This week on the I ♥ faces blog the contest is all about dancing…..I, personally, have a little dancing queen! We signed Amelia up for dance class last fall, and she wound up hating it (it wasn’t a traditional ballet class like she was expecting, I guess). What she did love, though, was the tutu’s! For my entry this week, I wanted to share my pretty dancing girl, spinning like a top right here in my living room. Happy 5th Birthday Amelia Mae, I hope you’re always this free inside.
I had the time the other day while my oldest human was at school to get in a quick shoot with my favorite little man; my son Thomas! ♥ Here are some of my favorite moments from our bathtub shoot!
Today I was out and about taking pictures, as I am every day, and on my way home I came across this train car…it’s another car from the FJ&G Railroad. (You can see those pictures on day 13 of my Project 365) This one is located in Northville, right off of Rt. 30, so without further adu, I give you some more trains for Liam ♥
An old friend and I got together yesterday for a “horror” style photo shoot. It didn’t work out exactly like that (winter tends to get in the way of the really good dark, creepy looking alleys around here) but I’m really pleased with the way this shoot turned out, and wanted to share a few selected highlights here.
That was what Amelia told me when I got home from work last Saturday night and she woke up for 3 minutes JUST to say goodnight to me. ♥ I love her in too many different ways to count, and all of them are unique to her. The sunset she was speaking of was the one we were blessed with last Saturday night. I was on my way to work and happened to have my camera with me. The colors in the pictures do not really do justice to the way the sky looked that night…it was so beautiful.
Now, the thing about my son is that he loves the idea of having his picture taken, but the minute I point the camera at him all I hear is “Nooooo….don’t cheese me!” (and it’s always in his deep, husky, tough-guy voice) Here is my sweet toes giving me his angry face.
{Photo taken on 1/6/2010}
That did not make it into the 365 post today. I got 4 up, and called that plenty, but then my poor sick husband and recovering-from-the-virus kids went to bed, and little old me had nothing to do but edit pictures! I know, so exciting, huh? Anywhere, here are a few extra from today’s shoot. <3 Enjoy!
Here is my first top 10 list of the year (and not the last, I’m hoping to have at least one more up by tomorrow!) *Note, these are not all my children. Images used with permission.
10. I got to shoot this sweet little guy a couple of weeks before Christmas, and boy did we have a great time! Little R. was full of energy, and not shy with me in the least! I really enjoyed capturinging his candid, adventurous spirit, and as you can see, it was hard for me to narrow down my choices!
9. My daughter’s 4 1/2 year pictures this past summer. Note the “cheesy” smile, as she calls it. 🙂
8. The star of this picture, obviously, is the sweet little bundle in the basket! A piece of my close friends’ christmas/baby’s first christmas shoot this year. Ladies and Gentlemen, the Heroths!
7. This little guy was just too cute! It was so hard to narrow down the pictures from our shoot together!
6.My own sweet little girl, climbing the ladder at the apple orchard all by herself! 
5.Little R. again….this time checking out the melted m&m all over his fingers!
4. My good friend recently had a baby, (Mid November) and I was fortunate enough to get to capture him within his first few hours of life. <3 Sweet little Isaac. *You'll see more of him later on*
3. I babysit this little sweetheart during the week, and one day we happened to be playing in the leaves, and I got lucky with this shot. As you can see, she was having a great time.
2. Another of sweet little R.
1. And, finally…who can resist a sleeping newborn in a Santa hat?!
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Pretty Presets {for lightroom}