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Babies, Babies and more babies….Baby Anika is here! My good friend Linzy (you’ve seen her on the blog before with their little boy, Shelden) just had an adorable little girl…Anika Elizabeth. Anika decided to be awake the entire session and was super alert..so no, curled up sleeping pictures, but i love, love, love how blue her eyes are already, just like her moms. here are a few favorites.
meet rockford & holly!
saturday, brian and i got the pleasure of working with rockford and holly for their winter engagement session. i love it when clients are open to tromping through snow and not phased by cold (all just part of living in indiana). their dogs, cody and reinhard also joined us…which is really fitting, because they are a big part of the reason that they met. (reinhard, was probably the gentlest dobe that I have ever meet)
here are a few favorites, enjoy!
so i love and hate winter! i love snow shoots and the different textures and backgrounds that they provide, but i hate the cold. brian and I are still laughing that we shot the earlewine family in the snow. for everyone that knows them, both daron and julie grew up in “warmer” climates and neither are that fond of cold, wet weather, but despite that, they braved the cold snow and we had a great shoot! here are a few of our favorites!
February 15, 2010 - 1:35 pm - Love the pics and love the family in them. Oh and the family that took them :)
February 19, 2010 - 7:23 am - Ditto to what Lesleigh said... ;) Love them, guys!
yay! another little baby girl. dylan is 4 weeks old and wasn’t quite sure what to think of me, but we quickly discovered that laying on her stomach was her ideal way to spend her photo session. I love when new parents have things that mean something to their family included also in their photos. the little pink dress that dylan is wearing in the last few pictures, is actually the same dress that her mother, randie wore home from the hospital as a newborn…love it! congratulations, traves and randie! here are a few favorites from the shoot. enjoy!
i love new babies and adorable baby natalie is here! i feel like family, friends and clients are having babies right and left…but natalie is one of the few little girls to be welcomed recently. it seems like everybody we know has had boys. i love how small and delicate little girls are…and all the pink. natalie was very content to sleep through most of her session, though we were able to get a few of her awake. it is always a joy to watch new parents and their interactions, pride and love as they look at their new baby…andy & becky, your lives are forever changed…enjoy!
Natalie’s cute hat was made by one of our friends, Morgan of twystedyarn…check her work out!
One year ago today…
I am always torn between how much “personal” info to share on our “Twice Shy” blog, well today, here is a chunk about our personal lives.
January 6, 2009 was the first day of a life long change…it was the day I gave up gluten. 10 years ago I was diagnosed with IBS, (no big deal, a bunch of people live with it) doctors gave me all sorts of medicines; nothing really helped. As much as I would like to say that it didn’t affect my life…it really did. It affected social situations, eating out and much more. Well, 10 years later….we actually found the culprit. It all comes down to gluten. (Which is the protein found in wheat, barley, rye and contaminated oats). It is amazing how much things change with a simple change of the diet. The first few weeks, I looked at this life long change as a negative…of everything I can’t eat (you would be surprised how many things gluten is in…it is a cheap filler), but now both Brian and I look at it is the best thing that has ever happened to our family.
The reality is that once you start reading the back of boxes…you start to realize just how much crap is in the stuff that we eat. What ever happened to real food? Why are we eating man made artificial chemicals, sweeteners and genetically modified foods? Of course once you start asking these questions, it becomes a downward spiral into realizing the chemicals, pesticides & antibiotics we use, the medicines we take to cover symptoms, the nutrients American’s don’t eat, and what we are doing to the environment etc. So one little diet change for us has been more than just a little change.
Real, Whole foods have become our friends. I have fallen in love with quinoa, arrowroot, millet, flax seed, coconut flour & oil, almonds, lemons, free range eggs & chicken and so much more…even cabbage, turnips & spaghetti squash. This last year has been a year of discovery and learning and I am so excited to see what 2010 holds.
Goals for 2010.
Here are a few resources that have become my friend over the last year & some that I am still reading
Books:
Blogs:
Happy 2010!
baby logan is here! many of you have seen our friends kim and ryan on our blog before…(here are their expectation photos)…and we are so thrilled that baby logan has joined them! we are so excited to watch their family grow and for our boys to grow up together (they are 2 days shy of a year apart)! i am sure there will be a lot of adventures ahead! congrats on your first christmas with logan. enjoy!
i know this next photo looks mean to do to a little baby, but I promise we kept him warm…this bench was made by ryan’s great grandfather (i love the history, combined with newness!)
yay! I am so excited..our family pics are here! we love documenting families every year and really felt it was time to update our pictures. brian and I really haven’t had pictures shot since our wedding (well except Brady’s baby pics) and it was our turn to be in front of the camera. mel, one of our good friends and fellow photographer shot them for us this year…and we love them! check out their blog to see more.
okay, so i can’t believe that our little guy is 1 already. it is amazing how fast a year goes, and how much a little guy changes your life! Saturday, family and friends gathered to celebrate our son’s 1st birthday! thanks everyone for coming! it is amazing how loved you feel when everyone shows up at your house…(with a lot of people driving up from Fort Wayne/Decatur). Brian and I decided on a radio flyer theme birthday (we had our family pictures taken with a radio flyer…which you will get to see very soon!!!) and one of brian’s favorite memories as a kid was the radio flyer that he would pull around everywhere! it will also be very useful this spring when we want to pack brady up for a walk or to pull him around on our new land..(which we have a ton of work to do on!)
Making the cakes were so much fun, I haven’t decorated a cake since i was young (something my grandma used to do)…so needless to say, my piping was a little shaky. Plus, both cakes were gluten and dairy free, with does present some challenges…so i wasn’t able to decorate with a stiff traditional buttercream. it didn’t matter though, the cake was a huge success with brady and he made a huge mess…and loved it. he has been given really no white sugar his first year of life, so needless to say…we let him eat the whole thing and he was wired for hours and then crashed. a few things that i learned in the “red cake” making process: 1. it makes a huge mess…especially on a one year old…probably not the smartest idea. 2. natural food coloring is about virtually impossible to make vibrant red…I got pink at best…(if any one has any pointers on that….I would love to hear them)…so needless to say, I gave in and used regular food coloring.
eyerhere are a few favorites from the day! (i can’t take credit for all the pics…Mel, took a bunch so we could enjoy brady making a mess!)
December 15, 2009 - 7:06 pm - thanx for sharing Brady's party pix with me! How absolutely adorable he is....looks so huggable!!! Would have liked to see more pix of mom and dad tho!!! am thrilled that life is good for the 3 of you. love, lee ann. p.s. Aldi had tub frosting this year for Christmas in red and in green ... yours doesn't look pink at all!
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