M.I.A.

I'm lazy, OK??? That's my excuse! I know it's not a good one, but it's the only one I have. I've been missing in action from here because I haven't been shooting anything lately (it's the after-Christmas lull), and even though I've got some blog posts rolling around in my head, it's just been easier to lay on the sofa, watching Family Guy or How I Met Your Mother instead of organizing my thoughts and writing them up. I'm looking forward to the weekend, I'll be shooting an engagement party, AND I'll be going to the annual Pancake Breakfast. Hopefully, that will jump start me a little and I'll get my creative juices flowing and be ready to shoot some (I've got a brand new macro lens that I've NEVER used)! And as hynotizing as Netflix is, I'm just going to have to get off this sofa...

In the meantime, no post is complete without photos, so here's some shots I took last fall. I've always loved the look of deserted carnival shots, they just seem so desolate and mysterious. Catch up with you soon!

Thad

Thad was my final shoot of last year, we squeezed him in right under the yearbook deadline! Enjoy the rest of your Senior year, Thad... and then it's on to Lubbock! Wreck 'Em Tech! :)

Christmas Goodies

This time of year I am transformed into something that I'm normally not, sort of a combination of Betty Crocker and Martha Stewart. I spend hours looking at holiday magazines, reading recipes and cruising the internet and Pinterest for food ideas and crafts to make and mix up for Christmas. These are just a few of the goodies I made this year (with Becca's assistance) - sugar cookies, Hug and pretzel snacks, dipped peppermint oreos, and my grandma's Martha Washington candy. Of course I didn't get to everything I wanted to make, but at some point you just gotta say "ENOUGH!" Happy Holidays!


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Powell Kiddos

These two cuties are waaaayyy different when it comes to photos. HE wants nothing to do with it, and SHE loves the camera!!!! :) Maybe he'll come around one day!

It's Kind of Their Thing...

These girls LOVE the jumping pic!

Diaz Family

These were the HAPPIEST kids! So much fun to shoot!

Where is He Now?

I know what you're thinking... Ryan's birthday was yesterday, sooooo Lori's being sentimental and posting his first baby picture. Wrong. I have absolutely no idea who this baby is. But I often wonder about him.... 20 years ago, I did give birth to a beautiful baby boy. And like most of the parents, we bought a photo package taken in the nursery of the hospital of "his 1st photos." A week or so after we got home from the hospital, we received our packet. I was so excited that we got it in time for Christmas, and I went out and bought a bunch of photo frames, and gave all of them out for Christmas gifts! Never once did it even occur to me that.... this didn't look like Ryan at all, but instead I thought "oh my goodness, they just change so quickly." And I had been drugged up pretty good, so what did I know? And it also never occurred to me that I had never seen the sleeper he was dressed in, but I just assumed that was something the nursery had put on him for the photo. And I didn't think it was odd at all that the baby in the photo had a REALLY red rash on his face that I had never noticed on Ryan. I was a first time mom, it didn't seem unrealistic that his skin might be broken out one minute, and completely cleared up the next. So, Christmas presents were given and everyone ooohed and aaahed appropriately.

Fast forward to the week after Christmas. I received ANOTHER photo packet in the mail. With these photos. That were CLEARLY my sweet baby boy. He looked just like his daddy's baby picture, and he was wearing the same clothes he was wearing when they brought him out of the nursery to me. Yes, I am Super Mom and couldn't pick my baby out of a lineup. BUT IN MY DEFENSE neither could anyone else!


So I do often wonder about Baby Number 1, and what he's doing today and what kind of young man he's grown into, or if he's EVEN A BOY... And I hope that he brought as much happiness to his mom as Baby Number 2 did to me!


Speaking of Baby Number 2, here's the Birthday Boy! I hope that your 20th Birthday was the best ever, and now the Countdown to Vegas begins!!!! Have a great year!