Happy Birthday Jackson Rew!  Your crazy Aunt C.C. and Uncle Mike love you more than you know!  We can't wait to watch you grow and celebrate MANY more birthdays with you.  Daniel and Lauren, hope you like the pics of your little man.

Baby Lucy {Sneak Peek}

I have been dying to get this session from Thursday edited and posted.  This little baby girl was just absolutely precious and I was so excited to see how the pictures turned out.  K - thank you for allowing me to take pictures of your little miracle.  She is absolutely beautiful and I will look forward to taking some more pics of this little cute in the future!  Hope you like what we got.

P.S. - I am really trying to only post my top 5 favorite pictures for Sneak Peeks!  I could have easily posted 20 pictures from this session but unfortunately, the blog just can't handle it!  I will have 5 sessions from this week to post so I have to start being choosy.  K - you will have to come pick up your DVD so you can see the rest!

Something about these next two pictures (above and below) just melt my heart.  The way she is looking up at her mom.....it's just beautiful.

Garage Sale Find of the Week: The Barbie Bus.

I love garage sales.  My affair with garage sales started when I was a very little girl...once a year the Crosby's would go through our house and "clean out" all the old junk and have a garage sale.  My mom would always let us pick out some of our old stuffed animals and toys to sell at the gargage sale and we got to keep our profits from the sale.  Once I got older and could drive, I would find myself pulling into neighborhoods whenever I saw a GARAGE SALE sign posted.  I LOVE finding new treasures for DIRT CHEAP!  I found every piece of furniture that Michael and I used in our first house after we got married at garage sales.  And you want to know the best part?  I resold it two years later and MADE money on every single piece of furniture.  You gotta love that! 

Now that the weather has warmed up, the GARAGE SALE signs are starting to pop up again.  Me and the kids stopped by one today and I found two fun new treasures for only $12.  Emmy was absolutely thrilled with her new "Barbie-mobile" and I am super pumped about my sassy new stool that I am going to use in photography.  Envision with me if you will, a naked little newborn baby girl laying on that stool with a bright red bow on....CAN'T WAIT!  Here are some more pictures of the Barbie-mobile and what transpired after we got it back home.....

Little momma enjoying HER new $3 retro Barbie Bus. Or is it really hers?!?!

Uh-oh. Big brother was lovin' him some Barbie Bus as well.  Dad is going to LOVE hearing that.  Now this next picture I am sure is going to get me many nominations for mother of the year....

Yes, that is Emmy punching her brother.  "BACK OFF THE BARBIE BUS BROTHER!!!"  Hmmm....Do I put the camera down to break up the full-on hitting and freak out session over the Barbie Bus, OR,

allow World War III to continue in the name of capturing the moment?!?!  What is a mom to do???  CAPTURE THE MOMENT OF COURSE.

P.S. - You can submit your nominations for mother of the year now.  Yes, I allowed my children to fight for a few moments so that I could take a picture of it.  Yes, it was worth it.  Yes, I would do it again.

T.C. Senior Session {Sneak Peek}

I had alot of fun on Monday shooting this senior session downtown.  It was a beautiful day and was perfect for pictures, which is hard to believe after all this cold weather that we've had!  T - thanks for asking me to take your senior pictures for you.  I hope you like them!

Bye-Bye Baby Bambini's

For those of you who don't know....my daughter was born with an eye condition called accomodative esotropia.  The picture above is one of the first pictures we took of her after she got her new glasses.  I will never forget when she was diagnosed and I was told that she basically could not see a thing (she is legally blind without glasses on) and that I would need to get a pair of special glasses for her called......

baby bambini's.

Of course I was devastated.  My heart broke into a million pieces.  My poor little baby girl.  She couldn't see a thing for the first 10 months of her life.  She wasn't crawling.  She wasn't even moving.  She just sat there and strained to see and crossed her little eyes.  Then we put those little miracle-workers on her precious little eyes.  And a whole new world opened up to her.  She took one look at the world through her Baby Bambini's....and she took of crawling and never looked back.  She was so happy once she could finally see.  As a mother, when I found out she would have to wear not only special glasses, but an EXTREMELY strong prescription (we are talking coke bottle thickness here people), I was devastated.  I didn't want her to have the struggles of being "different."  I didn't want strangers to stare at her and whisper about her glasses.  I wanted to give her my eyes and take away her broken eyes.  But I couldn't.  I could, however, give her the baby bambini's. 

From the day we put those little pale-pink glasses on her face, the world became a new place to my little Emmy Grace...a place she could finally see!  From that moment on, she and her baby bambini's were ONE wth each other.  The second she woke up, she asked for them.  Once she could talk, she would say, "Mom.  I need my glasses.  I don't see very well without my glasses."  And we would immediately put them on her face.  They wouldn't come back off until she laid her precious little head on the pillow.  Now that I have explained the history....you will understand my dismay when I walked in one morning to find the precious baby bambini's in the dog's mouth.

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Notice the bite marks all over the frames and the popped out lens with indentations from being chewed on...nice.  Obviously this resulted in a trip to the pediatric opthalmologist and from that visit, we have a big announcement to make....I would like to proudly introduce:

little momma in her new big girl glasses

And I would like to say a tearful goodbye to the baby bambini's.  Thank you for helping my baby see for the past three years.  I will never forget the look on her face the first time I slid you over her precious little eyes and she truly saw my face for the first time.  I will NEVER, NEVER forget you and I can NEVER thank you enough.  (sniff. sniff.  Yes, I am seriously crying about saying goodbye to my child's glasses.  Yes, I am psycho but I know I am so that makes it better.  At least, that is what I tell myself).

So what do you guys think of the new big girl glasses?!?!

Look Out Ladies!

Can you say trouble?!?!  This is Cohen and his BF, Jackson.  Aren't they SOOOOO cute.  Please remind me of this in oh, about 15 years.  Lauren, we are going to have our hands full with these two!

Benefield Couple Session {Sneak Peek}

I met the Benefield's downtown today for a little couples photo shoot. As you can see, this couple is absolutely gorgeous so my job was pretty easy. M & A....thanks for letting me take pictures of you guys! Hope you like them.