New Fall Photos

I did ALOT of photoshoots this weekend.. alot of my regulars, and some new ones, but I managed to take my own kids fall photos.. we do them every year at this time. The colors were beautiful at the park we go to, so I made some time to take their new photos for the fall season.. take a look.. I love them, they came out nice.. it shocks me how much they have changed even compared to last years fall photos.... I am officially photo'd out after this weekend!

Hope you like them....

The Marching Band is Not Over!

Well, I thought Marching Band was over for the year... our football team "Woodstock Wolverines" made the playoffs, so we have to do another game.. we did not expect this to happen.. we thought the competition last saturday was it.. well now we have to go to whatever games our football team makes.. so here we go again! In the 3 years Chris has been on the Marching Band, we have never been in the playoffs.. this will be interesting!

Week 2 Done - Pushup Challenge

I am done week 2 of the 100 pushup challenge. It's getting harder and harder and my arms are taking a shape I never saw before. Week 2 was tough and week 3 is going to be brutal. I pushed out 80 pushups today for my 3rd day but not in a row yet.. it was with 60 second intervals. That is just amazing! Before I start week 3, you have to take the pushup test again before going to the next level.. which means Sunday night I have to push out as many pushups as I can before hitting the floor and that will be my new level.. week 3 is HARD.. but last night I pushed out 25 pushups in a row, when before I could only do 12-15 ... so this challenge is working! By week 6 I will be able to do 100 pushups in a row with no troubles, and I cannot wait to see that happen.

In the meantime my arms are rock hard.. I love it.. it's making my weight lifting easier too.. for anyone who wants to try the 100 pushup challenge, here is the link

http://hundredpushups.com

I am telling you, it WORKS.. I will keep you updated on my challenge!

Unrealistic - Need to Vent

You all know I am a fan of the "Biggest Loser" show, (well was)... I like to watch it to see what they are doing for workouts, and what challenges they do to lose the weight. Well Oprah had "behind the Scenes" for Biggest Losers.. they had some people come back from a few episodes ago to see if they kept the weight off, or if they gained it back, and they gave you behind the scene secrets of the show. Bob and Jillian were also on the oprah show too, to talk about the Biggest Loser.

Well I could NOT believe it when they said that these people workout 7-8 Hours a DAY on the show, on the ranch to lose this weight! that is so rediculous! Any Dr. would tell you that working out your heart and muscles for that amount a time a day is TOO much. I have had 3 professional trainers tell me that you are not suppose to do any more than 45 minutes of cardio a DAY and when lifting weights you should alternate days so that you give your muscles breaks in between. 7 HOURS A DAY! it's a no wonder why these people are dropping weight so fast, they are putting their body into Max overdrive and the body has no choice but to lose weight! It's unrealistic and it's unhealthy, and the fact that they have these people doing this for the SHOW sickens me. The Women get 1,200 calories a day while working off about 4,000 calories??? Um Hello Michael Phelps doesn't even burn 4,000 calories a day! This is obscure!

They had a few people who kept the weight off, but there were alot of people who gained it all back.. it's sad to see that because they lost over 100 pounds and gained it all back because they were never taught the correct way to lose weight healthy. they were shoved back home after losing all that weight, and no human being has 7-8 hours in their day to workout.. so they have to go back to normal life and try and keep up with that momentum and they can't and they gain the weight back. No one person should lose 100 pounds in 4-5 months.. it took me 3 years to lose the weight I did and to train myself to workout healthy and body train.. but forcing people to be in the gym 7-8 hours a day is rediculous.. and it's unhealthy in the long run.. it may be immediate results, but the body will break down and rebel.

So I have a new found Dis-Respect for the show.. I love Bob and Jillian, but to do this fora TV show sets no true example to those who are really trying to lose weight to be healthy. This show is based around $150,000 ... shouldn't the prize be health that you can maintain your whole life the healthy way? ... I am dissapointed about this.

A Classic Photo!

hahah here is a photo of Amie and Ross from Kids Fest last Friday on Halloween.. this is SUCH a cute photo... love the tights amie.. it's so stylish girl! Awww what a cute couple :) .. Ross dont kill me for posting this.. I had to share.. you guys look so HIP!

Photos from Last Night!

As you read below, we took 1st place across the board last night! DRUMLINE WON 1st PLACE! This was their last competition... Marching Season is over! What a way to end the season.. now Chris does Indoor Drumline, but the schedule is nothing like it's been..

Here are a couple of photos from last night.. Chris holding the Drumline Trophy, and a closeup of the Trophy.. I love the first photo.. looks like he is saying "hahah it's all mine" and the last photo I got a good shot of the bass line doing their solo on the field.. YAY!

