i had been putting off making a winkfotos facebook page out of pure laziness….but it really would be so much fun for my clients to share their pics with everyone else on facebook. so…. here it is! i would seriously LOVE it if you became a fan…. seriously would make my day!!
my niece. 
hope everyone had a super great thanksgiving!
ok she is so pretty i could die…where do all these magazine people come from??? and what is in the water they drink cause i want some!
they printed this one off to display at their wedding….seriously won big points from me…
this is my FIRST taste of really really loving photography more than ever. i photographed emily’s senior pictures this year…and even though she is a youngan, paul really is the one, and they really are perfect and majorly in love. i have never before gotten to photograph a wedding from one of my seniors and i seriously LOVED it! im just waiting for the rest of my beautiful seniors to get hitched so i can do their weddings… (sigh)
paul plays the guitar, so dang glad he brought it! he is totally a romantic and has written her songs….geez i cant get over how cute they are!
um, they are so cute it hurts. emily would seriously jump off a cliff if i asked her to do it for my pictures…i love you emily!
one of my most favorite family sessions of all time. brooke (mom) set the entire scene up, and yup, the truck is part of the family. (sigh)
this last picture is my very favorite.
I love love them!
The cards can change colors to match your pictures and are printed on luster/matt finish. They are flat cards, which allows you to have both a front and back design. They also come with envelopes. All full package family clients will receive 48 of one card of their choice, OR 48 luster prints (of the same image) to put in their own Christmas cards. Everyone else may purchase a card with any pictures I took this year to send out at Christmas.
There will be a couple more cards coming to choose from that I will be posting within the week.
i love love love the backgrounds we found, love how they are not afraid of being in love in front of the camera, and i love back massages… i think i will find a way to make that happen after i post.
ALRIGHTY! TODAY is print order day, and post office day! All those with prints in waiting will have their orders sent today, all those in waiting for a disk will be sent today. All those families who want to order their Christmas cards….well lets just say I am buying all the cute templates today so you may start choosing by Monday.
I AM doing the Christmas Special!
Sorry this isn’t advertised as lovely as I had hoped but I will post some cards/examples soon.
Dates November 21st and December 5th.
This is only for small families…5 people and less. If you want to use the special to get pics of just your kids, just you and your husband, etc you may also use this special. It can be a Christmas theme, or not at all.
Price: $135
You get: 7 photoshopped images on a disk, one 11×14 pretty luster print, NOT mounted on styrene, and no extra charge for up to 5 people. (which usually it costs an extra $25 per person so it saves you $100 on the front end)
Note: This Christmas special will be shot studio style inside my home. It will be very simple with mostly headshots, with cute colorful modern backgrounds to choose from. You may let me know exactly what 7 pictures you want when you show up…(all 7 different fam shots, individuals of fam members, etc) This shoot will last 15-20 min (so husbands will love it) and you may pay with cash or check when you come. I highly recommend using me for Christmas cards since they are high quality printed and come with envelopes. I am giving mega discounts on prints being used for Christmas cards to encourage all of you to show off your family pictures with professional prints that do not mess up the quality and color.
I already have a waiting list of 7 people for this event…and I will be taking 8 for both days starting at 9:00 am so first come first serve.
I am really going to stick to shooting 15-20 min each. I will not be able to shoot any longer than 30 min so if a baby or child is fussy, then sadly that is what I will shoot 
. Appointments will be every 45 min so please come on time.
All disks and prints will be coming back to my home for pickup. If you will need me to ship the print and disk to you it will be an extra $7.00
THANK YOU SO SO MUCH!!!
i am getting SO much editing done that i am getting carpel tunnel since my good mouse stopped working. thought i would share one of the many favs from one of the latest fam shoots.
yes, i am. i completely dodged the swine flu, which is saying something since i spent 2 full weeks watching it pass from one child to another, to my husband. you have no idea how much i PRAYED that i wouldn’t get it since all 3 of my shoots this weekend traveled from a far to Utah County and Salt Lake for pictures, and I already know the Lord loves me so once again wish granted. (phew) and by the way THANKS so much for the caring and loving words from everyone on the blog and facebook! I feel so loved!
I want everyone to know that I am organizing my week very carefully and plan to catch up on all my shoots by the end of the week. There will be no Christmas Special this weekend, BUT I am possibly planning it for November 21st AND December 5th (which will be my only work day in december) All print orders that are in waiting will ALL go out together this FRIDAY the 13th…(ooo friday the 13th…maybe i should send them on another day….)
I am looking for a couple more volunteer girl models for a bridal shop I am taking pictures for. I am looking for girls to model wedding dresses AND prom dresses….so anywhere from a junior in high school to 25 ish. Please email me if you would like to be a part of this. You will be a huge part of this bridal shops advertisement! You will also get a disk of course, and you do not have to be getting married OR you can already be married. Just email me.
let me tell you about my day yesterday. i think i am almost to the point of laughing about it now so i wont swear while telling it. it all started with my 71/2 month old samantha crying all night and me ending up holding her for hours, getting in total about 2 hours of sleep from 6am-8am. then the day had begun…. if i had known what was coming, i would have crawled straight back into bed and kept the covers over my head until night came…but then i would have to repeat the same process…so there was no hiding either way.
ted (my husband) was home, in bed, completely sick and almost dead. i knew samantha had the swine flu since my 2 year old hailey had it, but i felt like i needed to take her in anyways. so we sat and sat and sat for over an hour until the doc made it to us. (i am not a patient person so this was hell for me) (by the way hell is not a bad word in my house so that doesn’t count as swearing) turns out she had 2 ear infections, croupe, a red throat, AND swine. so afterwards i dropped her off at home and went to walmart to get all the prescriptions and some groceries since we were completely out of food. i loaded up the biggest shopping cart ever, went through the line, bagged them all up, then realized ted had taken my card OUT of my wallet. so i left the grocery cart, went home, came back, waited in LINE (there is that waiting thing again), then finally made it home.
samantha’s fever was SUPER bad when i got back, so i decided to put her in the bath. i started the water, and took her diaper off, held her while i fixed the bathtub, i realized when i looked down that i was COMPLETELY covered in POO. she had already did her morningly poop routine so i was not expecting that one. this is when i screamed for ted to get out of bed “RIGHT NOW” if he wanted to keep his wife from having a nervous breakdown.
so i waited for him to go downstairs and find the wipees. waiting again, but this time holding samantha’s ankles and trying not to look at my arm, leg, and shirt since i have a bad gag reflex and i refused to dry heave in the middle of all this. he finally came, and i panicked as i wiped her and me down and without thinking threw all the wipes in the toliet….until i flushed it and it overflowed.
i was sobbing. asking God WHY i had to be alive that day. well…. i managed to clean everything up, left my poopy pants in the sink, got my girls dressed (sorta) and put them down for a nap. i finally got 2 amazing hours of sleep, and when i woke up, i went over to check on hailey, and i found her asleep in the middle of her room on the floor, completely naked, laying in pee….on the carpet. then, i sat on the couch for the rest of the night and left my house to stink up with dirty dishes and poo.
moral of the story is….. always check your baby’s diaper BEFORE you put them in the bath….even if they already pooped that day. and to not put wipees in the toliet. and to never potty train. and to check your wallet to make sure your husband didn’t take anything out of it. and of course to learn to laugh at it the next day.
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here is a post finally….things are still slow, but i promise its looking up little by little. thanks for waiting! this family could not stop smiling… i really did love them.
