PhotoJenic Photography [blog]

Miss Emery is coming up quickly on her 1st birthday…are you KIDDING ME? I did NOT sign up for this…she’s supposed to stay so little and cuddly and be my BABY! In honor of her turning of age, she’s turning over a new leaf as well, for instance…

This is one gorgeous, fabulous family (whom I’m lucky to be neighbors with)…they decided to do an updated family session and I’m so glad they did because I just can’t believe how fun and easy it is to shoot OLDER kids that all look so beautiful…and handsome (James).

LOVING this shot of Dani…she just looks so beautiful!

Thanks guys for another fun session!!

An average day around here…
I put on my mom hat and got the kids ready for school
Then I put on my taxi hat…they had to get a ride to school
Then I put on my gym cap…somehow I gotta lose those extra baby pounds
Once home it was mom hat again, the baby needed food, diaper and sleep
Ahhhh…a quick moment to put on business hat, check email and phone messages
But wait, you can’t pick up kids from school in gym clothes still smelling…time to wear the pamper hat, a quick shower and change
housewife hat is in order, quick house pick up hoping to pass it off as clean
taxi hat for preschool pick up
mom hat for baby and 3yr old needs
Another quick business moment, sent a few emails while kids played happily
oooooooo…most fun, redecorator hat because fed ex guy brought me a nice package from Pottery Barn, you see i’m trying to make my client room more polished FINALLY
Mom hat comes again, Brennan’s home from school, noise level up and thankfully my saving grace has arrived to let me work a few hours…thanks Amber
off to the office to wear more hats, marketer, editor, retoucher, graphic designer, order fullfiller, secretary, photographer (so many business things in the works…)
about 20 interruptions from the boys to share whatever highlight or anger that’s on the mind
around 6:30pm, mom time we did promised date nights with the boys, Dawson came with me
9:00pm kids finally in bed, finally a bit more time to work quietly and do ONE more thing…
honey, i’ll only be in here like 30 minutes…
and somehow it gets to be midnight and i’m so exhausted that I’m looking for my sleeping hat…

Lately I feel like I’m just incredibly ADD, I start so many projects and can rarely finish one because there’s always 10 other things interrupting or waiting to get done!! I know I’m not alone, who’s life doesn’t have this many hats? I’m just wondering how are you managing with all of your hats?

Here are a few pages for the sign in book we designed for Matt and Heather’s upcoming wedding. Heather wanted it to be simple without text and we also wanted to include photos of her son Blake.

To add some variety I put some texture on the images/pages throughout.

Love this last page…he’s so cute! The guests will be able to sign directly onto the pages. The book is printed as an 8.5×11 and has a beautiful linen cover with an image opening!

Well, this is OLD news, but they are still newlyweds!! I’m working backwards trying to post old projects and then get to recent ones…here’s some shots from Russ and Jen’s wedding…

I pretty much think Russ won’t like this shot…he’s not a “serious” kind of guy…but look at Jen…I couldn’t resist posting her beauty…

Jen’s bouquet was absolutely GORGEOUS!!!!

CONGRATULATIONS my friends…

Hire a nanny so I can work…(on goals AND work)!! I’m super excited that I can cross this one off of my 101 list! This is a long overdue post, among many other 101 goals I need to update (at what point do you give up that your husband is going to help you load some video on your blog to cross off a 101 item? Is 6months to that point?)

Anyway, meet Amber, the girl that makes working from home with 3 kids possible! I hired Amber a few months ago and decided to do a mini shoot with her husband Bret, aren’t they just such a cute couple?

Amber has been so WONDERFUL to have around. She’s got an incredible amount of patience and my kids just ADORE her. She’s one of the ONLY people Emery goes to willingly and it’s cute to see Emery squeal and kick when she sees Amber.

Bret and Amber have been married less than 2 years and remind me so much of us at their stage in life! I love it…there is definitely something to be said about the fun of those early married days (pre-kids)! Thanks Amber for all you do for my kids! We’re so happy to have you!

I took a few classes at Imaging that talked all about Photoshop CS4. It’s AMAZING and I’m super excited to get it for myself…there were a few very valuable things that would make my design work SO MUCH easier!!

For any of you that work in photoshop, I thought I’d tell you one of the tricks that was seriously SOOOOOOOOOOO EASY that most of us in the class didn’t know! It applies to any version of photoshop, although I’m not sure about Elements. We actually had a round of applause to the instructor for this one SUPER SIMPLE tip…if only Adobe made it easier in the program to figure it out!!

So, you know how you have a ruler at the top of the page with all the little lines in between each inch? Have you ever opened your calculator to try and figure out the dead center of that ruler or to help space your images properly? Well, not any more! Right click on the ruler on top and select percentage and you can easily see the ruler in a percentage form rather than inches. There’s also pixels, centimeters and others if you’d use those!

In that very moment all sleeplessness and monies paid was worth coming to the Conference…except to be quite honest, there were SO MANY of those moments during those 3 days!

So, was this tip helpful to you? If it was, let me know. And if you already knew this, keep your comments to yourself, I’d rather not know if you are smarter than me.

Good classes
Great products
Sleep deprivation
Information overload

This is where I’ve been this week! I had a great time despite waking up at 4:30am, coming home around 8:00pm and getting to bed around midnight…and now that I’m back in the office, I’m certainly more buried than I was a week ago!

Nonetheless, I’m MOTIVATED. These conferences always do that, and THIS IS MY YEAR to be more organized, have better service and really change my business model to be more in line with what I envision. I can’t wait to show you with upcoming changes…

Know how you can tell Mom’s been gone? Try eating…
No bread
No milk
No eggs
No cheese
Not a thing we could eat for dinner last night either…

Kids were sour this morning, they really wanted BREAKFAST (insert cry or whine here) it was either let them have chips or cookies for breakfast, or head to the store…I opted for the store, but then got them a donut…should’ve just given them the cookies or chips…but hey, they think I’m the best mom in the world now!! And their teachers will thank me later =)

Meet my newest piece of home decor…

This is Kace, son of Kayman and Marnie…He was SUCH a sweet baby and mom and dad couldn’t be more proud…and easygoing as they LET me put him up on the shelf for pics!! They just about died when he peed on it…I was not even phased (uhh…do they think he’s the first baby to pee on my stuff?) Just don’t tell my grandpa who made this for me, afterall, it cleaned up quite nicely =)

Mom was looking beautiful…

Wow, look at the difference in Dad’s hand?

It’s really cozy against mom…

Why can’t legs always be this cute?

Thanks Kayman and Marnie for doing these shots and for being so laid back!

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