365 - Day 3

Today's post will be short and sweet.

My husband started home brewing tonight.  Here's a picture of the bag of grains seeping into the water.  Hopefully the first of many batches!

365- Day 2

I am not what you would consider a great gardener.  I would say I kill roughly half of the plants I try to grow.    So when we put a new flower bed in front of our house last year, I figured I'd make it easier on myself and just get a box of that premade flower mix.  You know, the pretty wildflower mix?

Big mistake.  I've have to tear most of it out because it was just flowerless weeds.  I did, however, have a few wild flowers that popped up that are absolutely gorgeous.  I have no idea what they are, but I figured since they add some color and don't seem to be overtaking my bed, they can stay.

So here's my day 2.  As my mom once told me, the only difference between a weed and a flower is the person viewing it.

365- Day 1

Let me just start this saying that I will not be posting every day.  I will, however, make myself pick up my camera and take a picture a day.  I know, that sounds so hard, right?  I'm rolling my eyes at myself over here.  But I am challenging myself to find beauty in the mundane and usual.  Try to expand my artistic horizons and all that.  To better document my every day life.  I'm thinking this could be fun!

So I submit day one.

I added a new lens to my collection today and had a little mini session for the greatest kid model there ever was.  Could be that I'm biased because she's my daughter or it could be because she works for cut up watermelon.

MacKenna's Dance Pictures | Paducah Children's Photography

I took dance lessons when I was 6 because my best friend danced and I had aspirations to be one of those ballerinas that danced on their toes.  Unfortunately, dance does not come naturally to me and being the typical 6 year old, my attention and time quickly went somewhere else.  I walked away knowing a little more than the basic positions of where you put your feet.

So when MacKenna's mom asked me to take her dance photos, I was a little apprehensive and even more excited.  This was definitely not your typical photo shoot (then again, what is your typical photo shoot?) but I had a blast walking around downtown Paducah and just capturing MacKenna as she danced around.  Her personality really came out when she put the ballerina costume on.  She started walking on her tippy toes and  gesturing with quite the flourish!  What a personality and I'm glad that I was able to capture that.

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Aaron's Prom 2013 | Paducah Special Events Photography

A friend of mine asked me to take some pictures of her son and his beautiful date, Hayley and I jumped on the opportunity.  You see, Aaron is a special guy.  He's very bright (my hubby taught him AP Calc this year) and very talented (he played his Sax at the Macy's Parade).  And he's so nice and funny to boot!  I knew this photo shoot would be a fun one.  And I think everyone was happy with the results. :)

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Cadie's Mother's Day Shoot | Paducah Children's Photography

I've kept this shoot secret for a few weeks now because I wanted to surprise Mimi and Nana with some framed prints.  And they loved them!  So now I get to show off my beautiful little girl to the world.  I can honestly say this was my absolute favorite photo shoot with her.  She's finally getting to the stage where she'll take some direction instead of me chasing her with the camera.  I'm hoping this continues!

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