I LOVE IT!

I LOVE photography. It's a dream of mine to have a side business taking portraits. I don't know if it'll ever happen, but I'd love it. Right now I'm just trying to practice and build the confidence that I am good enough to do it. (I get discouraged when I look at other photography blogs and they are awesome. Maybe I'm not good enough to do it as a business, I don't know.) I apologize if you're sick of the pictures. Maybe someday I'll have another blog just for my photography. Anyways, a few families have asked me to take their family pictures this fall so Ryan and I went up Sinks Canyon to scoop out some spots I could take pictures at and see if the leaves are turning colors yet for fall pictures. Of course, I couldn't leave the camera in the car the whole time! These are a few (or a lot) of pictures I took of Celeste. I love them! What do you think? (They are in no particular order)

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You can click on the picture to view it larger. Which is your favorite?

(I guess it's a good day when you get 15 good pictures of a busy 17 month old!! Thanks for looking!)

Family Pictures

It isn't an easy task to get this cute, sweet, innocent little girl to sit still long enough to get a good picture of her. However, we did manage to get a few decent pictures of our family.
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I would like your opinions. Which is your favorite?

Elsie - 6 Months

I got to take Elsie's (my niece) 6 month portraits last night. She's a lot of fun to photograph! Thanks for letting me take her pictures, Kara!

Warning: There are a lot of pictures posted!

She was quite serious last night.

Sometimes she just looks at me like, "oh dear, the crazy camera lady is back."

I saved my favorite for last. :)

Thanks for letting me share!

My New Look

I don't like posting pictures of myself, but thought I'd show you my new look. I chopped my hair off on Thursday. Don't tell me if you don't like it because there's nothing I can do about it now!

(These pictures are really for my cousin, Jennifer, who wanted to see!)

Random Pictures

Here are some random pictures I took today. Enjoy!

There's nothing better than corn on the cob in the summer! Yummy!

(notice in this one below she's not holding on with her hands!)

She's so beautiful!

Her new thing is to smell all the flowers. It's so cute!

Yummy!

Celeste REALLY likes to eat. And sometimes it gets a little messy.

Chocolate

These pictures were taken on two different days.

Peanut Butter

I know, it's totally all my fault she gets this messy. Bad mom. But isn't she so sweet?!

Big Fish

Ryan came home from fishing yesterday SO excited that he caught a HUGE fish! He was so proud he came to me and said, "will you post a blog of these pictures of me and my fish?" So here is Ryan and his BIG fish he caught yesterday.

Another cute story: He went to the store for me last night to buy me "traveling treats" because I had to drive to Casper today. He brought me home a "surprise that will remind me of him." He wouldn't tell me what it was and left it in the car for me to find when I left this morning. (I was already in bed last night) When I got to my car this morning, there I found Sweedish Fish! I love Ryan!