Busy, Busy, Busy

Wow, the days around here have been crazy busy. Between getting ready for Christmas, photoshoots on the weekend, Shawn working so much overtime, and our everyday craziness, I don't have time to do anything extra. Needless to say, I haven't been up to blogging very much. I did get a beautiful new lens for my birthday and have been practicing with it, but haven't had the time to edit the photos or get them posted. I'm hoping that things will slow down a bit in the new year.

Tonight I actually took a few minutes to myself and edited a couple of photos to put up here. You'll notice that I have a few of Lily and only one of Ella and that is only because Ella will not let me take her picture lately. If she sees the camera she runs. Luckily for me Lily can't run yet, so she becomes my daily subject. She always has big grins for the camera and her big eyes always look so nice in photographs.

I've really been loving high contrast black and white images lately, so that's what I am posting tonight.

Here is little miss Lily sucking on her rattle. And she LOVES laying under the Christmas tree and looking at the lights, like she was doing at grammy's house last weekend:I love this one because of her sparkly eyes and her spikey hair:And here's my one and only shot of Ella for today. I'm not sure how I managed to capture a natural smile, but I was glad to have it.

Okay, I Lied

I know I said that I would be back yesterday to post some photos of our Christmas shoot, but I was wrong. I didn't come back at all yesterday and I decided not to post them today either. I don't know if I will get another Christmas shoot in or not, but I decided that I don't want to post the photos on here until I get the Christmas cards made up. Then I will post them. But I won't leave without posting photos from today.

After chasing Ella around all day, trying to capture her funny little self, this is the best shot I got. She has been obsessed with these wings lately. She calls herself a butterfly and runs around the house saying "tweet, tweet, tweet", despite my best efforts to assure her that butterflies do not in fact say "tweet". I'm not sure what's with her expression, though. I think she was just determined that I couldn't get a photo of her with her "normal" face. I think she looks like she might a future rock star or something :) I also decided to bring out Lily's jumperoo today since she has been so excited about standing on her feet. As soon as I put her in it she started screaming, but the second that I started moving her around and she could feel her feet under her, she loved it. She also loved the lights and sounds that it made. Yay for mommy! Another way to keep her occupied for a couple minutes at a time. And of course Ella wanted to rediscover the jumperoo too. She never takes any interest in Lily until a new toy comes into the picture. Then she's all over her. Oh well, I'm just glad that they spent a couple of minutes together today, especially since Lily loves to watch Ella so much.