I've got more than just a sneak peek here and there!! I've got a REAL smattering of photos from our family photo shoot!! I am just completely in love with Stephanie's work. Every year I am blown away with the images she takes. I know I say the same thing every year - we give her nothing to work with. But that is how I really feel!! I feel like I have to walk in and say "Good luck sister, you've got your work cut out for you!" LOL. But, every year, she puts up these proofs and I am just blown away. I see my kids faces and she just captures these moments. The looks on their faces, the joy, the smiles, all of it. LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!
I am very lucky to have such an amazing photographer in my life. I will never regret doing these photos. Some people make fun, they tease - I say have at it. But they will be the ones who regret not having the pictures to look back on. Every year, once a year I get these photos done and I'm so glad we do.
So thank you, once again, Stephanie for giving these amazing pictures of my family. You have absolutely made my heart sing and brought a tear to my eye. I can't wait to see the rest and get my prints made up!!!
For anyone local - please, do yourself a favor, check out Stephanie Christine Photography. Stalk the hell out of this woman! Give her a call - check out her Facebook page or her website. You won't be sorry!!
Proofs:
Clearly not a professional photographer by any stretch of ANY imagination but I did take some photos on Saturday while waiting in between pictures with Steph.
I love love LOVE this picture of my boys. They were having so much fun throwing the leaves up in the air and I caught them just right. Aidan's face in this is one of my favorites in a long time. He's just smiling and SO full of joy. They both had fun playing together in this moment and I love all the colors and their big, bright smiles. I need to frame this one and put it up for sure.
This one almost makes you think he's all sweet and innocent. OR that he's going to take that branch and smack me right in the face with it........right?! Well, he didn't do the latter, I can tell you that much!!! He just wanted to peek through and have me take the picture.
We took this one while Stephanie was doing a little mini shoot with Aidan. I will never get tired of taking our photos in this park! Look at all of the gorgeous colors there are!
She really couldn't be any MORE like me, could she?! Erynn is definitely a little version of her Mommy, that is for sure. I love that she wanted to make sure that she and I matched........right down to our brown boots.
I love this pic of my little family. Sometimes I look at them and think how did I get so lucky??? I don't know what I did but I did something right because I am living a really good life. I'm grateful for all that I've been through because without it I wouldn't be who I am and I wouldn't appreciate what I have. These four are my life, heart and my soul and I wouldn't change a thing.
Steph posted another TEASER to my Facebook page. I came into work today and I had 18 likes. I had no clue what everyone was liking because I had already gone to bed. Cracked me up that everyone got to see before me! LOL. Can't wait for the rest!! Love love love.
That may be a new slacker record!!!
Busy doesn't even begin to describe. I honestly don't even know how two months has gone by. I could list it all out but I'm not going to.
School has started. I now have a third grader, a second grader and a kindergartner Oh my goodness, three kids in full time school!! That means I have Fridays all to myself. What to do, what to do?! Well, the first thing I did was sign up to volunteer at the school. What? That doesn't make sense to you?? LOL. Ryan's teacher, Mrs. Verlicco, emailed me the first week. (Yes, this is the same teacher Aidan had last year - we love her!!) She asked if I would come in EVERY single Friday and photocopy for the classroom. Ummmmm, sure. So, my "day off" consists of getting up at 6:45a, getting myself up and dressed for the day. Get Erynn up at 7a, dressed, hair done. Send her downstairs to get her breakfast. Wake the boys up. Tell them to get dressed and shuffle them downstairs. Make sure everyones backpacks are ready to go for the day, lunches are in them, water bottles, etc. Walk Erynn down to the end of our driveway because that is where her bus stop is. Wait for the bus. Go back to the house and make sure the boys have REALLY eaten breakfast and gotten their teeth brushed. Quiz them on their spelling words for the week because they have their tests on Fridays. Leave the house at 8:20a, go pick up my nephew. Pull into school drop off line. Doors open at 8:40a, get Aidan and Christopher out of the car, pull around to front of school and park. Walk inside with Ryan. Sign sheet, get volunteer badge. Walk to Ryan's classroom, chat with Mrs. V for a few minutes, take my stack of papers for the day and head to the copy room. I'm there for at least an hour, the longest so far is an hour and 45 minutes. My norm is about an hour and 15 min. Last week I went through 5 reams of copy paper. 5 reams. So much for being green!!! I do the copying for her and the teacher next door. Sort all of the copies into two piles, paper clip, staple, etc. Bring back to classroom and break out of there lol. Go home, start laundry, clean house. Run to grosh if I need to. Go to any appts I have scheduled that day - Dr, Dentist, Wax, you get it. (TMI? Sorry. HA!) Get Erynn off bus at 2:40p, get in car and go pick up boys at 3p. Let them all play at the playground for 30 min. Drop Christopher off at home and bring my kids home. Figure out what we are having for dinner. Sit for 30-45 min. That, ladies and gentlemen, is my "day off" on Fridays. I wonder why I don't get more done???
Oh. Mrs. Wauchope sent home the volunteer schedule for Erynn's class this week. Starting Nov 1st I'll be in her classroom from 10 - 11:15a every other Friday morning. No problem - I'll squeeze that in there too. I've got plenty of time. HA! I kid, I kid. I signed up for it. I'll only have this time for so long. Aidan is only in third grade and they never ask for volunteers so I'll take it while I can!
What else have we done? John and I went on one date night. Yup, just one. We are supposed to go once a month but we've been totally slacking on that. We just haven't had any time! Too many birthday parties, kids things, just stuff going on. You know what that's like. I'm sure it will slow down in the winter time and we can get back to it.
We did our yearly Apple Picking trip to C.N. Smith Farm. Had a GREAT time. Downtown Stephanie B was in town so she came with us. We had so much fun. The apples were amazing, the kids were great.........for the most part. Aidan was acting up a bit but I'll attribute that to general moodiness. Or he got his period. One or the other. I'm sorry, but if you have a little boy, watch out for age 8, almost 9. He is SO moody! I thought Erynn would be the one I'd need to watch out for!! I have NO idea what has gotten into this child!!
Here are some pics from that day.
A week after apple picking we did our annual fall photo shoot!!!! Stephanie posted a TEASER photo on Facebook and I cannot WAIT to get out full proofs. (Apologies for the blur but it's a picture of a picture on FB. You can't see us that great but look at the gorgeous background!!)
I must say I am very proud of myself. For the first time........I think EVER.........I did NOT wear black. Yes, you read that right - I did not wear black. I actually wore color. Pick yourself up off the floor and take a minute. It's okay. It was tough for me because I am a big believer in black is slimming but I really need to get over myself and accept the fact that I look much different than I did a year ago. The whole family wore nice, bright colors and the shoot went really well. 40 min, in and out. Stephanie always does such a GREAT job - I say it every year. We give her nothing to work with and every year I get these AMAZING photos that I can't wait to put up on my walls. Now if I could only be patient while I wait for them. That's the hard part!!!!
More to come!!
