Another Hot Day

After another very hot day in Brisbane, I picked up the kids from kindy and we went over to Nana and Pa's for a swim. I had bought a big drinks tub from Target on clearance that I thought might look groovy in some of my shoots, so I got Cassidy (who was at first less than willing) to test it out. She got into it in the end...here's a few cute ones.

Holiday at Caloundra

We just got back yesterday from a week at King's Beach. We had a great time, the kids especially as we went to the beach every day, usually twice a day! We shared our time between Bullcok and Kings as Bullcock is a bit calmer for the kids to swim without getting bowled over by waves. We had a great unit right on Kings beach...the walk accross the road and you're on the sand type of thing. It was great for Steve and I to be away from our office too...we spent every night watching movies or hanging with our friends Rod and Jen who were also up the coast. I didn't get as many photos as I would have liked, as I'm just too nervous to take my 5D onto the beach very much....kids, sand, water and a expensive camera...need I say more?! I've decided I need to invest in a "happy snap" digital so I can catch some more on the beach action next time!

Stacks on Mummy

I have to change the name of the blog briefly to "Photography by Steve" as he was not too shabby getting these couple of shots....but I'm the photoshop master who makes them look groovy :-)

Kids Galore!

one of my favourites I think...

Chey looks much too grown up here for my liking!

All the grandkids

All the girls...and there were lots!

This one was just for a bit of fun..I thought it looked a bit "Alice in Wonderland"!

I did a shoot today for some lovely friends of ours, Fiona and her daughter Cheyenne and their family...it was the first time all six grandkids were together because one family lives overseas. So...it was a challenge, but we had fun! This is just a quick sample as I only had a minute to look through...hopefully it will tide everyone over if they have a sneak peek as I won't get to their edit for a little while as we're going on holidays..woohoo!

New InHouse Logo

For those of you that haven't heard me whingeing lately about coming up with a new logo for the studio...aren't you lucky!! But I am trying to come up with a new concept as I soon hope to start working on a new and trendy website (can't wait to get rid of my old and dodgy one!) Obviously the key thing is a new logo, and my goal was to have something funky and more focusing on the kids/ families area which is what I'd really like to attract. So...I came up with this door idea a while ago, and after some researching on the net I think I've come up with a basic concept that I like....sort of hand-drawn, cartoony, whatever you call it.....anyway, please let me know what ya reckon!

Mummy's practice session!

Today I convinced the kids to some up into our bedroom to do a bit of low-lighting shoot practice! This shot was taken very bravely because I was trying to use my external flash...not usually a succesful venture for me. But this was one of the shots that turned out quite well with partly natural light from the window and the flash bounced of the opposite wall for some fill light on the dark side. Some groovy photoshop colour tweaking and there you have it :-)

Christmas 2006

Hope everyone had a great Christmas...we had a lovely, relaxing day.

The See-Sawing continues...

Isaac and Cassidy got a see-saw from Grandad for Christmas. I was a bit hesitant to how the kids would go with it, but there have been no serious spills so far (empahsis on the "so far"!) They manage it pretty well, Isaac has got the idea of how to hold it steady for Cassidy so she can get on...he does relish the control of it a bit..ie his legs are longer than Cassidy's so he can start and stop the thing at his leisure!! We are still waiting for him to figure out that it could have catapulting possibilities :-) :-)

Rain!

It rained today! It is very sad that rain has become such a talk of the town lately...rain is an event around here. It actually rained on and off for a couple of days about a week ago, and, including what we got today, it would have to be a record for the past four to six months! This photographer is dying for some green grass to photograph people on....you just can't turn brown green very successfully in photoshop :-) Needless to say, Isaac wanted to go straight out there with an umbrella and had a great time... it was beautiful to watch my kids play in the rain...what a novelty!

Day in the Garden

We have just spent a couple of days working in the yard, catching up on all the boring things like mowing and hedge trimming (we have a lot of hedges!!) Here's just a few more of the kids hanging out at home...

Friends

Isaac and Cassidy, like most siblings I expect, flip very quickly between being friends and foes. Someone must have put something in the water though, because for the past week or so they have been getting along great for the majority of the time. Steve and I had a good giggle this morning though when we heard Cassidy cry whilst we were still lying in bed, so we called them both into the bedroom. When Steve asked Isaac what had happened, Isaac said "We had an altercation"!! We can thank Nanna for the extended vocabulary with that one...it's one of her common sayings when the kids fight!