4.28.2010

Ashlynn: family session

She was less than two weeks old when we captured these images. In a perfect world, I'd shoot all newborn photographs within ten days of delivery. The skin is so soft and wrinkly and their little bodies are still so tiny and delicate. I don't think it will ever cease to amaze me how fast kids grow and how quickly they learn.

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Yay, loving a bit of baby drool!
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Big brother Uriah!
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4.27.2010

Lillian

Oh, what baby blues.


Lily wasn't quite sure what to think of me when I pulled up to her house, but she warmed up pretty quickly. One of the perks of going to my client's houses is that there is an endless supply of accessories. I'm not a huge fan of using generic props, so it's really a win/win situation. Plus, she had two of the cutest chairs...and an old school play car...and many dolls...and a puppy...


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4.25.2010

Sunday Funday #2

It wasn't planned.


It just happened.


Much like the perfect storm, it was the perfect mesh of...
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...mixed with just a touch of this (the rope, not Charlie's uncomfortably disturbing tall white tube socks)...
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...add one wakeskate...
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...and a placid creek in a semi-populated countryside.
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I, for one, was not planning on going in.
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But Mr. Nick was.
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Oh-it's about high 50s outside of the water. So...brrrr......
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Teege wanted to play too, but from the safety of the wheeler!
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Two up: wakeskate and kneeboard
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Gavinn, perplexed as usual.
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Um...not the...ahem...clearest water...
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However, two VERY enthusiastic (cold) thumbs up!!!
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Another successful Sunday Funday!

4.24.2010

YAY!!

It's all fixed!!!!! :-)

I think I even got all the emails that were just floating around somewhere, too.

Yay for technical support!

4.23.2010

Computer issues...

Meltdown.

Complete and utter.

My website has decided, apparently, that is also needs a vacation.
I'm working on finding wherever the heck it disappeared to, so hold your horses! :-)

Oh-I'm also not receiving any emails at my @sweetshibui.com account as of right now either. If you sent me an email anytime between 3:00p.m. Thursday and now, I have NOT received it.
Please hold all emails until this issue has been fixed--I'm so sorry for the inconvenience!

I know. Like, totally happy friday. And Saturday.

Oh, well. I'll keep you posted, hopefully I can resolve all this by Sunday!!!!!

4.22.2010

My sincerest apologies

I apologize.

For the sheer length of this post. I mean, what is happening! I had quite a few people tell me that they wanted to see more photos of the great Alaskan get-away, but I took it there...went 50 feet further, around a corner and through a tunnel. I kept editing and editing and when I was uploading I couldn't believe I threw down over 30 images.

Sickening, right? Bored yet?

So, if you're so over Alaska and all things winter, feel free to skip this post. I'll get things back to normal next week. But for now....

...let's see...Oh, yes. We left off in Seward. Which I love. Much.

Here's the main street with Marathon Mountain in the background
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(Haha...I was roaming around town taking photos while the boys were waiting to be picked up about 5 miles away...whoops!)
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I also hit up the Alaska Sealife Center...awwwww....
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This guy was totally flirting with me. I could tell. He just kept swimming in front of me and coming back...twirling...I liked him. I named him Simon.
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Got lost and ended up in a cargo loading area. Driving Paul. I'm sure nobody saw me.
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leaving Seward, headed back to Anchorage
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and a wipe out...ouch...
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The skiers would basically disappear off the top of the hill and reappear WAY down at the bottom as a little tiny speck. Insane speed.
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Over 7,000 people bring their sleds to the middle of nowhere for this competition and to ride.
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and this is how we made our morning coffee. In Paul. Did I get a photo of our living arrangements for the weekend? No?! Why would I? Honestly...pathetic...
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Ricky got stuck.
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Playing around
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Bummer-blew out a tire on the way from Valdez back to Anchorage. Oddly enough, we were driving right by a bicyclist when it happened. It was super loud, poor biker...that's what you get for exercising! ;-)
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We came back from Arctic Man Sunday and Nick and I had all day Monday to roam around and do whatever. We decided to drive to Whitter so I could drive through the train/traffic tunnel (Nick did it two years ago when he visited).

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Ricky had an awesome ride for us to take for the day: meet The Bruiser.
Mr. Nick had to check the oil at nearly every stop.
Epic.
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Every 15 minutes traffic is stopped so a train can go through the tunnel. On the half hour, traffic flows one way, on the hour, traffic flows the other.
A two mile long tunnel through a mountain for all road travel to Whitter...
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A hospital that was built for use in WWII but was never actually used.
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Checking the oil
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I likes.
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Back for our last night!
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Where I got SO CLOSE to a baby moose-on our last day. How lucky was that!!!!
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Yay---what a great trip!!!!!
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