reach the top of the house.  Needless to say we will probably only stay there in the summer.  The summer weather is so nice.  We have gone there the last 2 July's in a row.  Last year we had a big family reunion.  It was so fun.  This year was a little smaller for us. We missed everyone by a day.  When we first got there I was walking around the house and taking pictures.  Glenna saw me and I told her I was just taking pictures. She seemed a little weirded out by it.  I don't want to make people uncomfortable or anything so I took a little but didn't take as many as I wanted.  They have tons of stuff in the house from their parents.  ANY WAYS.

The next day we were driving to go back up to Alton and I said something to Cody about how I thought Aunt Glenna thought I was kinda crazy walking around the house taking pictures. We laughed about it.  When we got to the house I had to use the restroom so I went inside and as soon as I walked in the door Glenna told me she had found a bunch of treasures of her parents and grand parents and was wondering if I would take pictures for her.  I was THRILLED!  So here are some pictures I got while walking around finding cool things in the house.

Well I am off to bed.  I thought these pictures were all edited all ready so I was just going to add them but they are not. Go figure.  Tomorrow I hope to add the pictures Glenna had me take. There are some cool things she has!

My Kids

My kids are SO hard to get pictures of!  I bet I mommy constantly having a camera in her hand and trying to get them to smile and cooperate is probably a HUGE part of it.  But whatever....

So when I had my back drops up at my mom's house and was already doing pictures it was MUCH easier to get them to cooperate.  IN fact Tyler wanted me to take a MILLION pictures of him except he wanted to pose himself in all of these ridiculous stances.  Some, were hilarious!  Check this little poser out

I posed this one

And HE posed this one!  ( which I LOVE! HAHA )

He did this one of course ( love his eyes )

This one is straight out of Zoo Lander

Then I tried to get some of the two of them and this was the BEST one I got!

All of the other ones she either looked really cute and he didn't or it was the opposite.  It also looks like Tyler is choking her in all of them.

Then I tried to get some of Kayla

I hope to try this again and get some new ones.  LOVE having my own new colorful backdrops!

Family Time

My sister and her husband and baby are moving to Mexico.  It's bittersweet for everyone.  It's only 2 years and it is so her husband can get his degree done.  They are excited so we are excited for them.  But we are sad we will not be seeing them for a while.  That's always sad.  While we were in Utah this last week my sister asked me to bring my new backdrops and take pictures for them.   I am SO glad she did.  Look at how cute her little family is!

Jacob was EXHAUSTED!  So he was either laughing or crying.  We got a couple of crying pictures during the sad times.  haha

More crying!

Overall I think they turned out cute and I for sure learned a few things for the next time.  :)

Emotions

I love when you catch a pout or a strong emotion on camera. Those are the best! I read the theme for Trendy Treehouse this week and saw that it was emotions and had a couple of pictures in mind. I finally decided ( with the help of my friend ) which one was the funniest. Here is my adorable niece Bradlie. She hurt herself on a trampoline while we were out on it having a fun time. She had HUGE crocodile tears.

What I love most about this picture is the cute little piggy tails AND that her mom is laughing hysterically at her. We ALL were. It was pretty funny and the best part was that about 2 minutes later she was laughing and jumping on the trampoline again! Heehee

Go check out the rest of the emotions over at Trendy Treehouse and vote for your favorite.