We Took 1st Place ACROSS THE BOARD!

I just got back from Competition at Newnan.. VERY VERY long day.. I am so ready for bed, but wanted to update you all on how it went. DRUMLINE TOOK FIRST PLACE! We took first place all across the board, even 1st place band... we kicked some major butt tonight!

Also tonight was our last event for the Marching Band.. it's kinda sad.. so officially tonight as it ended, chris is now a SENIOR on the Marching Band for next year! Upper Classman, and hopefully he will be Drum Captain next year!

I took some photos of Chris with the trophy, but I will post those later, I am VERY tired.. been non stop since Friday night! I need a vacation.. to a very quiet place around NO ONE!

Have a good rest of the weekend!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RYAN!

Awwww My Middle Baby turns 12 Today! awww where did the time go? He's in 6th grade going to JR High next year.. he's just about taller than me.. but he is the sweetest most CARING and LOVEABLE child I have ever known.... He's cuddly, and loving and so good for me all the time..

We are going to do a few things today for his birthday, but Sunday is his Birthday Party... He will have so much fun... we have a huge surprise for him... I can't say yet though :)

I am going to do what I always do and post a before and after photo on Birthdays.. Here is a before and after of Ryan.. his 1st Birthday and him now.. awwww this makes me sad!

Interesting Photo

Okay.. chris was having some fun with my photo.. we took some goofy photos last night with my camera and chris took a photo and he edited it for fun... it's the photo on the right... kinda neat that Chris is so creative... I usually hate photos of me, but I like this one on the right.. It's a DARING photo for me :) Kinda cool.. thanks Chris

Amazing Photo .. Had to Share!

I just had to share this photo with you guys.. This is Grant, Ross and Amie's youngest boy.. This is him joining his father in prayer at church. I did not take this photo, someone at the church did.. I wish I had, it's a great shot! I just love it! .. I think this photo was taken during baptism they had this past weekend, I was not there, but this is just so awesome!

Ross you have a boy following in your footsteps :) ...

Day 2 Of The Push Up Challenge

Okay, I am at day 2 of the 100 Pushup challenge, and I am so SORE I cannot move my arms! in sets I did a total of 45 Pushups Monday, and in sets I did a total of 50 pushups today.. I have one more set Friday of 55 total, but they have you doing it in 5 sets. My arms are killing me! The most I can do in a row right now is 20.. I can't believe this challenge will have me doing 100 in a row by week 6! I am excited to see if it works! By the feel of it I hope it works!

I wonder how others are doing with this?

Me and Chris Photo ... Yay!

Awww someone just sent this to me.. last week someone took a photo of me and Chris, it's actually funny.. I forgot who took this photo.. this was after competition at Sprayberry! I think Chris is coming around with the photo taking.. I dont have to pay him anymore (kidding) .. all I know is, it was COLD out that night!

I still find it hard to believe that Chris is going to be a senior next MAY! is that crazy or what? I can still remember taking him to his first day of school in Kindergarten.. I am just shocked how time flies by so quick.. Aww I love this photo.... my new fav!

The 100 Push Up Challenge

I am excited about this! I learned about this new 100 Push Up Challenge and it's just awesome.. I can't wait to see if I can do it in 6 Weeks.. Anyone who wants to join me in this challenge let me know.. it starts Monday! I know Amie is on board already... Here's the website
http://www.hundredpushups.com/

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The whole idea of this is a 6 week program, and you have to follow the chart. They have you doing 5 Sets of pushups 3 times a week, and you have to do the number of pushups according to your level.. so Monday, Wednesday and Friday you have to do 5 sets of pushups according to your level. By week 6 you should be easily up to 100 situps in a row with no problems. Check out the website.. this is exciting because I am very strong upper body and I remember when I couldn't even do 1 pushup and I am up to 25 in a ROW without stopping. I cannot imagine doing 100 in a row, so I am excited to see if this works, I heard from everyone that it does.. it builds endurance each day you do it. this will not only make me do 100 pushups in 6 weeks, but the pullups I do at the gym will come easier because of this strength too.. I am excited..

Check it out .. I challenge you :)

Me and My Boys

I just love spending quality time with Nathan and Ryan when I am not so busy.. We sat outside on the swing the other day and they wanted a photo with me.. they are too sweet.. here are some nice photos we took.. I miss them so much when I am busy with the Marching Band and Work.. I think I am almost ready to take their Fall Photos!

My Nathan

awwwww... I just love the many faces of Nathan.. he is the comedian in the family... he is so funny and makes the cutest faces! He is getting so big!

