Today was TIRING! I didn't stop running most of the day. I DID, however, take 5 minutes off--just for my sanity. During that 5 minutes my door only got knocked on once and my name was only called twice.

Heaven!

I played some more with my white paper tonight. I'm too tired to do much, so we were just silly.

I went to my first NILMDTS session today. It was sad, but a good experience. The baby had lived only 5 minutes in this world. How sad is that?

Kids are still up and wanting my attention. Goodnight.

Decided to play with the white seamless paper tonight, but was having a hard time with lighting. One of my bees isn't flashing for some reason (hopefully just a burned out bulb). Today's picture is Carly, who modeled for me straight out of the shower. :)

I've been so swamped that I haven't had time to come visit everyone else's blogs in a few days. I promise to catch up after I edit this session I did today. Some of you already saw one of these on the board, but for those who haven't...Here are a few from my boudoir session today. This girl was great. A total natural. It was a lot of fun.

I did a newborn session today. It was fun. I really enjoy photographing babies. Here are a couple as I have just started editing them....
I have a boudoir session tomorrow....I'll try to get a model release for that one. We'll see. :)

The kids love their Wii! Here they are playing baseball. It is fun not only to play, but to watch them playing as well,.

Today is my sweet daughter's 11th birthday. We are actually celebrating it on the 17th when we have her "Hollywood" party. :)

Tonight we just went out to dinner then came home and did homework. Here she is with Richard helping her with her math.

She is such a good girl. I'm so proud of her. She is student council president, she is a straight A student, and she is part of a district honor choir. She takes after ME, of course....hehe!

Happy Birthday Carly Marie!

Oh man, I almost didn't get my photo in today. At 10:00 pm, I was just finally sitting down after a long day of rushing around and I realized I hadn't used my camera at all today! So, I decided to go peek in on my youngest, who gets to sleep with me tonight because my hubby is out of town. Instead of taking a picture of my son---who wasn't asleep yet----I snapped a shot of Mr. Hamilton, who apparently thinks he gets to sleep with me tonight as well. :)

This is Jake. He is one of the 4 of our 6 kids who are playing lacrosse this spring. Jake couldn't resist donning his new gear to practice in the front yard today.

DJ is still sick. He still has a fever. He is coughing a lot too. The dr. says strep sometimes takes a few days to respond to the antibiotic.....but usually he gets better after the first day. I think he has more than strep quite frankly. The cough is deep in his chest and it is making him miserable.

Have a great day, challenge buddies! :)

Super Bowl Sunday.......need I say more?

Our Project Today
We got these pics framed and Richard worked very hard to meticulously measure and hang them just right. These are black and whites of each kid (except the one who refuses to be photographed). There are two pics of each kid....one with a serious expression and one with the kiddo being silly. This wall is in our entry way...we have a little rotunda area when you walk in the front door. People who come here to get portraits done will walk by these and I figured it is a nice little gallery of my work. :-)

My 14 year old has strep. He gets it once or twice a year lately. :( Poor guy. He feels horrible. The good thing about strep is that he gets put on antibiotics and usually feels better within 24 hours. I would rather strep than the flu. Hopefully the other 5 kids won't get this......

Today has been quite busy. Started the day at my daughter's Spelling Bee. She did great....one of the last 5 people. She finally got out on the word "tongue".


Then I had the second part of the 3 month session I started last week. I haven't really edited many of these yet, but here is a sample---for my photo of the day.Now my oldest is sick.....icky cough, chest hurting, and fever. No fun.

Hope you all are doing well. This challenge is fun! :)