Kelly Moore Bag Giveaway on MCP

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The Nitty Gritty Giveaway

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Bridal Independence

I just wanted to share one of my new favorite shots from my first trash the dress session last weekend. With it being 4th of July weekend this weekend I thought I'd add a new twist....

Time Flies

Goodness I feel like a bad blogger... It's been FOREVER since I've been on here. Well yesterday was my 8th wedding anniversary. I will post a few pics that we took while we were out and about hanging out. I made a little collage with some of the pics from yesterday and some from the day we got married 8 years ago. How time flies.

Collages

Here are some collages I put together...

New X-mas card design

Here is the new Christmas card that I made earlier.... I think it's the best one I've done so far.

digital scrapbooking

I am helping my nephew with his senior scrapbook. It is due Friday so I kinda felt sorry for him so I got all his info and thought I'd design it. I am sooo enjoying doing this digital scrapbooking. I have been into designing cards and everything lately. Let me know what you think, this is only the first page....

Photoshoot cut short

I had a photoshoot for a family today. We didn't quite get finished with it though because she slipped and went to catch herself and sliced her finger open. It was pretty bad so we had to call it quits but did get a few good ones... here are a few.

Jen's Fabulous Family

Here are a few from this week. I did a short shoot with just Kruz and his mommy... one of my other Besties Jen. Then today I did a shoot with the whole family and thought I'd show a preview of at least one.

One of my Besties Felisha

I have been slacking on posting things on my blog that have been going on. Here are a few from my photoshoot with one of my besties Felisha this last weekend. I took close to 300 pics that day and am still editing the best from the bunch but here are a few that stuck out to me.

My X-mas Card template

Thanks to CoffeeShop's Blog I learned how to make a brush, save a pattern, and make my own Christmas Card template....

Here is my first ago at it... I made one for a friend of mine with whom I did a family photo shoot this last weekend.

Birth Announcement

i finally finished the birth announcement (one month later) since I finally took some good pics of the baby and his sister. Thanks to Rita at CoffeeShops blog for the tutorial on how to make your own storyboard, this is how I accomplished it.

Little Man- 1 Month Old

Here are the pics I took on the 1st of my kiddos when my little man was exactly one month old.... You can tell his sissy loves him, she is definitely a big help around the help and wants to always change his diaper.

Kiddos on Halloween

Here are my kiddos this Halloween 09'

Athena wore the butterfly costume to school on Friday and a bunny Sat. night, she was so cute she looked like a mini playboy bunny :) My little man was a little dalmatian as you can see.

I'm Back

so sorry that I have been MIA and haven't blogged in over a month.... the new baby keeps me busy. I do get online quite a bit though just not to blog... I have become a facebook addict and find myself farming a lot.... at least until the baby requires my undivided attention :) Here are the first set of pics I took of him at 10 days.

My 1st Newborn Shoot

Here are a few of my favs from my very first newborn photo shoot I did yesterday. Keep in mind I'm that I'm less than 3 weeks away from delivering so it was kind of hard being on my knees and getting on the baby's level. I've already got lots of requests from other moms to have their babies pics taken along with their family photos.... I'm so excited!

31 weeks along

So I decided it was time to do more maternity self portraits. I'm 31 weeks now and haven't done any since 22 weeks, not even as much as a snapshot around the house of my belly. With Athena I took a pic about every 2 weeks or so until the last trimester and then every week. Why am I slacking. At least now I can take a little better quality of picture than just a polaroid. When I find them from being scanned to my computer I will show you the pregnancy pics with my daughter over 5 years ago.

I am huge now and feel like I could pop anyday honestly. I don't remember being like this with my first pregnancy.

Here's what I got from my selfs today... at least a few of my favs.

By the way I have changed my name to 918 Studios... it was my hubbys idea and I like it. 918 is our area code so that was kind of different.

My Pregnancy and Life Update

I am currently 27 weeks pregnant with a little boy and have a lot on my plate. I have gained 20 lbs. already although it's all in my belly. They convince me there is only one baby in there though (:

this is a self portrait I did a little over a month ago so I was about 22 weeks. Huge huh?

Sorry I haven't posted in a while but things have been crazy. I've worked an 8 to 5 job up until about a month ago when I decided it was best for me to stay home with my now 5 year old daughter. Plus my pregnancy was starting to get exhausting especially when I have problems sleeping at night because of congestion and drainage.

anyways, at my 20 week ultrasound they noticed that the baby had only 2 vessels instead of the normal 3 they are supposed to have. there is a slightly higher risk of cord accident of course... it's important for me to do kick counts especially when I feel like he's not moving around like usual, but luckily he does karate in my uterus constantly. there is also a risk that something may be wrong with the baby, such as renal problem or even heart but only about 25% of 2 vessel cord babies have any abnormalities. I'm a little worried but I can't really worry too much. The pediatrician will do a renal ultrasound after the baby is born and also look at the heart.

Also Wednesday when I did my glucose screen it came back a little high so I I have to carb load for the next 3 days and go back fasting on Monday and do a glucose tolerance test. You know this is all I need, to have Gestational Diabetes on top of everything else and the higher risk of delevoping Pre-E and HELLP again.

So far my BP is good but we'll still keep a close eye on it.

Photo Contest Winner's session

For my anniversary I did a photo contest on my myspace for a free session. The theme of the contest was things you love in honor of my anniversary and the person I love. I did it to promote my photography and of course get more pics in my portfolio. We finally were able to do her session this last week and here are a few of my favs from the day. Let me know what you think....