A Child's World

A world of dolls and tea parties

and holding sunbeams in your hand.

Sliding down a rainbow

and building castles in the sand.

A world adorned with lace and ruffles

and ribbons and golden hair,

And elves and purple mushrooms

and fairies everywhere.

Where a child can ride a butterfly

and kiss a frog into a prince,

Where the trees are made of gumdrops

with leaves of peppermint.

A world sealed in security-

absent of worry and despair

A world where only children go,

For growing up you lose

the passage there.

-Michelle Bastian

Just DaNcE!

K has been taking ballet with Ms. Carrie for two years now and for S this is her first year.  They both LOVE it.  I was thrilled when Ms. Carrie asked me to do dance pictures this year.  I don't due studio setups very often, and so it was a fun new challenge. The Girls were AWESOME!  They all did so well!  Here is just a sampling of the beautiful dancers!

A few of the Girls ordered Story Boards that had 3-4 pictures of them/the group.  
My Little Beauty "K"

My Other Little Beauty "S"

Book Baby

I was doing some test shots today and had Little Guy help me out.  After a few minutes, he got bored and went into his room.  A few minutes later he came back with one of his very favorite things: a book.  He sat back down and had a great time while I quietly snapped away.  This Boy LOVES books.  He will look through them for hours, and has a bag that he carries his favorite one around with him.  What a Cutie!

Happy Valentines Day Part Duex!

For Valentines Day cards this year I made these bookmark shaped cards.  The girls put on the "To" and "From" and added them to a little bag filled with Hersey's Kisses.  From what I hear, they were the hit of the class!

Happy Valentines Day!!

Happy Valentines Day!!!

Happy Valentines Day!  

This year I decided to do one card to send out to family of all 3 kids.  I tried the "postcard" sized at my printer.  And, while I love the size and love my paper choice, I decided that it was just a tad bit to flimsy to trust to my local postal workers, so I ended up putting them in envelopes anyways.  I LOVE how they turned out!  

I also did a version for each of the girls for their Valentines parties.  Look for those sometime next week...after they are all put together!

Fall fun

This was a session that I did back in November.  I have known this family, well, as long as they have been a family!  "Mom" is my cousin!  So, we go waaaaaaay back!  When they oldest two were just babies I babysat them every day for one summer.  It was so much fun!  Now here they are all grown up and going on missions for their church.  Way to make a girl feel old!  It has been so fun to watch all of them grow up into such talented, adorable, and fun young adults!  Oh, and speaking of "cute" my 5 year old has developed quite the crush on oldest brother!  She carries their Christmas card around and tells everyone that he is her boyfriend!!  Aye Aye Aye!

Superman...

I have been dying to share this image.  I had this idea in mind..and was able to snap this pic when doing a Halloween photo shoot with Little Man.  I framed it and gave this to Hubby for Christmas.  Love!