pumpkin patch (one of them anyway)

Last week we went to the pumpkin patch with Matt, Celeste Sawyer. We had so much fun, even though we didn't actually bring any pumpkins home from this one. It just isn't the same if you don't snatch it out of the field yourself like the one in farmington! We did have fun in the corn maze though!

Is that the sweetest thing you've ever seen or WHAT?

finding our way around...

Matt and Sawyer 

btw I obviously need to invest in a polarized filter. keep having reflection problems. sorry.

Max and Sawyer had fun weaving in and out of the little rows of corn...

he was having fun. obviously.

calling for the cows to come...

then maybe they were a bit scarier than he originally planned. I was dying when he grabbed onto Sawyer for protection! So sweet!

Sawyer loved all the animals. This cat pretty much made her day! 

Thanks Davises for the fun outing!

btw. notice there are no pics of me and celeste??! that's what you get for being the camera ladies. not cool.

my sister is the SHIIIIIIIIIZ!

This is my sister diving at a district qualifying meet. She made it! Did I mention she's been diving for all of a year and a half? and she only practices during the h.s. season. It sucks because there is nowhere within an hour of my house that has decent diving instruction outside of school programs. So enjoy my amazing sister Mackenzie, btw, the last dive is my favorite! 

livin it up with these folks.

{why is this one of my favorites? i don't know. it just is.}

I had way too much fun with my cousin in Oregon for it to have been a business trip! Rachel, Chad and Lily are the best. but of obviously they would be. they are MY family of course. I had tons of fun just hanging out between wedding shoots, walking around Willamete, eating all healthy (I am TOTALLY inspired. I lost two pounds  this week following the Rachel and Chad diet-  i.e. lots of veggies, sea food and whole weat, minus the french fries I have been consuming lately) and of course taking a few family shots!  oh and p.s. we entered a pie contest at the church using our grandma's F-A-M-O-U-S apple pie recipe. we WON. ok, we didn't. but we CLEAAAARLY should have. no seriously. the pie that won tasted like baked shiz. 

take a quick break to gaze at us cousins. do you think we look alike? we think we do.

then chad wanted to see how fast my camera could click, so i started moving all over like a crazy lady while he shot six frames per second. Needless to say, there are plenty more where these came from. don't worry, i will spare you.  

awesome. 

now on to a cute shot, intended to erase the previous picture from your memory. 

awwww.

hoooolyyyy eyes. and yes. they REALLY look like that. no photoshop involved.

well meynders-es, i love you. love your guts actually (which is the opposite of hating someone's guts). I had so much fun! somebody else please get married in oregon and let me be your photographer so I can come again!

the end.

I missed this face..

I had so much fun on my "business trip" to Oregon (I had fun acting like a little business woman!!) and hanging out with my adorabe cousin and her family, but I missed my boys SO much. I really love to travel but it just isn't the same without the men in my life! I was so happy to kiss their little faces off at the airport today! It feels great to be home. More to come on the trip soon. =)

Oregon, here I come! and other stuff.

Well, I'm off! Tomorrow I am hopping on a plane to Oregon to photograph a wedding. I am super excited because my cousin Rachel just moved there so I get to stay with her! yay!

I really vowed I would be better at updating the family blog, but I have been so busy getting ready for old hallow's eve and taking a whole lot of these:

check it.

Plus, I am offering MINI SESSIONS for Christmas cards etc. It's coming up but I still have a few spots available! here's the info. Contacted me if you're interested. Sorry the text came out so weird when I resized the flier!

happy halloween

love the newest, most disturbing member of the family, 

Casper the Friendly Ghost Doll

adopted from ABODE this week. 

yes, old. yes, DIRTY. posessed? maybe. 

but we love him. 

do you think he was originally white?

because this is what he looks like these days. 

yikes. 

happy birthday to my mom...

as you can see, she's always the life of the party anyway. 

thank you for being my mother, teacher, role model, my rock,

 my biggest cheerleader, 

my best friend. 

Happy number 48, gif. 

for those who missed it (and I probably hope you did)

Go HERE to watch a clip of my segment on studio 5 and get the addresses of the locations we discussed. Also, we ran out of time and get to the fifth location (the little boy with the red door) but it is on the website as well.

p.s. my voice sounds SO wierd. I have like, a LISP.

and yes. unfortunately, I am that big of a dork in real life. haha!

only I'm not kidding.

he is obsessed

with stairs. this is nothing new.

but today I heard him giggling to himself

and I took a peak.

apparently, stairs are a good place for resting,

and considering how many trips he makes

up and down, I can understand. 

silly baby. 

i love you.

we heart art.

I recently saw this fun idea on this blog and decided we had to try! Lately I have felt like I have just been trying to keep Max occupied while I get things done, rather than really engaging in something with him. That makes me sad. I thought this would be the perfect thing for us to do together. We had so much fun and Max loved the paint! I'm sure this won't  be the last time we do this together. Wouldn't it be fun to do one every few months and plaster one wall in your house with the pieces floor to ceiling? 

We started with an 8x12 canvas that I painted green. Then I just squirted blobs of acrylic paint on the canvas and let him go nuts!

little picasso at work

Finished project! Next time, I will let each color dry a bit before adding a new one, they all kinda mushed and turned brown at the end. 

I love these, I have very few pictures of Max and I together. I guess that's how it is when you're the one TAKING the pictures. 

I want to frame this one. Look at my baby's painty little fingers!

a walk in the park

Last week Danny, Max and I met up with the Riggs for dinner at playing at the park! Max had so much fun swinging. He thought it was so fun and kept laughing and looking for Danny. He is SUUUCH a Daddy's boy it's hilllarious. I love it! Even if it isn't fair!

Once Hadley came, Max wanted to swing with her of course!

That Hadley. What a babe!