I have taken this trick from other photographers with blogs....if the kids are fighting and making snarly faces, cut them off and only take a pic of their legs and feet! I think it actually turned out pretty cute!

Here is Emma in HER socks. The girls had a good time for a few minutes modeling for me...that is, after I bribed them with candy. They have no idea right now how often I am going to get my backdrop out and 'play'! They do think it is pretty cool they are on the web!

I finally got to play with my new backdrop that Pierre made for me for Christmas! This is Abigail wearing the candycane striped socks that her Memere made her for Christmas....how cute is she?

a favourite

This is a picture of my nephew and his grandma. The picture is from last summer, but I started playing with it this week...I love the way the image ended up.

Then.....and Now

This was my first camera.....







...and this is what I have progressed to. I am a Nikon girl...all the way! Things sure have changed!

happy new year!

Besides the regular New Year's Resolutions (lose weight, eat better, spend more quality time with the family...) I have promised myself to maintain this blog. This is a new thing for me, but I am having fun trying to figure it out and playing with the computer. As well as pics and stories about the family, I will be posting photos I have taken and am playing with. I seem to have been bitten by the 'shutterbug' again. Ever since my first camera was put in my hands when I was about 6 years old, I have loved taking pictures! But I have a renewed obsession with this hobby since the world has gone digital! I am hoping that very soon, it will turn from just a hobby to something a little bigger than that.

Above is a photo of Emma, my Santa Baby! I just love the red hat and space in the middle of her teeth! Although you have to look closely for the hole in her teeth, she has a habit of sticking her tongue through it! (makes you start humming that Christmas classic doesn't it?)