Ha! Two Years Later...

WOW! I really should start updating my posts... almost 2 years!  Going from a full time student to a full time "sitting behind a desk," and still being a full time mom and wife... updating my Blogger, wasn't really on my schedule. Again, neither is facebooking, but I seem to do that all the time.  Now that I am working part time, life has sure slowed down 20 mph for me!

SO, I have a lot to "blog" about!

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My daughter is now 11 years old.  Yes, the fun "pre-teen" age.  I don't know what boys are like at this age, but let me tell you, sometimes I wish girls came with a manual.  The scary part is sometimes, I see a little of me in her and then I think, "how is this possible?! Nowhere in my biology class did I learn that throwing a fit about cleaning your room, worrying about your hair, or talking back to your mom was encrypted in our genetic coding."  Of course, these are learned behaviors, but you get where I am coming from.  We don't have to talk about where or who she learned it from (as I laugh to myself).

Pre-teen girls, they can become a challenge for any parent.  We just have to remember, we were warned.  The "one day you will have a daughter and she will be just like you," haunts me all the time (curse whoever said that to me. Haha!)!

Then again, there are more pros than cons about having a pre-teen daughter.  She's my wonderful and beautiful girl.  Smart, funny, athletic, and she never gives up on whatever it is she is trying to accomplish.  She's just my easy going girl.  Sometimes I feel I learn a lot more from her than I know it.

As a parent, we may try too hard to understand our kids.  It is frustrating because we just don't "get it."  I don't think we are suppose to "get it."  Kids will be kids.  They do things we don't like and they do things we may never know why they do it... and they WILL act the way they do because we don't like it.  Something I do know is, we should look at ourselves.  Don't look at what you are doing wrong because it will just drive you crazy.  We hardly see ourselves doing anything wrong.  Besides, you can't change what you just did, you have to figure out what you are going to do next.  As always, put yourself in the child's shoes.  Think about all your expectations you have put on your child and why it is expected of them.  Is it for you or is it for them?

Anna & Mia...Just a Peek!

Just a SNEAK PEEK, Mom... Vi has more to come for ya!

Kaden & Addisyn

I can tell, that these 2 love each other very much. Kaden is such an awesome big brother to baby Addisyn & he knew exactly how to make her smile!

I posted more pictures for this post just for those special people who have been waiting to see pictures of these beautiful Davis children!!!

Day 1: Kaden has no problem when it comes to taking photos. Then again, Kaden has so many photos done a year: school photos, sport photos, birthday photos... Kaden is also a people person. He is very friendly and had no problem telling me about his favorite hobbies and sports. He is such a good kid and very well mannered, I might add. Never met such a big Steelers fan before...this kid sure knows what he's talking about when you ask him about football!!!

Addy, on the other hand...was a bit afraid of my camera and did not warm up to me very well, even after an hour of trying to take her picture, she was just not into it. But she is just so darn cute, we decided to do a second take...


Day 2: Attempt #2 & Addy's personal shoot...

Okay, so she still didn't warm up to me very well... I had to step back a few feet, this was the only way I would be able to take her photos without really distracting her from being so darn cute... I told mom, we will just let her PLAY. And that is exactly the kinda model Addisyn is... Natural.

After an hour of playing...she finally warmed up to me. By that time, we were done =)

A Day With Rosa

Sorry, Mommy & Daddy, your little girl is no longer a baby any more. She is a beautiful young lady now...

Rosa is soooo shy...in front of my camera, that is. She is usually more outgoing than she was for me this day, but she decided to pull the "shy" role card on me. I am sure when we do the family session she will be her normal self.

We shall see what happens...

I have been doing children photos for a couple of years now, but this was my first tween! Who would have thought that they could be shy. Maybe being shy is a good thing though... Haha. I wouldn't know, because I was never shy.

Rosa is a wonderful girl and she has so much going for her. She loves school, church, playing volleyball, singing, dancing, and she told me she loves being with her friends and family. How awesome is that!

My Beautiful Sisemore Girls!!!

This was the first frame I captured of Kylie...and I literally felt like going into tears. I could not believe how fast she is growing up. She's no longer that little girl I use to cradle in my arms. She's in middle school now and so close to being 13!

Nikayla & I finally got to spend time with our 3 lovely ladies last weekend! We had a great time and it was fun playing "catch up" with Jamie, Kylie, & Leah. I cannot get over how fast kids grow up! Kylie will be 12 this summer & baby Leah will be 3. I remember seeing these girls as newborns and now they are growing up so fast so soon. Just like I want for my little girl, I wish I could just freeze time for a bit and enjoy those moments that you can't go back to... & that's what I love about photography, I am able to freeze those precious moments and preserve it for a lifetime ;)

It's been awesome being apart of these girls' lives and I love them just like they are my own!

Yes! These are the same little girls at the bottom of my blog page ;)

I Love This!

So I seem to be staying up really late studying...but not much studying gets done because I seem to find more enjoyment working on my photo projects.

This one here, I made a couple months back, but I just had to post it. The color of Brooke's leo goes so well with the black backdrop! This is one of my favorite!!!!!

My Realtor Sister!

This was new for me...my sister never calls me to take her picture. The only pictures I have of her, she is always doing her big "cheese" thing or it's of her with her hand over her face or pushing away my camera...with her hands!

Look at how beautiful she is. I had fun creating her new business card for her!