Brush by Ali Edwards for Designer Digitals.
Here are some of my favorite photos from our Family Thanksgiving. This one turned out great-I love it! (Nice work by my husband taking this photo). Elizabeth seems to be missing though! 
Family Photo-2009
We had a great time spending time with family over the holiday weekend. 
On Saturday morning, the Vieira's (Paul is a mechanical engineer at the same company that I work at) allowed me to come into their home (with Bryan as my helper) and take a bazillion photos of their family. It is the first time I have done a "photoshoot" that didn't include me just taking photos of my own family, so I was a little afraid that I would screw it up or that none of my photos would turn out. But here is a sneak peak of some of the photos that I took. You guys have a wonderful family, I learned a ton on Saturday, and let me know if there are other parts of your home that you want photographed. And i love the Mums! They're beautiful!
It looks like Simon and the dogs were looking to the left:) But we know that was because Bryan was handing out treats on that side...
The Vieira's in front of their home.
Nikki is very photogenic.
These are the photos I wish I had more of. The everyday stuff when the kids were little. 
Why is this strange woman walking around with a camera?
Horses out in the pasture while a storm rolls in.
MMMmmmm.....bacon.....
Lots of doggies...
The bunkhouse-we spent the night here on Saturday night. Sunday night we slept in the guest bedroom. Wish I'd taken photos inside the bunkhouse. It was very beautifully decorated. 
Elizabeth and William playing Fusbol in the game "house."
The llama. He keeps an eye on 86 when she gets out. He doesn't leave the fenced-in area, but he hangs out nearby.
Elizabeth learning the controls on the four-wheeler.
An intense game of fusbol while Elizabeth plays with the barn kitties. 
Bryan on the four-wheeler. 
My sister and I love taking photos! Whether it is of each other, the beautiful scenery, or the local foliage (lots of these!) we always have a camera handy. And my sister takes fabulous photos! Thanks, Sarah! I actually got to be in some vacation photos! 
Sarah saw a marmot hiding under a rock and stayed to take photos, so it took her a little while longer come down from the top of Mt. Evans. He was a cute little guy. 
Sarah taking photos of the flowers around our campsite. 
Sarah and I taking photos of each other taking photos at our campsite :) 
Here we are on top of Mt. Evans with Sarah and Jeremy on Tuesday. Butch carried the tripod so that I could get a photo of all of us up at the top. I have a TON of photos to sort through {I am SOOOO glad that I can digitally sort through them rather than having a ton of photos developed and then throwing half of them away} but here is a brief summary of our vacation:
Picnic at Pleasant Creek in Palo, Iowa.1. William helping Bryan with word finds in the car on the way to Pleasant Creek.
2. Bryan quoting a previous conversation,"We have a Monicals...oh no that's Wm: "Grandfathers." ...he he....Godfathers....
3. Me: Periodic table of the emelents...
4. William's story about making up bad words with Weston using the symbols for the elements in the periodic table.
5. no complaining...well....except for me...and William...
6. Wiliam working on word searches instead of eating his KFC.
Play wrestling at the park. 
William is catching up, Daddy!
You can't tell these 2 are related....not at all...
Photo by William-actually both boys took photos of us and they both turned out great! But I like this one because we are laughing. A piece of my hair blew in Daddy's face and William took the photo. The resulting picture looked like he was picking his nose.
When we were visiting at Mom's over Memorial Day Weekend, I had the opportunity to take some photos of the dogs on the farm. They LOVE to go for walks and they are so interesting to watch! And, of course, they don't complain or whine or complain or talk.... I printed both photos out at 5x7 on my printer and put them in the frames that I have on my desk at work which are for the dogs. (The photos that were in the frames were 2 years old. Ralph was much thinner then...) Happy Friday-have a great weekend!
I am really proud of this page, so I had to post it as soon as I uploaded the photos. I LOVE this photo of my husband! (taken earlier this week in the back yard and printed on my Epson Stylus Photo 280). The canvas was painted with red paint, then the heart was collaged onto the page (the heart was cut out of an old book that my Mom was going to throw out!) 
Then I used a "B" stamp with white paint onto the page with a Making Memories foam alpha stamp. I used my sewing machine to sew some zigzag stitches onto the photo. 
