S family & engagement photos

We lucked out this past weekend with some gorgeous weather (very unlike Wisconsin) and I had 2 days to take photos.

I had the opportunity to take some of Dave's cousins family with some engagement shots thrown in there as well. This little guy is a riot and reminds me a lot of my Tayt. Possibly less beasty than Tayt though :) After getting photos of the 2 families this weekend, I have come to the conclusion that one must take a bajillion photos of kids just to get a couple good ones. Here are some of my favorites :)

A big THANK YOU to this family for letting me gain some more experience. And for the ice cream ;) Thank you also to my sister, Casey, for providing the editing and eventual burning of the photos to a CD for this couple.

birthday girl & P family photos

This last Saturday I photographed my first official family session. I was quite nervous (and maybe slightly still) about this first official photo shoot. I am far from a photographer and this was just for fun, practice, and experience with hopes that some of the photos might be liked or even loved enough to continue. I think we got some good ones and I sure hope the family agrees.

This beautiful blondie will be celebrating her 3rd birthday very shortly so we wanted to get a few just of her. She was very cooperative with mom's help :)

A huge thanks to the P Family for being my first! And also a huge thanks to my sister, Casey, for the use of her Mac and Photoshop. She did a great job on the editing and bailing me out of this desktop catastrophe! After this frustrating night dealing with my blasted desktop who doesn't like to burn CDs, I'll be begging Dave for my MacBook Pro as soooooon as we can save up for it. :)

31-week waddler

According to Dave, I now waddle. He received the evil eye immediately after confirming this to me the other day.

I have now hit the 31-week mark in this pregnancy and I guess you could say it's the beginning of the count down. I very much enjoy being pregnant so to say I have onlyyyy 9 weeks left is slightly scary... only because at the end of those 9 weeks there will be fingers possibly broken, frantic nurses, and a doctor barely in the room, but then a beautiful baby! On the other hand, 3:00 a.m. trips to the potty, swollen ankles, and the waddling will be gone but only to be swapped with 3:00 a.m. feedings, cold or no meals, and quite possibly some tears shed. All for the love of babies! :)

As a forewarning, everyone should now be keeping tally of the number of months/weeks/days we have left until Baby Smith #6 so as not to confuse me with someone who is "just about to pop" or someone who "could go any day now."  The evil eye or the "look of death" can be very harmful and I can't promise it won't be shared outside our house. Better remarks could be along the lines of ... "you look GREAT!" or ... actually, that'll do. ;) Soooo 9 weeks and counting, although time could slow down just a little bit so I can continue to enjoy (and maybe move).



31 weeks - photo courtesy of Dave



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