A new ride

A few months ago, at the beginning of winter, I reported that Tanner purchased a new kayak.  A couple weeks ago, said kayak *finally* made it on the water.  I, being mommy of the year (always), drove 15 miles just to take a few pics.

 

Which he didn't like because they weren't senior picture-y enough.

 

Damn ingrate.

 

In other news, his other ride suffered.  He was driving down Main Street in stop and go traffic.  He stopped, but the girl behind him didn't so the old Jeep's tail in got bashed in.  He's now trying to sell it so he can combine that money with his insurance money and buy something else - which he's been shopping for since about 12 minutes after he got the Jeep and realized it wasn't a 2013 model.

 

He keeps showing me pictures of mustangs and corvettes.

 

Yeah good luck with that kid.

 

A different spin on a senior photo

Now for something... kind of different.
Paige's senior photos.

Meet Jeffrey - Senior photos, Maryville, Missouri

You should meet Jeffrey. Visit our Cease Fire Studios blog to see more photos.

Oh, and PS - new website over at CFS coming soon! Hopefully by the end of the week. *excitement!*

Tessa's Senior Photos - Maryville, MO Senior photographer

If you'd like to see more of Tessa's senior photos, you can head over to the Cease Fire Studios blog!

Bekah - the senior portraits

Bekah is another of my senior spokesmodels locally! She is one of those sweet girls that you would have a hard time not liking. She's kind, yet out spoken. Tough and yet sensitive. Determined and smart.

So in a nutshell... she's exactly like me.
Only a LOT skinnier, 3 years younger :p and her hair is naturally that color.

Yes, it's ok to hate her for that bit.

Bekah is also my son's best friend's fiance and roommate. She's had it a little rough at times, but she handles it well. She's very mature and like I said before, determined. Ever since she was a little girl, she's wanted to be a plastic surgeon, but admitted that she doesn't think she can handle the yucky parts, so she's going to school to be a nurse.

(I'm not gonna tell her they probably have worse yucky parts.)

Bekah and I met a few weeks ago, before her session and talked about what kind of portraits she'd like to have. I explained my vision to her, the direction I was trying to take my seniors and she whole-heartedly agreed!

You'll see some traditional here, but you'll also see some very non-traditional. Both have been a hit!

We about ran off the road when we saw this patch of flowers along side it! We had to stop. Turns out, yellow is Bekah's favorite color. Isn't it funny how things work out sometimes?

You could sit and analyze this picture all day long about this or that... or, you could just appreciate that it's really cool and different and not something you normally see in a senior pic.

I prefer the latter.


Congrats Bekah for .... well... being you.
We like you that way. Keep doing it.

A teeny Tiny Senior

I've been wanting to do this photo concept for a LONG TIME. When I finally made a decision that I was going to start shooting differently (more about that later) I told Bekah about the concept and she fell in love.

Bekah is my senior spokesmodel for Maryville! So expect more pics of her soon. In the meantime, don't mess with this little girl, she might be 7" tall, but she can still kick barbie's ass anyday.

Josh's Senior Portraits - Maryville Missouri Photographer

Meet Josh.

This is a pretty awesome kid right here. I mean really, how many times do you hear an 18 year old say he wants to go into the field of *history*. Really? I'd just be impressed if my kids showed up for history class.

(oh hush, my kid does)

Josh is not only a really happy bubbly (can you call guys bubbly?) person, but he's also my rep for my alma mater, Bedford Community High School, Bedford, Iowa. (Go Bulldogs!) As soon as I met him, I knew he'd be great at it. I mean, come on, he's all apple pie and baseball... look at him!

Anyway, Josh is also on the golf team and from the looks of it, he is pretty good, but what can I tell ya? All I know is that I'm impressed that when he swings, the club doesn't hit the ground like it would on someone like.. ohh.. me.

Tiger Woods and Josh. Those are the two golfers I know. Not that I *know* Tiger all that well... so Josh, you are the most prolific golfer I know! Go you!

I'm really happy that Josh let me take his photos, they are some of my very fav photos I've taken yet!

Thanks Josh!

super quicky as I have other crap to do.

This is what happens to you when you leave your car in front of the bay, locked, with no keys. You piss off the boss.

Oops.

Had a near catastrophe. My camera wigged out and stopped working. I thought the shutter button was for sure going to have to be replaced. I was trying different stuff, took out the battery for a recharge and I think that caused the camera to reset. *oh thank god* because I booked a Senior job yesterday. GO ME. I'm really excited. It's not for a couple months. Now if I could just get that stupid site to stop kicking my arse.

Windows unwillingly (as usual) updated and now all my fonts in IE are weird. I don't like it. In fact, you could say I hate it a lot. I guess I'll get used to it.

Fajitas for supper. Don't tell anyone, but I've never made fajitas before.. how hard could it be?

Oh, and lastly,

heard a great quote a couple days ago. Something to really mull over.

"everything has a crack in it, that's where the light gets through."
Awesome.

I'm the glass half full gal, I've always tried to reassure ppl that even when the clouds are darkest, there's still sunlight on the other side. I think it's actually helped Gene - he's much more optimistic now in his life than he ever has been.

Nothing else exciting.
Back to the grindstone!

Senior Storyboard

Last night I stayed up for a while and worked on this:

It's a senior storyboard and apparently all the "rage" at the moment I think I'll offer something like this for my seniors. This one is an 8x10. I have a hard time imagining someone wanting a 24 x 30 of themselves but hey, whatever they want!

Yesterday got a lot accomplished and unaccomplished. Gene called, said he wasn't feeling good, that he'd pick up my beadboard on the way home then he was going to bed.

LIE.

about 10 min before he got home, I heard a pipe burst under the house (thank god I was here) so I shut off the main to the house and he "got to" spend a couple hours fixing that. I felt bad for him, because I know he didn't feel well. I have water again, but only in the master bath! I have to carry water for a couple days until all the plumbing is completely finished this weekend. *it's ok*

Yesterday I also tried to socialize some mice together. Tanner has 3, and 2 are new (salty died about 2 weeks ago :( ), when we tried to introduce them, Pepper the older mouse kept biting the tails of the other mice. Well, yesterday I got out a big rubbermaid tub and made a playground and put them all in it. they did well most of the time, but Pepper was still being a bitch so I did more research. Come to find out, you need to wait until they are all the same size. The 2 new ones must be fairly young as they are smaller than Pepper. So maybe a month or 2 we'll try again.

Today, going to try to install that beadboard *by myself* :) I'm pretty positive it won't be a huge deal. Just getting it cut down to size will be a PITA tho, as it's very wobbly and loosey goosey. It'll look good when it's done tho!