Help me decide...

So I need a new picture of Maddie on the wall and what better picture than one of the ones I took on Sunday before the party so here lets vote. I'll let everyone know which picture was picked. Unfortunately that's all I got time for today. I'm not in a really chatty mood today. I'm having some personal issues that I need to deal with right now. So until tomorrow lets vote.

More birthday pictures (image heavy)

So I started out the day with a little photo shoot. I'm trying to get the hang of the new lens and get my lighting in my house figured out. So what better model than the birthday girl. And I had to have a million pictures of her new dress just for her birthday. I just love this dress. I plan to get more pictures too this week or at least I hope I will.

Of course we have the artistic poses of just her legs or her feet or just the dress. Man have I said that I love this dress yet LOL. Oh wait I think I did already. I took it right off of her after the pictures too I was determined in the few hours before the party she was not gonna mess this dress up. Not that it cost me a ton of money it was just too cute.


She's so not into eye contact right now but when I do get it with her (unfortunately not in any of these) she's got the most amazing eyes I've seen in a long time. I did use some actions on these and did an exposure boost too because a few of them were way off.


She loves to walk now but isn't too up for walking alone yet. So her cousin Becca walked with her everywhere she wanted to go. Which is good for Becca we are tellin her she needs to have a little girl now that she's got two boys. Very good for her.

And of course we have to make a mess of our cake. This cake was made by her grandma. We were gonna buy one but each kid has had a cake made by grandma so we let this one be it. Next year we will have a big fancy cake I'm sure of it.

And of course the bath after she devours her cake and Aunt Mary's ice cream too. She doesn't like to have baths at all. She really hates them I swear hates them completely. Esp the part where you wash her hair and she gets it in her eyes she freaks out seriously freaks out. But we didn't do too bad this time.


And last but not least. After I got her back in her party dress I let her cousin take her outside. Shockingly she likes her too. Maybe she's coming out of this I only want Mommy phase. I hope she really gets out of in by the 16th she's gotta go to a babysitter for the first time. This should be fun.
I'll post more pictures as I get them processed. I hope you like seeing the little princess's party.

Walkin away & Little Chubby Legs

So Maddie's party was a blast. She had so much fun. And she actually let some people pick her up which is like a miracle for her. She is such a Mommy's girl it's not even funny. I only have processed a few of the pictures and out of them these are my favorites. As we all know I have this fascination with feet and Maddie's feet while she was walkin' around outside with her cousin "B" was no exception to my little thing. She loved just walkin around with her help all around the yard. So I abandon the party guests (don't worry DH is entertaining them) and go snap some pictures. I had to put my camera on Jpeg so I can't process these a lot and I had a few blow outs but overall I think they turned out pretty good. So I will leave you with these and be back tomorrow with some more.

Hope everyone has a wonderful night. I'm gonna go crawl up in bed after I feed Lizzy one more time before 2 or 3 am and have a nice long sleep. Ok maybe not that long lol.

Oh yeah I forgot... NDJane's action was a free action and you can find it here. I love this action and plan to use it a lot with some upcoming senior pictures. Oh and it was also used in each of these pictures too.

One more before i leave

So i'm about to head out the door to my daughters first birthday party. YAY maddie and I have this one shot from a little mini shoot today. I just love it. I know you can't see her face or anything but Its just one of them kind of shots for me. I used NDJane's Grunge action on the picture. Hope you all have a fantastic day.

I'm so tired already

and my day hasn't even started really yet. So today's the big day. It's Maddie's first birthday party. This should be fun right... then tell me why am I dreading it. I've got the cake made well my MIL is making the cake actually. I've got the food ordered (chicken from walmart) I've already given her my gift (a stuffed toy from Disney store), and I have 5 kids to bathe dress and feed before the party. I've got me to bathe and get ready before we leave. I still have to figure out what Maddie is gonna wear. She's got like 3 dresses to pick from. Fun huh. Not to meantion about a bizillion clothes to wash too. So we will be ending this post early today as the birthday girl is now awake.

So I leave you with this cute little picture of Elizabeth. Oh and of course Tristan's hand trying to get to her. But at least she's not crying.

Can't think of a title today...

so we have no title. I've been pretty busy getting things ready for the birthday party tomorrow, but I did take time today to take a few pictures of Elizabeth. She's such a sweet baby. Starting to get a little more curious of the world around her but hey that's expected of her. This picture was taken in my girls room. Right now I have one wall that has nothing on it so I took one of my little tables put my white fur on it and placed it by the wall. I've discoverer now with this new lense that there's a lot of light in that room. I think this one might be one of my new favorite pictures of Elizabeth. Of course I'm sure I'll have a new one tomorrow LOL.

Hope you all have a fantastic night tonight. I know I will DH's only day off so I'm gonna spend some much needed hubby bubby time tonight after he gets off work.

Some Fields

Lately I've been a sucker for landscapes. These aren't the best landscapes as I was driving down the street when i took them. But they do look pretty cool. I've always kind of hated living here in Ohio where I live. Its the middle of no where's ville and I grew up on several Navy bases. There were no fields of any kind. And now anytime we go anywhere, even in town sometimes, there is some kind of field. Right now there are a lot of corn fields and soybean fields. We grow a lot of that here. We also have wheat feilds too but they are all harvested already so not too pretty for pictures, and there isn't as many as the other two too.

Sometimes I wonder what the fascination is with the fields. I know its good to grow your own food and stuff like that, and its good for the economy as well and brings in these farmers some extra monies. That is all good.. but why have practically everywhere covered in them. I guess I'm still a city girl at heart and would LOVE to go live in the city. Where you don't have to have a car to get somewhere. You can just walk to whatever you wanna go to. Just the way I grew up. I guess its what I'll always want.

Hope you have a fantastic day today. I'm sure everyone will.