Greetings 2010

Monday, August 31, 2009

Happy Birthday Evey!

Evey is TWO! I can't believe it. My sweet girl has such a great giggle...she's mainly sweet and a little ornery. She's just crazy about animals and loves to make all the farm animal noises...so we went with a farm theme.

Pre-Party
The night before Evey tried on one of her party hats...

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Party Time
Grandma Nita's cake was amazing as usual! :-)

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Mmmmm...yummy!

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She was pretty proud of her messy face...

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Evey really enjoyed her pin-the-chicken-on-the-barn game, she did it over and over again...

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Post-Party
I have to include a couple of these. She loves these boots from Becca...if she finds them she wants them on. Even without pants. Here she is coming to tickle me...

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And with her party balloons...

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY big girl! :-)

Molting Cicada...AWESOME!

Yesterday, Jay spotted a cicada emerging. It was so cool! When we first found it, it was completely horizontal. As we watched, it began to uncurl its wings and climb upward. Did I mention how cool!? ;-)

Partway down on the right of the wikipedia page shows the same species molting in time sequence:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada

There was one year when we were living in Columbia where multiple species emerged the same year or something...some sort of overlap. There were bizarrely enormous quantities of cicadas EVERYWHERE! It was deafening when you were outside, they were laying dead scattered in the grocery store, you would see them on people as they walked to class. It was very Twilight Zone! I'll never forget a lady I worked with at the time, she kept hearing it but we couldn't find it on her. She finally felt it and we realized it was up inside her skirt!!!

Okay, enough stories...I of course took a few pics of our molting cicada.

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AWESOMENESS!!!

Happy Birthday Mary!

Mary's birthday is the day after Evey's...but Mary's party was the day before Evey's party. And Mary's parties are never boring!

From Tonka truck wrapping paper...

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to GIANT bags filled with...

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...metal pirate toucan statues.

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And I can't forget about the man thong. Even if I wanted to.

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Even the cake was interesting, with fork candle holders!

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARY! :-)

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Monday, August 24, 2009

Kristin...Family Portraits

Kristin contacted me for a last minute portrait session for her family since her oldest is heading back off to college. It was a BEAUTIFUL evening! You can tell this gang has their pictures taken every year, they were very relaxed in front of the camera. Makes my job very easy. :-)

The lovely Anna Kate...

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Adorable Grace...

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And handsome Tommy...

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Kristin with her hubby, Tim...

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Sisterly love...

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The beautiful ladies...

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The handsome fellas...

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Thanks for a great shoot! :-)

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Maddox Goes to Kindergarten

It is finally here...my little baby boy is a big kindergartner!
Just before he left the house with Jay this morning...

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Arriving home...
(a little background...we had been hounding him about eating at school. :-)

Kindergartner from Sarah Rimel on Vimeo.

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Beth...Family Portraits

This morning I met Beth and her family for a portrait session. It was a lovely morning and the kids had a lot of fun running around and playing...so I ended up with a ton of favorites! Here we go...

Good looking family! :-)

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Little Brooklyn isn't even quite 1 yet, but the girl was on the move! At all times!

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Brandon and Bryce were more willing to just chill (at least some of the time)...

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I just couldn't decide between the next two so you get both...

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A little Brooklyn...

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L-O-V-E this one...

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Then some Bryce...

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And finally some Brandon...

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Cuties!

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The kids had Brad working hard, plucking HUGE leaves from a tree...

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Beth and her sweet kiddos...

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This next one is just too adorable, cuteness overload. You may need to avert your eyes. ;-)

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Thanks for the fun shoot! :-)