I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who supports my business. I am truly grateful for those who enjoy my work. I also appreciate the encouragement you have all given me. Businesses don’t survive without customers and I have to say that I’ve had some of the greatest folks to work with (not to mention the most gorgeous families and kids I’ve ever seen!!)

So yeah… I don’t mean to make this all mushy and stuff, but thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Jenica

I met this little guy at Longview Community Church right across from Lake Sacajawea. He was such a doll and had a fun personality.  He warmed right up and gave me a ton of great smiles. He’s at that busy age of fifteen months where he wants to run and explore everything. I bet he keeps his parents on their toes!

These sessions are when I truly enjoy photography. It’s so much fun to try and capture the personality of a little one. It’s really rewarding being able to photograph a real smile. Thanks to the mom and dad for letting me capture this time in little “J”’s life.

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I met these cute little guys at the park for a quick session. These handsome little ones are the best buds of my two boys. Their parents and us have already decided they’re going to play ball together in a few years. It’s so much fun watching these kids. Little T is younger than my Mr. D and he’s already sitting up! He’s so advanced for his age.

They both have so much personality as you can see from “D” in picture number two. He was hilarious to photograph.  That kid can get a laugh out of anyone!

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Mr. D is now seven months old. He’s almost crawling already. He scoots himself all over the floor and rolls around to get to where he wants to be. He tries so hard to sit up, but he has such a big head that I think he can’t quite balance it yet (a trait of my kids is having large heads, must be a Lemmons thing). He’s also teething, so hence the drool. I kinda think it’s cute, but I often have “mommy goggles” when it comes to my kids.

Special request from my daddy… Miss K as a butterfly!!

It’s Saturday morning and in-between diaper changes and my kiddos watching cartoons, I’m making art! One of my friends told me that I’d start making every picture into a fantasy picture and she was right. This is way too much fun. I’m sure I should be doing my dishes, but eh… oh well. I guess they’ll eventually get done, right?

We went to a birthday party for Baby E and I managed to get a few pics of the little man. These guys are like family to us. Eric is good friends with my hubby and they attended boot camp together when they first joined the army. We spent five years stationed in the same places (which is pretty remarkable in the military life). Melea and I became good friends and we made our own quilting group when we were in Hawaii. Since we were all so far away from our families, we all celebrated holidays together. There was a small group of us that had moved around the same places. It made the military life a little easier to bear.

It was awesome to see them again! Thankfully for us, they’re now only an hour away in Vancouver, WA. I’m looking forward to us getting together more often.

After I uploaded the photos from the “tutus in the river” session, I knew that something needed to be done with some of the photos. I asked a few friends to help me out with ideas and my friend Charlotte Stringer came up with her version of “where the fairies live” using one of the photos. She did an awesome job!

Her photography site is;

http://www.charlottestringerphotography.com/

I did my own version using a different photo. Though mine isn’t near as cool as hers, it was fun learning the techniques on how to do this. Playing around with photo art is something I strive to do more often. It’s interesting how far you can take photoshop. I’m constantly learning new things every day!

Here’s Charlotte’s…

Here’s mine…

While at a birthday party yesterday in Woodland, my son decided it would be fun to play in the dirt. Most kids will get a little dirty and run around, but my son decided to cover himself from head to toe. Along with trying to eat the dirt, he decided it would be a good idea to ’save a little dirt for later’ by stuffing some in his pockets. I literally held him by his ankles and shook him out. I probably should have just stripped him down and hosed him off, but he thought it was pretty funny having all the dirt fly out around his head. Notice the red lip from his run in with the ground yesterday (the ground won). He’s a tough little cookie. It’s so much fun having little boys after having a girly girl. Miss K likes to get dirty, don’t get me wrong, but it’s nothing like this…

These little girls just melted my heart. Both of them had the sweetest dispositions and were so fun to be around. To top it off, both of them had the most striking eyes I’ve ever seen. Their mama is a knockout, so it’s no wonder where they got their looks. Their daddy’s gonna have to lock them in a closet once they get old enough. Those boys will be calling in no time!! Maybe I should seal the deal and arrange marriages with my boys to these girls. With parents as cool as theirs, it might be a good idea.

I’ve known the mom since we were in school together. We ran track at Kelso High. Ahhh, those were the good old days. Now I get my work outs by chasing down little kids and acting like a nut case to get them to smile at the crazy lady with a camera.

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This beautiful couple got married on the lucky day of 8/8/08. They married at the end of St. Martin’s Dock at Lake Sacajawea here in Longview. The bride’s parents got married at the same spot more than twenty some years ago. They were such a beautiful couple and you can tell they were very much in love. The details of the wedding were absolutely gorgeous.

The reception was at the Monticello Hotel just two blocks away from the lake. They partied and danced the night away.

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