Awww! New Love

My baby brother is finally getting married. He has been dating a wonderful gal for several years now. They are going to tie the knot this October.
She & I went to the bridal show here in Bloomington and we found some awesome guest books that were made out of photos of the couples. We got together this past weekend for a little photo shoot. Which there will be more to come. We didn't get everything taken she wanted.
Anyway, here is a small preview from that photo shoot.

Introducing Colby David Brown

Meet Colby David Brown. Born April 1st and weighing in at 8 pounds and 21 inches. First son of my wonderful cousin Becky & her husband, Jerome. This little guy was so cute! I'm very thankful to Becky to have me come to her home and take his photo. He was a little under two weeks at this time and done very well.

I'm ready to take some more newborn photos now! She gave me the bug!!!

Hope you enjoy!

Hello There! and Welcome!!!

I get really excited when I learn a new skill. For those of you that know me, photography has always been an obsession of mine. Mike & I went to DC in 1998 and I came back with about 15 rolls of film to develop. Seriously! And we weren't even there a whole week. That is how I have been for as long as I can remember.
Then I started scrapbooking in 2001. At the time, Mike raced and that was all of his free time, working on the car. I felt the need to be crafty and was looking for a new hobby. Introduce, scrapbooking! I quickly became obsessed with it. Had to have all the new stuff. Any book I could get my hands on. And of course MORE PHOTOS!
But scrapbooking did do one thing. It made me take different kinds of photos. I paid more attention to details. Things you wouldn't think of taking a photo of. If I'd been scrapbooking when we went to DC, I would have taken photos of all of the signs under the statues so that when I got back I would remember what they were!
But taking all of these photos and different types of photos, led me to a new venture in 2002. My first ever, real paid, photo shoot! Then that progressed  into doing weddings. {Which, forewarning!!! This time around I am not doing weddings. Portraiture only!!!}
Then the miracle that Mike & I had been waiting for since the day we got married!!! I finally became pregnant in November 2007. I continued to do a few shoots here and there at the beginning. With all of the things that I had to do to maintain the pregnancy, taking photos became just too much. So I quit.
Enter Emmalynne Josephine, August 3, 2008. The camera came back out! Now I had my own child to make those scrapbook pages about.
Slowly but surely I started getting the hang of this new parenting thing. And after about 15 months!!! :-) I think I became somewhat comfortable. I started to get the urge and obsession of all things photo and scrapbooking again. I switched over to doing scrapbooking digitally, because I could do it here at my full time job, while I was working. {You know what it's like to try and do any crafts with a 15 month very active toddler!} Then Christmas, 2009, my parents and my husband got me what I had been asking for. A NEW LAPTOP! And that has prove to be the best present I have ever gotten. I carry it daily with me to work. Having this new computer has allowed me to scrapbook here at work and if I don't get something finished then I can work on it after Josie goes to bed. This has allowed me to have all of 2009 done!!!
Digitally scrapbooking led me to start taking some online classes, which got me wanting to learn more. I needed a refresher course on photography so I found a class and am now back into taking portraits again!
My "DREAMS DO COME TRUE", is first and foremost my precious Josie, but my second dream would be for my passion of all things photo to come full circle and provide me with the desire to create and capture and pay for my little family to live!
This is where this blog will come in. I plan on posting favorites from photo shoots to share with you my reader along with little excerpts of my daily life. Please stay and enjoy and leave me many many comments. Love to get comments! So grab a can of Diet Coke and enjoy!!!

This is a test

Not of the emergency broadcast service! But of me, myself & I!

More 2010 Scrap pages

Just some random layouts I have made for 2010.

When it rains it pours!!!

We have had a not so great last 24 hours. Yesterday afternoon Michelle called me here at work and Rick's Uncle was being taken to the hospital in an ambulance. Didn't know at the time what was going on. In the last 24 hours we have found out that he was shot from behind. He was found in the driveway with keys still in hand. He was on the phone with a friend when he pulled in the drive and told the friend on the phone he had to go cause his "buddy" was there. SOME BUDDY!!! This said buddy has since been arrested, confessed to stealing the 4wheeler and shooting Dave. I cant' believe anymore what this world is coming to. I have never known anyone that has been murdered and even though this is not "my family" I am having a hard time letting it go. I can't imagine dying like this. I didn't know Dave all that well, but he was always extremely nice to me. He treated his nephews and great nieces & nephews as if they were his own. I know he will be missed by his family and I hope that justice is done for the person responsible. I don't know what justice is but he will have to answer for his doings when it is his time.

This morning Dad called and said that Aunt Flo had passed. I will miss her. She was always so funny and just had a different outlook on the world than anyone i knew. Everyone always said I was alot like her. But I dont' feel like in the last several years I am anything like she was. I would like for that to change if I can figure out how to do it and get back to the "fun" person I once was.
Cindy moved Aunt Flo back here back in the fall and she was in a nursing home over in Brown County. A week or more ago, Cindy was told she had pancreatic cancer, and that it had moved elsewhere in her body. I went to visit Aunt Flo last friday with Mom & Cindy and took Josie to meet her. She was still the same old Aunt Flo. Honary as ever!!! By the time we left, Josie was putting her monkey finger puppets on Aunt Flo's hand. I'm really glad she got to meet Josie and I'm glad I got to see her one last time. I will miss you Aunt Flo and believe it or not I will miss my one and only nickname growing up that she gave me. "Dipshit" I dont' know why she called me that but she always did!!!