My sweet Boys: Henry’s after bath

Well, we have been sick for a little over a week now, and my poor Henry has an ear infection from all of the congestion 😦  But, I have been so happy because of my new mattress!  Now if only I could learn how to fall asleep at night as my brain doesn’t seem to have an off switch!  So, last night my determination to not lie there awake until 1:00am, I counted down from 100 about 3 times!  Every time I imaged the number I was counting and each number look me deeper and darker then the last.  Finally I found myself at 3, 2, 1, 0…and then I was just sitting in a little room in my brain.  I Imagined there being windows and light sheer curtains, quite pleasent.  I sat indian style in the middle of the empty room, and practiced great restrain by not allowing my thoughts to go anywhere else!   While sometime in my mental time-out, I found slumber.  Ahhh, it was amazing!

Also, in a moment of crazed bravory, I trimmed myself some bangs.  I think I love them, but I just don’t know yet, hmmmm.

Allen Family Session!

Well, there are always those times when a mother worries that after the photo session is all over that there is no chance that we got something good.  We always know better, and assure her that we got super cute stuff.  I have to admit that there are moments when I worry as well, but I always find out that we STILL get great stuff!  This little bundle of joy decided to give me great smiles for the first setting, but after that she decided it was time to be done…we were definitely not done yet!  So with a few breaks here and there, and a most welcomed cheerio snack, we coaxed this busy girl into letting me play with her a little longer.  I don’t think I need to worry after choosing these as just a couple of my favorites…

Changing: Not on her agenda

Bathtime FUN!

Well, I haven’t put any pictures up of my own kids lately, but I was experimenting with some interesting Lightroom presets.  Let me know what you think…I think it works for some of these, but not all, I’m just not sure.  Feedback appreciated!

They are too cute, and Henry LOVES water.  Both my boys have been okay with mommy dumping water over their faces…very impressive!  Henry will be a year old in September and I can’t believe how fast the time has gone by.  It just seems like yesterday, sigh!  Jackson’s mood was not interested in pictures (the usual) so I let him be.  Besides, I have not been as good about capturing every minute of Henry’s life as I was with Jackson.  Two kids vs. one, BIG diff!

Jackson, obviously, was avoiding the camera. Poor guy gets it too much 😦 I miss him being cooperative, but I give him his space…

Henry’s ready to get out!

Jackson had a little more fun in the mirror…

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Brother and Sister: Best friends and worst enemies!!

These guys were super cute to work with, although the little sister had this conditioned response every time I asked her brother to hug her or kiss her, or do anything touching her!  She would SCREAM!!!  Like she new that danger was lurking!  There was no forgivness for this brother even when he was trying to be sweet 🙂

See what I mean?

This may look like a sweet pictures, but if you could she her face!!!

Tapasa Sista’s!!!

Well, I had the oppotunity to take pictures of these two girls a few weeks ago, and I know they’ve been waiting very patiently for me to post some pictures of them on my blog!  I have gotten a little behind in blogging, but I finally took pictures of the last sister today, so I promised I’d try and get a few up by tonight.  (There are actually four of them, but I posted pictures of their baby sister a few weeks ago before I got totally swamped!  Check em out…

Tapasa Kids

Isn’t she stunning?

This one very fashiony, I love it…she was whipping out all sorts of poses

She saw this bus and thaught it would be cool to get some shots!

Now, here is that last sister that I did today! She is seven years old and had a very short attention span, but we managed to get a lot of great and very sweet pictures:)

I love her expression in this, she is so beautiful

and this one is just…well…priceless.

We snuck into a laudry-mat to experiement a little

Then she was done once she saw this lady bug, and just wanted to play. Super fun!

& Hannah too!

This is Nora’s little sister, Hannah. If you haven’t already seen Missy’s blog, it shows pictures of Nora and our fun field/baking day! But I thought I’d share my favorites of Hannah, since they are super cute too!!! Actually, Missy took the first two of these, but I wanted to put them up, and then the last two were taken after all the baking was finished, but we threw her up there for some shots so she could be in on all the fun…

I always adore the little blankets they have…

Brownies anyone??

Today was yet another fun shoot, but we tried something new and did a little baking!  We are going to start trying to do this more often where we come into your house and just do somthing fun and engaging with the kids to get some super cute and creative images!!  Check ’em out. 

Reverse Psychology!

I had a fun time playing with these boys yesterday! They were full of personality and ready to play! I titled this post because of the experience I had with the bigger brother though…he was super handsome, but was a little camera shy. Well, he didn’t really like being put on the spot, so I tried to keep it light and low presure until the very end, and I focused just on him and said, “okay, now be serious! Give me the most serious face you got!” Then I kept with it by saying, “goooood jooob, Uh oh, don’t smile! Wait, NO DON’T!” Then he busted it out. In the end, that super great smile was out of down right defiance!

Tapasa Kids

This sneak peek is only of the baby of the family!  More sisters to come…SHE’S SO CUUUUUTE!!

Davis Kids

This baby girl would not smile for us, but isn’t this shot just the cutest!!  Enjoy the sneal peek!