PhotoJenic Photography [blog]

If I were not stuck to my chair with some head pressure making me want to explode and a to do list as long as Santa’s toy requests, I think we’d be on rainy day schedule around here…

the windows would be open (with the heat on)…
hot chocolate would be brewed…complete with marshmallows…
the kids would gear up in jackets for the 5 seconds of a small drizzle they might see this year…
I would make hot, homemade chicken noodle soup with yummy fluffy PILLSBURY biscuits
(cuz I don’t make the other kind)
maybe I would clean
Or
cuddle up to a Christmas movie on the couch with the kids
maybe I’d teach the kids thumbs up 7-up like I used to play on rainy days at school
daddy would come home early, cuz rainy days need daddy’s around
and we’d have a fire going too!

Instead it was a great daydream (thus the reason for the post)

My hands are icy…so are my toes. I just texted my husband a nice message…”forget it honey…I turned the heat up, if I’m going to be sick and working like crazy…I’m going to do it with warm limbs.”

And that’s where I am…now back to work!

I met Michael over a year ago when he came to save us from our super dated home!! Michael was incredibly professional and nice to work with as he completely retextured our home to a nice, upgraded smooth finish including so many untextured, post wallpaper walls! He owns AZ Maintenance and does an excellent job!

He was equally nice to work with in doing his family photos recently and he has the nicest wife and family! Check out his beautiful girls!!



Don’t they all just look gorgeous here?

Such a good looking couple.

To view a slideshow of images click here.

Thanks Mike and Gayle, it’s been so great to work with your family.

I’m finally sharing photos of my little baby girls nursery after months of promising it to my out of town family…I LOVE baby nurseries…there is something so fun and sweet about putting together a place for a new baby to sleep, I always hope to make it a little piece of heaven! This nursery had so much love put into with MANY homemade gifts from people much more crafty than me…thanks everyone for those!

No question who’s room this is…she happens to have the biggest room too, just worked out that way since she had to be near our room.

THE BEDDING!!! I couldn’t find bedding online ANYWHERE that I LOVED, I was sad, finally having a girl and couldn’t find bedding for her. So after some motivation from Marnee and her very talented seamstress mother…I enlisted my mom to make her granddaughter some bedding and she agreed, although I wonder if she really wishes she had agreed once I showed her all the fabric and gave her my “vision.”

My mom, Pam and my Aunt Debbie did an AMAZING job sewing it all and we LOVE it!

You’d think a girl could get some pics for those frames…yeah, working on that…really I am, RIGHT NOW!

Emery loves her room and her bed, I just have to walk her in there with a blanket and her pacifier and cuddle or rock her for one minute. She immediately starts humming to herself and I lay her down awake in her bed…she MELTS, cuddles her blanket and rolls over to go to sleep. She never cries, has slept through the night most her life and is so good at falling asleep on her own..I love this because I firmly believe it makes my kids better sleepers, it develops healthy sleep habits early on which will help in the tough toddler years!

She loved her mobile…until her brother’s broke it…

I think this picture is telling me something…Reuben’s really happy.

Daddy labored many hours to perfect this room, here’s the new closet doors he painted and put in along with each tongue and groove wall paneling piece. He’s a perfectionist too. Everything was leveled, painted and caulked. We even had to remove the baseboards, repaint them because I wanted cream, not white…then reinstall them over the paneling! I’m sure Daddy’s efforts will last many years in the little darlings palace!

SERIOUSLY…this is MY baby.

And a quick update…Emery’s 9months old in these pics although she’s going to be 10 months in a few days! She’s FINALLY getting around by rolling and is still pretty content MOST of the time. She only likes mommy and disses Daddy even if he hasn’t held her all day long. She loves to put her fingers in your mouth trying to get your tongue and she loves to grab the skin on your face by the handful and just pull on it…it’s especially fun when she hasn’t had her nails cut! She’s the BEST baby ever and she knew I needed a momma’s girl cuz her brothers sure have an obsession with daddy! Love you Miss Emery!

