Gage.

I suppose this post would be more appropriately titled, “The many faces of Gage.”

Seriously – his facial expressions in these 9-month photos pretty much kill me. Mostly the eyebrow action that’s goin’ on. He may have been upset about the wind blowing approximately 94+ mph that day.

What? The wind blowing? In Nebraska? Never.

Anyways, I’m watching the Billboard awards and LMFAO just won over Adele. So now I’m concerned about the well-being of our country and I’m going to go drown my sorrows with a Mountain Dew.

Sorry for party rocking. Wait…
-Yens

I just have to say – the photo above-right makes me smile every stinkin’ time I see it.

I heart Okliehoma.

I’m getting homesick for these wide open spaces. On the plains of Oklahoma. And elsewhere.

(Hooker, Oklahoma – “It’s a location, not a vocation.”)

The Dane-man.

Guess who is my favorite 18-month old?

The clues are: he’s my best friend’s nephew. He lives about four houses down the alley from me. He was the first baby I ever photographed.

He is: the Danester! The Dane-man! Dane.

Check ‘im out.

When I took this last pair of photos, Dane’s momma had started playing music from her phone (you know, to set the mood for the model) and he started jumping around and then dancing – like those Russian dancers who squat and kick their legs out all crazy-like. You know what I’m talking about?

I laughed so hard, I cried. There were tears rolling down my cheek.

Hey, if April showers bring May flowers – what do May flowers bring?

Pilgrims.

Happy May!
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Baby Isabelle.

Oh, hey, blog. Remember me? Didn’t think so.

It’s April, which means it’s spring. Which means it’s warm. Which means there is sunshine and green grass and life again here in Nebrasky. Which means it’s time for photo sessions, heyo!

Here are some photos of baby Isabelle, who’s about three weeks old. We took these last Saturday – yes, before the storm of the century that turned out not to be the storm of the century.

She’s a sweetie, yeah? A sleepy sweetie, as you’ll notice.

And, hey, there’s Isabelle’s big bro. Recognize him? Yeah, that’s Logan.

Did that just blow your mind, or what?

I’m ba-aaaaack!
-Yens

Wheeeeeeat!

The other night, I was going through photos from last summer because, hey, I just switched my Facebook page on over to the nifty Timeline thingy, and I needed a cover photo.

And obviously my cover photo had to be of wheat. Obviously.

I did some minor enhancing but, let’s be honest, photos of wheat fields don’t need enhanced to be the gosh darn most beautiful things you’ve ever seen.

Q1. Ever been to Deerfield, Kan., in July?

Q2. Is it summer yet?
-Yens

Well…it’s 2012.

 

Hey, how are ya, how ya doin’?

I wanted to let you know that Maple and I are alive and well and growing like weeds. I just haven’t posted in…ok, a lot of days. Not since last year!

Life happens.

So does The Hunger Games. (I’m addicted.)

But, thanks to my ma for posting a link to m’blog on her blog! And for any new readers – thanks for stopping by. And I hope you enjoy all five-ish of my posts.

Keep checking back?

Punxsutawney Phil is a punk,
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Fit for (Christmas) princesses.

It’s officially Christmas week! Yay! Hooray! Jingle bells!

And because it’s Christmas week, I thought it would be appropriate to share a few photos from the Fit For A Princess Christmas photoshoot.

Fit For A Princess is an “infant and children’s boutique.” Becky, the designer/owner, makes and sells a ton (yes, that’s the professional wording I chose – a ton) of customizable items for little ones, probably best known for her tutus, matching tops and hair accessories.

The cool thing about FFAP is that it started about a year ago, when Becky made and sold a few tutus as a fundraiser for a young woman who was in a car accident. Since then, it’s turned into a full-blown business. I mean, it has more than 3,000 fans on Facebook. That’s a pretty big deal.

The cool thing about Becky is that I’ve known her forever – we grew up together in the same small town. And by “small,” I’m talking population-less-than-200, throw-a-rock-from-one-side-of-town-to-the-other small. Our elementary school was a two-room schoolhouse with about 30 students total (on a good year) and two teachers to teach seven grades. Picture a school from “Little House on the Prairie” and that was essentially ours.

And the cool thing about this FFAP photoshoot was that it was actually inside our old schoolhouse (which is no longer a functioning school – but is on the National Register of Historic Places, heyo). It was a pretty surreal feeling being in there, taking photos for Becky’s business – it felt like my life had come full-circle. Ha!

The following are just a few of my favorite photos.

The 2005 Elmwood-Murdock Christmas Princess,
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