One fancy lady

I have a slight obsession with petti-skirts, and the beautiful images photographers create with little girls in them. I have a fancy petti-skirt on the way, but I saw cheapo Halloween costume ones at Wal-mart. They had 4 colors, and I picked up 2 of them (for $5 each, I couldn't pass it up!) And while I'll use them on sessions for sure, I don't feel bad about keeping them in the girls' dress up chest. (for the record, the fancy one will never go in that chest)

286 of 365: One fancy lady


Olivia actually started the dressing up, but disrobed before the photo taking started. Claire actually posed for photos, and then let me take video of her! So here's a Claire video debut on the blog!

remember that wicked berry weed?

285 of 365: Here's its root


Nasty!

Oh how the time passes

I had a set in my Flickr account from last years adventures at Circle S, but I had to dig around in my storage to find our very first trip in 2007. I'm glad I looked, because I can't get over how small Olivia was!!! Time just goes by too quickly! And since Circle S stays pretty much the same every year, I have a lot of images that are similar to one another (which I LOVE!) So here's a fun comparison!

First, the one thing that's the same every year...
2009

2008

2007


Gotta love Olivia's obsession with Chickens

There's tons more, and I'm sharing it all!




Even though Claire's only been twice (and the first time she was stroller bound) she even has one thats similar! Look at that face!



The year and a halfers have a similar hay throwing style



The lighting was almost identical!



Dumb luck that it was the same cut-out!












Love that the girls look equally pissed off in both images



And while there is no other image like this one, I had forgotten about this pic, and I love it


Hope you enjoyed the flashback!

One heck of a blog about a day at the farm

Brace yourself, because I'm going to show a ton of images! But I can't help it, it's about our day at the farm! We love Circle S Farms, and I love taking photos there (I'll probably have another post just comparing this years images to prior years images)

We always have to do the 'How tall this Fall?' sign. Tim actually had the hardest job of wrangling the girls to even get the shot. Neither was very interested this year. Olivia did, however, find a different cutout that she did want photographed with. I swear neither Tim nor I put her there, she went there all on her own.






It was only a matter of time until the girls found the chickens. Actually, I'm not even sure these are chickens... they don't look like traditional chickens (which doesn't mean they couldn't be some fancy breed of chicken... maybe the farm is branching out) I'm waiting for the day the farm help tells us we can't let our children torture their chickens. Until then, it drains a lot of energy!






Other random farm goodness..




At this point, everyone knows I love a good behind shot while walking through the suflower maze




The highlight by far this year was the hay barn. This was the first year Olivia actually slid down the slides. Claire would slide down with me (but not by herself.) Olivia just had a ball in there, and would fight every time we'd leave it (we went in many times)




284 of 365: sisterly love








And my favorite 'face' shots of the day. Sure I could photoshop Claires giant booger out of her nose, but where would the blackmail pictures be then??








And it all ended after the tractor ride to the pumpkin patch.




Thanks Circle S!