ALOHA!

Announcing the contest for best image of 2008. I wanted to pick one from each session, but there were just so many that I had to narrow it down. I had an unbiased opinion (my hubby) who helped me select my images.

The winner will receive a framed 16X20 of the image. Also, for anyone who votes and books a session you will receive a free 16X20 of an image from your session. You must book your session before the contest ends, though to get the super cool dealy-O.

To vote, please make a comment below in the comment box for whatever number you are voting for. Please no fake email addresses and only one vote per person. My system can track these things, so please no cheaty cheaty or your vote won’t count.

Contest will end on January 10th, 2009 at midnight.

Have fun and get all your friends, family, coworkers and enemies involved. Okay, well maybe not enemies, but you get the idea 😉

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Edited to add: Please post in the comment box right below here. Some people were commenting on another blog post.

Comments are moderated, so please don’t keep re-posting them.Your comments will appear within 24 hours.

I will only post one vote per person. Comments are moderated to prevent people from spamming my site.

Good luck!! (comment below)

Miss K lost another tooth. She’s got a crazy gapped smile now. I love kids….

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday!

I just wanted to share a quick storyboard of a few of my favorite images of my kiddos from 2008. There are millions more that I love, but I had to stop somewhere. These are all images I’ve had printed and some are hanging on my wall. I think if I were to make a collage of all my favorites from this year, then it’d take up an entire two story building. I have an insane amount of photos backed up on my external hard drives (I have five HUGE ones in case you were curious).

This year has been a very good year for our family. January 31st my littlest guy was born. He started my year off wonderfully. We’ve also been very blessed in many other ways as well. God has been so good to us. I don’t deserve the life I have, but am grateful for it. I have a beautiful, wonderful family. I have a great loving husband who puts up with my wackiness and kids who perfect in their mommy’s eyes. I also am blessed enough to be doing what I LOVE doing. I can’t imagine a better job than being a photographer. I hope and pray 2009 is as good as 2008 was.

A few more photos of their wedding from November 29th. They’re just too beautiful of a couple for their own good.

Enjoy sneak peak #2!!

she’s absolutely stunning..

WHEEEEEE!!!!!

and the formal photo… not as exciting, but important nonetheless…

every time I looked at  this one,  it made me smile. I hope it makes you smile too..

counting the cash from the money dance…

As much as I’m glad to have life go back to normal after the crazy holidays, I’m going to miss it when the year finally ends. It’s been so much fun going to our families’ houses for Christmas. I enjoy the time spent and all the really good food. I think I may have to go up a pant size, but it’s okay. I now have 360 more days to shed it off till next year.

The kids had a wonderful time and I think I may have to start building more shelves to store all the goodies they got. Course after all the stacks of presents they received, they’re still content playing simple things. Miss K got a plastic whistle in one of her gifts and it’s become a favorite.

I got a brand new pair of jammies. The hubs and I exchange jammies every year as our presents. Mine are pink and polka dotted (he knows me well). He also surprised me by folding all the laundry and putting it away. For those of you who don’t know me well, laundry is something I struggle with. I have no problem getting it washed, but getting it folded and put away becomes difficult for me. So for him to do all of it and put it away (five million pairs of socks and all) he’s now my hero. I love him!

All in all it was a great vacation.

Though I took hundreds of pictures through the last week, I’m only going to share one for now.

This is my Christmas tree lights….

Have a happy New Year!