The Best Easter Weekend Yet!

 I love telling a story through pictures, because if a picture is worth a thousand words than I am writing a very large novel series here. :)

      

  

We started out our day                                     decorating eggs at a friend's house.  The boys were having so much fun and the only reason that they were OK  with leaving is that they knew that we were going to be going swimming with their cousins, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and their friend that they invited.

 -a little peek at what the boys were making. 


My friend, Erin had found these little foam hands and feet at the dollar store and they were so easy to hot glue to the egg.  I think it gives them a little more character, don't you?

 This is Odin and Thorin's friend that they invited swimming.  He is a fish!!  He just loves to swim, which makes for some very cool photography opportunities. :)

 This is my little Linny. She was really enjoying herself in the pool.  We don't take her very often because of my husband's shift work.   That would just leave me to take them by myself and I might be a little crazy, but not that crazy!!!




The pictures to the right are 

 -my nieces and they are a barrel of laughs.  They are a couple of girls that were born to be in the water. 

 - this is my son being a total pill!!! He loves to dump water on grandma's head ..... anyone's head actually.  If you aren't watching out, he will get you!

This is my Odin.  He is not a water lover.  He  loves to just sit on his mat and watch everyone else have fun in the water.  I feel bad that he doesn't like the water more but he has always been afraid of the water.  Not sure why.......

Another photo opportunity made possible by my friend's son.  Thanks Wes! :) 
















  So I am taking pictures and minding my own business, and all the sudden I hear giggling behind me..... I turn around to see Thorin and Grandpa coming to get me with their bucket which they were trying to hide under the water.  Nice try, boys. :)  Don't you just love those mischievous faces that they have on? :)

So my sister-in-law, mom-in-law, and I were talking about if I had ever tried to dunk my baby under the water yet.  I had heard about the "blow in their face and dunk them" method but my sister-in-law had heard of another, and it works awesome!!!  


So here we are before I tried to take her under the water.

Here she is going head-first into the water (so the water won't go up her nose)










and here she is totally under the water and not caring at all!  In total, she was only under the water for a maximum of 4 seconds. 

 Here we are after being under the water "swimming".  She was not too sure about it at first.  She tends to have this look on her face every time you take her out of the water, but she doesn't complain about it, so she must not mind it :)






This is Linny with Grandma and her cousin Hazel.  They are hilarious together.  They tend to make faces at each other a lot. :)

 After swimming, we went back to Grandma and Grandpa's house, but on the way, the kids and Grandpa had to go on a treasure hunt for their Easter candy.  They had a map of where it was and everything :)


Then we all celebrated the four birthdays that were in April. These are 2 of the four.  Linny was down for her nap and the other boy lives too far away to join us all the time.





  Now this is where it get crazy!  After we all had a wonderful turkey dinner,  some of the family had to go home, but for the rest of us, we were just getting to the best part.  
The Catapult war!!!

FIRE!!!!!


-notice how the girl on the right looks slightly worried and grandma is using everyone else as a sheild.

FIRE!!!!!

 -Notice the girl hiding under the table and the look on grandpa's face.  He just got one in the chest.

Duck and Cover!!!!


Here comes one now! (the small white ball)








This is what is being flung around the house.  Rubber eyeballs!!!  Only at Grandpa's house.....

These are the catapults that a few families got one year for christmas and they were the best present. :)










                                This was one of the best Easter weekend that our family 
              has all been together and my husband had some of the day off, so it was even 
                        better.  Hopefully this becomes a tradition in the years to come. 
                                                (hint, hint, nudge, nudge.....) :)

Birthday Portraits

     This is my Linnea and she just turned 1.  She is a real mover and it was a learning experience to do this shoot with her, but it was fun. :)

 This is my Thorin and he is a barrel of laughs!!!!  At first I was getting frustrated  that he didn't want to smile nicely but I let it go and had some fun with him. :)

Unit 6!!!!!!!!

I have been working on a photography course for the last 3 YEARS, and I am finally done! I am so excited to have my efforts rewarded by getting my diploma and starting my business. I have had one more baby since I started this course. I thought that it would be almost impossible to finish with three kids in tow, but I had a goal, I kept at it, and now Iam done! And I couldn't be more happy :) Here are some of the photos that I have submitted :) I hope you enjoy. I would love to hear what you think :)
















These are the photographs that I submitted for framing your subject.

This photo is using leading lines to give attention to my subject.

This is using Depth of Field to draw attention to my subject















Using slow shutter speed to get the right exposure for a moving object.





This is my first official rule of thirds picture. My subject is in the first third of the picture.












These are just a few of the pictures that I submitted for my course. Maybe I will post some more later :)

Thanks for stopping by.

Kallie

oh my!!

Here are a few of my favorite shots from the last few photoshoots. :)



The Gruner family have been wonderful to photograph! I did their little family photos after they had their baby boy. This Christmas I got the opportunity to photograph the extended family as well. There were alot of laughs and it was so fun.

Thank you for letting me into your lives, to create memories with my camera.

This is my baby girl, Linnea. It was her 7 month birthday so I decided to do a little BW photoshoot with her.

This is my favorite shot from that session.

This is my little sister, Kloe and her new baby Rosie. We were all together one sunday, and since I never go anywhere without my camera, I was taking a bunch of pics.

This was my favorite of that day.

I have been procrastinating my blog lately. I have had a few photography jobs this winter and I still don't have them on the blog yet. I am on my last unit of my photography course and so close to being done. I can't wait!!!! I have until May to get it done, so I really have to move it along.

I have been backing up my old photos that are on my computer onto CDs and I have been reminiscing the old days when my kids were smaller, and when we were in our old house. I LOVE looking at old pictures and seeing how much we have all changed, or not changed (hopefully).

Grandpa as Santa, my kids didn't cry once! YAY

So here is the Creature Power discs that one of my followers asked for. I did make one change, I made a walrus instead of a Dolphin disc. I had been looking for a walrus image for a while and I finally just made one. :) Enjoy :) (tell me if it doesn't work)