Admiration and some help

Ok, so I happen to follow two amazing photography blogs. Simmons Moments and Tiffany Morton Photography. And Everyday that they have a new post is like christmas to me. Kristi at Moments does the most beautiful family portraits I have ever seen. She is so creative and I Love Love Love the way she positions her subjects. And Tiffany, Oh Tiffany The way she photographs babies makes me want to have another just to get pictures taken by her. So all this Photography looking, and staring and obsessing over wants me to learn how to take better photos not for a professional reason just so I can take great photos of my little ones that I will cherish and look at and be proud of. So any suggestions? What cameras are best to learn with? Is photoshop elements enough to start out with? How do use natural light to my advantage? Help me I am dying to learn!! And I need a new creative outlet, Painting and drawing is hard for me to do right now because of the little ones, I can't leave anything out or it will just get ruined. I thought photography would be nice to just turn on the computer and do my thing. So please anyone with any advice I would love to hear it.

Happy Birthday Hayes

My sweet little baby turned one on Sunday. I can't believe a year has gone by so fast. I feel so blessed to have Hayes in my life. When I was pregnant with him, I was so worried that I wouldn't Love him, and that is hard for me to admit. The only reason why is because he came as a big surprise, at a time in my life when things were not doing well. Joe was having trouble sorting out his life, and the kids and I were left on the back burner. I spent the most of my pregnancy alone, without Joe. I left him when I was three months pregnant and feared how things would turn out. Joe came around, and did all that I asked to let him come back into our lives. And on November 8, 2008 Hayes was born, and all the worry and fear that I had been feeling washed away. When I heard him cry my heart swelled and I knew I would always Love him unconditionally. The past year he has brought so many smiles, laughs, and moments of Love. I am so blessed to have my family, and I thank the Lord that he gave us Hayes and that he gave Joe and I a second chance. I look forward to watching all my children grow, learn, and explore. So Happy Birthday baby Hayes, I will love you forever, look out for you for always, always and ever my baby you'll be.

November 8, 2009

November 8,2008

I love you Hayes Joseph Greco.

Love,

Mommy

Halloween 2009

So I am a little sad that the holiday is over. But the kids sure had fun. I had to work that night but fortunately it wasn't until 8 so I had time to spend with my kids. Ty wanted to be scary so he was a skeleton. Irie was a fairy princess but when I took pictures of them I forgot to put her wings on. I was so frazzled. I needed to get pics done, she was headed for a melt down and I knew she was going to have to nap before we went trick or treating. So in the pics just pretend she has wings. They both were a little ornery when it was time to go, but after we hit that first house and they realized what it was all about, they were all about the CANDY! And they said thank you without being told :)

It was also way nice to have a WARM Halloween. The kids got to go out just like this. No huge coats covering up there costumes. It was so fun. But we've already had to hide the candy.

Irie with her "happy face" pumpkin.

Ty with his "scary zombie face" pumpkin. I forgot, I have to right this down. At about the 3rd house we went to, This cute little old lady oohed and awed over the kids, and she was so sweet, as we were walking down the drive way Ty yells back over his shoulder "Happy Halloween, thanks for the candy, see you next week!" All of us were laughing. He says the funniest things lately. And some really bizzare things too.