Just a little share...

I normally do not post clients photo's online... but had to share some. This session is different, he is one of "ours". Yes, the newest Little in the family. Our niece's little bundle of joy... Aeden.

I had the pleasure of shooting him at 12 days old. Beautiful boy.

So sweet.

22 years

Anniversary.

What do you say after 22 years? The same old, I love you, you are awesome, you're the best, I am so happy you are mine, etc, etc.?  How do you tell a person just how much they are your world and not sound like you're repeating the same old mushy stuff year after year? It truly goes unspoken when you love someone with your whole heart and the love continues to go deeper and deeper with every day that passes... you just feel it in every fiber of your being.  I know this is true too... one lifetime will never be enough for us.

A bit of fun: We have made it through 22 Years of Top 100 List Love Songs....

1990 – Seduction, "Your My One and Only (True Love)
1991 - Extreme, "More Than Words"
1992 - Whitney Houston, “I Will Always Love You”
1993 – UB40, “Can’t Help Falling In Love With You”
1994 – The Pretenders, “I’ll Stand By You”
1995 - Mary J. Blige and Method Man, “I’ll Be There For You / Your all I need To Get By”
1996 – Oasis, “Wonderwall”
1997 – LeAnn Rimes, “How Do I Live”
1998 -Aerosmith, "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing"
1999 - Sixpence None The Richer, "Kiss Me"
2000 - Savage Garden, "I Knew I Loved You"
2001 - Alicia Keys, "Fallin"
2002 - Justin Timberlake, "Like I love You"
2003 - Beyonce feat. Jay-Z, "Crazy In Love"
2004 - Alan Jackson, "Remember When"
2005 - Lifehouse, "You and Me"
2006 - Mary J. Blige, "Be Without You"
2007 - HELLOGOODBYE, "Here in Your Arms"
2008 - Alicia Keys, "No One"
2009 - Kelly Clarkson, "My Life Would Suck Without You"
2010 - Ke$ha, "Your Love Is My Drug"
2011 - The Black Eyed Peas, "Just Can't Get Enough"
2012 - Bruno Mars, "It Will Rain"

I love you so.

Happy "YOU" year!

Cannot believe another year has passed! 2012?! Sounds so "futuristic". (I had just gotten used to writing 2011 on everything...)  The past year flew by... not with little ol' flapping bird wings, but more like huge jet plane wings at hundreds of miles an hour type of fly by.

Okay, so 2012. It's here, and the time is already ticking. That's right my good people, so buckle up your jet plane seat belts, grab you a window seat and kick back and enjoy your 2012 flight. ;-)  Wonder what the trip is gonna' be like?

Bits of 2011 frozen in time....

January

February

March

April

May

June





July

August

August

September





October

November



Whatever 2012 brings... take the time to better yourself, in turn hopefully

making the world a wee bit better place.... celebrate you.

Wishing everyone a "Happy New You Year!"

Ho Ho Horror....

Today was the day... the long anticipated, once a year, visit with jolly ol' Santa Claus. Time to climb up on his velvety red knee and rattle on and on about all the fantastic toys we would love to wake up to under our tree Christmas morning.

Well, ours went something like this... wake up, get dressed for work, car decided it needed some new parts and would not start. Thank God the hubby knows how to do these things and fixed it up quickly and saved us money doing it himself. (He can fix most anything! He's good like that. :-) A few more little incidents... then everyone is dressed with smiling faces and happy to be on our way to Santa.

We arrive to find a very short line... awesome.

Make it to the front of the line and there he was in all his glory... SANTA. He had the happiest smile and was waving to us. I swear, he had a magical glow and I wanted to smile and jump up and down  waving like I was 5. To my Littles... it was more like "Ho Ho Horror".  :-\ Abbie hid her face and would not go near him. Josh touched the seat of his pants on the jolly old elf's knee and panicked.

Here we have it.... the 2011 Christmas shot.... Santa, Josh with a less than pleased look on his face, and mom in mid "cheese', Abbie is invisible. (You know, now that I look at it... that little elf guy in the lower right hand corner is kind of creepy. Hmmmmm.) Sorry Santa. We hope that this doesnt mean we wont get the goods Christmas morning. We have been pretty good.



We have had the same Santa for the last 3 years. Another words, this is the only Santa the Littles have ever seen. Pretty cool. :-)

After the traumatizing event, we headed toward the reindeer carousel. After a brief reminder not to jack with the reindeers antlers... we waited our turn for a spin.

So they are not afraid of a shark, nor a taxidermied racoon that very possibly could have been rabid.... but Santa? Well, he is just simply terrifying. So this year, we visit Santa from a distance.  

Little goofballs. The "Cheese!' face.





I love them. 



After a short visit with Santa, we were on our way back home. Side note: Abbie vomited in the car (car sickness sucks - poor kid). A turn into McDonalds drive-thru for a Happy Meal, to once again be happy...and we were finally home.

Its okay Santa... I like you.

Can you hear it? Journey - "Don't Stop Believing"... *throws my hand up rocker style*

The gifts are starting to fill the space beneath the tree. (Thankful we are blessed this holiday season.)
So much to look forward to yet, dear friends coming to celebrate this weekend and a family Christmas party coming up!
Tis' the season for wonderful stuff....