....Cookies for Santa........

Christmas and baking cookies seem to go hand in hand with me and my family during the holidays. This past weekend, I got to share the fun of baking cookies with Addyson. We went to my mom's house since she has a lot more elbow room in her kitchen than mine. We ended up having a cookie baking marathon and I'm still trying to recover. The bulk of the cookies were baked on Saturday, but Addyson fell asleep before we were ready to decorate the cut-out cookies. So, I saved some dough so that we could bake cookies on Sunday. She had a blast...and she was a really good helper. She had the important job of sprinkling the cookies after they had icing on them. She also like licking the sprinkle shaker.... Please be advised, these cookies were not distributed to others outside of our home LOL

If you've never looked at the Pioneer Woman website/blog...run, don't walk to the nearest computer and check her out...these next couple of shots are Pioneer Woman-esque cooking shots... (I love her!)





Addyson is getting excited about the first batch of cookies coming out of the oven...


Addyson loves her some M&M's...so she was super excited to decorate with them...




My sprinkle assistant trys out her first cut-out cookie



Please feel sorry for me...I have to clean up this mess!


This is what happens when you've taste-tested WAY too many sprinkles!

...Go ELF Yourself...it's Fun!

This is the second year I have Elf'd my family and I love it so much...it's the only time I can actually see myself skinny!! Check it out: http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/GkR53zQtyMy0qe94z0V0
FYI - I just saw a snowflake outside my office window in the Galleria... so it's making it's way from Cypress!

...a family...a turkey...and chaos

That about summed up my Thanksgiving. Well, let me explain. Trying to be a good citizen, I thought it would be neat to have a big family picture of my husband's family and since we would all be together on Thanksgiving..what better opportunity..right? Well...I never knew what an ordeal it would be to get everyone to participate. I won't go into all the particulars, but the end result was great and I'm happy that I was able to get everyone together for this and I'm glad that we got everyone to smile...well most everyone :)



This shot was fun for all the cousins. I thought I would give the hay bales a whirl..after all, they were just sitting there doing nothing...the hay bales, that is, not the cousins. LOL




Shhh..don't tell anyone, but I want to be like Martha Stewart or Paula Deen I baked this apple pie and it was good - no one got sick! LOL...I love to cook/bake and I'm a closet Food TV addict :)

...trying to get caught up

Hey everyone,

It's been a while since my last post...so I'll try to get back up to speed. I wanted to post the pictures from session a couple of weeks ago with a cute couple and their sweet baby girl. These were taken at Meyer Park in the Champions/Spring area:

....dogs and couples and kids...oh my! (Part 2)

Sunday was just as action packed as Saturday and the weather was almost exactly the same...sunny and beautiful in the morning and cloudy (drizzly) in the afternoon...

If you haven't checked out Vintage Park Houston yet, run - don't walk ...it's FABULOUS! LOL I had the great pleasure to take photos for dear friends Kakes and Parrot....they were good sports and we had a blast!





Vintage Park was SO neat...on every corner, it has charming landscape with beautiful flowers and gorgeous water features...








My last session from Sunday was a couple with their 5 month old daughter...I will post pictures later today...I'm almost done processing....phew...what a weekend! Thanks everyone for all your help!

....dogs and kids and couples...oh my! (Part 1)

This past weekend my portfolio building sessions were jam packed. I had 2 on Saturday and 2 on Sunday. Both had subjects that I wasn't used to shooting. The first was Saturday morning with a couple and their 2 dogs. The dogs were adorable, but they had the attention span of a gnat!


But with much coaxing, we were finally able to get everyone looking in the same direction - well, sort of ....




With a bunch of howling from the car, we got to sneak a couple pics without the hounds...these subject were much more focused :)



Later that day, I had a session with a mom and her daughter...who was too cute! She was almost 3 and already sassy!





Both sessions were done in Fairfield and if you can tell...the morning session was really bright, but about 3pm, the clouds started rolling in. Regardless, I was still able to get some great pics of these little ladies..

...down on the farm

This past Sunday, I had a wonderful opportunity to take pictures of a really cute couple. They wanted pictures at their family's pasture...and WOW, what a great backdrop. Thanks K & M for a really fun day!

This is a pose I'd seen before, and figured I'd give it a shot!