Happenings with a Pink Chair

Beautiful A has turned one!

I love getting to watch my Chickadee Planners grow.
Look at this big girl standing! Any day now she'll be walking all over the place.

Definition of giddiness: your smile is so big, you can't see through your squinting eyes and scrunched up cheeks.

Here, A is doing her "bull face". She has done it since she was a wee thing. She squishes up her nose and snorts through it, like a bull!
I wish I could have caught it on video to share. It makes all who are around her smile!

...toes

Being that these are the FIRST FOUR images shot of her session...I'd say A is accustomed to having a camera around. Her little personality turned right on from the beginning.
What a cute starlett - sharing her tootsies with me!

*(Click on the image to see it larger!)

Summer Drink

On the morning of J's senior session, we had a bit of a weather issue. The minute his session was supposed to begin, the heavens open up. No problem, his mom and I, after talking on the phone, agree that we'll just wait in our cars a bit to see if it clears up as the radar claims it would shortly. The rain does stop pretty quickly, but it is still thundering and lightning heavily, so we wait a bit more in the safety of the car. After 15 mins. or so of no rain and just thunder/lightning, we decide to go ahead and risk being zapped and start his session. We happen to meet on the Denton square under an awning, (there are only awnings over a couple stores where we were), and as soon as we're ready to head out, RAIN starts again! Thankfully we have shelter, and there are actually a couple places to shoot where we were stranded, but the dark skies limit my complete potential! After 10 or so more minutes, it is still raining, but just a sprinkling, and with the humidity creeping up, (aka: sweatiness), our best option was to just go with Mother Nature and embrace her gift of the summer drink.

And here are our results:


Can I just say thank you to the rain for creating this beautiful light?!

**(Which actually brings up a good point: if it is raining on the morning of your session, I will call you, and depending on how long it appears the rain is going to stick around, we do not necessarily have to reschedule. And I would never cancel an entire day before a shoot because rain is predicted, you never know what our fickle weather will end up doing!) -- Sorry for the tangent there!

J was a tough cookie to get to crack a smile. What you don't see here is his mom, to my right, who just accidentally slipped, which of course forced him to give way to the pearly whites!

I think I've stated before how when we have urban sessions, and my clients are following me, I sort of become a sporadic driver, based on what we happen upon during our drive. (My shoot locations are thought out generally, but I'm always open for something new!) For this shot, we were leaving the parking lot of another destination when I see these awesome, painted curbs! Of course something as fun as this made my arms decide to whip my steering wheel over and park oblongly to get to photograph here. (I'm sure J, driving behind me, probably thought I forgot something at our last locale causing me to come to such a halt!)

J's class of 2009 is the first graduating class of students at Denton's new Guyer High School to start as freshman and graduate as seniors.

I don't know why, but each time I look at this picture, I think of going through a box of old pictures in your grandparent's attic, and finding a picture of your grandfather in the 1930's playing football. It just has an "old-timey" feel to me.

Congratulations, J!

Brain Freeze

rainbow popsicle + cute, 18-mon.-old bare tummy = SUMMER!

I love this series of faces! I think he enjoyed his cold treat...until the brain freeze hit!

Contentment.




Uh, Mom, this is cold...

Such a sweet, sticky mess. (Dean, that is, not the popsicle!)

Gotta get this one last drop...

....there! Got it!

This little angel was using his sign language to ask for more "please"!
Precious.

And of course, how better to work off the colorful popsicle running through your veins... play chase with sticks!

Happy summer, Dean!
(I have to sniffle one more time as I realize it's been a year since we first met...)

Stockpiling Photos

Hellooo!
Well, another week has flown by, and 5 sessions later, I am getting behind again on this blogging thing! I successfully caught up this week with getting orders out to clients and posting sessions from when I was out of town the week before in NY. But now today, I am leaving again for 5 days to see family in Missouri! This is definitely the last trip of the summer, (well, except for a 2 day excursion the hubby & I are taking in 2 weeks to see our favorite band .....twice), so hopefully the blog won't get behind again until...Christmas season!

I'll return next Thursday to share more pictures of this popsicle-lovin' cutie with you...

Have a good week!

Angel

Meet newborn, precious G. She is so sweet and easy-going.
I love that little hand poking out!

A little 'behind-the-scenes' shot...mommy looking on.

Her mommy brought cute, girlie outfits for her, like this adorable little dress!

Though I think mom's & grandma's favorite shots were of their sweetie as bare as could be.

This beautiful family endured a life-changing event this year as G's daddy is now in heaven. Grandma and mommy are here to love on G doubly, and this little girl will grow up knowing she has an extra angel watching over her.

Grandma's arms are a good place to be.

Introducing...

Alyssa!

...my new, wonderful assistant!
I am so excited to have her join the ranks! Yesterday we started working on fun, new things which we'll be introducing in just a couple of weeks! BP is going to get a new look, from top to bottom, just in time to ring in the beginning of our holiday season!

Our holiday sessions will officially start in September and run through mid-November. (Though the mommies of my "big kid" clients this summer have already efficiently noted that their summer session is going to double as their holiday session! I think it's so fun when instead of receiving a family in sweaters on a Christmas card, you get a family in bright tank tops! Changes things up!) Of course we have adorable, new holiday cards for all you cute families who need to show off your little ones!
Our last weekend session date to have prints made in time for Christmas is November 15th, and we only have 8 Saturdays open between now & then!
For our sessions during the month of August, we'll be giving out a gift to all you early birds who are on the ball and have your holiday session then! What might this awesome, one-time-only gift be? Since we love to make new friends, you'll just have to email us and ask.
:)