We have been stuck in the downfall of Spring which is chilly days and nights, lots of rain and the longing for it to warm up so that we can clean up the yard, not freeze at baseball games and send the kids outside to play.   About 2 weeks ago Brad informed me that there was a new nest in our Willow tree!  I was beyond excited!  Last year the kids and I named the sweet little mama robin, Alice and her four babies ChickenPot, MoJo, Princess Julia and Rhino (who never hatched :(…)  We were reviewing the photos from my facebook last year and they were all hatching exactly this week!  BUT, it has been cold and rainy so we are hoping we didn’t miss the whole egg reveal and hatching since mama Alice has been firmly planted on her nest.  We are really hoping for some warm temperatures so she’ll go grab a bite and we can take a peek.

Last year’s facebook album

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This year’s pic of Alice:

Mama Alice keeping her eggs warm

I also LOVE Spring because my giant bleeding heart bush bursts with blooms!  I SO love this plant and am amazed as if it is the first year it grew.  It starts with just little sprouts sticking out of the ground and is one of the first to pop through.  Then in a flash…like THREE days it is HUGE and measures 3ft across then 4ft and will probably be close to 5ft across this year.  I’m hoping it will stay long enough for me to cut some blooms and enjoy them.

HAPPY SPRING!  Dreaming of blue eggs under that mama bird!

Ok a quick preview of sweet little punkin Gage.  I can’t open my laptop without smiling at the screen while editing these pictures.  Oh and his big brother and sister are pretty cute too.  The best was when I put him in Russell’s snuggly chenille blanket I made him when he was born.  I tucked Gage in a little basket and he LOVED being in there!  His daddy was cracking up and thinking they needed to take that basket home to keep him happily sleeping.  He’s pretty loved on and prefers to be held so getting him to chill in a nest was awesome.  How could you not indulge that little man?  He’s just too sweet to not snuggle with him constantly.  My Aunt T always says you can’t spoil children with LOVE and I’ve always reminded myself of that when I questioned if I was holding the baby too much.  And still remember that when they let me love on them…and when I can’t bare to kick them out of my bed.  It is those stolen moments I cherish and keeps my heart warm.

Congratulations Jacobs family and thank you for allowing me to photograph your gorgeous children!  I can’t wait to get the whole family in there!!!  Until the next time…give that Gage a squeeze for me!

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I’m worn out.  I had a week and a half and am sleepy and exhausted.  However, the fact that my little friend Gage will be coming by for a photoshoot gets my tired brain hoppin’ with ideas.  Gage is a dance mommy’s two week old punkin.  She lets me hold him the entire hour we wait for our daughters on Mondays.  I could just eat him up!  Those little baby sounds, faces and wiggles just get my baby fever running high.  Whitney and I talked about Gage for days.  She kept saying “he was so cute all squished up and snuggled with you.”  I’ve passed my baby fever on to her.  It is nice to have another person in my family shares my true love of babies.

Once my photos are edited I’m passing them off to my friend Erin who will drop them into her digital masterpieces.  She is making announcements for the Jacobs family to show off little Gage.  Heather and Jay appreciate it and we are giddy at the thought of an opportunity to work on a project featuring a newborn.

Pics to come…

I love my children, for real I do but 3 unexpected snow days with 3 wild monkeys is a bit much! If it wasn’t so cold it would be different because they could expend their energy outside but phew…bouncing off the walls here. Today I got some long awaited work in and took the rest of the day off for ice skating and photoshoots minus the little “minja.” It is nice to have some time without the littlest firecracker so I can have some “mini-adult” time with the “BIGs.” Thank the Lord for my amazing boss and her patience with this weather and my foot (long story boring.)

So this blog will get fancied up eventually as I have time to play around. My next dilemma is figuring out what the heck is wrong with my Mac Aperture program, won’t open. I have to keep telling myself new software and processes are good for my brain because my impatient gene is…not very patient…with learning curves. So yet again I’m trying out a new process with my iphoto. I’m debating on going back to Picassa…one day I’ll learn photoshop and be happy as a lark.

My dance mommy friend Susan and I took some pics of the kids after ice skating. It was fun to have new subjects to play with and they were very good! Carter might stab me in my sleep but I had to post this one of him…his best smile was when he was being silly. Notice the athletic shorts with his “tight” (that means cool these days) shirt. That kid is all about SHORTCUTS! I think they turned out pretty decent.

Some of these are edited, some are not. Not all can be works of art 🙂

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