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Am here.

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

By Beth

I’m around, I promise you. I’m still sick and still tired but wonderfully pregnant and so excited I can’t see straight.

Noah refers to the baby as “our baby” and it makes my heart melt every single time he says it. Which is often.

I am feeling better, however, which is wonderful. I had an appointment on Monday and it was fun and exhilarating and scary, too. I promise to write about it soon, but right now, I need to nap, which will be difficult considering the Rockband drums playing five feet away from my head.

{save me.}

And by the way, here is my real 12 week photo, as opposed to THE FAKE ONES. I made myself extra glowy with the editing so you wouldn’t confuse me with a man with a beer belly. Not that there is anything wrong with a man with a beer belly, it’s just I try to avoid looking like one.

Usually.

12 weeks

Categories: Being a Mama, Pregnancy

Seriously?

Monday, September 21st, 2009

By Beth

This past weekend I had planned every single moment with a variety of different activities, from festivals, to apple orchards to birthday parties.

I even had a photo shoot and had dinner with friends on Saturday night. It was a very full, exciting, awesome weekend. (hence the lack of blogging. Sorry, friends!)

This past Saturday I hit 12 weeks of pregnancy, which of course is very, very, very exciting. That uplifted my mood to levels that I can not express. It really was a perfect weekend.

I took a ton of photos, which is wonderful because I haven’t been feeling very creative lately. It felt good to have my camera back in my hands, there was so much around me to photograph. Of course, there is always so much to photograph, it’s just a matter of doing it. Am I right or am I right?

FUNNEL! CAKE!

I’m a funnel cake snob. If I see a booth with funnel cakes, I get every excited. But if I see funnel cakes sitting underneath a lamp, keeping it warm? I turn up my nose and go without. But this week, at the first festival we went to…they were fresh out of the oil. So delicious.

We went apple picking, too.

Anna with an apple

On Sunday, we went to another festival where the kids had kool-aid for their second time in their life. Exhibit A as to why I keep them away from kool-aid.

Then we went to Asher’s first birthday party. Man, I love that kid and he loves me right back. It was so much fun. The food was amazing, but the cupcakes ROCKED MY WORLD. But mostly, Asher is cute.

Asher and his smash cake!

I took maternity shots of Crooked Eyebrow, she is 38 weeks pregnant and so glowy and happy and I feel so honored to have been the one to capture this season of her life.

I could do maternity shoots forever and ever, Amen.

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As you can see, I took a lot of photos this weekend, this being just a fraction of what I took. So you can imagine my dismay when I asked Brian to photograph me for a belly shot and got these as the result:

a little help with focus, please.

Then, at one of the festivals, I asked him to take a photo of me for maybe a new profile picture and this is what I have to choose from:

OMG, what is the problem, man?

But that’s okay. I’m slightly frustrated but if this is the worst thing that happened this weekend, then it was indeed, THE BEST WEEKEND EVER.

Categories: Being a Mama, Beth Fletcher Photography, Family, Friendly

Handmade Inspired {prairie mama}

Friday, September 18th, 2009

By Beth

My friend, Kim, is not only funny and sweet and unbelievably adorable, but she and her sewing machine make a beautiful team creating the cutest of products.

At Blogher, Kim brought me two shirts for Anna that she had made. I brought them home for her and she nearly fainted at the cuteness. Anna is a fashionista and she fell instantly in love with the shirts Kim made.

So did I. So will you.

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They also wash perfectly, in fact, I wish everything we owned washed and dried as flawlessly as these shirts do. I may be inclined to do more laundry. (but I doubt it. Laundry is dumb.)

She also made Anna and I matching skirts…they are amazing. Kim makes a ton of different items. She refurbished a few of Stephanie’s old favorite t-shirts and turned them into dresses for Ivy and was also featured on Design Mom. She’s that good, friends.

Kim also blogs here. Before sure to check out her shop. HURRY!

Categories: handmade inspired

You Capture – Up close

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

By Beth

Did you do it? Did you get up close and see the finer details of things?

I hope so.

I only have one photo to share. I completely blame my pregnancy for zapping all of my creative juices from me. Which is okay, I just don’t seem to mind.

But I did get one.

closer

This is a zinnia. I pulled up my zinnias from the summer to make room for mums. This was a bud waiting to bloom. Isn’t it beautiful?

Did you have fun with this one? I hope so. If you have a camera with high enough mega-pixels, maybe you didn’t have to take the photo so closely and you could just crop the excess of the photo off to get closer. It’s a great trick, a great way to get in close!

DO SHARE!

but first…

1. You can join in on this challenge at any time! We welcome & love new participants.
2. ONLY SIGN MR. LINKY IF YOU ARE PARTICIPATING IN THE ACTUAL CHALLENGE.
3. Please make sure you are linking directly to your specific You Capture post in Mr. Linky (and not just your site, for instructions, go here) and please make sure you are linking back to this challenge in your post. If you don’t abide by this, your link will be removed. (I know, I’m so mean.)
4. Try your hardest not to reuse a picture from your archives, the goal of You Capture is to get you moving with your camera, get creative! Challenge yourself!
5. Do your best to visit the other participants’ site – everyone loves the traffic, the comments and the feedback (not just you!)
6. And finally, post as many pictures as you want on your post.

I will be deleting links for those that aren’t complying, which is annoying because deleting links is annoying.