Visitors {Sweet Shot Tuesday}

I love it when we have visitors! An amazing friend from college came to visit with her family. We've been going picture crazy, especially over her latest edition. If you want to link up at Darcy's blog to show off your favorite Sweet Shot, please join in!

I ❤ Faces - PETS ONLY!

Here she is.... my sweet beast Elmo.  To know her is to love her.  I got her from the humane society while I was in grad school in 1997.  She is definitely starting to age.  I am absolutely in love with this photo of her.  She looks so wise and contemplative : )  For a DOG!  Anyway, if you have a photo of your Pet or any random animal that you would love to show off... head on over to I ❤ Faces and SHOW IT OFF!

Sweet Shot(s) Tuesday

One sweet little dragonfly. And my silly little dragonflies.

Show off your sweet shots over at Darcy's blog!

My Beautiful Life

I've started looking around more and seeing beauty in the EVERYDAY. Some things from my weekend....

Macro Love

I just love my macro lens. It seems I rarely use it, however, because I'm taking photos of people (such as these gorgeous people)... which is great, but sometimes I just want to lose myself in the unseen world of macro photography for a few hours.

This was taken in my back yard. It was the best of 5 shots I got of this little bud. I am truly amazed at what is out there the we don't see until we look with a microscope. AMAZING BEAUTY!

Happy Saturday.

A Rare Shot of My Own at the Beach

If you want to see some other "Best Shots" link up with Lolli for Give me Your best Shot!

I ❤ Faces - "All About Babies"

Today will be so much fun at I ❤ Faces! I love to see all things baby. This is from a recent shoot I had with a little 19 day old angel. Head on over to see all the newness!

10 Things

Today... 10 things I love about my little girl.

1. She is sweet. She says the sweetest little things and will give me hugs for no reason. I love that.

2. She is FUNNY.  The child makes me laugh.  She has been saying some things lately that just blow my mind.  Out right hilarious child.

3. She is very smart, but never makes anyone else feel "dumb" in the process.  She is very good at explaining things to help other little kids understand her.

4. She is a leader.  We were told this by her "teacher" in her preschool when she had just turned 1.  Boy oh boy was she right.  She wants everyone to follow her lead and do as she says.  I love it because it will be an amazing quality as she gets older.

5. She has a big heart.  No explanation needed.

6. She is very creative and loves to make things for other people.

7. She is giving.  She came in the other night with an old stuffed animal in hand and said, "Mommy, I want to give this to charity.  Some other little kid might need it and I'm done playing with it."

8. She's a great model for my photography.  Thank Goodness!

9. She's super independent and outgoing.  She has never met a stranger and can adapt easily to any situation.  Being an "army brat" (I hate that term) is okay with her.  She'll just have friends everywhere.

10. She's mine.  All mine.  I'm so lucky.  I love you, sweet girl!

Sweet Shot Tuesday

As the kids played in the pool on Sunday afternoon, I realized it had been a while since I picked up my camera for anything other than work! This was my favorite of all the photos I shot... too bad no one's face was in it!

(Doesn't her swimsuit look like a target?)

I ❤ Faces - Play

This week at I heart faces the theme is PLAY! I love this photo of my little girl's best friend sliding down the slide and into the water. What a fun afternoon! Do you have a picture of someone playing? If so, just head on over to I ❤ Faces and link up!

Little Girl Love

I am madly in love with this sweet little angel.

Happy Sunday!

One Willow Lightroom Presets

Have you heard of them? Miss Jessica Paige of One Willow Boutique creates AMAZING Lightroom presets. If you haven't used presets, just download a free trial of Lightroom and you will be hooked! Jessica is just amazing at adding little touches to RAW images in Lightroom and creating magical images with one click!

At least check out her website!

These are out of her brand new FAIRY TALE SET.

SOOC (shot in RAW)

Country Road

Vintage Lace

Sweet Dream

Golden Fields

And here's my confession for today... I did buy Lightroom because of Jessica's presets. I love them and they simplified my workflow by 100%!!