I Heart Faces - Autumn

this week's theme over at i[heart]faces is autumn!
and unfortunately i don't have many autumn photos this year. normally it's my favorite time of year to take photos, but this year we seemed to skip the season of fall and jumped right into winter. thanks to a few early frosts and then snow at halloween - most of the leaves didn't get a chance to turn to their peak brilliance and simply fell off the trees. boo.

last weekend tho' i did get a few "autumn" photos - meet my nephew - mr. PJ.
you can't tell me that he's not the cutest thing ever :) check out that smile - and those SHOES! haha
[to see more sneak previews from the photos i took of his family last weekend, make sure you 'like' my facebook page!]

be sure to head over to i[heart]faces to see more "autumn" photos!

voting day

yesterday i went to vote.

i really had no clue who to vote for- other than the guy who comes into the bank just about every day, who i promised to vote for.

it wasn't a major election, but i had promised him, so i went to vote, totally intending to leave every other ballot blank.

hey- if i didn't know who to vote for, i wasn't just going to vote for whoever had the prettiest name.

on the way into the polling place, as usual there were several folks standing outside the doors, pushing for their favored candidates.

i've been there and done that- so instead of being rude & walking right past everyone, i stopped and smiled and they all [probably sensing that i had no clue who else to vote for other than that one guy] pounced on me like a stupid fish who just swam into shark infested waters.

okay, so maybe it wasn't that bad.

i took all their literature, shook their hands, smiled and chatted with them.

but one person in particular stood out to me.

there was a little girl, who was probably 9 or 10 years old there, with her mom - who was running for school board. she had a huge gigantic grin on her face, and was holding a big, hand-made sign asking people to vote for her mom.

and suddenly, i was that little girl- asking people to vote for my dad, when he was running for school board.

prior to my dad being elected to the school board [while he was campaigning] i went to his spaghetti dinners, his fundraisers, and proudly wore his advertising material. i remember one particular spaghetti dinner, standing up outside the firehall with my dad [and his running mate's] sign and yelling at the top of my longs "McKen-sie, O'Don-nell, Eich-el-ber-ger, for school-di-rector!" 

my dad was a star and i was SO proud that so many people knew my daddy.

once he was elected, i thought he must be as famous as tom cruise. of COURSE you knew who my dad was - he's on the school board! and i was SO proud to be his daughter.

needless to say: i voted for that little girl's mom. i hope she wins - so that little girl can have a piece of the pride i had in my daddy.

I Heart Faces - Black

this week's challenge at i[heart]faces is the color black :)
just a few weeks ago, they had the challenge of the color white, which of course just a few weeks after that challenge, i shot the perfect photo for that color! haha
oh well.

i'm pretty in love with my entry for the color black though :)
just sunday, i did family photos for sam & jeana and i loove how this shot of jeana turned out! she's so beautiful and gonna make such a great mama!
[ps - did you see my sneak peak of their images? i'm posting sneak peaks on my facebook page now - make sure you "like" my page to keep up-to-date!]

be sure to head over to i[heart]faces to see more "black" photos!

Emmie [Senior 2012]

Emmie :)

ahh I love this girl :)

Emmie goes to my church is is part of our youth group [D&I are youth leaders? oh you didn't know that? now you do :)] and you can always count on Emmie to do something unexpected.

literally.

and you can always count on Emmie to make faces, make jokes, laugh hysterically, and rarely be serious :)

she makes things interesting - and fun.

so when she came bouncing up to me after church one Sunday morning and asked me to take her senior pictures, i secretly began to bounce on the inside because i knew it would be a ton of fun!

needless to say, our photo adventure was just that - an adventure!

we jumped train tracks and laid in the grass and picked flowers and got in some guy who was carrying a tv's way!

i love how her photos turned out tho' - i really wanted to capture Emmie's fun-loving and crazy personality, but equally show how beautiful she is - and i definitely think i succeeded!

but i'll let you decide for yourself :)

best of luck Emmie! love ya girl!

Baby Jonah [newborn portraits, Sayre, PA]

coming from a family that consisted of 4 girls until a little boy was born, i totally remember how exciting it was to suddenly have a boy in the house.

things were suddenly blue, and trucks and cars appeared where dolls and tea-sets used to be.

so i could totally relate to how ecstatic everyone was when baby jonah was born - the baby brother to his 3 older sisters.

i know daddy's love their little girls, but there's something special between a daddy & his little boy.

if you don't believe me, well just ask jeremy & jonah :)

when i went over to meet jonah - he was only 7 days new, but he is already such a little man! he's so big and completely adorable - i just wanted to sit and cuddle him the whole time i was there :)

he has the most big beautiful wide-awake eyes and the cutest little fuzzy hair!

AND - he can wink too!

he's such a talented little man already :)

well, as you can see - jonah is a pretty impressive little guy already.

and i think his mama & daddy are expecting big things from him!

dude think about it: he's born into a family of sisters! he's already got a huge task ahead of him: protect those sisters :) oh i'm sure there will be plenty of teasing and silliness in between, but at only a week old i can tell - this one's special :)

congratulations sam & jeremy! he's amazing :)