Our 2012 Family Photos

Since I got my new camera this past Spring, I've been trying to learn as much as possible and have even had the opportunity to do a few photo shoots for family and friends. I've taken tons and tons of pictures of Jackson, but since I'm always behind the camera, there's noone to take pictures for me. 

Thankfully, my sister offered to take a few family photos of us last weekend. I just wanted at least one good family shot to replace our family photo from last December. She did a great job and got a really great photo of us that I absolutely love. Thanks so much Ashlee!

This is my favorite photo from our little 15 minute photo shoot.

 Side note: Is my husband the only one who complains about getting his picture taken?? Please tell me no. He is as bad, if not worse, than Jackson. Ugh!

Here are a couple other photos that I liked as well. 

A Fun Family Photo Shoot

This past Saturday, I took some family pictures for my sister and her family. Her youngest is just 12 days older than Jackson and she wanted some 1 year pictures of him as well as a few family pictures. The weather was beautiful that day, so that helped out a lot! Here are some of my favorites.

I thought I would try out the textures in PicMonkey. I've seen others using textures on their photos and thought I'd give it a try. I was pretty happy with the textures PicMonkey offers. I can't say enough good things about picmonkey.com!

I think this is probably one of my favorite photos ever. So cute!

We had to snap a quick picture of big brother Landon!

 

Mason's 1 year pictures turned out so cute! He's so photogenic!

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Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice...

My sweet friend Holly, from Where We Can Live Like Jack and Sally, asked me to come over 2 weekends ago and take a few photos of her daughter Olive and her niece Eliana. I was so excited to finally get to take some photos of little girls. ☺ Holly and her sister dressed the girls up so cute! They were just adorable! Here are some of my favorites from our little photo shoot!

And here are a couple outtakes too, because they are just too cute not to share.

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I'm Told I Love Football!

I saw this on Pinterest a couple weeks ago and thought it was so fitting for Jackson. He needs this shirt for sure.

 As I mentioned in this previous post, my husband is a die hard football fan! I mean really die hard. So everytime I see something football related for Jackson, its a must have. Here are a few examples from this past year. ☺ For Jake's sake, I really hope Jackson grows up to love football, LOL.

A photo we took for his newborn shoot! My mom made him the little hat and diaper cover.

Football binky!

Jackson wearing his first little Chiefs jersey!

Jackson wearing a shirt that says, "If the Chiefs are playing, I'm not napping".

This is what Jackson does when we say "Touchdown". He will also throw a ball down if he has one in his hands. Then he claps and says Yay! Ha!

Over the weekend I found this super cute winter hat. It came with little mittens too. ☺ Jackson needed a winter hat so when I saw this one, I just had to buy it for him. He looks so cute in it. 

This coming weekend, we are going to Jake's aunt and uncle's house for an early Thanksgiving celebration with Jake's mom's family. We do this every year and switch off between going to Kansas City and them coming to St. Louis. This year we'll be in KC, and Sunday everyone is going to the Chiefs game. Jackson and I opted out of going to the game because he's still so little and I wasn't sure how the weather would be, (Arrowhead is an outdoor stadium) They will be tailgating before the game though, so weather permitting, Jackson and I will be tailgating with everyone and then going somewhere kid friendly in KC. (If you have any suggestions, let me know.) So this will be Jackson's first time at/outside of Arrowhead Stadium. His cute little football hat will come in handy. I will be sure to post pictures next week. ☺

A Fun Little Photo Shoot

Thanks to Holly, last weekend I had my first photo shoot for someone that wasn't friend or family. It was so much fun and went very well. Thanks again Holly!! 

The co-worker of Holly's wanted some pictures of her grandsons, just playing at her house. The boys are so cute and sweet... they made my job very easy. ☺

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