"Beautiful Eyes"

   From a recent senior session...Her eyes are so gorgeous I wanted to somehow emphasize them. So we used her glove (she's a fantastic softball player by the way). What do you think?

"Friendship"

                             "My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."  Henry Ford

"Motherhood"

     
                 A break during a photo session with a two year old... Look at Mama's face! Stop by I Heart Faces to see all the great entries!

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Dress up, Kitty!

 Oh Kitty! Thank you for puttin' up with your four year old! You really do make her happy when you let her  dress you up. You deserve some catnip!

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"Shadow"

  This weeks theme at I Heart Faces is "Shadows". Ooooh what fun! I purposely didn't look at other entries because I knew they'd be so awesome I would chicken out on attempting a "shadow" photograph. So here is what Smalls and I came up with this afternoon...She is such a trooper! Be inspired and check out the amazing entries at I Heart Faces.

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I Heart Faces Challenge "Slice of Life"

Sometimes I want everything to be perfect when I take a photograph, but there is something beautiful about the ordinary, the "averageness", the messiness of the everyday. A kitchen table is where life happens- I look at the clay pot with the bulbs we planted staring to grow, I see the candyland game that we have so much fun playing, I see the belt to a princess costume that gets used as a headband or to tease the cat...I see the lemons on the table to add cheer to a winter day, I see my girl in her handmade tutu worn confidently over her jammies...I see my life here, imperfect and beautiful.

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I Heart Faces Challenge "Sunflare"

 I ADORE sunflare! I don't avoid it, its not a flaw, its magic! Here is one of my favorite examples of sunflare lately...

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I Heart Faces Challenge "Hearts"

 

Oh Smalls! You are the funniest, silliest, prettiest little Valentine! Love, love, love you bunches. More than this whole world and stars and sky and sun..... ♥

For more Valentine's Day inspiration, scroll down and check out this weeks "Heart Project" post, fun stuff! Also, stop by "I Heart Faces" and see all the other GREAT entries.

♥ Heart Project ♥ 2011

I got a hair brained idea last year around Valentine's Day to do a "Heart Project", a photo a day from February 1-14 with a heart theme, so... its back, by popular demand folks! Here are some that were posted on Facebook last week. Look for more hearts till Valentine's Day!

I call this one "You're always on my heart". Morning glory leaves are heart shaped? Who woulda thought? I see hearts everywhere now... kinda annoying, just ask my close friends and relatives.

 Its really hard to make an M&M heart without eating the "set"... I don't see food styling and photography in my future... sigh.

"Lover's Tree" I found the coolest tree covered in carved hearts and initials!

Senior Session!

I Heart Faces Challenge "Innocent Wonder"

My daughter's first trip to Yosemite, here she is overlooking part of the majestic Yosemite Valley. I think I could haved entered a photo of one of the adults on the trip as well...the grandness of Yosemite brings out the wonder in all of us. Check out all the other great entries by clicking on the I Heart Faces button!
 

I Heart Faces "Smile" Entry

My Dad and my girls last Father's Day, while waiting for a table at Sizzler. I just love it...Look at the contentment and pride in his smile, its so my Dad. He loves his grandgirls. Then Alize' on the right, I'm pretty sure her smile says, "I'm up to something!" Lily, on the left, well we don't what she's doing! Check out all the other inspiring entries at I Heart Faces!

I Heart Faces Challenge Best Face Photo 2010

This makes me smile every time I look at it. We were camping and I was sitting in a lawn chair fiddling with the settings on my camera to take some pictures of the nearby creek. My daughter and I were just being goofy and I must have said something that tickled my four year old's sense of humor. And so, here is my very candid best face photo of 2010! Its ok, you can smile too...its pretty hard not to smile looking at her face =)