Halloween!

Happy Halloween! We went to the best Halloween Party this year. Our good friends, Jodi and Gary, love throwing Halloween parties. In fact, this was their 25th annual Halloween party. That's them to the left! They are both wonderful singers. Gary sounds like Frank!


I was Spider Lady (stupid, I know) and my hubby was a fart! Yes, you read that right, a fart. He dressed like a whoopie cushion and hid a fart machine under his costume with a remote control. I have to say it was pretty funny. He won a big trophy for funniest costume. He did deserve it :) And, He is an awesome singer/musician too.


It was the year of the Pirate! There must of been at least 15 Pirates. Urg, Matie!

Here we are the three musketeers, Susan, Me, and Lisa. My best buds who I have so much fun with. I love you guys! Oh ya, I'm in Texas now, I love ya'll!

I posted all the images that I took that night on my website under "proofing" If you know the hosts' last name, that's the password! The first letter is capitalized.

Run, Nate, Run

How do you photograph a young toddler with lots of energy? You let them loose, run all over, and capture doing what it is that young boys do! That's how!

I love this little storyboard above. I was thrilled to get a cute little close up series of him sitting down and having a quite moment. Didn't last long, but that's okay, I didn't expect it too.

Little Nate turned 2 and we photo- graphed him playing around town.

We all had a lot fun! Thanks Nate and Katie.

Christmas Cards

I have so much fun designing Christmas Cards.

Here is another card. I love finishing this early before Christmas!

Hint, Hint, again!

The top is the cover, the middle image fills the entire card when you open it up. So, in actuality it is twice as long as the front and back cover and it will fold in the middle. It opens horizontally.

I couldn't resist designing another image on the back cover too!

Merry Christmas!

Christmas Cards

Can you believe I have already started working on Christmas Cards?

I love getting it finished this early in the Season. Hint, Hint!!!!

Here is one of my favorites!

Merry Christmas!

Not Your Typical Santa Photographs!

I was asked again by Interior's Galleria to photograph Santa Photo's this year. My first thought was... I don't do Santa Photos. lol

Well, I starting thinking about it and how I could have some fun with it. This is what I came up with - No sitting in Santa's lap! I bought a Santa Suit and dressed mom in it - this way the baby won't cry because it's mom holding them.

I will be at Interior's Galleria photographing "Not Your Typical Santa Photographs" on November 10th and 11th almost allll daaaay! There will be a sign up sheet at the front counter if you would like to make an appointment, otherwise it will be first come, first served.

The photographs will be delivered back to Interior's Galleria in about 2-3 weeks for pick up. Besides photographs, I will offer greeting cards too! Interior's Galleria is located next to Collin Creek Mall by 75 and 15th street next to Hemisphere's.

Santa Fe, New Mexico

For our 25th Wedding Anniversary my hubby and I booked a trip to Santa Fe!

This was our first visit to New Mexico, so we were both very excited.

I think it turned out to be more of my vacation than his... We do both love art galleries, but after 4 days of it, he was a little done and I could have kept going and going, like the energizer bunny. Yes, I love art galleries. I also loved the architect of Santa Fe.

Any one that knows me very well, knows that I LOVE purses. We were walking by and, of course, this window display caught my eye. All the purses in the window are made from gum wrappers. The store had very unusual purses and I couldn't resist the martini shaped purse on the end of the middle shelf :) It's a Sono Purse. For those other purse lovers out there.








The number one tourist attraction, besides the art galleries, is the Lorretto Church built in 1873. Here is a picture of the Miraculous staircase. Per it's website: Two mysteries surround the spiral staircase in the Loretto Chapel: the identity of its builder and the physics of its construction. The staircase has two 360 degree turns and has no visible means of support. Also, it is said that the staircase was built without nails—only wooden pegs. Here is the link for more info: http://www.lorettochapel.com/


We also came across this store that displayed old dinosaur fossils. We must have spent 30 minutes looking around with our mouths wide open in awe. They had quite a selection of amazing fossils still in tact. Very, very cool.

I know you can't read it, but it states under the fossil, 30 million years old with a price tag of $1195.



We were drinking our coffee in Starbucks and my sweetie looked so handsome with the natural window light that I secretly pulled out my camera and caught this image. I wouldn't stop photographing him after that. Poor guy, it's hard to be married to a photographer! lol He is such a great husband, he never once said a word as I was stopping every couple of minutes to photograph something! Like the chili peppers hanging!

We had a wonderful time. I love long weekend getaways. Four days was plenty of time. On our last day we left early and drove through old town Albuquerque. I told Russell that we would do whatever he would like, since the whole trip turned out to by my vacation. He chose the Atomic Museum. It was really quite interesting.

AA's Last Minute Getaways!

FYI:

Just so you know. We booked our trip to Santa Fe using AA.com with their last minute getaways and we found out the hard way that it is actually - Travelocity!

If you have any problems the only number to call is a call center in India for Travelocity. Let's just say we did have quite a few problems with the condo that we booked and got no help!

Always check out your accommodations online on one of the review sites. Learn from our mistakes!

Luckily, we still had a lot of fun after we booked our own hotel.

ps - this is just a pic I took of a building in Santa Fe that I thought reflected the adobe style and I liked it very much.