Evelyn was so excited when she saw her easter basket this morning. She kept running around the house flapping her arms like wings saying "I'm so happy, I'm so happy" and this was before candy! She was so excited about her "gardening tools" that her and Andy went out back to play in my dad's garden.

Kylee retake

So I decided that I hated the pictures I took of the babies last week. I called the moms and told them I wanted to redo the pictures. The weather has been horrible so yesterday was the first day I could take any with natural light. Khloe and her mom couldn't make it so we will redo hers next week, but here are a few of the ones of Kylee and her mom, Kendra. There is more to come, but I think these more up to my normal standard and I am really happy with them.

Flowers and a bow holder

The other day it was stormy and ugly outside so I went to the craft store for entertainment. I came home with a bouquet of silk daisies that I disassembled and rearranged into hair clips. I love how they turned out, but I had way more than Evelyn needed so I gave some away. I realized that Evelyn now had so many hair bows and flowers that I should have something to organize them better so I made another trip to the craft store and this is what I now have hanging on Evelyn's wall. I love it!

I had some old silk flowers at home, and since the creative juices were flowing so freely I decided to make as many barrettes as I had clips for. The arrows indicate the ones I made.

I added a page to my blog where I will be putting archived photos. I will add more as I get them edited, and many new ones that I take will also end up there, so take a look and tell me what you think. Most of my pics are obviously of Evelyn since she is the main reason I wanted to get better at photography.

evelyn easter pictures

I took some pictures of evelyn in her easter dress yesterday and I love them. She wasn't in the mood for pictures so I only took a couple. My outside pics turn out alot better than my inside pics (the babies were inside) so I should work on that. Tell me what you think.

Pictures

I have always loved taking pictures, even when I was little and couldn't take a decent picture to save my life. Well, over the years I have gotten much better. I have taken classes, read books, articles, and mostly practice, practice, practice. I'll take any chance to improve my skills.  I decided recently to take my photography to a new level, and have spent a lot of time practicing with my camera and playing around on Photoshop. On Monday I took some newborn pictures of some darling little cousins, Kylee and Khloe. Shooting two babies at once is great because when one was grumpy the other one was happy and vice versa, so the waiting time was greatly reduced.

I love this shot of Khloe. She was being kind of grumpy so unfortunately we could not get the Binky out of her mouth but it turned out really cute anyway.

I had so much fun taking pictures of these little girls. I will be taking pictures of their other little cousin soon so I will post those pictures then.

This picture of Audrey I took last year but i recently went through my old pictures and played with them in Photoshop and I really love how this turned out. 

pumping?

    This morning when I went in to Evelyn's room to wake her( I know, how awesome that I have to wake my two year old instead of the other way around?) and to my surprise she was already awake with her jammies unzipped down to her knees. Evelyn has recently discovered the joy of undressing herself so I didn't find this surprising. I laughed though when she offered up the reason why she was partly undressed- To feed stacey, her doll, of course. She then proceeded to nurse her stuffed mickey mouse, and then put her dolls play sippy cup up to her chest and then gave the doll the sippy cup of milk. Do you think maybe she was pumping? I do.  It's amazing how she will hear or see something just once and mimic it months later.
   She also surprises me with how she puts together a sentence, sometimes she sounds more like 22 than 2. Tonight while I was making dinner she noticed that the bag of suckers was almost empty and says to me word-for-word "I believe it's time to get more suckers mom" What kind of 2 year old says that honestly? I don't where she gets this stuff.