SWEET GIRL!!
Congratulations, you guys!! I will be placing the order for your canvas today! Second place went to “Birthday Boy”. 
Thank you to all of you who voted. I am still amazed at how many votes there were. I wish that I could give canvases to all of you! Don’t forget you can still order them through ezprints.com. Have a great weekend, everyone!
Today is just a beautiful day! The sun is shining, no coats are needed, Mya and I have had a great day and Ryder is coming back home from N.J. Woohoo! No more single momma here. This morning while Mya and I were eating breakfast, the sun was shining in on these roses and I just had to grab my camera. Sun these days is rare so I had to take advantage of it. Happy Friday, everyone. Don’t forget the photo contest ends tonight at midnight!!
Okay, so I decided to do this photo contest just for fun thinking there would be a few votes but boy, was I sooo wrong!! Every time I check my email there are tons of votes. I can barely keep up! The number of hits on this site are insane. The most hits I had had in one day before this contest was 142 but for the last few days, there have been 300 on one day, 450 the next, and so far today there have been 170!! Wowee! You people are serious when it comes to winning. 
Thanks for all of the exposure! Can’t wait to see who wins! I have a feeling I know who it might be. Hmmm…..
Just came across this as I’m finishing up pictures from last weekend. This picture makes me want to go wake Mya up and hold her. Oh the love of a mom and her child. It’s like nothing else in the world!
So I am done with sessions for the year so I thought it would be fun to have a photo contest. I’m going to put up some of my favorite photos from the year and let you readers vote for which one is your favorite. The owner of the winning picture will get a free 8×10 canvas of that photo. To vote you must leave a comment and in the comment leave the title of the photo that is your favorite. You can get friends and family to help you vote. I will close the voting on Friday night at midnight so get started! (One vote per person, please.)
Title: Sweet Girl
Title below: What a Doll
Title below: Good Times
Title below: Birthday Girl
Title below: We R Family!
Title below: Whew, it’s chilly!
Title below: Sweet family
Title below: It’s a crowd!
Title below: 360
Title below: The Door
Title below: Little Model
Title below: Birthday boy
Title below: Students
Title below: Carolina Girl
Title below: Twins
Title below: Honey, I heart u!
Title below: Smoochy scmoochy
Title below: Brown eyes
Title below: Baby on the way!
Title below: I-C-U
Title below: Beautiful
Title below: Young Love
Title below: Walkin’ on Sunshine
Title below: brown eyed girl
Title Below: “No more cameras!”
So Santa came to our neighborhood this afternoon. Mya is terrified of him!! She wants nothing to do with him but she will tell you that he is “niiiiice” and he brings you “toys”. Her outfit was just so cute (from my mom) and the light was just amazing so I had to do a little shoot out in the parking lot. lol
The Santa thing lasted about 2 minutes with Mya so we went to the park afterwards.
So this is our Santa picture this year. lol What a cool Santa to do this for us.
This morning I took pictures for the old P.E. teacher at the school that I used to work at and her family. Before I left the house, I thought, “Oh, a 4 year old and a 4 month old, this will be easy!! Well, the 4 year old swore that he was NOT having his picture taken, the minute that he saw me. And so we started with the baby and she was easy. Shortly after, the 4 year old slowly started warming up to me and was doing great but then the baby started crying. lol I had a fun time this morning no matter who didn’t want their picture taken. I got some great pictures of them all and I can’t wait to show more. Right now my computer is going CR-AZY! So I’m going to restart it and try again later tonight. So here are just a few pictures that I was able to get done. Thanks, coach, for meeting me so early. I know it’s hard to get the family out the door early like that so I appreciate you working with me and it was so nice to see you again and to get to hang out with your family! (Just added more. Computer is working again. Whew!)
Not quite warmed up to me yet:
A while back I asked a friend, who I thought took great pictures, if she would take family pictures for us. I wanted her to take them and then let me photoshop them in the style that I love, vintage! So today that’s what we did. It was rainy and cold and just plain uck outside but I didn’t care. We were getting these pictures done before anymore time passed. Of course Mya chipped her tooth the other night, but as Ryder said, “That’s what she looks like right now.” My response? That’s not what she’s supposed to look like! But he’s right. So we went to Round Rock and hung out for a while. Thank you so much, Brandy! You are going to go far, girl. Just believe in yourself. She told me when she brought my CD by how nervous she had been. I remember those days of just being scared to death to do pictures for anybody. Heck, I still get like that before every session. No need to get nervous with us. I told her that if I just had one good picture of all of us together, that’s all I cared about and she got that! Here are some of the pictures.
This one makes me cry. THIS is what I wanted! Pictures of us just playing with Mya. I have nothing like that and that is what I wanted. I wanted pictures of us just being ourselves and having fun with our baby girl. And Brandy, you got it! Thank you!!
So this month, lots of things are changing. A new year is about to start and it’s a new start to my business. I have a list of things that I need to accomplish before January and my assistant Ryder is at my side helping me get it all done. The big thing is the on-line gallery. I have it all set up and it’s ready to go! I am excited to start using it. I will now be selling prints through a password protected gallery where you will be able to see your prints and order which ones you like, including CANVASES, woohoo, and birth announcements and holiday cards. Very exciting stuff! Also, I now have a watermark on my photos. It’s nothing fancy. Maybe I will fancy it up later, but for now, I’m just glad to finally have one. Hopefully this will keep sneaky folks from taking and printing photos that are copyrighted once I’m not giving CD’s away anymore. (See photo below.) So yay, 2 things checked off my list! I look forward to the change that is coming!
Hardy har har. Sometimes I think maybe I’ve had a tad bit too much coffee. lol Wheweee, sorry!
….so it was time to do some playgroup Christmas pictures!! I have to say, I think that our playgroup has the cutest kids around!! Thank all of you for coming over today. I had a great time! I will be getting your CD’s to you later this week!!
Isn’t she so beautiful? She looks like a living doll! I can’t wait to do her birthday pictures in March!
Love this in Vintage too:
Look at these 2!!! Ohhh, so adorable, aren’t they?
And Juliana, always so happy!
Look at how happy she is! Made my job so easy:
This little pout was just too cute not to share!
