Week 51 - "Hilarious Outtakes" Photo Challenge

This weeks challenge over at i ♥ faces is hilarious outtakes. I love this theme. I usually erase a lot of my outtakes but when I started to go through my pictures I realized I still have a bunch and then it was hard to narrow it down, luckily this week we get to post up to 5 pictures.

This is my daughter when she was about 7 months old. Her hair stood straight up it was so funny. I kind of miss that static look. This expression is just so funny.

We were playing on the trampoline this summer and I was taking pictures of the twins of course. Jayse got really close to my camera and gave me this face. It instantly became one of my favorites.

I wanted to get a picture of the twins in overalls in this bucket. I set them in there and could not get them to smile. This outtake turned into one of my favorite photos.

I was trying to get a picture of my daughter in this chair and for the most part she did pretty well until the end she just would not stay in it and laid on the ground.

This is our visit to Santa this year. I knew the twins would probably cry but I expected nothing like this. We sat Jaelee on Santa and she was ok there, she didn't like it but she was ok. Then we tried to put Jayse on Santa - he started kicking, screaming and rearing back. Santa told us he could not sit on his lap because he was kicking too much. Once Jaelee saw his reaction she had enough and got down. Greg tried to keep Jayse by Santa so I could just get one picture and here it is.

 

H's Christmas Photo Shoot

This little guy is just simply adorable, I'm not even finished editing all his photos but I had to hurry and get some posted because he is so stinkin cute. His mom and I were pregnant with our kiddos at the same time, they were born only 2 weeks apart. I have been taking photos of him since he was a baby and he is now a year and half old - I can't believe how fast time goes! It was difficult to get him to stay put, he is a little adventurer/monkey - he climbs on everything.  When we did get him to stay put he would not smile for us.  Towards the end though all the sudden he sat on the present props and smiled - it was awesome to get a few cute pictures of him smiling.  I had a lot of fun seeing little H and his family.

 

Week 49 - “Pets Only!” Photo Challenge

This week over at i ♥ faces the photo challenge is all about pets.  I have looked at several of the entries and there are a lot of great pictures of pets.  Please head on over there and check them out - but be warned you will loose hours with out even noticing it.

Now to my entry of course I had to enter in our adorable dog Bo.  I had a hard time choosing the photo because I have a lot of cute photos of Bo with our kids but I settled on this one so he could have this photo moment all to him self. He really is the perfect dog for our family.  He has been a great hunting companion for Greg and a great friend and protector for the kids.  He is calm, lovable, adorable, and just plain fun.  We love you Bo!

 

Fix it Friday

I love this weeks photo over at i ♥ faces , it reminded me of high school.  In art class every year our school and many others entered into a poster contest for one of the local rodeos.  We would scour over images like this of cowboys riding bulls, horses and wrestling steer - then we would put the image on canvas and paint it.  The winning painting became that years poster.  I never won the poster but one of my paintings did get chosen for that years childrens tee shirts and I was featured on the front page of the local newspaper.  Ahh memories...anyway I thought this photo was pretty great all ready.  I played with cropping it but in the end I liked the original crop.  I wanted to keep my edits simple and not over do it so I just adjusted the levels, curve, added some saturation, sharpened a bit and added a vignette.

 

O Christmas Tree

We put our Christmas Tree up this weekend and I thought it would be a great backdrop for the Christmas pictures of the twins. It turned out to be a great backdrop but they were very difficult to photograph. To get them to sit in one place is hard but to get them both to is even harder. I found this rocking horse at a yard sale this summer and it was great because they couldn't get off of it.

 

Week 48 - "Sweet Dreams" Photo Challenge

This week over at i ♥ faces the photo challenge is Sweet Dreams. I immediately thought of this photo that I took when my twins were about a month old. It is hard to believe that they are all ready a year and half old.

To see many more sleeping beauties head over to i ♥ faces