Kenzie's Senior Pictures

Kenzie is the last senior of all the seniors in our Young Women's group whom I promised to take senior pictures of. 

She's so pretty : )

As it turns out, 8:00 on a Saturday morning was too late to start, so we were fighting with the sun all morning.  No cloud cover on this Saturday . . darn it!

So we did some back lighting on some.  Kimbrey helped me.  And I love how they turned out!!

We were on our way to the Rotary Park to take some pictures when we passed this old barn.  So we jumped out of the car and took a few pictures.  THANK GOODNESS!  Look how cute this is!

Here we are showcasing Kenzie's gold heels and her skinny jeans.  How lucky am I to get to take pictures of this beautiful girl?!  Pretty awesomely lucky : )

Silhouette

After three years in Young Women's, and after just being called to stake young women's so I know I'm going to be in the program for a while, and taking the advice of my son-in-law who used to write the programs for cricut paper cutter at Prove Craft, I convinced Dave to buy (let ME buy) a Silhouette Cameo for my birthday.  A little early.  My birthday isn't until the end of November.

 And I have been having SO MUCH FUN WITH THIS MACHINE!!  The card above is the first actual thing I made with my Silhouette.  It took me a couple of hours to make the first one, and about ten minutes to make the second one.  It's all a learning process . . .

The Silhouette company has a blog where projects other people have made are showcased.  The banner above was one of those.  I made this one for our office.  There were step by step instructions, thank goodness!!

This cute bottle was my first attempt at creating something on my own.  I put the tag together TOTALLY myself.  Dave was SO proud of me for washing and saving the bottle after he drank the soda from it.  I had a hard time admitting I was saving it for me :)  But it turned out so cute, huh?  Beware, I have a new hobby!!  

Senior Pictures

 Last year I took senior pictures for a cute girl in my ward, but wimped out at the thought of her being left with whatever pictures I managed to get that were somewhat in focus and not too badly snapshotish, so I begged Kimbrey to come down and help me.  And she did.  And we had a blast!  And they turned out SO very nice.  This year, I bit the bullet and went it alone.

 This cute girl is Morgan.  She is athletic and fun and she LOVES to laugh.  It took us HOURS to get a serious picture.  Here is her basketball picture . . .

 And here is her soccer picture.  I tried to focus on her cleats and make her slightly out of focus.  I'm not sure the idea came across . .

 I've always wanted to try pictures on Mulberry lane, a quaint country road right in the middle of town with trees lining both sides.  This year, we finally did it!!  And these girls hammed it up :)  Pay no attention to that tree growing out of Morgan's head.  I'm not. 

 I think this is darling!!  If I were Morgan, this is the picture I would choose for the year book.

 Another cute one.  I took Morgan and Nikysha's pictures at the same time, which made it so much fun!  But a little challenging to make sure they didn't end up in the same places and the same poses! 

 This is Nikysha on Mulberry lane.  She is just gorgeous!  It sure made my job easier to have such beautiful girls to shoot!

 Nikysha looking modelesk.  That was a hard pose to hold . . she kept tipping over.  I had to hurry and get the shot while she was balanced.  But what a cute shot it is : )

 This is just SO Nikysha.  Cute and sweet and absolutely darling.  Don't be seniors you guys, OK.

 Nikysha - SMOKIN'  What more can I say?

 Here is Nikysha's soccer picture.  Cute, cute cute. 

 Another squatting one.  I love these, but I'm afraid her Mom is going to say her dress is TOO short . .

 We found this split tree by accident and I told Nikysha to go jump in between the two trunks.  It looked so good against her dark brown dress.  I think this is my pick for Nikysha's yearbook photo. 

Or this one.  Believe it or not, this was taken behind Wendy's.  Who knew there was such a nice, rustic looking fence back there.  I loved taking pictures of these two.  We had a great cloud cover all morning, so we kept at it for FIVE HOURS!  Can't think of a better way could I spend a Saturday morning.