W. Family Idaho Falls Photography

What a cute family! I love when sessions run smoothly, had so much fun.

Rainbows and Butterflies

A CD cover idea

Too much growing up for one week!

We have just a few more weeks before Claire heads to Kindergarten. I also got Jake into an at home Preschool two days a week. I promised we would go school shopping we got her school supplies and some new hair accessories and we got Jake a little backpack. When we got home we went through all the school supplies and clothes. I buy most of their clothes a year ahead so we had to go through the stash and see what fit and see what we were still missing. Jake was bummed to see Claire's "school clothes" since he was going to "school" now, where were his school clothes, so I got out some shoes for the fall and his winter coat for next year and Claire got on her stuff too. When did they get big?? They both seem so tall.




finally got Jake in for his 3 year well-check, it's not that accurate seeing that his birthday was in June, but better late than never. I some how walked out without his actual height, but he is 80th percentile for height and 36lbs and 76th percentile for weight. We had just been in there because Jake had an allergic reaction to something, we still do not know what and he got hives all over his body and the next day he was swollen head to toe. Poor boy, he really didn't complain, but he looked awful!


Claire is going to hate that I'm posting this, but we had a rather crazy week as far as talking about things that are just a bit too old for her and I was in shock parenting mode. It started with a random question about how babies get out of the mom's belly. That was fun. Then the other night she turned to us and said, I want to marry a man (wispering: with his shirt off) Whoa. Didn't see that coming. And then minutes after a little conversation about that she starts asking about getting a tatoo?!? Um I have no idea where this is coming from. Lets hope this is all for a little bit.

We have been doing the typical summer stuff, my garden is in full swing and I have just about enough green beans to can a batch and I think I will be canning beets in a few days as well, also we should have summer squash and zucchini coming out our ears here in a few days--it's about time.



Also the latest thing is keeping Jake indoors, he will wake up and go straight outside to ride his bike at like 7am. Not good. I've got the child safety door locks but he's learned to rip them off and I can't seem to find anything better-other than putting in a chain lock. It would probably be fine, but he doesn't quite understand boundaries and he will go play in the neighbors back yard and ride his bike in the street. It's hard because we have so many fun kids in our culdesac I don't blame him for wanting to go play, they have been spending hours and hours out there, but he's just still too little. What to do, what to do. Okay, that's all for now.

Color Palettes

I've had a few people ask me about colors for family portraits. I think everyone wants a little help when it comes to organizing outfits for pictures, so here's a little cheat sheet :) This is especially helpful for large family groups.






Colors are not the only thing that will make your pictures pop, textures and patterns go a long way too! Chevron, polka dots, or stripes along with different types of fabrics look great.


I will probably be putting this up on my website soon. Enjoy!

Vacation

My whole family was in Utah so we headed down there for 10 days. It was MOSTLY fun, despite the two bouts of stomach flu our family caught. We did lots of shopping and eating out of course, took a day for golfing. Benjamin gave us a tour of the facility he works at, at Golf Tek. We were able to get hooked up to the cameras and actually work on our swings a bit. We got pedicures, got our faces painted by aunt Amy, went to the drive-in and got to hear Kimberly give a concert of some of her songs. We also got to tour an awesome WWII private collection. And we finished up our trip at Flaming gorge, we didn't do much there because that's when the flu bug hit bad, so we ended up getting a hotel in Rock springs and stayed until Sunday for baby Desch's blessing. I also threw in a few photo sessions while I was there. Lots o fun. And now my family has all departed to various parts of the country and we will anxiously await the next time we can all be together. We did get in a nice family picture before we all departed. I was impressed with how good we look considering about 3/4 had been sick the day before! Aren't those mountains perdy?! Too bad Hilary's fence was taken out that evening by a crazy driver who ran into her house! (and tore up the sod the guys had laid a few days before)


Brother Ben and fam getting ready to leave flaming gorge, they were so sick, but it was kind of funny cause they were in their car listening to "so you had a bad day".


"enjoying" lunch at flaming gorge, just minutes before Claire would start puking for 7 hrs straight. You can tell Kimberly is feeling really good too.


Papa Ray holding baby D after the blessing-he was one of the only non-sick ones.






twinners! I had the girls together at the mall and I kept getting asked if they were twins.


I threw in a picture of strawberries we picked from our garden before we left. YUM! They are So much better than store bought. We got home and our garden looks like a jungle. My beets and green beans are nearly ready to be picked and we also have a few little zucchinis that will be ready soon.
Also I thought I would mention the kids finished up swimming lessons before we left. They both did great and I didn't get a single picture darn it.

Giveaway preview and a Nashville singer

Here are a couple previews!

Baby Announcement Design

Whipped this up this afternoon. I've got a bunch of ideas for more!