Great newborn posing guide giveaway!

Like the title says, here's a contest for a chance to win this awesome newborn posing guide.  Follow the link and enter for your chance to win...woot woot!

http://inspiremebaby.com/2010/07/27/giveaway-newborn-posing-guide-by-jacqueline-ends-81/

A new place for pictures

A friend of mine wanted to show me the location she picked for her daughter's 1 year photo shoot, so yesterday we braved the 100 degree weather (well, 97 or so, but I may as well round up, right...lol) and went to this "park"  It's not really a park, but I'll use that for lack of a better word.  There is a beautiful pavilion with a kitchen, bathrooms, a fireplace, and ceiling fans.  The pavilion is surrounded by a large grassy area with lots of trees.  There's a creek, too.  It's just a really pretty location.  Anyway, I figured we were going there anyway, I needed my 24 week picture, and I've been wanting to get a print worthy shot of Ashlin, that I'd get dolled up and see if my friend would take a couple pictures of me and I'd try and get some good ones of my girls.  I'm really pleased with the outcome.  I took some of miss K (my friend's daughter), but I'll post them in another entry.  So without further ado, enjoy some pictures!

Little Miss Kelsie...this is her trying to give me a natural smile...lol.  Lately if I tell her to smile she hams it up a lot, so I told her to just smile pretty and she gave me this-

And a gorgeous smile-

Miss Ashlin (processed with AMPs kick the can)

Mommy and her girls (thanks Kelsey for taking these next few pictures)-

The focus is weird in this next one, but I just love it so much.  I told the girls to kiss my belly and they would take turns so when I told them to kiss it at the same time, they both kissed my legs instead...lol.

Last, but not least, 24 weeks pregnant-

 

I love having little girls!

I really love having little girls.  I had to take a picture for my next entry in the contest I'm in so I decided I wanted to do something super girly.  I made Kelsie and Ashlin a tutu and got out the fairy wings, necklaces, flowers, and feather boa.  They had a blast, of course, and I couldn't get their tutus off after...lol.  I'll post a few pictures from the shoot, but the first one is the one I entered in the contest.

My entry:

 

Contest Entries

There's an online photography contest I entered a couple weeks ago and I've been meaning to post the pictures I've taken for it as I move on in the contest.  Well I keep forgetting, so I'll just make one post with them in it.  The first picture I took for it was "a little green bug" (see past blog entry...I placed 5th out 26).  Round two was to take a picture of one of the elements (fire, water, wind, or earth).

Fire (I got 2nd place this round out of 17 entries)-

Round three's theme was song inspiration.  We had to take a picture that either the song described or something it inspires (I placed 3rd out of 11 entries).  My song was In My Daughter's Eyes by Martina Mcbride-

Round four's theme is abstact.  There will be 10 entries, but it hasn't gone to voting yet(ETA: voting is over and I got first place this round).  Here's my entry-