{sometimes bad things turn into life lessons}

With the recent Ice Storm and Power Outages (we still don't have power @ home)
I have learned how hard it is to live your everyday life without power, water, hot showers,
coffee, doing the dishes, cooking, blogging... and the list goes on and on.
Not being able to do all of these things have just about driven me crazy.
Although, many nights in the dark have forced family time, husband and wife time
and time with friends, without T.V. , a computer, cooking, dishes, laundry, bath time and so on.
Many, many, many games of rummy... go fish... slap jack... reading magazines and chatting photog ideas and concepts with jaren. laykin and i have played a lot together and just cuddled.
kevin and i have spend hours just sitting in the dark talking and just being together.
Yes, we are about to drive each other crazy (all 3 of us i am sure) BUT we have learned A LOT
from this inconvenience, so for that i am grateful. I am ready for life to be NORMAL.

{life with Drew}

I have so many images i want to post from our family session in California that
we did with the amazing DREW.
I had such A GREAT time with her and with this amazing family.































and drew, our rockstar....





more to come of this amazing family, as well as, their story about the seven pink balloons.

{SO much fun with Drew}

more to come when i am home.

{ we're @ the beach}

more to come~~~

{we're here}

long long day but we are here.
AC and i left this morning for Memphis @ 8 am to meet up with liz.
we just landed in California at about 10:00pm *your time*
just wanted to post a couple of pics and now off to bed, up @ 7am.

the 3 of us @ the airport restraunt waiting on hour flight from
Houston to Cal.



from the plane :)



and this ones for my laykin .... miss you guys.

{random tuesday *10* }

i seen this little thing on another blog and thought i would add it into the mix for something new...

1. laykin is SO sweet. lastnight, as laykin was starring at me, she says that she just likes to look at me because she loves me that much.
then she says "i will love you all of my life mommy" aw... just gets me right there in the soft spot, ya know. love that girl~

2. i fell asleep in laykins bed lastnight b/c she couldn't fall asleep. we ended up talking for a while and it was way past bedtime when we, no when i fell asleep and she said "mommy, you can go sleep in your bed now." i was kicked out :(

3. i woke up at 7:11 this morning : dang alarm clock.

4. IDOL is on tonight and that thrills me!

5. tuesday, wednesday, thursday, wahoo we leave on friday, wahoo drew day on saturday.....

6. i hate doing sales tax reports. it really makes me angry.

7. i do however love this sunny day :) that makes me happy.

8. another thing that totally makes my day is that i now have a countdown to when twilight comes out on dvd. march 21st and i WILL be in line.

9. also, to anyone interested : david cook is going to start touring in mid febuary and i will be in line for that too ;)

10. i love comments almost as much as i love getting my large vanilla iced coffee every single morning....

{silly faces}

the many silly faces of laykin~

{my sweet daughter}

so, since yesterday was reasonably nice outside. a balmy 50 degrees...
laykin and i set out on a quick little adventure to show that just because
it's winter and nothings green, doesn't mean that you can't take photos
outside. a couple of years ago i probably woundn't have seen the potential
in the blah, dry, colorless days of winter... but i have come to the point
now that i can look beyond the dead trees and brown grass ;)
so anyway, on with the pictures of my sweet baby girl and her because i have
always had my mother in my face with a camera so i can pose better than tyra banks
amazing abilities in front of the camera. and if you are thinking of a session
in these lovely winter landscapes, just send me an email!!