Today has been one of those days where I’ve smiled most of the day. I’ve been working out again and I finally feel at peace with life. I’m glad that business is calmer in these colder months. It’s nice to have more time to spend with my kiddos and my husband.  More time to breathe, and time to smile.

Though it’s my super “slow” time, I’m ten times busier this year in January than I was even a year ago. I cannot believe how busy you all have kept me. THANK YOU for still having me do what I love so much even when the weather turns yucky. 😀

In other news:

I’ve been working on a 365 project where I take on photo every day for 365 days. It’s my own personal project and so far I’ve completed ten days (I still have to do today’s photo). I’ve had so much fun stretching myself to take an interesting photo that has nothing to do with my “normal” work. My own rules say that it has to be personal and tell a bit of a story. I took this photo when I was trying a self portrait for one of the days.

I’ll share more of my personal project photos once I complete a whole month. 😀

And remember to smile!!!

I’m updating my site today and tomorrow so in case things look funky around here it’s because I’m spending my long weekend making my site look all shiny and sparkly.

I upgraded to a newer version of my site so it’s kinda different but still sort of the same. Yay for change!!!

Hope everyone had a fun and safe New Years!!! And because I can’t post without photos, here’s some of the wedding I did on December 11th that I’m currently working on. I have three more weddings to post (and countless sessions) but I will get to those SOON!!!

I spent about six hours today going through all my files from 2010 and realized that there is no way I could possibly do a slide show with every single session. I had to narrow it down to my favorites and go from there. I sincerely apologize if a photo from your session is not in the slide show. 🙁

The flip side of that is HOLY SMOKES we’ve had a great year. Thank you thank you thank you for supporting Lemondrops Photography. Derrick and I are beyond blessed to have had this much business. It’s all up to God, but we hope that 2011 is even better than this year.

The slide show is only babies, kids, families and seniors but I will be doing another one featuring all my favorite wedding images as well. I have discovered a new slide show program so I’m hoping to do a lot more of these in the coming months!!

Anyhoo, since probably five people will read this I’ll get to the point already….

FAVORITES of 2010:

I did an unplanned 10 minute photo shoot with my kids this afternoon. I knew it was going to start raining for the next week (possibly the rest of the winter, who knows!) and desperately wanted some new pics of my kids outside.

So, I bribed them with candy and took them out in their wrinkled, uncoordinated and muddy clothes. They all need haircuts but that won’t happen till this Wednesday. The goofy thing is that I will probably love these photos so much more than my “planned” studio session with them in their formal Christmas outfits. They have their appointment on Thursday (yes, I actually scheduled them in. Things have been BUSY lately. LOL)

Anyhoo, here’s my kids. As they are on any normal day….

8.5 years, 4.5 years, and 3 next month

SQEEEEEEEEZZEEEEE!!!!

(mr. d’s favorite thing to do)

this is exactly them. Tinker sticking his tongue out, mr. d smiling so big his eyes close and miss K behaving perfectly in front of the camera.

Love those kids.

So we moved and our new house came MUCH more wall space. And what do you do with more wall space???? You fill it with huge canvases of your kids and family of course…

I can’t even begin to explain how excited I am about these photos. My extremely talented friend, Rebecca of Catchlights Northwest took our photos a few weeks ago. I am amazed, thrilled, and excited about these images. They are everything I wanted them to be and I’ve already pre-ordered four 20X24 canvases to go on my walls.

Thank you a million times over for photographing my family and being so wonderful.

And yes I’ll stop rambling and show the photos….

my absolute FAVORITE!!!!!!

I put this one above my kitchen sink because it makes me laugh every time I see it.

they make me smile!!