Manuel's Senior Session

We shot Manuel's senior pictures a couple of weeks ago, but just now posting here. He's a senior at Ike and moved to Lawton from Germany. A great kid with and a budding musician and artist! Here are a couple of our favorites from his session.

Spookalicious!

Here is our little 'Boo' as we call her - she's dressed as Ariel, the Little Mermaid, complete with orange hair that we painted before the carnival. She says she'll be a witch on Halloween night - such a girl - already can't make up her mind and she just turned 4!!! She found out that the cake walk was her favorite game. She won a cake on the first try and a teddy bear on her second. Daddy won a set of cupcakes and Kallie bid on a THIRD cake which she won! Can you say sugar high!!

Kris' Senior Session

Today we shot Kris' senior pictures. These are a few of our most favorite from today's session - Good luck and best wishes in the future Kris!

'Tis the Season...

For car burglers! This morning while rushing around, my husband went out to start his truck and take off for a coaching conference today...he came back in and calmly stated he thought someone had been in his truck...he wasn't sure though....sure enough, I walked out there and we found the glove compartment wide open, it's contents strewn about the front seat - his ashtray was broken and loose change in the floorboard. He commented the spare dollar bills he keeps in there were gone (he saves those for icees when he picks up our daughter from school) - even a lot of the quarters were gone! He then noticed his iPod he left in the truck was gone along with the car cord so he can listen to it in the car was missing...all in all, we're so very lucky!

No windows were broken, no tires slashed, just took the iPod and left the radar dector and a few other valuables he keeps in there. I feel most fortunate because the garage door opener was right above where these creep(s) were digging in the car - inches away from our home, seconds away from being able to get inside our garage and thus into our home. I told Shawn we can replace iPods and vehicles, but we can't replace US!!! The invasion didn't bother me that much until I got to thinking about that. It sent a shiver down my spine - here while we slept safe and sound inside our home, some jerk was outside violating our personal property! I'm sure it was some kid out on Fall Break looking to score stuff quick and easy, but that doesn't put my mind at ease at all. We leave all of our doors locked, but you just never know about society any more.

So...as of this morning, we have reactivated the security system that came with our house when we moved in (just never activated the monitoring service) and a company in town is installing alarms in both of our cars. We alerted all of our neighbors to the theft so we can take turns looking out for one another more closely - like we typically do this if someone has to be gone. We live in a great neighborhood with terrific neighbors and you never expect this. I've had my car broken into twice in the last year - never at the house however. I've had my purse, credit cards, laptop computer and more stolen out of my car where they've busted out the car windows that cost a small fortune to replace and we've just had it with such dishonest, distrustful, disrespectful people!! It just really sucks when someone - anyone - works really hard to provide things for their families, sacrifice a few things here and there and then some worthless person comes in and does stuff like this!

So...as the holiday season approaches - and throughout the year - keep all of your belongings OUT of your car - always take personal items like your purse, check books, iPods, computers, PDA's, cell phones, etc. out of the car each night. Keep your doors locked on the cars and on your home. No neighborhood is safe anymore! Not really, super secure! Never leave the keys in the ignition. Thieves are always watching for a way to rob you of your hard earned valuables and they'll jump in an instant! It's just a really sad tribute to our society today. I remember my parents being able to leave the cars unlocked and keys in the ignition in the front drive growing up - even leaving the front door unlocked from time to time. It was so much safer and peaceful years ago!

My sweet hubby...

Our 6th wedding anniversary is coming up in about 2 weeks - can't hardly believe it's been six years!!! Wow!! Time fly's when you're having fun! But over the weekend, neither of us could wait (we both suck at secrets and surprises) I surprised him on Friday evening with a special trip I planned for the two of us to San Antonio including air, hotel, dinner and massages while we're there!!! And then HE....surprised me with this...
a beautiful white and champagne diamond ring!!! How great is he!!!! He knows exactly how much I like non-traditional, unique jewelry and found this georgous ring!! I love it!! And I love him very much!! Wouldn't know what I would do without him or our daughter!

Cacee and Colt

Sunday morning we shot the engagment portraits for Cacee and Colt who will be getting married this coming March in Kansas. They brought along Colt's other 'love', horse Cindy (I believe that was her name) to make their session more about 'them'. We lucked out and the waterfalls in Medcine Park were back on after a summer of flooding in the area had them shut down until a week or so ago. I'm so glad they're going again!! These are just a few of our favorites as we're working on them today! Congrats to both of you and best wishes!! Colt - good luck with the new job!!

Melody & Seth

Over the weekend we had the opportunity to photography Melody and Seth's wedding. Held at the beautiful Wichita Mountain Lodge, this outdoor wedding was fabulous. The perfect day, the perfect amount of October breeze - everything was wonderful! The chairs and sound for the outdoor ceremony were provided by Journey Productions, flowers & decore were brought in from the Dallas area and the reception was held at the Medicine Park Music Hall. It was a wonderful afternoon! If you're ever in the market for real estate - Melody can hook you up! Seth is one of our proud military men and will soon be sent overseas! Best of luck to both of you and hope you have a great time in Vegas! Here are just a few of our favorites from Saturday!



You couldn't ask for two more sexier people! Wow!


Just a reminder that children aren't always as excited as you are about your wedding day. Be prepared for everything!!


The mother of the bride stops for a photo with friend, Donna just before she walked down the isle!

Is there any doubt why this beautiful gal was Miss Amarillo??? And she's just as gorgeous on the inside too!!

Mel and her new hubby are both Sunday school teachers too!

Bridesmaid and friend (and of course talented photographer in her own right) Jesse Dean, (second from the left) kept everyone hooping and hollering all night adding her own special blend of contagious spirit! I love her!

New Graduation Announcement Samples

Here are a couple of our newest graduation announcement samples - we've inserted just generic text for the date/time/location, but thought we'd show off a little creativity! We used a couple pictures from a couple of our recent senior sessions...

Chelsea & Terre

Okay, I'm a little backlogged lately, but here are a few of the inital images from Chelsea & Terre's wedding from a couple of weeks ago. They were married at St. John's Lutheran Church in Lawton and their 'Pretty in Pink' cake was done by the mother of one of the bridesmaids - Robin - who did a supurb job! It was one of the most animated weddings we've shot in a long time. I've got some beautiful pictures of the couple - but just had to share what some of these groomsmen did!! They really kept me in stiches!

I love this shot because of the view of the cross in the background.

This was their 'Captain Morgan' stance - This was the last shot after about 4-5 shots just to see who could stand their the longest....I thought I'd have some fun of my own.

The groomsmen were all about giving Terre the love.

Then it just became a contest to see who could outdo the other...

If something ever happens to Gene Simmons with KISS - I found his backup!!