photographer for rent

My friend Kate is a soon to be famous photographer and I am so thrilled she has asked me to help her shoot a wedding! I jokingly offered to put together a portfolio before Kate "hired" me and she told me that my blog was my portfolio! ha! So I thought I better update my "portfolio" here and see if it lands me anymore photography gigs... here are few random shots I've captured over the past couple months:
(The weddings I did with Kim and the family sessions are friends of mine who let me practice on them!)

The Pope Wedding The San Antonio Wedding

The Bell Chapel Wedding

The Cross Family

The Searcy Family

The Ward Family

And a cat

saturday in the park with will

This past Saturday when the weather was wonderfully warm, I met my bff from high school, Dawnica, and her little boy Will at the park. Audrie loved it! We had a great time.

Will is such a cutey! He will be 3 on Feb 5th... same bday as Audrie!

Audrie even made a new friend... I'm pretty sure they were swapping fashion tips...

I love these next two photos of Audrie because somewhere there is a photo of me about this same age in a swing like this at the park... I need to try to find that photo.

Audrie LOVES to swing.

And so does Will!

We fed ducks at the duck pond (which was terrifying for me because I have an unnatural fear of birds), but Audrie loves animals so I toughed it out for her.

But Will has no fear. He is a pro at duck feeding.

It was so nice to get out in the fresh air and spend some time with Dawnica. As much as I'd love a snow day soon, I'd also be thrilled with some more warm days like these!

11 months old

Audrie is 11 months this week... 4 more weeks til the big day! She is always on the go. Zipping around the house on a mission. So it's harder to get any still photos of her. But the other day she had just woken up from a nap (hence the sleepy eyes and wild hair) so I managed to get a few shots of our sweet baby girl.

She really loves looking at books! She will sit for 20-30 minutes just looking through page after page of her books. Usually babbling along some made up story that only she understands...

Here I caught her mid sentence as she was turning the page and telling me all about the story...(She also loves swatting at my camera strap...) How can a little girl who looks so much like her daddy be this darn cute? :)

I spend alot of my day kissing these little cheeks! Ugh. Can't believe I have to go back to work and miss my baby girl all day. How many days til summer break?!

christmas song

I've written a couple songs in my life, but not too many that I share with other people. But for Christmas I acutally sang a song I wrote for church. Here is the video from that service a few weekends ago...

On that cold night, when it all began. A tiny girl held her baby in her hands.

This is my baby. This is my son. He is the child of God. He is the Chosen One.

The wise men came from near and far, to see the baby lying 'neath the star.

The angels sang of his majesty. And all around fell to their knees. And Mary cried...

This is my baby. This is my son. He is the child of God. He is the Chosen One.

The tiny babe grew into a boy. Astounding with His wisdom and joy. In the temple courts he spoke God's law and his mother stood and watched in awe...

This is my baby. This is my son. He is the child of God. He is the Chosen One.

Ridiculed and dying in shame. This great man for our sin was slain. His mother bowed before the cross and through her tears they heard her sob...

This is my baby. This is my son. He is the child of God. He is the Chosen One.

On that cold night, when it all began. A tiny girl held her baby in her hands.

(You can actually go to our church's website to view the videos from each week's service- Temple Baptist Church.)

scrub a dub dub

I snapped some fun photos of Audrie in her favorite pastime the other day... this little girl is nuts about BATH TIME!

If you look closely you can see her two little bottom teeth...

Bath time is the highlight of her night. And she loves my rendition of Rubber Ducky, too! :)

for mary

Happy Birthday to my sister, Mary!

a new year

Happy 2009! Jamie and I rung in the new year with our pals Nathan and Kim. We went out for dinner, movie and some good times. We made it home just in time to countdown with Dick Clark and a few goofball photos...

You know I'm a sucker for photo booths! (When I'm rich and famous I want to have one in my house.) We saw one while we were out and tried to cram all four of us in for some fabulous photos...And the best thing ever was that my parents kept Audrie all night at their house so the first thing I did in 2009 was.... SLEEP IN!! (A great way to start off a year!) I hope each of you have a truly wonderful New Year!