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I am so, so drawn to this sweet image from portraits that I did last weekend. I don’t think it could be characterized as “technically perfect” there is some sun flare (admittedly I was going for some), but I just keep coming back to this image. Another “sweet peek” for her mom….
Cheers,
KristineNoel
- this picture is SO great! it makes me want to cry! we can't thank you enough!August 27, 2010 - 3:00 pm
I am determined to finish working through the Cape Cod vacation photos this week. I have the perfect album thanks to Kolo’s little contests, and loads of great images. So the next three nights watch out… I am going to be a photo machine.
This picture struck me as one of my favorites because it is again one of those half baby mostly boy kind of images. Chase would play for a bit in the water, but eventually the only thing that we could do is just let him run around in his diaper… He really had such a great time.
-KristineNoel
One nice part about going on our little trip to Cape Cod this summer was meeting a few great families and working in a different fun environment. I met up with these folks – turns out some of us traveled quite a ways to meet up (i.e. some of this family is from TEXAS). The younger kids were not much different in age from mine and were so sweet to each other. Such polite and happy little ones.
I had to include the following. Turns out that 3 year olds really all must have snow-cones when they come to the beach. Rebecca always ordered the “rainbow” snow cone from this same beach cabana.
Posting this makes me want to dive back into my own images and see what turned out. More later.
KristineNoel
- oh - such a gorgeous series of images... so summery and carefree!!September 1, 2010 - 10:23 pm
Monday I didn’t help the kids get dressed. They ate breakfast in their PJs and I headed out for an early meeting. When I got home they were both in their current favorite outfits. Let me describe them for you here:
Chase: in his Beep-Beep. This stunning little number is always an efficient choice for those 2 year olds pressed for time. I mean he has things to do. It is a one-piece wonder in a faded navy with a charming appliqued dump truck and the oh so catchy phrase of “Little Construction.” This is what Chase goes for almost every other day and I think he has been known to get Rosie interested in doing some laundry so that he can have a mid-day wardrobe change if he wakes up and this isn’t clean.
Rebecca: In her “Bali Dress”. This is actually a very sweet little dress hand carried back from Bali for Rebecca by one of her favorite Aunts – over a year ago… That is where it gets sticky my friends. Rebecca is a long tall drink of water and with the change of seasons her pants become capris and her dresses become tunics. All is great on the capri front, but it is hard to get a 3 1/2 year old hip to the concept of bloomers or leggings in August in Houston. The other thing that one might notice about Rebecca’s choices is her self styled hair. We counted the hair-bows as they came out: 6 clips and 4 ponytail holders (actually holding mini braids). Finally please note the abundance of marti-gras beads and the purple headband worn as an additional necklace.
I love how they are excited and happy and able to express their individual personalities these days. Fortunately we don’t run in circles where any of the above matters in the least – and really these are some of the things that make me happy when I am photographing. Just catching my favorite people as they are being themselves and happily holding on the their best friends hand while they do it.
-KristineNoel
Hope everyone had a great weekend (now that it is Wednesday, as opposed to Monday when I started this post – this does not seem as relevant). We did lots of fun summer things. Interactive children’s theatre, pool parties, homemade ice cream – more on this later.
The above are balloons from Chasey’s Cap Cod birthday party. I just loved how colorful and fun they were. There are so many reasons to celebrate and balloons just make it all the more fun. The pair is available now in my etsy shop!
-KritstineNoel
Hope you are enjoying some swirling and twirling in your backyard this summer! Beccs sure is. That and getting a killer accurate frisbee toss. That girl is determined to get things done! She just works and works at something until she gets it right.
Cheers!
Kristine
Today was busy in a great way – back to the office, chase had his 2 year old check up at the doctors (all fine and it is a medical fact that he is indeed adorable), Beccs had another swim lesson with Miss E, and we (they) played in the sprinklers with the neighbors. Just a serendipitous summer moment, but the kids had a blast. Straight from the dinner table outside – Beccs still had on her bathing suit and chase – well he was done with those diapers anyway.
Cheers,
KristineNoel
We had such a great week last week in Cape Cod. The kids loved the sand the water, not to mention the ice cream. I really tried to be good on that last bit… But well ice cream at the beach is really hard to pass up. I am thinking this trio is going into the etsy shop. Enjoy!
More later,
KrisitneNoel
You may remember this shot from a few post ago with Rebecca and Chase playing in the rain. Well I submitted it to a little contest from Kolo with “happiness” as a theme. And guess what… It was selected as one of the theme winners. The prize for me is really just the good feeling I get that someone else can see my photos in a way that is moving to them. But an even bigger bonus is that I will receive some really fantastic photo albums to use with some of my images. In all honestly, I am terrible at making photo albums, but the one that I did make in the past year was from Kolo. They are just simple, clean and not in the least bit fussy. The colors are wonderful and the papers are exquisite.
Anyway – enjoy this “award winning” image and take a moment to check out some of the other winners. I am keeping some incredible company if I do say so myself:)
Happily,
KristineNoel
I was working on Chase’s birthday party invite – which really was coming along nicely – when finally I had to throw in the towel and realize that paper invitations were just not going to happen this year… Perhaps I can do a nice thank you note.
Anyway in under two weeks we will have a full fledged two year old on our hands. I think he is pretty much there already – there is not much baby left in this baby…
Right now he loves trains, heavy machinery, fire trucks, treats, pops, ice cream, helping in the kitchen, and his brand new sneakers. He is not so much a fan of fireworks, big dogs, clothing other than his “contractor romper”, and well I will go ahead and say it… not getting his way. He calls his bed a cama, his shoes ‘bapos” (short for the spanish word zapatos), and has all kinds of other little sayings in that spanglish vocab of his.
He is just a charming little guy that loves to play, make jokes and have fun. This past weekend I gave him a slip of paper started to tell him what the paper said. Well that little guy started to pretend to read it with me. He was squinting at the fine print, moving the paper closer to his eyes, blinking and every other kind of pantomime that you can think of. So funny.
Looking forward to a well deserved vacation in Cape Cod where we have lots of photography things lined up – including a family shoot at the beach.
More later,
KristineNoel
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