Family Photo Fun

Last month we had one of my favorite photographers (Andy King) who also happens to be our wedding photographer take our family photos.  We went up to his studio in Alpine and played around outside with the baby for a while before going back inside to take some studio shots of Eli at 4 months.  Here are some of my favorites.

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And lastly, my 2 very favorite shots of my very favorite boy...

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I know that every mother thinks this but, isn't he just the cutest thing you have ever seen? He makes my heard melt everyday.

Updated Shelf decor

Well as you can see I never painted my shelves the white color I wanted to last year.  I decided to keep them the way they are for now and enjoy what I have instead of always trying to change things.  I did however, get some new frames for the top shelf to showcase our family photos.  The frames came from Target and I love the new configuration.

(All pictures taken by me or a family member)

Holiday Photos

In a rush to get Christmas cards out, we had a few impromptu photos shoots today.  I knew I wanted to take Eli's picture in the Santa outfit he got last month and I also wanted to take an annual family photo.  I accomplished the first one earlier in the day by simply propping him up on his Boppy pillow.  He had such a great time being Santa and he looked so cute with his little fists under his chin.  Later in the day when my brother-in-law got home, we rushed outside for the last bit of sunlight and he took our family photo in the back yard.  The funny thing is, I have been wanting a new fence for the backyard for a while now and usually hate looking at the old one, but it ended up being the perfect back drop, yeah for old fences!  After a little Photoshop editing here are the end results.

The first one ended up being turned into a Christmas card and I posted it to all my Facebook friends and family.  The second one will be our family photo and will be framed.  The last one is our Christmas card photo because we just couldn't leave little Maddy out of the yearly photo.  I love how they turned out and I had fun editing them in photoshop, I think I am getting better.  It is so easy using the actions I talked about last month that I bought from Bloom & Grow photography.

Photo editing

I purchased and downloaded the "Bloom & Grow Basics" for editing photos in Photoshop.  What do you think of my 1st editing job?  It was way harder than I thought, there are lots of terms in Photoshop I am not familiar with so I did a lot of Google-ing to translate for me.

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After:

I am definitely going to need more practice but I hope to take some family photos for our Christmas cards and doctor them up.