I {heart} faces ~ Hugs & Kisses

this week's challenge at I Heart Faces is Hugs & Kisses...
I took this cute picture of Logan and Courtney when they went to Sadie Hawkins...

It really was such a sweet picture captured right towards the end of pre-dance pictures...
I love the innocence of it. The two of them seemed to have a wonderful time just talking and laughing...in their own little world...and then he just leaned over and gave her a kiss on the cheek. They really are so sweet together <3

I {heart} faces ~ Hearts

Happy Valentine's Day Everyone!
I hope that on this day and every other day of the year you express love to all those around that you {HEART}!

this week's challenge at I Heart Faces...is Hearts!
Great theme for Valentine's Day don'tcha think????
My picture for this challenge is a picture of my niece Autumn and her new hubby Cody...They were so cute...giggling and laughing and having a wonderful time while we were doing their wedding pictures. I love weddings...{sigh}

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I {heart} faces ~ Oh So Silly!

This week's theme at I Heart Faces is Oh So Silly!
Here's is a picture of my sister, Jaymee. {I heart her face!} It never fails...anytime I have the camera out ~ you can bet she's going to make a silly face...
On this particular day, my family came out to do family pictures. Jaymee's son, Sean was on leave from the Army at the time, so it was a perfect time to get together.
I had borrowed a fish-eye lens from a fellow photog friend...just to kinda check it out...well my family was more than willing to play along...especially my sister!

I had several pictures to choose from of my family making funny, silly faces...but everyone in my house voted Jaymee's fish lips picture the funniest. It got the most belly laughs! That is why Jaymee's fish lips ~ with the fish eye lens is my entry for I Heart Faces this week...enjoy

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I {Heart} Faces ~ by the book

I knew exactly the photo for this weeks' challenge...
This sweet little cutie patootie is Harley...Could she be any cuter????? I don't think so.

Her and her mommy, Allie, met me to do Harley's Kindergarten photo shoot. And she came with her own props! What 5 year old does that???? haha
As we walked to the location where we were going to take her photos, we got to know each other a little better. She said she was a big sister, thus the choice in book she brought. She said she loves to read but right now this was her favorite book.
Then she told me that she had just had her birthday party and it was a Scooby Doo birthday and she dressed up as Velma...this is where the glasses came in...haha She doesn't normally wear them but she wanted them for her school pictures!
This girl has so much personality! I'm so glad that I can share this in this weeks' challenge...


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i {heart} faces ~ family fun

Well after missing the first challenge for I Heart Faces last week, I wanted to make sure I didn't miss it this week.
This week's challenge is Family Fun and I think this is the most precious family picture. My friend's the Brace Family celebrated their daughter, Emma's baptism last week. So very grateful to be there and snap a few special pictures for them. What a beautiful, spirit filled day!


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enjoy <3

2011 in {review}

I love I Heart Faces and love seeing the submissions for their weekly photo challenges...I have even been known to post to those challenges.
This week their challenge was to post your absolute favorite I Heart Face - your favorite picture of a face in 2011.
I started looking through all the pictures I took in 2011 and it was truly difficult to choose just one because I take ALOT of pictures...until I remembered this one...
This is my grandmother. She just celebrated her 83rd birthday...I just love her and this is the most perfect picture that says so much without saying anything...
But again...
I was going through a whole year of pictures (I missed the deadline for submission to the challenge too...lol) and realized that I had so many that were my favorites for different reasons...pictures stir emotion...and I laughed and teared up some too as I have spent the past few hours looking though the past 12 months...
So here are some of my other favorites of 2011...
This is my family...Kurt, Michael, Korey, Logan, Trevor and even our Jasmin
We've had a job change, a son graduate, boys going here and there, had our "daughter" come stay for six months and then had to send her back to her real family...lots to be grateful for.

ok so I didn't take these pictures...but they were taken with my camera!
and it's a rare occasion that I am in a picture...so it's safe to say that these are special pictures to me because I love the people in them with me enough to actually be photographed with them... my hubby, two of my boys, my bff jules and vero hero

These are special pictures to me because each one means something not only to me but to others in my family...my mother's college graduation, my sister Jaymee and her sweet Isabella just days before Isabella returned home to Sweden, my father in law {xoxo}, and my niece Autumn's wedding.

I love these little people! Each of them melt my heart! Auntie Tweena misses not seeing them...

4 amazing young women who I just love!

just two of my line up of 2011 beautiful brides...one I have known since she was only 3 and the other was my last of 2011.


and finally...just some of my favorite kiddos...some I've known since the day they were born and some I just met in 2011...but each of them have made an imprint on my heart this year...
There were so many more that I could have added...but this would have been the longest blog post in history!

Well...there you have it
My own version of the faces that I HEART for 2011
May you all make a plan to take more pictures of those you HEART in 2012!

I {heart} faces - Week 38 Smirk Photo Challenge

Ok...so generally I don't like to post pictures of myself but it kinda went along with the theme for this weeks photo challenge at I {heart} faces...and I just recently took the picture...so viola'! This picture was an assignment from our teacher who wanted us to take a self portrait and edit it using Photoshop and some of the tools she taught us...yes even professional photographers go to school! Gotta keep up with the times...if not, I'd still be using a film camera LOL

So here's my submission for I {heart} faces Week 38's Smirk Photo Challenge - "It's Me"

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