Ever since this girl decided she didn't care to be around auntie's camera, she's shown up on my blog waaaay to infrequently. Happy to share another picture of her now... and I can't believe she's about to have her fourth birthday! She's growing up way too fast!
Sunday we got together to celebrate my father-in-law's birthday. I definitely love being with everyone, and the kids are just so cute... of course I love to take pictures of them! Here's a little 'picture recap' of our Sunday.
This is a picture of the little girls singing "Happy Birthday to Papa"... it was so cute! It looks like they're frowning in the picture, but they're not~ they were totally happy. I think they were probably right in the middle of the "you" part of "...birthday to you."
The babies played with each other, put lots of toys in their mouths, and crawled all over the place~ it's just a matter of time until they're walking!
Landon has an incredibly sweet disposition {usually!}, and smiles almost all the time.
Peyton is super sweet too, I just don't catch his smiles on camera quite as often lately...
When I went to take this picture of Natalie, I forgot I had my external flash tilted to the side, so it ended up lighting her face from a completely different direction than I had planned, but I kind of like how it ended up! Very dramatic.
And she had on the CUTEST outfit, seriously!
Katie is such a good mom~ it's really amazing. I was glad to capture a little cuddle time on camera...
And I especially love this picture of Katie with both of her boys... they are so loved.
Was looking through some older pictures tonight and thought I'd post some reruns... all of these have been on my blog before, but I don't mind posting them again, just because.
Have a nice weekend!
On Easter Sunday I got to watch some of the cutest kids {ever} play outside with bubbles... just an FYI~ admittedly these aren't the most amazing pictures I've ever taken. On one hand I love the sun and I'm very thankful for the nice weather, but on the other hand, bright sun is hard for shooting outdoor pictures. Sure, you can do things to try to fight harsh shadows and you can spend a lot of time making adjustments to get the correct exposure when the light conditions change all the time, but that isn't that easy to do with two- and three-year-olds~ you kind of have to fly by the seat of your pants!
So, these "are what they are"... just pictures of two sweet girls playing outside, blowing bubbles on a very sunny Easter Sunday.
I'm really not taking very many pictures right now, and although I had hoped to avoid a "I don't have much to post" post.... no such luck. I mentioned in my last post that it's a slow time of year for pictures, and for the most part, it really is. Don't worry~ there's some good stuff coming up and I cannot WAIT for the winter to be gone and to start taking pictures in full swing again!
But in the meantime, I grabbed a picture of each of my nieces and nephews that I hadn't ever posted, and I thought I'd post those so that no one thinks I've disappeared!! And... because they're cute (although these were all taken BEFORE I really knew anything about taking pictures...).
On Saturday, Andy's family met us at the cabin for a day of outside fun with the little kiddos...
They got pulled around on sleds~
And looked cute for Auntie's camera~
And got hung upside down when we went inside for a little break~
And then got to go back outside to build a snowman, which I haven't seen anyone do in a long, long time~
And then hitched a ride back to the cabin~
Such a fun day! And I'm not really an outside person during the winter, and I've DEFINITELY never thought about taking my camera outside during the winter before, either. But, I talked myself into it and I'm so glad I did. And here's my favorite pic from the day:
Miss Natalie~
I came across this picture of Jayden today when I was looking through some of the files on my external hard drive...
I fixed it up a little but the original file is not so great... I had just started taking pictures on manual and at that time, it was basically a guessing game! (And who am I kidding, sometimes it still is!!). The pictures from this little window of time on that day early last summer are almost all overexposed--- some really, really badly overexposed. It's really.... yucky.
But she's still cute.
Have a nice weekend!!
We were very blessed to be able to spend the night of Christmas Eve with Andy's parents, two sisters and their husbands, and of course all four kids!
These pictures were taken a little bit before Christmas (technically), but here are the girls in their Christmas dresses~
On Christmas Eve, the boys were just as cute as the girls in their Christmas outfits! (Andy was cute, too, even though he didn't have a Santa hat...)
The party officially began when Santa came to visit~
He offered to let the kids sit on his lap, but this year the only two willing kiddos were the twins, and they loved it! Can't you tell?
Then the presents that Santa brought got passed out... I'm not sure if Jayden was trying really hard to be sweet and help pass out the presents or if she was trying to grab some extra ones for herself! (Who can blame her!?!?)
Then, once the girls got their gifts from Santa, they were so excited to color they forgot for a while that Santa was sitting in a chair near them~
But, when Santa said he had to get going, he got a big squeeze from Jayden...
And then he didn't get to leave without playing ring-around-the-rosie with Jayden and Papa...
And then when Santa was out on the porch having a little drink with Papa before heading back to the reindeer, we played more with the kids~
And Jayden admired the nativity, where earlier that night she had helped Grandma and Papa and Natalie put the baby Jesus in the manger...
After all that, we went downstairs to watch the little girls open their gifts, which was really impressive because they took their own turns and didn't have any big issues with sharing toys. (Although they watched each other closely!)
And then it was time for dinner... we were so blessed to have a beautiful spread (thanks, Karen!) and for those who like to drink wine, we had our choice of wine from the bottle shown here (or the other one, which was 'Fat Bastard.')
Luckily for me, I don't drink wine, because that would have been a hard choice! We definitely had a Merry Christmas, and we felt very blessed.
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