{52 week challenge} week 6: lips

I'm not sure that there is anything cuter than a baby's lips while they are sleeping. They smile, pout, and dream of eating all within minutes...so sweet.

{52 week challenge} week 5 - Food

This post will be short (well somewhat). Have you heard of Pinterest? Who hasn't right? Well in my early days of planning for J's birthday I came across LOTS (like lots!) of food ideas for his Dr. Seuss party and most of them came from Pinterest. And while in typical "me" fashion I wasn't able to finish all of them in time, I was able to do these...

and the only mistake I made was not making near enough. They were gone in like 10 seconds! I've already made plans to make them for Dr. Seuss' birthday and have the boys take them to school. 

{52 week challenge} week 4 - I love

    I could've gone in many directions with a topic like "I love"...here's what I could've shot: my husband, my awesome boys (any of the 5 of them!!!), my pets, my friends, anything teal, my new SUV, my camera, my computer, shoes, chocolate, peanut butter...chocolate AND peanut butter...I could go on and on. But my week was very busy with putting the final touches on J's 2nd birthday party. Thus leading to my shot for the week. I LOVE throwing birthday parties for my boys...like a lot! This year I went with a Dr. Seuss theme. Why? Well everything Seuss is colorful and I miss teaching (but wouldn't trade it for being able to stay home with my babies), so what a better way than to draw out the teacher in me by throwing a Seuss party. I'm hoping to get more pictures of from our great day, but until then here's the "Dr. Seuss" ribbon wreath I made (another one of my LOVES....crafting) along with Seuss books and a "Go Dog Go" on all display. Wait until you see the week 5 Food pic! 

{Boys and cookies!} -momma photog meetup

I'm blessed that not only do I think I have a great group of friends, but I also have a few friends that have a passion for photography-some are in business, some are not. After the rain cleared, Danielle and I got to meet up in hopes to find a new photo location. I'm not sure that I was sold on heading there in the future, but the boys sure had a great time. As I was leaving out house, my neighbor brought over Valentine's day cookies for us to enjoy (I LOVE my neighborhood!) And we thought it'd be a nice treat to bring to Danielle and her boys. 

 

{Joy of Love} Day 4-What they wear

Here's my Crazy boy! He's makes me laugh everyday. My kids have several toy boxes filled with costumes from past halloweens, birthday parties, etc-they love coming out and playing the part of their character. Here he is playing a grandpa! He even walked around with a hunched back and with a lightsaber as a walking stick!

Joy of love project

{Joy of Love} Day 3-then and Now

I'm a little behind on my Joy of love project-check it out here if you are interested in doing one. Here's one I got of 'my brainiac' and 'crazy boy' (or 'wild child'). They are holding a picture I took of them over a year ago---it's still one of my favorites.

~A

{Joy of Love} day 2-how they look

If you haven't heard of the {Joy of Love} project-check out the details here or on facebook here. You can still sign up and its FREE!

Here's my shot for today. 'Crazy boy' (aka-Dylan) was "too busy" to be bothered with getting his picture taken, so I'll have to catch him another time. Here's 'Brainiac' (Tristan) and 'Baby J'. Baby J adores his big brothers and lights up every time they get home from school.

xoxo
~Angela

{Winter Semi-Formal} wk 5/52-Murrieta HS Senior Photographer

Let me start off my saying how much I LOVE being a mom of boys! They love their mom the most; they love playing rough, but following it up with a kiss; they love helping me cook but skip out on the cleaning; they love rockin' out with their paper jamz or even the random leg or air guitar. Boys ROCK!

With that said, I realized last saturday that there are some things that I don't get to experience with boys. Our xc (cross country) and track boy (aka-'the teenager') is awesome, but doesn't go to school dances often. If fact since starting middle school in 6th grade-now as a 10th grader-he's gone to 3. As a girl-I don't remember missing a single one! I loved them! I love the shoes, the dress, the jewelry, the hair, the make-up the shopping, the WHOLE package!

Randomly, 'the teenager' asked me if I'd take pictures of him and his friends before the dance! I looked at him with a HUGE smile on my face, "Are you serious?!? Yeah-I will, I'd love to!!!" This coming from the kiddo who really hates to get his picture taken...I re-arranged my whole weekend to be able to do this for him and his friends (all girls...yep). More pictures are here on my facebook page.

xoxo~Angela

{Birthday Boy} - wk 4/52

I am loving that I am doing a 52 week challenge this year! Most of my picks for the week have been of baby J-but that is because, he's not in school or working, so I spend more time with him than anyone else. I will try to get more of my other boys as the year continues.


Here's my week 4 pick-we went out for a play day at the park. J had a blast!

{More Cake Smashing Fun}

I think I may have a new favorite type of session! Here's more from my session with my lil' man!

{Cake Smash Session} with my 'baby J'-wk 3/52

Today was a GREAT day! I had a Valentine's mini with the adorable and fabulous lil' Miss L (more pics coming-check out fb for now) and then I had a cake smash with my baby boy. I really should rename his session from cake smash to cake demolish--he ate almost all of it. More pictures to come.
I hope I'll have many more smashes in the future...so fun!

~A

New year, new blog!

I was horrible about keeping up with my family blog last year and am hoping to do better this year. And in order to keep it easier for me, I will also be combining my sessions with my family events. Stayed tuned for lots of fun! 

~A