Happy Birthday, James!

Today is my James' birthday! We're doing a small family party this weekend, but we wanted to do a little something with the kids tonight. This was my attempt at a family picture ON OUR NEW COUCHES!!! Don't you just love the way Colton posed himself?!

Kennedie had been eyeing this light bulb box that has been in the kitchen for a few days now. Well, James finally emptied it and gave it to her today. She quickly filled it with little "gifts" just for him. Sweet girl.
They were so excited to help him open gifts!

Wow! A box from Justice?! Lucky Daddy!

Staples for his new staple gun...

He wanted carrot cake, so I attempted a new Paula Deen recipe...um, YUM-O!!!!

Happy Birthday, babe!
We love you!

Christmas Catch-Up

Whoa, bad, bad blogger! I feel like the past few months have been such a whirlwind! We had Kennedie's 7th birthday, Thanksgiving, Christmas, holiday break...whew! I'm going to spread out the posts a little...

Here's my girl at her school Christmas party. I love watching her around all of her little friends and her awesome teacher.

Her class played a Christmas version of pin the tail on the donkey. She made them spin crazy, was picking them up...made it so much fun!
Here's the BFF's! Jessalyn & Kennedie

Then we ALL spent the night at my mom and dad's on Christmas Eve. It was so neat because all 3 of us have husbands now! (James was on shift, but surprised us by coming home early Christmas morning.) Speaking of Christmas surprises...Colton spiked a super high (super scary) fever the morning of Christmas Eve. Luckily, our pediatrician was open a half day and saw him right away. He ended up testing positive for strept AND the flu!!! Poor baby! And we think Kennedie actually started out with the flu and passed it on to Kennedie...so she was too far in to it to be treated...you have to have the meds 48 hours into it to do any good. Luckily, this was a high fever, achy flu and not the vomiting flu...whew!

So, with the wonders that are Motrin...we had a wonderful Christmas morning!

LeDoux even got a cute squirrel tree toy...Colton helped him check it out.

A remote control truck...COOL!

Apple loves Brett Favre & the Vikings...

One of the biggest hits of the morning were the velcro Nerf guns...complete with protective eye wear and chest pads, lol! Look at him peeking out from behind the tree! Ha!

Kennedie has all of her gear on! Look at Kevin peeking out from behind the couch...ha!

Poppa even got in on the war!

And he got attacked!

Crazy girl!

Merry Christmas to you & yours!

The latest photos

Wowzers! To say I've been busy this past month is quite an understatement. Halloween, Kennedie's birthday, family in from out of town, school stuff...seriously! I can't believe it's been more than a month since I've blogged. Yikes!
Well, I've been thinking for some time now that I'd really like to start a business. I'm constantly thinking about it and thinking about it. And a big part of it, is just taking the leap and doing it! So, I just sent off to have a logo made and I've now done 2 hired shoots! So, kelli d photography is being born!
Luckily, my sweet friend asked me to take pictures of her girls and let me bring my kiddos for a few pics. She has such a great eye and wonderful ideas! Just take a look at these 3 FOOT balloons she found! So fun!
Here's a few I took of my kids...they're not edited yet...that seems to be what I spend most of my time doing these days. Yes, I'm on the computer...not blogging but editing!

Dancin' Girl!

My sweet Kennedie had her first performance with her new dance class today! She just started at the beginning of school and these girls did so great! I'm so proud of her!

Here she is with her bff Jessalyn.

And here's quick video from my cell phone! She's on the back row...2nd from the right.

Photoshop Galore!

Hey friends! I've really been slacking on the good 'old blog lately. We had an amazing time in Mexico! Apple was absolutely beautiful and she & Kyle are so, so happy!

So with all of that traveling, you can only imagine how many pictures I took. (Ok, let's just say it was a hair over 1,200. I know, I know...but we were there for 6 nights! And I shot a wedding!)

So I've been an editing, photoshopping fool! I thought it would be fun (and good for me in a few months) to look at my edits, before and after. Here's a peek...

We passed this awesome purple wall several times a day. Isn't it pretty? So on our very last night there, we stopped for a little photo op. Here's the before...

...and the after!
I bought a brand new tripod to bring with us. I set it up one night and set the timer. I could not be more thrilled!!!
But, here's the before...(notice my tan lines)

...and after! Fun, huh? (and the sky got bluer!)

The kids discovered a love for virgin pina coladas. They opted to take a break from sand castle building to share one. Pure sweetness.

Before...

...and after.

I asked them to walk down the beach a little ways. Colton wasn't thrilled with holding sister's hand (if you look closely, you can see she's holding on to his forearm, ha!)

Sorry, uploaded this one out of order, so here's the after...

...and before.

This was the very first picture of the trip...as soon as we got into the room, Kennedie found this fun hammock swing on our patio.

After...

...and before (sorry they're out of order...it's late!)

And this is one of my new favorites! I bought this fun background...

before...

and after!!!

Love this sweet girl!

Giveaway!

Ok y'all! With the big Ranger's win last night, I was feeling a little lucky! So I entered this amazing giveaway that I found. Go check out this awesome blog...
http://rebeccacooper.blogspot.com/ and look at the super cool photoshop actions! Seriously folks!