Our Movie Room

So we got the couch brought up to what is in the works of being our loft movie/game room. We still have to paint the marron wall a shade of brown and the gray walls a nice light tan. Then add a nice thick curtain to the window. Once thats done we will center the TV in front of the window. We enjoyed our first movie there last night. The Kingdom. Good movie btw but sometimes hard to watch how people can be so flippin insane especially when they honestly think they are doing it in the name of god. Ridiculous.

Christmas Cards & Happy Holidays

This year I decided to make my own Christmas Cards (with a little help from some digital scrapbook elements).. I came up with two designs and they should be arriving to my friends and family anyday now. Here are the two designs I came up with.. the first is a 5x5 Tri-fold and the second it a 5x5 flat. Next year I think I'm going back to making mine on the computer to save a little money these were just a tad expensive to print ;) We did however have a blast (ha not really) with the camera self timer taking our family photo in front of our super fab Christmas tree :) This year we got to go bigger since our new living room is four times bigger than our last one! Well... Happy Holiday's Ya'll...

Pregnancy News

WoW.. I haven't posted in ages. I was dealing with a tough first 3 months in my pregnancy so it had me sort of out of commission. I spent most of that time lying around on the couch watching TV, taking naps, and rushing in and out of the restroom. YUCK.. I'm finally up and running again and taking a few pictures.. Here is one from today taken with the self timer in front of our Christmas tree :) Belly out in full swing.. 17 weeks into my pregnancy :) I can't believe how soon and much I'm showing already but couldn't be happier. Last week I could actually feel the little guy/girl in there not movements so much as pressure. We waited so long between pregnancies its like its a new experience all over again! 5 weeks from now I'll should be able to fill everyone in on the sex of the baby! We are very excited to find out! The names we've chosen are for a girl: Brooklyn Michelle or boy: Ethan James Robert (deciding on the two middle names or we could be weird and do both since Rob has two middle names, why not :)

Savannah and I were playing in front of the tree as well.. trying to get some images worthy of our Christmas Card this year which at the rate I'm going will be getting to people the week after Christmas unless we can get a family image that works! Here is one of the better ones of both myself and Vans (we were having issues with movement so lots were blurry!)

Black & White Day

This session felt best in black & white.. the color came out well but for her expression I just had to convert them all to share.. she seemed a little unwilling to stop for pictures (I think she was in a hurry to get to grandmas since it was 97 degrees out and she was ready to ditch the walk and get into the pool :)

My Favorite Pictures yet..

New Pictures of Savannah.. I love these!! She is getting much better at modeling for me even when she doesn't really want to :) We're growing her bangs out again too which just makes her look that much older. She's still a few months away from her 5th birthday but already looks like a first grader!

New Outfit Pictures

Modeling her new outfit. Had to show her some kids modeling pictures for their parents and tell them how much they loved it to get her to want to do it.. she is just getting sick of me and my camera but I am really working on getting to know my camera and all it has to offer. Enjoy!

Wishing she would slow down!

I need to start sharpening my photos for web.. oh well.. my little girl sick and tired of my camera.. I love the colors in the photo even though they are not "correct" :) We got this dress and I just had to throw her out in the back yard but she really was not in the mood to pose and when I tried to let her do her own thing she just moved to fast.. these were her brief pause.

mom.. can I be a fairy too...

One of my favorites from the festival.. She loved the fairys.. especially the one with the flute who sprinkled her with fairy dust and gave her the magic green glass rock! She also loved the pirates of the carribean star (johnny dep look a like who rode on a giant elephant!)

11 Mile Canyon

We took a trip to 11 mile canyon one of our favorite spots in CO to get sun like the lizzards in Florida you see soakin it up on the rocks along the water :) Its also my first time in full manual with my d50 and full sun too.. not a nice combo I was trying to experiment with different settings and most of my pictures ended up in the trash.. Here are some that I worked on in photoshop. I found with this session I needed a lot more post processing work than when I shoot AP mode :( I'll get the hang of this camera one day.. I think I need an experienced mentor since I'm such a fast hands on learner!

Recent Photo Session

Our mini photo session of Savannah modeling for me in the backyard while I continue to practice with my manual settings on my Nikon D50. She said she would pose for me until I got 4 good pictures. These are my top 4 from the day out of the 50 taken! Stay tuned for more we're heading back out today for another session!

The Weddings Over

For the last year I have been consumed with planning my wedding to my now husband Robert. Last week I finally walked down the aisle to become Mrs. Nebinger. Signing my new name was a little difficult, it felt a little like I was losing a little of myself.. but the beauty of the day quickly took over and allowed me to sign my old name away. We were then wisked out to the crowd's of people, hundreds of blowing bubbles, and our rented black hummer limo!! The day went by so very fast, I blinked and it was over... here are a few snapshots of the day! Thanks to all those who could attend!! It was a very special day and a great gift to us that you were there to share it. Enjoy the photos, I can't stop looking at them..