Amanda Senior Pictures

I was excited to do another senior photo shoot a few weeks later. I loved Amanda's spunk and her vision of what she wanted her portraits to be.

Markee Senior Pictures

Markee's aunt is a friend of a friend, who suggested trying me out for some senior pictures. So I am making the foray into taking pictures for others besides friends and family. Markee was a very sweet girl who put up with my craziness well, I had a lot of fun doing her shoot.

New Baby Photos

New niece Sophie recently arrived in the world. A few days before she came I snapped a few quick maternity pictures of Alison:

And I got to be the official photographer on her birthday. It was so awesome to be there.

Christmas Card Pictures

Sometimes you realize that it's time to send Christmas cards, and you don't have a decent family picture to send with them. So you run to a picturesque spot, meet your sister's family, and quickly take a few photos as the sun is setting. 

Here is Christina and her family:

Chrissy took this picture of my family, obviously. But I edited it, so here it is. (:

Laurie's Family Pictures

I feel like I'm getting a disproportionate amount of photography on this little blog. But here's some more. I took family pictures of my sister Laurie's family. My biggest accomplishment from these pictures is having the guts to call a friend I haven't talked to in a long time to ask permission to go on their property. It ended up being the perfect location. 

Little Red Tree

We spent a weekend in the Mountains, and the leaves were beautiful.

Black Eye and Good Light

I was taking pictures of Frankie's black and swollen eye. I discovered that perching him on the end of my dining room table is a great place to take portrait photos in my house. I kind of wish he didn't have the black eye in these because they are great.

Summer Slacker

Like the title implies, Summer and all it's excursions have been rough on my creative goals. That, and work has been crazy busy. Plus my little family is hoping for a new addition through adoption. It has been really time consuming getting everything ready. See our adoption blog here, it was a creative work in and of itself.

But here's a few things, and I should be getting back into the swing of things now.

This is a rendering of a house that I designed, basically from the ground up. The floor plan and everything else was from scratch. I think it turned out beautifully, too bad their subdivision doesn't think it fits in and probably won't let them build it this way.

In the photography realm, here's a few that I like. Frankie going for a swim on a fishing excursion:

And my nephew, I took a few family pictures for his family, but this was my favorite.

I scrapbooked! My son is now 3 months old in his baby book instead of a week old.

I finalized a sketch for another illustration for Nick's game. This is the space pirate Big Mama Mehah. I was giggling to myself as I did this sketch.