Here Comes Santa Claus

The family enjoyed the annual Gastonia Christmas Parade yesterday along with many other memebers of our church. My DH brings Hot Chocolate and everyone else brings snacks to share. It's kind of like a tailgate party! Here's a few pictures.

Spectators...


The boys guarding the snacks...yea, right.


We had a great time; Santa even said HI to me! :)

Totally jealous of his hair

Here's another first for me. This is a friend's son who is the same age as Jessica and they have gone to church and school together. Last weekend I was honored to do a photo shoot with him. His mom wasn't happy with the pictures from school and needed some pictures to send to friends and family. These were all taken around his house
Also he is getting ready to get his gorgeous red hair cut to donate it to Locks of Love. So his mom wanted some pictures of his hair before the "hair cut."

I create this collage of some of the pictures that I have edit so far. It was super easy with Picasa.

Thanks Jake and Deb for this opportunity and hope you enjoy the pictures!

Burning down the house

This was a view from my front yard as a house was burned down. I didn't get back home till near the end of the burn, but here's some pictures.

I thought the Christmas decor with the fire in the background was interesting.

Firemen from several local departments were there to train.

One of the last walls standing.

High School Senior

A few weeks ago I got a chance to take pictures of a friend's son who is graduating this year. It seems like yesterday he was 7 years old; he will be 18 soon. My how time flies. We had a lot of fun with these and it was great being able to work with someone I know. Karen, his mom and my dear friend, was my assistant holding the reflector and equipment. Jessica (DD) was also my assistant as well as light stand.

Here's the ones inside with more of studio look. All I had was my off camera flash and reflector.




These were some fun ones outside and around downtown Dallas (NC).

Fun in the Leaves

I love fall, but it seems it came and went really fast this year. I remember the maple in our front yard was so orange last year and seemed to keep it's leaves a really long time. It was just about a pretty this year, but the leaves fell off really fast it seems.

Nonetheless, the boys got to play in the piles of leaves their dad created for them while cleaning the yard. Here's some pictures from the fun they had.




A bird's nest still rested in the branches of the dogwood that is in Mrs. Ruby's yard.


Joseph found some berries on a bush...he didn't try to eat them but did throw them at Zachary.


Check out my picasa web album for more "fun" pictures

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Confirmation

We did not grow up Lutheran or in a denomination that had confirmation, so this has been a new experience for Bruce (DH) and I. Our oldest, Jessica, was confirmed a few Sunday's ago. This is part of her public confession of her faith in Jesus. She also had to go through two years of study on the bible, church history, and theology.

The night before there is a rehearsal of the service and a dinner for the kids and families.

Here's some pictures from this special event.

Jessica was the only girl confirmed this year.
She has grow up all these young gentlemen.

This lady is a very special saint. Miss Lula is 96 years young and has been Jessica's prayer partner for several years now.

Jessica expresses her excitement during the rehersal.

Welcome

This is my first atttempt at blogging. Just wanted a place to share what's going on with my newest passion...photography.

Here's a picture of my daughter and me from a few weeks ago.

Thanks to my dear friend Debbie who offered to take our picture with my camera. I set it up and she pressed the button... One bad (or in my case good thing) about being behind the camera is that I don't have many pictures of myself. One day my kids may like to have some pictures of me. Thanks Debbie for reminding me. :)