Drumline WON 1st PLACE!

I just got back from competition and percussion took 1st place! This year it was more special to me because chris is LEADERSHIP and he got to be up there for the awards and got to hold the trophy! I go to be on the the field so I got a great shot of Chris holding the trophy.... This was alot of HARD work paid off... and this is only our first competition, we have 2 more!

last night we also won overall 2nd place, and best musican award! We were .3 away from making 1st place.. thats ok, there is always next week at JSU!

here is a photo of Chris holding his Trophy! He was so excited about this! There is nothing better than this!

Busy Weekend....

Wow it's been a while since I have blogged... I have a busy weekend! Tonight Chris has a game at Kennesaw Mountain and then tomorrow is the first competition! It's at sprayberry high school YAY! This is one of my favorite competitions of the year.. the school are great.. we are up against some great school this year.. the biggest one being Lassiter High School. We are a AAA band this year having over 100 students on the Marching Band, so we compete against harder people this year. So I will be gone tonight, and half the day tomorrow into tomorow night, and then a photoshoot on Sunday.. I am HOPING to spend some time with Tim, Nathan and Ryan the other half of Sunday...

I will post photos from the game and competition this weekend... have a good weekend.. suppose to feel like fall finally

Chris's Homecoming Photos

I meant to post these, but time got away from me... Chris went to HomeComing last saturday night with Taylor... they had a good time. Here are a couple photos

New Contest Photo

I have entered another photo into the better photo contest.. I took this photo Tuesday night at the Exebition, it's the SNARELINE.. I love this shot because they had no idea I was taking it, and the lighting was perfect.... Chris is not in this photo of course because it's the snareline, but it's a great photo.. I will let you guys know how it goes in the contest.

Some New Photos

last night was the Cherokee County Exebition.. here are some photos I took of Chris.. actually smiling.. yep.. I think it's starting to grow on him :)


Love this photo.. Yay a Smile!




The Bassline in Black and White.. cool shot!



chris putting his hat on, getting ready to perform



Chris and his good friend Courtney who is also on the bassline!



Chris at DRESS CENTER.. you can't move when your in this position!


The More Serious Chris

Monday... Busy Band Week

This week is a busy week for the band.... Tuesday night is the Cherokee County Exebition, this is one of my favorite things to go to every year, this year it's at Creekville High School.. the exebitions are fun, to watch other bands play and our band as well. Wednesday night is the Homecoming parade and Bonfire Band Pep rally, and Thursday is practice, and Friday is Homecoming Game.. HOME game. This is one of the busiest weeks of Band.

I hope everyone has had a good Monday.. have a good week.. I will try and update this week on the happenings with the kids and stuff.

It's Been a While

I didn't realize that I haven't updated since last weekend.... it's been a rough week for me, and alot is going on here with my schedule. Tomorrow and the weekend is pretty crazy, so I am hoping to not do too too much today.

Christopher is giving blood today for the American Red Cross.. this is his first time, and he has practice later on during the day, so I hope he will be ok to do this. He is pretty excited about it, I dont know why, but he is excited about it.. anything to do with medical he gets excited about it.. I tell you, he was born to be in the medical field. He has to have a Echo done of his heart sometime this year because they need to test all my kids due to my heart condition, they want to make sure my kids dont have the same thing... chris is all excited about having a heart echo done, but then again, why wouldn't he be? he wants to be a heart DR.

Well I hope to write more this weekend.. if I have time that is

Chris made The Front Page!

Chris made the front page of the Tribune Newspaper this morning.. They took a photo of him from the bass's... NO I did not take this photo...

CLICK ON THE PHOTO TO SEE IT LARGE!

Vote For Woodstock Marching Band

Last night Channel 2 News covered the band and their halftime performance.. you can vote for them to win band of the week, then at the end they will vote on all the bands who won band of the week for the grand winner.

Check out the bands performance here
http://my.wsbtv.com/kickapps/_Woodstock-Band/video/343235/6690.html

Here is where you vote
http://www.wsbtv.com/surveyresults/17549609/index.html?section=sportszonefriday

They kicked butt last week.. check out during the end the drum solo of the bass's it's awesome.. it's amazing how fast they move around with those bass's on them... there is one thing that chris has learned is to run backwards with a bass on... their solo was awesome!

Helped Amie and Ross Move

I just got back from helping Amie and Ross move a little... it was so exciting to see this new journey for them... ever since I met Amie she has always talked about wanting to get her own house again, and every time I was in the car with her, we would pass by a house and say "awww thats pretty, thats so pretty, someday I will have my own house" well now she does, and it's beautiful and I am so proud and happy for them! They have EARNED it.. it's a gift from god and I hope they make many happy memories there!

