2 + 2 + More!

I think his monkey lips are the cutest and most hilarious "kissey shot" I've ever captured! *giggle* :D

In the picture below we've got it all! The kids were T-I-R-E-D of pictures now! We've got the cheesy grandpa grin, the goofy kid grins, the yawns, bored lip bitters, hollering tots, and grandma doing her best to restrain a grandchild, while smiling, and telling all the kiddos to look and smile at the same time! An amazing and absolutely laughable shot here! Hee hee ha! Only thing we are missing is a kid picking their nose!!! :D

Lil' Boy Feet {love} Sand!

Shepherd Photography Project 365 {Day 49}

"Rockin" the Yard Sale!

I am so glad I took the little energy and time to have a garage sale last weekend! My mom and "lil' sistas" came down for the weekend to help out and bring their load of stuff combined with my older sister stuff too! I had friend throw in her stuff so with all mine combined we had quite the sale going on at my house! It was the bomb! :D Getting to meet more of our neighbors, dancing on the corner waving for more customers to come check out of items for sale, hanging with my awesome family, swimming in the afternoon when the customers slowed and it was hot enough to poach an egg on the sidewalk over a couple hours :), to pocketing a couple hundred dollars when the two days of selling was all said and done! :D Can't complain about that! Amazing what you can sell and how much you can sell it for! Especially if you stuff is nice and you have it set up, presented and priced in a professional and "flashy" way! :D Gotta know the "tricks in the book" and make a little effort to make a few buckaroos! Yee ha! :P

Arkansas Trip...finally.

Failure to put up our last minute trip to Arkansas for a Shepherd family reunion, yes that has been me. I have been in a state of depression and complete non-motivation to do anything which is not me at all. This month I have been having a hard time with procrastinating which is always far from me. I have been so far behind that I have tried to hide it and sweep the things under the rug putting them off until later and doing other things. One of those things has been my photography and my blogging. I have gotten the attitude these past 2-3 weeks of, "I don't care" anymore and it is down hearting for me.

I really do not feel like getting into the details of my recent life trials *slight eye roll* and my OCD tendencies I have discovered and can't break. Let's just say I am good at covering up my problems and coming across as normally fine when I am not. Aren't we all. Pray for me. I'm going through a rough spot right now with a spirit of oppression baring down heavily over my head. When you are a mom and wife with many responsibilities and weights already baring down on you the last thing you need is the idiot of a devil making it any more harder than it already is. *growl* :P Emotional battles are so much more exhausting than physical ones.

So, yes our last min. trip to Arkansas with Sam's mom went pretty well. I can't say I have any desire to make another long trip again for awhile. If mom hadn't been with us and sat in the back being patient with the boys then Sam and I would have been even more exhausted than we were at the end of the weekend. But despite the struggles with "camping" in cabins with twin toddlers and having the bathhouse 1/4 mile away and the boys having utterly nothing to do while we were there (I should have taken more toys I guess) it was a really good time!!!

Jeff & Sonja + 3!

This is without a doubt the most fun that I can remember having on a family shoot! They were a blast and so full of love and funniness! :D I think some of the best photos I was able to get were the ones that were "accidental"! I just snapped when they were being...them. Crazy and sweet! :D Those are my favorites and ALWAYS the best of course! :D

Thanks for letting me hang out with ya'll on a hectic day for me when I really needed a break to go have fun with my camera and a great family! :D