I almost forgot about this…go to this link and check out People Magazine’s Celebrity Look Alike Contest. My good friend Katie who worked for me for years has a chance to win the contest and be printed in the magazine, wouldn’t that be SO FUN! I’m super excited because when she worked for me seriously every wedding people would stare or come up and tell her how much she looked like Reese Witherspoon (I think I should have her back…maybe I booked more weddings because of her)!!

If you look at all the photos in the contest, from a professional standpoint, I think she deserves to win because her photo is a true CANDID shot and many of the others are photoshopped into the celebrities hair/body which isn’t truly representative if you ask me! So click on the link above and vote TODAY, NOW…because I think the contest ends today, sorry Katie!

Andy and Bonnie were married at The Farm at South Mountain. They are a great couple and we had a lot of fun working with them. Here’s the beautiful bride…


And the handsome groom…

Andy and Bonnie saw each other before the ceremony…a WISE choice especially for Fall weddings when the sun sets early this time of year. Here’s a shot just before he sees his blushing bride…

The bridesmaids and oh…this adorable flower girl that I can’t seem to get enough of!

See, I told you she’s adorable!!

I love the textures and rustic look that you can find at The Farm

Her moment to shine down the isle…

Dad and daughter seemed to both be emotional in this sweet moment…so sweet!

Loved these shots with the parents of the bride…

After a wonderful turkey day with both of our families I settled into a short restful night of slumber…3 1/2 hours later it was time to get to work, there was shopping to be had!

3:40am - alarm sounds, nausea and disbelief set it, I can’t possibly get up this early to SHOP, ugh!
4:15am - arrive at Walmart to a parking lot FULL, park at the back and take book it inside.
4:40am - all of our group (5 total) take our assumed positions around the store to get our items.
5:00am- I’m LITERALLY on the ground in a pile of people (this was a first for me) wrestling pretty good with my arms around an unnameable item…don’t worry, I came up with it only for Elisha to point out the pallet a few feet away of the same item that NO ONE knew about therefore it was untouched…oh well, my way was a much bigger high, even if I did HATE being in a dogpile with WALMART shoppers!
6:00am - off to Target, more great deals and the store wasn’t even that busy, YIPEE!
8:00am - Breakfast break at Paradise.
9:00am - More shopping, Costco, Old Navy, Children’s Place, Bath & Body etc etc ( I bought myself an early present at one of these stores, maybe I’ll post a picture later!)
1:00pm - Stop for lunch…man I am TIRED
3:30pm - Can’t do it any longer…off for a pedicure then ditched the girls to go home and SLEEP!

The remainder of the weekend was just as busy, a visit from Janelle and Jill which was such fun, Russ’s wedding most of Saturday and then an honorary girls night since those girls were in town…Sunday morning I finally crashed at 4am and honestly I am STILL paying for the lack of sleep, I think today I finally feel a little more normal!

It was a whirlwind, but I got a LOT of Christmas Shopping done, had tons of fun and saved a lot of money even though I think I countered the savings with spending that I wasn’t planning on…oops, just don’t tell my husband.

Yes, it’s going to be a 24 hour blogging record for me…first and last I am sure. Without further ado…meet the Needlers…

(on a side note she has done A M A Z I N G in her recovery. After not walking for 3 months she “took her first steps” again in September and is now fully RUNNING again! Her docs are amazed at what she’s done with the extent of injury she had from the fall! We’re all so proud!)

And now back to our regularly scheduled programming…her cute little family!!!

Miss Morgan…LOVE this girl and her attitude!

Payton

And Corey, such a handsome guy!

And I couldn’t resist another of Morgan, isn’t she so CUTE?

Thanks Jason and Alisa for the fun photo session!

Isn’t two just fun?

Seriously, if looks could kill…

More on this group to come…