I Heart Faces~Favorite Face of May

For this people's choice challenge on I Heart Faces, it was no question which image I wanted to use!  This is definitely my favorite of May, possibly the whole year!  This was taken a few weeks ago when my parents were here for my son's second birthday party.  This is Hayden getting love from Grandpa just before they left for home. 

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Pickin' Berries

On Sunday, we took Hayden to a local fruit and berry patch to pick his very own strawberries.  He absolutely loves strawberries (awberries, as he calls them!)  It was so sunny and bright, I snapped several pictures even though I couldn't really see my screen to check out what I was getting, ha!

 It brought so much joy to my heart watching him sqeal with delight and find berries to pick. 

He had such a great time picking and stuffing them into his mouth.  After he shoved the first one (green top and all) into his mouth faster than I could blink, I showed him how to pick the "green stuff" off the top and he did it on his own for the remainder of the picking ;) 

It was such a hot day, but it didn't take away from the fun we had together. 

Jeff picked most of the berries we took home since Hayden was eating all the ones he picked and I was keeping an eye on him (and eating my fair share of berries myself!)  We ended up taking about 4 or 5lbs home.  I made a couple pies with them since they were pretty ripe and I knew that they would not keep long even in the fridge.  I have a feeling we will be making lots of trips to the berry patch this year! 

I can't wait for the blackberries to come in, Hayden loves those too! 

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Cowboy Boots and Underwear

I got Hayden these Toy Story cowboy boots to play in and he loves them.  He puts them on (sometimes the wrong feet...) and stomps around the house in them.  Today he was supposed to be napping in his room and he came out wearing his boots, stomping all down the hall to my room.  What a little nut :)
Anyway, eariler today I grabbed my camera and snapped a few pics of him in his boots & undies.  I just love this little man!

hmmmm, looking at these, I think I forgot to edit a couple of these pics before uploading them to photobucket.  Oh well ;)

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My Cutie and...a Winner!!!

Since I can't post without some pictures...I have a few to go along with my winner announcement ;)

And the winner of my camera strap cover giveaway is................................

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:
10

Timestamp: 2011-05-26 04:53:00 UTC

Comment number 10, which was Tonja!!  Congrats! :) 
Tonja, be sure to email me at krisliz384(at)aol(dot)com with your address so I can mail your camera strap cover out to you!  Thanks to everyone who entered! 

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend! 




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Photo Trade

A couple weeks ago, one of my besties and I did a little photo trade.  Candace is a pro who needed some updated headshots for her website and I wanted a few of myself for the blog, so we got out one evening for a little photo shoot!  It was a blast and we joked talked about making a weekly thing to get out and take pictures as a nice break from being at home with the kiddos all week!  Anyway, we made our way out to a skate park for something different and snapped away!  The skaters were giving us odd looks, but we didn't care ;)  Here are some images from that shoot

Here is the pretty lady, Candace!

Like my awesome new logo??? I should mention that Candace is also a talented graphic designer and she was SO sweet to make this for me!  It was inspired by my camera strap cover (that I am giving away HERE, contest ends tonight at midnight!)  I have such awesome friends.  Here is her website if you are interested in her services or know someone who is!

What a hot mama! ;)

Here are some that Candace took of me.  I'm sure she could have done a much better job editing these, but I was having trouble getting these images over to her so I just did a few quick edits myself. 

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I Heart Faces~Yellow

For this week's challenge "Yellow" I chose to use this image I took recently of my besties beautiful little girl in her Easter dress.  One of my favorites from her session!

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The big "5-0" and a giveaway!!!

I have some exciting news :) We have hit 50 followers on my little blog! I should start by apologizing for way slacking on posts lately and not having much fun stuff. I promise, I am working on that ;) In fact, I have a little DIY project in the works right now that will hopefully become a tutorial (although I may have to let my hubby write it since he is the one doing all the work, ha!)


Anyway, in honor of 50 followers, I am having a little giveaway! :)  I am giving away one of these made by yours truly...my No sew camera strap cover!

If you would like to enter, you must 1) be a follower of my blog 2) post a comment telling me your favorite colors. I will do my best to find material that suits your taste! (Or if you love the polka dot, I still have that fabric and can make one using that) and lastly, 3) you can have one additional entry by posting about the giveaway on fb or twitter and then posting a seperate comment telling me that you did! The winner will be chosen completely randomly using a random number generator. Good luck to all! Thanks for reading my blog :)

*contest will be closed for entries on Wednesday (5/25) at midnight.*

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Stickers...

My little man big two-year-old found some stickers the other day and kept himself busy for quite some time...it was adorable :)

Happy Monday, all!  Hope yours has been as good as mine! :)


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I Heart Faces~May Flowers

This week's challenge on I Heart Faces is May Flowers.  There are no judges and you can post as many photos as you like so here are a few flower pics I have taken over the past couple months.  Enjoy!

Closeup ;)

More of a 'weed' technically but,  oh well ;)

Another weed/flower?  ;)

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Wonderful Weekend

This weekend my parents came down from Indiana for a special visit to celebrate with Hayden at his birthday party!  It was a short visit, but a good one :) 

Saturday was Hayden's big party and he had a blast!  One of my best friends (who also happens to be a great photographer) took pictures for me.  I must admit that it felt soooo good to not have my face behind my camera the entire time.  As you know, I love taking photos and it is a passion of mine but at events like this, I would rather be present than worrying about capturing every moment with my camera.  It was so wonderful to not have that to worry about!  Candace posted a sneak peak on her blog, you can check it out HERE.  I am still in shock that I didn't take one photo at his party, I didn't even bring my camera!!!  Oh, it was wonderful :)  Thank you, Candace!

Hayden received some trains from his sweet little friends and he is loving them!  He played with them all night before finally going to bed at 11 pm!  And today he played trains with Grandpa this morning...

(My house was pretty much a disaster after we brought everything in from the party...so much for avoiding that by having the party somewhere else!  haha!)

Soon it was time to say goodbye...

Goodbye kisses

It always goes by too fast.

What a great weekend.  I'm so glad that my little man had a wonderful party and a great visit with his grandparents.  He is one blessed little two year old!

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I Heart Faces~Motherhood

In honor of Mother's Day, this week's challenge on I Heart Faces is "Motherhood."  I captured this image at a session a couple of days ago and it very much speaks "motherhood" to me.  This mommy doting on her newborn baby boy with her daughter snuggled up next to her just makes me smile. 

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My Baby...

...is not really a 'baby' anymore.  It's officially his birthday since it's after midnight, but technically he won't be two until 9:54 pm ;)

I keep saying it only because it's so true...these two years have just flown by!  They have been two of the best years of my life.  I feel so blessed yet undeserving that God chose me to be Hayden's mommy.  What a precious gift and I am thankful every day for the joy that motherhood has brought me. 

So, I have my little man all to myself on his special day till daddy gets off work.  I am going to try my best to make it a wonderful, happy day for him (rain or shine!)  Can't wait to celebrate with him and all his little friends at his party next week! :) 
Thank you Lord for two years with my beautiful, precious, happy, smart and oh-so-sweet baby boy!

p.s. this is totally off subject but I added several pics to the photoblog tab if you would like to have a look :)

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