Happy Memorial Day!

// Remembering those who have made the ultimate sacrifice so that we can have the freedoms we do today.  We are incredibly grateful to live in our great country, the United States of America. // 

Tweet Tweet, a Bird's Treat!

Recently Chloe and Yates have enjoyed watching and listening to birds in our backyard.  This week we decided to make our own bird feeders so the cardinals would come by and visit every afternoon.

// Cookie- Cutter Bird Feeders //

• 2/3 cup of boiling water
• 2 packets of gelatine
• 2 cups of bird seed 
• wax paper
• various cookie cutters
• straws cut into 2 inch pieces (for the whole to tie the string at the top of the bird feeder)
• string

Pour the water into a very large mixing bowl.  Add two packages of gelatine and stir until it’s fully dissolved.  Add the bird seed and mix well until everything is evenly coated.

Place cookie cutters onto wax paper and scoop seed mixture in until heaping full.  Gently poke straw pieces at the top of the seed shapes all the way through.  Pop the tray into the fridge for a couple of hours to allow the feeders to set.  Later on, remove the tray from the fridge and let sit on the counter to dry out.

Once the feeders are hard and dry, carefully remove the seed shapes from the cookie cutters.  Remove the straw and tie a string through the hole around the top of the bird feeder.  Hang from a tree, or low bush and enjoy watching birds come by to for a treat!

How I've Become a Photographer

In high school I took one photography class, which I liked, but didn't have a great interest in.  Until recently, I never was the one to always remember my camera or take a lot of pictures during special events.  However, once my husband and I had kids, everything changed... for the better in so many different ways.

My hobbies changed, my priorities changed and the things that once didn't matter all of a sudden mattered the most.  Taking pictures became important to me.  To capture every special moment with my children we share together as a family.  From this new hobby new opportunities have arisen which I am incredibly grateful for.  Taking pictures for others is now just as enjoyable as taking pictures with my own children.  The people I have met, the families I have connected with have given me so much joy and a new passion in life.

Photography has become my creative outlet, my favorite past-time.  It is a way of feeling, of loving.  What you have captured is forever, and it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.  For the most part I am self-taught and I have enjoyed stumbling and finding my own way through taking and editing pictures.  Along with photography sessions and weddings booked in the future I look forward to sharing with you my journey as it continues capturing life's precious moments.

"Photography is an art of observation.  It has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them."

Favorite Photos Friday

 A few of my favorite photos from our busy week...

Sunday // Watching Daddy mow the grass.

Tuesday // Spending the afternoon outside, riding bikes and taking a walk to visit our favorite flowers.  Yates wanted to pick one for Aunt Em and his girlfriend Abby.

Wednesday // An afternoon at the salon with my favorite girl and her first haircut!

// My children make my good days better, my bad days good and by better days best. //