A sweet email

I just received the nicest email from the M. family:

Hi Kristen,

I just wanted to thank you for doing such an awesome job with my family photos. I was very impressed with your work and I sent your name along to a couple of my friends. I like them all so well that I can’t decide which to print! I am sure I will be contacting you again in the future. Thank you!

Thank you again Nikki! I can't wait to photograph your family again!

One of my boys

Wow. I'm NEVER able to get a good picture of my boys together. It is near impossible. I'm sure many of you know how it goes. I was beyond lucky to get this great picture of my two little loves a couple of weeks ago (yes I'm a bit behind with my own editing). And even though it's a snapshot, I adore it.

The Maxwell Family

I had the pleasure to photography this adorable family last weekend. Nikki is one of my sister's clients (she's a hair stylist) and my sister referred her to me to take their family photo for their Christmas cards. Even though it was a chilly and very windy day, I captured a good family shot. Poor little J. wasn't feeling well, but E. was sure all smiles!

Check out this little one's eyes. They're amazing! I just love this picture of their youngest!

Meet the newest member of our family

This is Wrigley. He's a four month old male Puggle that we brought home on October 28, 2007. Ryan has always wanted a dog....a big dog. I'm not a dog person. Dominic loves puppies and dogs. SO, we comprimised. We got a medium sized dog. I've always thought Puggles were cute and finally convinced Ryan that they were too. Wrigley is such a good boy. He is amazing with the kids and the boys adore him.

Wow, it's been a while

Life has been a bit crazy since moving back into our house. We're still not entirely moved in, nor are our floors entirely finished yet. But we're getting there. Life will someday get back to normal.

Here is a picture of each of our boys from the pumpkin patch this past weekend. Aren't their matching shirts just the cutest? My friend Emily made them. You can check our her store here: http://www.myemmybaby.com/

Annie + Aaron: Sneak Peek

I had my first stranger and adult photo shoot this morning. It was an engagement session for the cutest young couple, Annie and Aaron who are planning on getting married on May 17th. Annie and Aaron are fellow Ball State Cardinals so we immediately had a lot to talk about. Good old BSU! :o) They seem like such a fun and laid back couple. And they're HUGE Colts fans so it doesn't get much better than that (well it would if they were Cubs fans...LoL).

Thank you Annie and Aaron for allowing me to take your engagement pictures! I had a great time and I hope you're pleased with your pictures! Here's a sneak peek of five of my favorites!

A little update

Well, I finally got my computer back (yay!). BUT after having it for 2 days, we unfortunately experienced a house fire. We woke up early (5:20am) last Friday to our smoke alarms. Ryan went into the hallway to see an orange glow from downstairs. He came running back into our room to tell me and I seriously had myself, Dominic and Lucas out of bed and outside within 15 seconds. I was on auto pilot. I don't even remember it. I do however remember looking at the fire which was in our living room before running out of the house. It was the by far the scariest moment in my life. We were told by the firemen that a lamp bulb burst and the filament (or something) landed in our brand new chair and it started as a smoldering fire and ended up in 4 foot high flames! Ironic thing is, we have those new dual sensor smoke alarms just sitting in a bag. We hadn't put them up yet. If we had, we might have caught it before it ended up in flames. I recommend that EVERYONE purchase something similar to these (make sure they are ionization and photoelectric): http://www.amazon.com/Kidde-Dual-Sensor-Flame-Smoke-442007/dp/B0007G71U4 and install them immediately! Learn from our mistake!

We are currently staying at my mom's house while our house is being restored and although it's a little hectic we're just lucky to all be safe and that the fire wasn't any bigger than it was. I thank Tiffany and her family and Aaron and Annie for understanding and allowing me to reschedule their sessions that we had scheduled this week. I really appreciate it!

And of course, here are a few pictures:

The carpet under the chair

The front of the chair

The back of the chair