southwest retreat.

 

My daughters and I recently flew from our home and below freezing weather to a week away at my parent's house in Arizona. We did leave their house and enjoy many other things, but I want to highlight the amazing job my parents do with their yard. As my photos illustrate, you can spend all hours of the day in their backyard. We enjoyed garden gazing, sunbathing, pedicures by the pool, using the indoor/outdoor kitchen, eating the fruits of our labor and finally a cozy backyard fire and family game night.  They are so inspiring!

baby hiatus.

For anybody who follows me, you may have noticed a break in action. I have been busy since late October with my third bundle of joy and plan to continue decorating, gardening, cooking, photography updates now. Enjoy these sweet snippets of 

Vivianne Lou.

senior pictures.

    My twin cousins are graduating this Spring.  My aunt asked me if I would take their senior pictures.  I love to fiddle with photography and enjoy using Adobe programs and my Apple computer to do editing.  I have a Nikon Coolpix L810 that I have been experimenting with for about a year. I was excited to take on this task and enjoyed every minute of this learning process.  My aunt and cousins seem happy with the outcome and I thought I would share a few favorites on my blog. Congratulations girls!

    As a side note, it is difficult to mess up two beautiful, cooperative girls and a perfect Michigan Fall backdrop.  Pretty sweet gig ;)