Josiah - Maple River Class of 2012

Yesterday I posted photos of Josiah's cousin Eli. Today It's time to share some of Josiah's senior photos. These guys were such great models and it was such a beautiful day!

A Windy Walk With Piper

or as Piper puts it "It's Winding!".

I never met someone who loved the wind and much as Piper.

She always needs to take a little rest at the end of our walks.

Eli - Maple River Class of 2012

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of getting to go back to my home town to take some senior photos.  I'm sharing Eli's photos with you today and hopefully with in the next couple days I'll be able to share his cousin Josiah's photos. Both Eli and his cousin were super easy to work with and such nice guys.

Josh also came along to assist me and I have to say my hubby is the greatest photo assistant! He knows how to scope out the best spots for photos and he holds a reflector better than anyone else I know. I wish he could come with me to every shoot!

18 Month Check Up

We took Piper to her 18 month appointment today. She is progressing just the way she should and her doctor and all her nurses were impressed with her curly hair.

Josh and I were shocked though when it came time to weigh Piper. She has only gained 4.5oz since her last appointment and has completely fallen of the chart. She's still in the 50 percentile for height and head circumference though.

Our doctor wasn't too concerned. She said since Piper's a good eater, and has never really been super sick we know she's a healthy kid. She also said that she can tell Piper is extremely active and didn't sit still once during the whole check up that she's burning a lot of calories. She wants us to feed Piper a lot of high fat foods and come in in three months to weigh her again and make sure she's gaining and not losing weight. I have to say this is the first time I've ever heard of a doctor telling a patient to eat more butter.

I also thought I'd share a video with you all.Piper can count all the way to 8! I think she only makes it to 7 in this video but I still think that's pretty impressive. The second time around though she goes from 1 to W.

24 Weeks

Baby boy and I have really been growing so I thought I better post a picture before I become unrecognizable.

I'm feeling pretty good for the most part...heartburn has become a constant battle.

The baby is a big mover. Josh and Piper actually got to see my stomach move today.

I've been having one really strange craving and that is every day at 11:00am I eat a bowl of cottage cheese with potato chips crumbles over the top. It's not as bad as it sounds and I think everyone should try it before they knock it.

The cottage cheese craving has worn off on Piper and she eats a little bowl of it at each meal without the potato chips.

I can't believe baby will be here in less than 4 months!

Indian Summer

30 Photos from September

I took a bit of a a blog break this week. Between trying to get Piper down to one nap a day and processing senior photos I didn't have a lot of time for blogging. To make up for not blogging I'm going to share with you the 30 photos from September. Not only did I manage to take a photo everyday I also was able to take a photo of a person everyday. Granted most days that person was my daughter I'm still pretty proud of myself.

This next month is going to be a busy one with lots of photo shoots including one wedding. I decided to give my self a different type of challenge. My hubby has been encouraging me to sit down and read my camera manual for a while now. I'm not much of a manual reader, I prefer to figure it out on my own or ask other photographers for help. I think that I may learn a thing or two by getting back to the basics so this month I'm going to challenge myself to read my manual and take what I learn and put it into the pictures I take.

Hopefully in another month I will have 31 photos to share with you!