Congrats on the new house guys :) ... more room to PARTY now :) ... Just kidding!

My Poor Ryan

Ryan was not a happy camper today.. he had to spend all day in school pondering over the fact that he had to get 3 SHOTS done at the DR's after school. He had to get his 6th grade (12 year old) shots.. He got off the bus with his pout look on his face like "I dont want to do this" .. I felt so bad for him. We got to the Dr's and the nurse brought in 3 needles.. he was actually CALM but just nervous! They gave him 2 shots in one arm and one shot right in the muscle of the other arm.. I felt so bad for him.. he didn't cry, he didn't do anything he just sat there and took it. I was actually shocked that he turned his head and watched her put the needle in... BRAVE child!

Poor Ryan is so sore.. he is in so much pain, can't even lift his arms up. I feel bad for him, and he has to go to school in the morning.. ouch! I hate it when kids have to go through pain... but I made it up to him after and got him a ice cream and his favorite thing for dinner.. but he is still sore.... but he is all set now until he needs another booster in 10 years. I should have taken a photo of his face when he got off the bus.... it was funny but so sad! He has those puppy eyes like "please dont make me do this" awwwwwwww...... I just love my kids so much!

Back To Working Out ... Was Great!

I went back to the gym this morning 6:00am.. I ran for a half hour and did weights and abs.. it felt SO GOOD to be back at the gym after my 2 week break. I needed that break, I was getting burnt out.. now I am back to full routine and my body is thanking me.. well tomorrow I dont think so, but today I feel FIT.

Got up this morning and weighed.. lost 6 pounds! WOW! dont ask how.. but I am back in the routine, and lifting weights.. I have a goal to meet by the end of this year with my weight lifting and cardio.. it's going to be hard, I have so many distractions lately, but I am up for the challenge....

This Years Wall Photo

Everyone that comes to my house knows about the "Marching Band Wall" .. I started this wall in Chris's freshman year on the Drumline. I pick one big photo for that season and then a group Bass photo and then a misc photo for that year.. so on my wall right now is a freshman side, a sophmore side and now this year i am working on his Junior section. I pick ONE BIG photo for each season of a pose. I got my photo last night at the game for this season's big photo to go on the wall. This is always a challenge because Chris doesn't like to pose for photos, so I have to get a photo for the wall. Well I am so glad I got last nights, it's different and it's from a different angle, and I love it...

Here is this years Junior year wall photo

BELOW is his Freshman wall photo and his Sophmore Wall Photo...

It's Been a While.....

It's been a while since I blogged.. been kinda busy with alot going on. It's Friday again.. This afternoon me, Amie and the kids are taking the kids to the park to have a picnic.. it's been a while since we have done that, it's always nice to have that time with the kids.. my kids fall break wasn't much of a vacation.. we didn't do anything.... I feel bad about that.

Chris has a GAME tonight.. it's the first HOME game of the season. Yup that means I will busy taking photos all night... This also means that they will be giving out the "media guides" in which all my portraits of the band will be displayed... I can't wait to see my work in the guide. Woodstock plays Marietta tonight.. the first home game is always the most exciting! Come check it out if your not doing anything tonight.. game starts at 7:30pm.. come check out the drumline!

I better rest up while I can.. Bootcamp starts back up Monday! Yup, there was a 2 weeks break! I also took a week off from working out.. my body needed the break, But I am back and back into a strict weight lifting routine.. I am going to do some crossfit training this month too! hard stuff but gives you an amazing body!

Anyways... last week me and my Ryan took a photo together... I was looking at it and just LOVE it.. I love all the photos of me and my kids.. they will cherish these photos when they get older.. Ryan has the biggest heart.. he must tell me 2o times a day he loves me.. I love this photo awwww!

Amazing Photoshoot.. Simply Amazing!

As you know I specialize in Children Photography... well this past Sunday I have had the pleasure to take on a client who I know who comes to our Thursday Woman's group and she has a little baby name Natalie... when I first saw her smile I knew I had to do her photos.. so I told her I would do the baby photos for free.. I have been out of the loop for a while and haven't done a baby photoshoot in months... This baby smiles so much that I did her photoshoot in 20 minutes with the normal being an hour to an hour and a half.. she smiles so much it's crazy.

Take a look at some of the work I did yesterday.... would you know that these photos were taken OUTSIDE at the park, on a black moonchair, with a black cloth.. this is all natural lighting, no flash.. it was cloudy which was perfect, taken at about 6:00pm.. this first one she was reaching out to my camera... so cute!