I just have to post a few images that I took yesterday of M, my youngest kiddo. I've been messing around with my new camera, testing it out, figuring out all of the buttons and gizmos, and the only child I have that will allow me to take pictures hour after hour is M. In fact, she begs for it. The rest of the kids mostly run away.

Well, I'm incredibly happy with my new camera. It's the Shizz!

Wedding Vendors I Recommend

I thought it would be a great idea to have all of the wedding professionals that I frequently recommend to my clients in one place. These are florists, DJ's or other vendors that I think are just amazing. I'll add photos when I can, and the link will take you directly to their website.

Things you might need as you prepare for the Big Day:
Wedding and Reception Locations


Victoria's Black Swan Inn

Los Encinos Hill Country Estate


Things you would use at the Church:
Flowers-
Pink Peony (website coming soon!)


Something you might see at a Reception:
DJ-
The Music Connection

Bands-
Second Nature Band


Mariachi Las Alteñas

Bugs in your Frame

Do you have a new Digital Frame that you got for Christmas? There has been a lot of talk on the photography forums today about them, because it has been discovered that many of them are infected with a computer virus. A quick google search will find many articles about it, I found this one from the San Francisco Sun Chronicle.

I don't have one and so I'm not very familiar with how they are used, but I think the problem occurs when you attempt to download pictures from your computer to your frame. I assume (and you know what happens when you do that) that it is safe to download the images directly from a camera memory card, but that means that you can't edit the image first. This might not be a problem for some people, but to me, that's like going outside with no clothes on. Unedited pictures are only for me to see!

The article says that there is not much you can do to protect yourself from the virus, because the current anti-virus software has not caught up with this version of the virus.

They do, however, list the phone number of the retailers who are selling them.

Growing Already

I had forgotten how quickly newborns grow. Grace is already too big to fit into a bowl, which is what I had planned for her yesterday at her photo shoot. She did, however, fit nicely into a bureau drawer.



And into her daddy's hands:



And into her mother's arms:



And that is all that matters.

I don't know why I love these things...

Here is another email questionairre from my nutzo friends. Makes a good enough blog post, so here ya go:

The instructions:
Scategories... It's harder than it looks! Copy and
Past into a new e-mail. When you are done, send it on,
Including to the person who sent it to you. Use the
1st letter of your name to answer each of the
Following.. They have to be real places, names,
Things... Nothing made up! Try to use different
Answers if the person in front of you had the same 1st
Initial. You can't use your name of the boy/girl name
Questions.
(Just for fun, I'm leaving Gina's responses and adding mine in italics.)

What is your name ........... Gina Leah

4Letter word .................. gosh loan (as in: Gosh, I could use one right now.)

Vehicle............................. Gio prism Lexus (go Leah)

City.................................. Greenwich London (this is getting fun)

Boy name......................... Georgio Luke

Girl name...........................Giovana Lynn
Fruit................................... grapefruit lucious fruit (I swear that sounds like a real thing to me.)

Alcoholic drink.................. Gin & tonic lemon drop martini (love those!)

Occupation....................... Governor Lawyer (HATE those. Really HATE them, well, one of them.)

Something you wear......... Goulashes Lipstick (Chip came up with this one. Don't tell him I told you.)

Celebrity.......................... Giselle Lindsay Lohan

Food............................... Ghirardelli chocolate Lasagne (Devon thought of that one, I was stumped.)

Found in a bathroom......... Good Housekeeping Lotion

Reason for being late....... Getting some lovin!! Lost (that happened a couple of monts ago. I still feel awful about it.)

Character........................Grinch Linus (Chip again. I was stumped again.

Something you Shout....... Get out of my way!! Loser!

Animal............................. Giraffe Lion

Body Part......................... gall bladder left nipple

Word to describe you ....... Gina, Gina, dancing machine-a – okay, I used my name…….how about gnarly?? Lucky

Go Stars!

This is a quick post to point the way toward our super-fantastic way-cool awesome cheer pictures from last weekend.

So, click here to view them.

Our team won 1st place, and was honored by American Cheerleader Magazine for demonstrating "the perfect combination of skill and sportsmanship." How awesome is that? As a result each member of the team gets a ring and a memory book.







This is Devon and Raven, her coach.



Did ya miss the slideshow from our Ft. Worth trip? Click here to go straight to that post.

Go Stars!

Freeze

What would you do if you walked into this situation? I can't even imagine!