Milk and Water Concoction

I just started taking a class on Portrait Photography by Candice Stringham over at http://www.jessicasprague.com/. This is the second week of the class and I am loving it. I am learning so much already.

This week we are learning about lighting-specifically the use of window light indoors. I decided that I needed some practice. So I decided that while Emerson was busy with his concoction of milk and water (this is a pretty normal thing for the boy to do) that I would take some pictures of him and practice with the indoor window light.
This is a poor example of side lighting...but still a really cute picture.

To make side lighting better, you can add a reflector. Which will fill in a bunch of the shadows on the opposite side. So, here I practiced with the reflector. (Cute, huh?)

This is without the reflector:

These next two are with:

Here is Emerson without the reflector again.

And finally here he is with his new "funny" (a.k.a. super adoreable) face with the reflector.

I hope that you enjoyed looking at my practice photos. I had a really awesome model. I will be sure to keep you updated on his modeling career throughout this class.

If you are interested: all the pictures are straight out of the camera. NO editing. I think that they turned out pretty well considering.

Me and Mr. E

I just wanted to share a few pictures that I got with Emerson today at church. I love him to pieces!

Happy Mother's Day

I am one lucky girl. I am so lucky to have the privilege to be able to raise up this beautiful young boy. I love him so much!
This morning, he came walking down our long hall in this cute outfit and a holding bag of chocolates. It was so cute. Right now he is down stairs helping Daddy make some yummy chocolate chip pancakes. He is the best boy to be a mom to. I love him so much!

I also want my mom know how much I love her! Thank you for being the best mom. I only hope that I can be at least half the mother you were to me. I love you so much!

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!

Still going strong...

Happy Anniversary, Jason!
I still love you!

Thanks for a great four years! I can't wait to see what this next year brings for us.

Finally

I am finally home for a little bit! I have been a travel queen this past month. First, Emerson and I went to Georgia, then the whole family went out to Idaho. It was a lot of fun visiting family, but it is nice to be home and to be able to get some much needed things done before we leave for our cruise later this month.

I am working on uploading all my photos a day up on my other blog-http://www.jessicabills365.blogspot.com/. I hopefully will be caught up before I leave again!

I WON!

For the first time I have won a giveaway!  I am so excited!  I love this apron which makes me more excited that I won it.  Now, I just can't wait to get it.

Farewell sweet clothes...

Last week when I went to Georgia, I had my luggage stolen. This one of the most heart wrenching things that could happen with tangible items (I can only imagine a fire or something burning up all of these plus). I don't really care about my clothes that I lost (most have ben replaceable), but these clothes are the sad ones to lose. A couple of them I did buy in larger sizes, so they will be seen again. But some are gone forever. And that is terribly sad to me (especially the pink and gray tie, the gray cords, and the red vest in that baby size).

In addition to Emerson's clothes, the only thing that I will miss terrible that belongs to me is this necklace that my sister-in-law, Jessica, made for me a couple of Christmases ago. I really loved this necklace!

I really hope that who ever ended up with all my things love them as much as I did.

Sweet Tomatoes and First Ice Cream Cone

We LOVE Sweet Tomatoes. It is one of our favorite places to go eat. This time when we went, we decided that Emerson would love an ice cream cone, so we got him one. He did love it!

A Couple Captured moments...

Moment 1:
The other night, you were pinching daddy’s nose. Every time you did he would honk. You started to catch on and you would make the honk noise just before you would pinch his nose. You then pinched mommy’s nose and her honker must be broken and didn’t go off, so you were quickly back to daddy’s nose.

Moment 2:
You like to go “awwww” with your mouth open wide and come up and try to suck my face…I think that it is your version of kisses. I started to blow into it and you would pull away. Then you would try again and the whole cycle would repeat itself. Every once in a while, I would go “awwww” and go close to him. After about 4 times of my doing it to him, he started to do it back! I love how quickly he caught on.

Brush Teeth

I let Emerson brush his own teeth after I give them a good brushing. He LOVES to do this. I just think that he is adoreable when he is "brushing" his teeth...more chewing on his toothbrush.