Thank you so much to everyone for all the great comments I have been getting about my new photo site.  I so appreciate them all!  I am really excited about branching out into Photography, I've wanted to for such a long time, but have been afraid to. All the support I have been getting though has really been amazing! :)

 I finished painting my office late last night.. AH.. As soon as my body heals I will sit back and enjoy it ;) Today I am trying to put it all back together again.. And tomorrow I am on the hunt for some new curtains and a chair.  I also decided last night to paint some flourishes on the wall. I've got it all drawn, and now I just have to paint them in, I think it's going to look really COOL! Or, at least I HOPE it looks really cool..  I will show you pictures when I am finished though either way .

So, I never posted any of my photos from my session with Jodi.. Honestly, I need to go in and save some of them for the web.. But I do want to share some of my pics from my latest photo session with the cutest almost two year old ever :)

Yep, he is a cutie :)

Ok, Now I am off to do some cleaning.. It's amzing how much junk you can collect in just one year, but I am looking at everything in my living room and wondering.. How does this all fit in my office?? Hmmm. 

I am sure it has something to do with the fact that all the contents of my former office are now residing in my living room.  Piles of product and magazines, books and well, just STUFF.. All over my house.  See, I had intentions of painting my office the perfect shade of blue. (Aqua blue!) I tore it completely apart after we got back from Jackson, have the room all taped off and ready to paint then I took a little tumble down my hill in the back and I just haven't been able to get to it yet!! The mess is really messing with my mojo..   I am hoping to get it painted tomorrow, so I can re-claim my life ;)

Thank you to everyone for your comments on my new logo design! :) I really appreciated the feedback. I have decided on a final design. (For now anyway!) I may end up changing it as I go on, but this one should stick for a little while :) And I *think*  I am ready to debut my Photo website.  (Little Nervous!)  It's still very much a work in progress..  BUT..

 You can take a peek here :)
http://www.littledreamerstudio.com

And just a word here. I am still looking to book  2 or 3 more  sessions at my portfolio builder rate (Un-heard of rate of $50!) If you are interested in scheduling a session please contact me! :)

A note on our caterpillars. They have all hatched? metamorphosed? into butterflies. We kept them around a bit so we could observe them and the girls released them today :)

All in all it was a good experience, the girls really loved their little critters, we'll probably do it again next summer. 

I had a great photo session last night with the fabulous Jodi of Fancy Pants Designs. We did a few family photos but mostly some singles of her cute little kiddos. I will get those posted tomorrow :) Or, you can take a peak at a few by looking at my latest gallery on my photo site :)  NIGHT!

So, I want to introduce you to an up and coming scrapbooker. She is VERY talented, and loves to scrap :)

This page was made by my 8-year-old, using ScrapBlog's online page builder.Brenna is IN LOVE with ScrapBlog. (Have you tried this yet??) I gave her a crash course on how to use the software and within 5 minutes she was off making her own pages. If you haven't tried this yet, you really should!! It's perfect for beginners and 8-year-olds with a passion for digi ;)

Check out some of Brenna's Pages!! She LOVES getting comments.. :)

Also, I need some help deciding on a logo design for my new photo website (coming soon!)

I think I have decided on using Little Dreamer Studio. (98% sure) I've got two logos.. Let me know what you think!! They are both completely different from each other, and honestly, I just can't decide on which one to use!!  I am only photographing children.. I may dabble a tiny bit into families and seniors, but that is all :)  So, with that said.. Which one do you like??

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It is still very much in the planning phase.. I may still toss these and completely start over,  I just can't decide what my look should be!!  All CC is greatly appreciated :)

I was setting up the slip and slide for the girls today. Being the first day of Summer we wanted to celebrate a little by playing in the water and having some fun. I couldn't get the placement right on our little hill. We wanted to have a slide that the girls could just sit down and slide on because they didn't like running and diving.  We have a nice hill in the backyard, We used it for sledding in the winter :)  Well, as I was trying to move the slide, I slipped. (*Note to self: Do not move Slip and Slide while water is stil runing) I landed flat on my back and as I went down I heard a nice little *POP*. Great. I totally jacked up my ankle. I can't put any pressure on it at all.  You should have seen me trying to crawl back up my hill. (Apprently I am not a very gracefull hopper. )   So that was fun :) I am icing it and praying that I can walk on it this weekend..  I've got people to see, things to do ;)

I did have to laugh out loud though when I checked my email this afternoon. Lorynn (my four year old) has comendeared my laptop. Her favorite thing to play on it is is Photo Booth.  A.K.A> Funny Pictures..  I guess Brenna showed her how to email them, because this was what I found in my inbox::

Not sure what's funnier, the fact that she copied her dad, myself and Brenna on the email, or the pictures themselves ;) 

Hopefully these emails were also not inadvertently sent to anyone else..  

So tonight's photo session turned out pretty good. I don't think I was properly prepared for the rambunctiousness of little boys. Girls are so DIFFERENT!  Girls like posing for you, will STAY where you put them, and generally.. well, I wasn't prepared ;)  It turned out that I only had two babies because the third was sick.  They are all cousins, and so tonight we just focused on the boys.

It was fun, and probably the perfect first shoot because they really made me work for it ;) I have two more sessions coming up this weekend.  And please excuse the lame-ish watermarks on these pictures. I am still trying to come up with my photo logo.  I had a really cute one designed, but then realized it was a little too grungy, because I wasn't really going for the biker chic tattoo that it resembled ;) OY!  I am hoping to figure my logo out this weekend.  I may just have to post a poll or something to get a little feedback on it.  Logos are so HARD. Trying to put your entire business into one design that is going to stick, has to look great in color or black and white, and represent everything that you are trying to portray. Tall order?? I think so!!