Crazy Weekend!

After preparing for Ike this week we ended up with not a drop of rain. Unfortunately our family in Houston is without power and cleaning up a huge mess on their farm. Tons of trees are down & a lot of work lies ahead for them.

In the mean time my husband earns the husband of the weekend award! He took over and played Mr. Mom all weekend. I ended up with 4 sessions and only saw them all a handful of times. I had a 1 yr old on Sat. a 3 yr old on Sat. night. On Sunday I went to San Antonio to shoot a 5 day old, wait until you see those!! And then a 13 yr old on Sunday night when I returned. ugh! I'm pooped! It was a lot of fun, but I feel like I need to rest now. :) Being pregnant does not help one bit.

Anyway be looking for some really beautiful images this week.

Kelsey & Ebony Session

I had the pleasure of doing a session of our niece Kelsey & her horse Ebony while we were at their horse farm. We have been planning these shots for a while. They were for Kelsey's 13th birthday. I love, love, love this slide show & the song she picked, maybe because she is in our family so it means more, I don't know but go watch its pretty sweet.

http://cozyimpressionsphotography.com/Kelsey/

Boys N' Horses

More fun on the farm with the boys.
Griffin & Cooper checking out the big boy

Cooper has no fear of such large animals. In fact here he is trying to get into the field with Mac.

Little Miss Precious

Ohh get this girl on the farm and look how sweet she is! Parker LOVES horses & pony's just like her big girl cousins, Kelsey & Avery. Here are a couple from the weekend. The boys shots will have to wait until tomorrow, you know their shots are not as cute. ha!

Big Mama on the Other Side of the Camera

Embarrassing, but this post will be about me, the one behind the camera. I ventured out to the other side this weekend at the horse farm. My dear husband took these with very little coaching, pretty good I must say. Of course I touched up the subject with a little photoshop! ha!!

Anyway while in The Woodlands I made an apt. at my very favorite Aveda salon and had 8 inches cut off my hair, another reason for a few pictures. It feels great! I only had it that long for the wedding I was in this summer, that I STILL have yet to blog about ugh!

I have had a few requests for new belly shots, so here you go... and I must say I am looking and feeling rather big! This is only 20 weeks folks! That's a scary thought. I'm only 1/2 way there. My 20 week ultra sound went really well. Baby looks GREAT! No issues, measuring 20 weeks which makes the due date Jan. 25. We will induce around the 16th. I'll mess around with the dvd and see if I can post anything. The pictures weren't the best this time, baby was putting its hands in its face.


I did 2 sessions while I was there and have a bunch of photos to blog about including my own kids at the farm. So be looking for those this week. Until then....

Headed to Houston

Headed to Houston for the big 20 week ultrasound. Don't get too excited, we are NOT finding out what we are having. :) I know that just drives everyone crazy but we think its fun. We do have him write it on a note and we send it to my best friend Kelly in NC. Hopefully I will be able to post the video of the baby on here on Sunday night, depending on if he is able to cut out the part where he looks for the sex of the baby.

All Cozy Impressions emails will be answered on Sunday night or Monday morning.

Another Beautiful Family

People are going to start thinking I am picking these beautiful families right out of a catalog or something. This family was stunning & the kids were so easy and sweet to work with. Here is a peek of only a few of my favorites, there were so many this time and I really wanted to post them all. Thanks F family it was great meeting you all!

Hello Kitty

Back in July this tiny little 4 week or so old kitty found its way into our backyard. It had lost its mama and we started taking care of it. I said we could keep her as long as she stayed outside. We already have an indoor Golden Retriever.

Here she is much bigger than when she arrived. Maggie (our golden) has resumed the role of her mommy. We call her Big Mama now. She is always licking the kitty etc...

The kids named kitty "Tutu" but we have yet to call her anything but "Kitty". She is super sweet and loves to be held.

Rick and I still aren't sure why she keeps coming back, in fact she never leaves our deck. The kids hold her all day long, and Cooper is really good at patting her. Hard. :)

One good thing we noticed, she has brought out the nurturing side of Parker, which has yet to be seen. Parker takes care of her the most and holds her the most. Its very sweet.

Griffin

Griffin the oldest one, he tells everyone he was the first one to come out of mommy's tummy. Griffin is very type A, organized, structured, and could basically take care of Cooper on his own if we asked him to. Not that we would, but he does show amazing responsibility at only 5 yrs old. Yesterday he said he was going to make me a grocery list. I said "that's a great idea". So he went over to the fridge and opened it and said "we need batteries". So he wrote on his list- batteries. Then he went to the pantry and he said "we need peanut butter" so he wrote peanut butter on his list and that was it. Only the important stuff. ha!

Griffin is a dare devil and will try just about anything you ask him too. He loved surfing and had NO fear, even when the waves were big and he was tossed under a few times. It never phased him a bit. At Disney he BEGGED to go on the roller coasters over and over again, despite the 45 min. lines.

Carson's Beach Shots

Where do I start with Carson?! This kid is full of personality, equivalent to 3 kids worth. We call him the reporter. He is always up on the latest news in our house, and loves to share all information with any outside person including all details. We've learned to keep most conversations private from him if we don't want the world to know anything. ha! The memory on this kid is even more shocking. He can tell us things from back when he was just 2 yrs old. We will drive by a place and he will ramble off something that happened there several years ago. We say he is like his Uncle Tim in this way (Rick's brother, who also has a very good memory).

Carson is very cautious and timid about trying most things. He is not fond of roller coasters, we discovered this at Disney. He is not very daring, yet he is amazing at sports and loves to practice soccer, baseball and football so he can in his words "be the bestest on the team".

He has informed us that he wants us to "Have a boy baby because girls just give him headaches" Hows that for a boy that knows what he wants? Oh that Carson keeps me on my toes everyday!

Flash Back to the Beach

I am still catching up on my FL photos. I thought I would "flash back to the beach" until they are all up. While many of you are back to school we continue to enjoy our summer. The beauty of homeschooling! The boys have started 1st grade this week and Parker is in her 5th week of Pre-K. After school we are enjoying our swims in the pool. Its so hot out and I'm glad we are able to swim everyday.

Here are some pictures of Parker playing in the ocean in FL. No it was not a topless beach, she is just a topless girl! ha!!

Midland Family Visits Austin...

Oh how I love those west Texas folks. This family is so super sweet and pretty too. It looks like they just walked out of a magazine. They saw a slide show of mine back in Jan. and booked a session here in Austin. Little Davis is 1 month younger than Cooper, so that just tells you the challenge it was! That age is tough to get them to sit for a mere second, but we did it. Thank goodness this mom can bust out in a song at a moments notice! Click here to view their slide show... http://cozyimpressionsphotography.com/HamFamily/

here are just a few of my favorites. I love the vintage finish on them for some reason.

How cute is this dress!!

Chris

Last Ft. Worth senior I am posting....

Chris was a lot of fun. He brought his guitars, golf clubs, and football gear so there was a lot to work with.

Click his link to see his show...
http://cozyimpressionsphotography.com/Chris/