This Blog is a Little our of Practice

Since I last wrote, we moved to a whole new town. I have gone back to school and subsequently ended my 10 year stint as a stay-at-home Mom. I have also taken a hiatus from photography...sorta.

Most of my fellow photogs know that winter is a slow time for business anyway, but with moving and everything, I also didn't promote my business. It's hard to explain but something just wasn't jiving. So I took some time and now I am feeling refreshed and ready to start the new season.

What better place to start then with my own family. I took these yesterday. Caide is at the wonderful stage of hating sitting still, which makes pictures oh so much fun!

My Family Needed New Pictures

As I looked at my walls, I realized that I've been so busy taking pictures of other families that mine were out of date.

The ones I have up, Caide isn't even 6 months old, and even though it's been less than a year the kids have grown so much since I took those.

I suppose you don't have to guess to hard about where this is going.

These two are my favorites.

Day 58/365 A forgotten Day

I got a head of myself and this is being posted out of order.

These are from the hotel with the water park. Here we were playing family bingo. The prizes ranged from small hotel schwag, to arcade tokens.

We were the only one's playing and ended up getting $80 dollars in free arcade tokens!!!

55/365 Waterpark

For Christmas my mother and father in law treated our family to an overnight and admission to an indoor water park. It was the best gift and I fully intend on asking them to do that in lieu of gifts every year. The kids had a BLAST.

We went to Timber Ridge at Grand Geneva, in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. The water park was perfect for the age range of my kids. There was even a johnny jump up in the water for Caide!! On top of the amazing water park there was also planned activities that you could do with your kids in the other parts of the hotel. (MOST were FREE!!!) They had family bingo, decorate a sugar cookie, movie night, etc.

If your in the area I highly recommend it. The lifeguards were really on watch. Every time I turned around there was a guard watching. I never worried that I had to be on constant vigil because I trusted that the guards were watching that closely.

The room rates were very reasonable, the hotel staff was EXTREMELY accommodating. I would go back in a second.

Day 42 of 365 Kyrsten and the Kids.

Every time my sister in law, Kyrsten, comes down, my kids turn her into a human jungle gym. She's always a good sport and bless her for having way more energy than I could ever dream of.



Glenn, Kyrsten's boyfriend.



The kids kept tickling her feet so I snagged a picture.

37/365 We put up the Christmas tree!

The kids begged so tonight we put up the Christmas tree!!

I've been working on using my manual settings in low light/indoor settings. It's a work in progress, so I apologize in advance for the quality of some pictures.









The angel we normally put on the tree didn't fit on top so we thought Caide would make a nice angel!

Day 32 of 365 Thanksgiving.

We got so caught up eating I didn't bother taking pictures of the food. Instead I took pictures of family enjoying the day.

I hope everyone else had as fantastic of a Thanksgiving as my family and I enjoyed.

Look at everyone's smiling faces!!!

Meet the whole family.

I thought I would add some pictures of the other kids to here, it might seem as though the youngest are the only ones in the pictures so far, but really it's because they are the ones I am with most often. Being home all day they are my most available and WILLING subjects.

Here is the rest of the clan.


Caide.


Mason


Kendyl


Peyton


Blayre


Mike, my husband.


Finally a self portrait, in Maui this year.