What makes us click

Jun 27 2011

the art of love {maternity}

It’s nothing but an honor to have the chance to photograph another artist. Darren is the talent behind the Eddie Bauer Spring catalog featuring a painting of Mount Kilimanjaro. Seriously? How cool is that?! With those kind of genes I wouldn’t be surprised if their baby come out holding a paintbrush! Congrats you two on your upcoming masterpiece!

Before we lost the light totally we headed into town for a change of scenery. So glad we found this ‘blue’ wall…appropriate for the little boy they’d soon meet!

Tagged cowhide chair, darren siegel, Maternity photography, Melissa Petays Photography, siegel art

Jun 23 2011

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child's play, food

High on Dye

Someone seen this idea for jello shooters and thought it would be fun to try with my boys…hahaha…minus the alcohol! The boys LOVED it…besides they don’t need alcohol to feel good when they’ve got red dye in their system! And when my husband came home later that evening he thought the boys had sunburned their cheeks!

How to make them:

2 oranges

1 pkg of jello

1 cup water

Slice oranges in half. Using a spoon, scoop out all the flesh and divider pith. Set aside.
In a bowl, add Jello and 1 cup boiling water.
Pour liquid Jello into orange halves. Refrigerate for approximately 4 hours, or until firm.
To serve, slice oranges into wedges.

Tagged fun recipes for kids, orange slices with jello

Jun 20 2011

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child's play, uncategorized

cherry baby

Love, love, love cherry season! Cherries were a huge craving for me when I was preggers with the boys. And I suppose you could say I went through a ‘few’ pints of Cherry Garcia as well…

The boys and I went out and raided our friends cherry tree…cause it’d be the ‘pits’ if the birds got to them first!

Simon sporting a cherry juicestache…this boys face is NEVER clean!

Tagged cherry tree

Jun 20 2011

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child's play, travel

We heart visitors!

Back in March our friends from back home Andrew and Laurie, called and said they would be vacationing in our part of the country and we instantly started making plans. Napa Valley was on their list so we insisted we meet up with them at Castello di Amorosa. We’ve been there a few times so I wasn’t as snap happy as the first few times! This first image I had to dig up from the archives…

A tour of the Jelly Belly Factory in Fairfield was on our way home…Great right? Jack the kids up on sugar for the ride home! Who helped plan this anyway?

Our next day we spent at Bridgeport panning for gold and hiking off our jelly bellies!

The one that found the biggest gold nugget was supposed to pay for supper…we all went home hungry…boooo…

Tagged bridgeport, castello di amorosa, jelly belly factory, panning for gold at bridgeport

Jun 14 2011

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portraiture

the S children

It was so fun to plan for this session. But having Mom S show up with some great last-minute additions was the icing on the cake! Love her style! The kids were having so much fun I don’t think they noticed me clickin’ away. I left with some new buddies and great memories!