My little girl is now a fabulous four-year-old! She is all about princesses lately and got a box of new princess dress up stuff for her birthday. Maybe I'm just a little biased, but really....isn't she adorable? To see more of Little Miss Abbie, check out my facebook page.

Meet Little Miss Hadyn...isn't she beautiful? She was not at all interested in sleeping, there were too many new things for her to look at!

I don't know what it is about baby feet, but I just love them!

This one cracks me up! She had to keep an eye on us!

We weren't sure that combining Abbie's and Jack's birthday parties was such a great idea, but it worked out pretty well! Abbie loves her little brother SO much and was super excited to share her party with him. Jack was just happy to eat cake and play with the balloons!


My Dad (with some help from Joey) made this cardboard castle for Abbie and her friends to play in. He's really creative like that...no pattern, no plan, just started cutting and taping! Now she's sad that we haven't brought it home yet, but we have NO WHERE to put it right now. Hopefully that will change soon.

Here are some more of my baby boy! He's recently come down with a severe case of PCS (photographer's child syndrome) and wants nothing to do with having his picture taken. He can be as cute and happy as can be, then I'll grab the camera and the smiles disappear. It's super frustrating because I don't really feel like I have many photos that really shows what his personality is right now. He's SO happy at home, then around other people (even family) or the camera, he just gets so serious. Anyway...even when he's being a stinker, he's still SUPER cute, right? I did manage to get some photos that I love, but it took FOUR mini-sessions instead of the one that I had planned. I think any photographer will tell you that it's ten times harder to take photos of your own kids. Other people's kids are WAY easier! To see more photos, check out my facebook page.

Winter Specials: 30% off prints and CDs of past sessions and weddings, $20 off session fee for new session, and $200 off weddings. These special deals will be in effect until March 1st! (weddings must be booked and paid for by March 1, but can be scheduled anytime)

And because I didn't want to post without a picture...here's one of Jack at his (and Abbie's) birthday party. I'll be posting photos from his one year session and her four year session soon, and maybe more from their party.

These pictures were taken the same day as the ones in my last post, I'm just getting around to posting them now. I wish it still looked like this around here...now it's all melted and we're supposed to be getting a bunch of rain. I'm not a big fan of winter, really...I HATE being cold! But at least the snow is pretty!

Joey got a new camera for Christmas and it has been so much fun to see him start to take his own pictures. We went for a drive in Parke County a couple of weeks ago and he took his camera along to get pictures of the snow. He's so proud of them and has been showing them off to anyone who will look. This summer I plan to spend a lot of time teaching him about photography and taking little day trips with him to practice. My dad and I used to do that together and it was one of my favorite things we did, so I think we might take a day out with him too! Anyway, here are some shots of my little photographer in action:

I'm starting a little photo project for the year. One photo for each day, which is something a lot of photographers do. Most of those projects focus on actually taking a photo every day, and usually have a theme or new techniques to try. My project is a little different. My goal is, by the end of the year, to have 365 photos of things that make me happy. I might take 10 one day and then none for a week or I might use a photo that was taken months ago. This project is really more about gratitude that photography, so there will be some not-so-great snapshots from time to time, but it should be fun. I probably won't post them all here, but if you want to follow along, they'll all be on my facebook page. Click here to become a fan and you'll see new photos on your news feed whenever I post them. And let me know if you're doing your own 365 project, I'd love to see it!

This is one of my Project 365 photos...it makes me happy because I LOVE that my kids enjoy books almost as much as I do. Oh...and also because they were playing together happily for a while that day. :-)

One year ago right now I was headed to the hospital for the birth of my third baby, Jackson Cooper! When he was a fussy little newborn, I thought this would be the longest year of my life, but by the 3 month mark he was a happy little boy with his stomach troubles (mostly) behind him. He has brought so much joy to our lives already and I just can't wait to see what God has planned for his life! Great things, I'm sure!

I haven't done his "official" one year session yet, because most of the things I want to do are outside and it is stinking COLD here right now (high for the whole week is supposed to be 28!), so I got a few last week when we were out shooting scenery (more on that coming soon!) and will hopefully do more soon if it warms up a little bit! Anyway, here is a shot of Jack from last week, and the second one is from when he was about a week old.