seattle sessions

For more of the few Seattle sessions and wedding images I have been able to edit click HERE. Hope to blog and share photos of our most recent trip to Seattle soon. I still have 3 more sessions to edit and post on the blog so check back for more.

Our trip comes to an end tomorrow. Cohen will say his goodbyes to Grammie Kate tomorrow, as well as to Gramma and Grumpa. We hate to go. Its always hard. Cooper will leave Seattle with his walkin shoes on. He is not crawling at all anymore. He also leaves here a better napper... no swing sleep! He was perfect the entire time of course because he is just so damn easy. Easy going with everything... and boy is he happy, happy, happy and busy, busy, busy! Cohen had a blast with G. Kate, Auntie Linda and Uncle Tony as well as a day where Aunt Patty joined in. He was able to see his best gal Isabel and other mother Kelly and visit with some of my gal pals. He was even able to see his Auntie M's after her 6 week European work adventures. Cohen and Cooper got to spend Monday with their M's. Of course they also had plenty of Uncle T time as well. Cooper however seemed to be sleeping a lot when T would stop by. (his visits were often after 9pm). Cohen also was able to visit with his Aunt Kathie as well. He just loves her... He also had a first. His first day alone with Auntie Linda. Lots of fun and now we pack up and jump a plane for NW Arkansas where the sun actually shines. Wish us all luck... a 10 month old and a 3 year old flying for 7 hours... Luck will not be what I need :)

Bathingsuit Beauties

It has been hot as hell here... 90's. So these are the boys daily outfits and they eat popsicles for breakfast, lunch and dinner and then have ice cream for dessert. If they don't behave I make them eat something hot and healthy! Cheers to summer. There is nothing better!

Cohen and Coop

Okay, okay... same old song. I am busy. I did finally do a post about the boys. Click HERE to check that out. I put it on my photography blog because the format is just nicer for viewing pics and reading.

The weather has been so warm here in the mid south that I can only take outdoor sessions first thing in the morning or later in the evening. That means the boys and I spend all our time out in the back yard with the water hose and Toy Story slip n' slide or poolside at the neighborhood pool. Both boys love the water. Cooper is no where near cautious where Cohen is very thought out and careful but never letting his worry keep him from having fun. He jumps into the pool with no fear as long as he has an adult to jump to or his float on. Cooper on the other hand thinks he is a fish. Tries tearing free from our grip or tries lunging out of his float. He is the one I think I have to worry about. Cooper has bumps and bruises all over, oh and two burn scars on both his hands. He eats dirt from the flower beds, climbs on top of things, climbs the stairs, eats rocks from the gas fireplace, plays in the dog's food and water bowls and is just a mess. I keep thinking he will slow, he will settle down and not think everything is so cool and interesting now that he has tried it all but that's just not happening. The boys are out of school until mid July. We have a trip to Seattle coming up so I saw no point in enrolling them for the first session of summer when they were going to miss half of it with travel. So now that I do not have care for them my time becomes that much more limited and I am still seeing clients. So this may be one of very few blog posts for some time. Although I will try to do better. Until then enjoy these two characters above and visit my photography blog for more reading.

Poor Little Blog

This poor little blog. I had big dreams for you and there were crushed beneath two kids in 2 years, a dog, a babies Daddy... yes babies not baby's we do have two together out of wedlock! As well as a photography business that for some reason leaves me working late into the night every night. Excuses sure but at the end of the day I want to play with my kids in the yard and then put my feet up and watch the same shows I have been watching for years, not blog! Its enough having to keep up with my photography blog and photography facebook page!

Things like Cohen's 3rd birthday go unblogged and Cooper's milestones go uncharted and shared. promise to do better and I do promise a post about Cohen turning three or thirteen if you ask him since he is "big" now as well as Cooper's latest milestones of standing solo and taking his first steps just days before turning 9 months, which he does tomorrow.

So below are pictures from April and May. Cooper was 7 months in the first image and 8 in the second. He dwarfs Cohen... or at least his head does. Sorry Coop bud, your head is a biggie!

Baseball Skills

I know I have said this before but my kids are freakish in the motor skills and development. Do I think they will go on to be some professional athlete or something???? NO, NO I do not but I do think it is pretty ridiculous that Cohen has been able to hit a pitched ball since before he turned two. Videos of that are on my crashed computer. Which is terrible sad and I only hope I can retrieve them. That is for another day.

So here is a video of my almost three year old freakish kid back in March. Soon to follow will be some video of my just turned 8 month old, as in just turned yesterday, already starting to walk. He pushes things around the house. So my kids are freakishly coordinated. Notice I did not say freakishly smart which that is what I wish they were. Smarts go further than coordination however both would be nice! For now coordination it is! Enjoy.

Bath Snaps

A few bath snaps. We do not bath much at our house because everytime the kids do Cooper ends up underwater more than above it. He is a maniac! He thinks he is as big and coordinated as his big brother. News flash Cooper... you are 7 months, not almost three and your chubby little legs cannot keep you afloat so ease up buddy and just sit still during your bath and maybe you would not get your tush thrown in the shower so much and then just maybe we would have more bath pictures on file! Much fun around our house with Cooper on the move. We think by 9 months we may have a walker. Oh, goodie!

Do you here that?

Have I mentioned that we took a family trip, yes family that includes Jeremy, back to Seattle for a week in mid March? Well we did and look what Jeremy and I treated ourselves to... a little getaway. Just the two of us. It was the best. We slept, we ate and we sat in quiet, no kids. This is the first time since before Cohen was born that Jeremy and I have spent the night together without kids. Yes, that would be 36 straight months of no sleep, no piece and quiet, no just me time, him time or together time for less than a nap would allow. I didn't miss the kids for a second. Ok for maybe a second. It was wonderful and WE ARE doing it again!

At one point I laid lifeless in the soft fluffy bed and said...

Me: "shhh... do you hear that?"
Jeremy: "No, what?"
Me: "Exactly!"

Amazing that is all I have to say!

Photos from our trip to follow!