The {Awake} Baby Dream Pictures

I saw a post somewhere about Adele Enerson who decorates around her daughter when she is asleep.  I decided to try my hand at some.  Except at the point when I was taking these pictures, my child didn't sleep.  She's only recently realized that naps are things babies (and tired mommies) should take!  Here are some of our "Dream" photos though!

Walking Levi

St. Patrick's Day

Riverdance

Play Ball!  (Obviously she's a Red Sox fan!)

All the backgrounds are just scarves, sheets, t-shirts, pieces of knit fabric, burp cloths, etc.  

Try some of your own!  If you do, let me know.  I'd love to see!

BFS

BFS stands for Blog Friend Sarah, which is what I call her.  BFS and I have very very interestingly connected lives.  I don't remember who started commenting on whose blog first, but we were mutual blog readers.  She's one of the funniest bloggers I know!

Then we discovered we lived very close to each other.  We always thought we'd run into each other at the local Joanns or Michaels.  Despite our intertwined lives, we never did have a Joanns meetup.

Well, several months ago Miss Sarah announced that she was engaged.  (He proposed using buttons!!)  I was determined to somehow sneak into the wedding to see a blog friend I had never met get married.  I didn't have to though, because she asked me to photograph the wedding!  Woo hoo!  I was invited! 

So then we had to meet of course!  Here's Blog Friend Sarah holding Amelia. 

Amelia was very good at that Panera meeting.  I'm pretty sure that that was the last time Amelia was good at Panera.  (We met again at Panera and we had to run out of Panera before everyone else started running out of Panera because of the wailing coming from my child). The *very* weird thing is that we found out that we are related!  She's not my long lost sister or anything, but her family is related to my husband's stepmother.  The family tree would have to have many branches to explain how we are related, but it's good enough for me! 

So, I was able to be part of BFS's *very* fun and lovely wedding day.  :D

THEN, (BFS doesn't know this part!)  I was meeting with my cousin and aunt because I'm photographing my cousin's wedding and I was describing BFS's beautiful reception venue.  My cousin said, "The bride's name wasn't Sarah, was it?"  Oh dear!  It turns out BFS volunteered at the preschool where my cousin works.   God definitely wanted BFS and me to meet! ;)

Unfortunately, BFS had to go get married and move away, so she doesn't live near me anymore.  Too bad, because she was going to be Amelia's favorite babysitter.  But we hope Sarah has a wonderful, blessed, God-centered marriage! Check out BFS's blog, Dandelions and Daffodils.  Congratulate her.  Ask her how she met her husband.  :D

Have YOU ever met a blog friend before? 

The Summer Cottage

Notice I didn't say MY summer cottage!  Living in Rhode Island, we get to go visit the summer "cottages" of the rich and richer.  The day before Mother's Day, we took Josh's mom to Blithewold,  the summer home of the Van Winkles, a coal mining family.

You can't take pictures inside, but I was able to get some of the grounds, the green house, and the lovely flowers.  Imagine playing croquet on that lawn in the warm summer breeze?

Or sipping lemonade from this porch?

Or growing fruit and flowers in this greenhouse?

 

Imagine seeing such loveliness in your personal gardens?

Imagine needing bamboo for plant stakes and just growing your own bamboo garden?

Imagine having your picture taken beneath this tree all the time?

Imagine???

Teaming Up with Becky Higgins

Back when I scrapbooked (my definition of "scrapbooked" was that I collected scrapbooking materials and subscribed to scrapbooking magazines.  I don't actually have any scrapbooks to show for it, but I have made some for other people.) Becky Higgins (or BH in the scrapbook world) was one of my favorite designers.  I've followed her blog ever since.  She has great, creative ideas and cute kids!

Recently, she gave away a photo shoot to a deserving family in her area.  She then had the idea to arrange it so that willing photographers could give away photo shoots in their areas and she would set it up!  I jumped at that chance because I LOVE giving things away!  So, if you are in the Rhode Island or Southern Massachusetts area and you want to enter to win a photoshoot giveaway or you know someone who could use a free photoshoot giveaway, hop on over to Becky's Blog and comment under my post.  You can nominate yourself or someone else.  The details are over there!

By the way, the winner of the laminated envelope was Anna!  Anna, I'll be in touch.  ;)

Recent happenings

I feel like I have disappeared for a while around here.  I've been up to something.  Something fun and new!

A while back, I started taking photography courses at JessicaSprague.com.  I really enjoyed it and decided it could be something that I wanted to explore further.

I really really love taking pictures of people.  I like capturing their personalities and their attitudes.  I like capturing moments between parents and children, or kids and dogs, or siblings.

So, I decided to start a little photography business.

I will be a stay-at-home mom starting this summer, so earning some extra income will be helpful too! Click on the logo to take you to the website.  Or go  HERE. Check it out and let me know what you think!  I still need to add content and fix some pictures, but you can get the main idea! 

In other news, Wednesday we go for our anatomy scan appointment to find out the gender of the baby!  I promise there will be much more sewing going on after that! ;)

Photo Blog

To try to chronicle some of the photographs I plan on taking this year, I'm starting a photoblog!  I know some of you might be saying, "Again?" with a voice dripping with hopelessness.  Fine. You are justified after the disaster that was Quaint and Quirky Photographs last year.

This time I'm going to make it farther than February!  Okay????

So here is the link:  Moments

It's not exactly a once-a-day photo post kind of site.  I'll put bunches of pictures up at times as well. 

Send me a link with your photoblog and I'll add it on the sidebar!

Photography Retreat

No, I haven't been on a photography retreat.  I wish I had!  But I wanted to blog about a photography retreat called "For the Love."  It is a retreat for Christian photographers and looks soooooo inspiring!

They are giving away one free spot and it's not too late to try to win it!

Check it out!  www.fortheloveworkshop.com

In other news, I am restarting Project 365 (taking a picture a day for a year).  So far, I'm 3 for 3!  Last year I only made it until February, but I have higher hopes for this year!  I'm going to be starting a photo blog, so I'll put the link here when it is all prettied up!  


I hope you are all having a great 2010 so far!
(What are you calling it by the way?  "Twenty ten?"  "Two thousand ten?"  A friend asked that question on facebook and I'm curious to know what the blog world has to say about it!) 

Levi update

My baby is getting big! He's a little punk now, but he's getting to be a good, good dog. He likes to cuddle on the couch and play "Bring it back" (fetch). Taking him for a walk is like taking a vacuum cleaner for a walk though - acorns, leaves, straws, napkins, rocks, mulch, plastic all seem to end up in his mouth. Here are some pictures from a few days ago!