Brrrrr, it's cold! - { Idaho Photographer }

It is just downright cold outside here in Idaho. I'm in Emmett right now and it's in the 20's. I've given in already and started a fire in the fireplace; normally doesn't happen til 5pm, but it's cold right now!

Thought I'd let you all in on just how cold I am right now. Are you cold now that you are seeing the frost on my car window? Brrrrrrrr

Collage Time - {Emmett, Idaho Newborn Photographer}

Happy Monday.

I thought today would be a nice day to work on some collages. So I went back into my archives and decided to create a clean collage from Baby Theodore's session a couple of months ago.

Cassity Family - {Emmett, Idaho Family Photography}

I had the absolute pleasure of photographing Nicole Cassity and her family once again in December 2009. You may remember Nicole and her family from last year here capturing her family before her surgery. Since then Nicole has been fighting like a girl battling through and not letting anything get in her way. She's such an inspiration...check out her Fight Like A Girl Blog and be in awe of her too.

The day of the family shoot was such a beautiful day. It wasn't sunny outdoors, but there was such great sunshine radiating from Nicole, Brock, and Morgan. The goal was to capture the family at its best, being a family and using these captures for their Christmas Card. We shot a few indoor shots (absolute blast!), and then braved the cold and bundled up and headed out into the snow. Yes, it was snowing outside the entire day but that didn't stop the Cassity Family from having a great time.

 

 

Morgan is such an inquisitive little girl. She wanted to know what was making Santa move and sing...

AWESOME pic of Nicole...

 

 

Special alone time with mommy.....

 

 

Go ahead, make my day...

Morgan loves socks and shoes....watch out Brock and Nicole!

I thought it was hysterical that a 2 year old was putting on her own socks; she wouldn't let anyone help her at all

Snow time! Mom and Dad giving Morgan a snowball to throw

WOW Nicole. Your tongue is probably longer than Gene Simmons.

A humble moment when Morgan hugged her favorite stuffy. One of my absolute faves.

 

And here is their Christmas Card (front and back):

 

Thank you for viewing. Thank you Cassity Family. Keep Fighing Like A Girl Nicole!!!

Happy Holidays!!

I've been MIA for the past couple of months. I know I'm not the best at keeping up this blog and plan to change that now!

I had my first Christmas living in Idaho and didn't get to experience a "White Christmas", we had a good snowfall a few days earlier and still had some snow that hadn't melted by Christmas. So to me I still had a White Christmas. My son let me sleep in (til 8:30am; believe me, that's sleeping in for him) and let me really wake up and make breakfast for myself (he didn't like my bagels, lox, and cream cheese so I just made breakfast for myself), and then we dove into all the presents. My son is so cute with his gifts to me...he doesn't care if it fits or not but as long as it's purple then it's what he is getting me. He knows my favorite color is purple, so the size 11 slippers in purple were the perfect choice in his eyes (even though I wear size 9). I don't have the heart to tell him that they don't fit, so my Mom told me where she took him to get them and has the receipt for me to get the exchange. So now I have slippers that fit and he smiles when he sees me wearing them.

I hope that everyone has had a wonderful holiday season with your family and friends and had some of the most memorable memories.

Now...onto a New Year! New Year, New Concepts, New Products!

Fight Like A Girl Nicole Cassity!!!

Meet Nicole Cassity. August 18, 2009 Nicole Lindemann Cassity was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer. At the very young age of 23, Nicole will be undergoing a double mastectomy. Even with this drastic measure she will always live with the fear of reoccurrence.

Nicole is an amazing young woman. She is the mother of Morgan, a beautiful, bright-eyed one year old. She is the wife to Brock Cassity, a caring and compassionate husband. Sister to Jessica & Michelle. A loving daughter and friend.

Her surgery was on October 1, 2009 and her surgery was successful. She was able to go home to recouperate within a couple of days. Despite having major surgery, she was in high spirits the following Monday night when I went over to her home to #1 see how she was doing and #2 to show her proofs of the photo shoot we took the week before. The goal was to have some great recent shots for her to have and show at the benefit in her honor on October 9th.

On October 9th, the community of Marsing, Idaho dedicated their love, time & money to help Nicole with the financial burden of breast cancer. It is their sincere wish that Nicole has the opportunity to heal physically and emotionally without the additional worries of endless medical expenses. Here is an exerpt from the Fight Like A Girl blog (http://ifightlikeagirl.wordpress.com/) posted in honor of Nicole:
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A Very Successful Fight Night

October 11, 2009 shanaalissa

Thank you to everyone that came to Fight Night this Friday, everyone that donated to the cause and everyone who sent prayers to our beautiful Nicole and her family.

The evening was a tremendous success. As the dust settles, we are amazed as the tally continues to rise well above our expectations. The generosity and kindness of the people of Marsing, the friends and family of Nicole, the friends of friends and the perfect strangers have changed a life, change the face of cancer and changed a community.

Continue to pray for Nicole, but remember to pray for all of those facing the fears of cancer. Pray that they will also be surrounded with the love and support they need for a full recovery. 

When you ’Fight like a Girl’ everything is possible."

Every woman diagnosed with breast cancer is someone’s mother, wife, sister, daughter, friend. Stand up and fight with us! Cash donations can be made at any US Bank - Nicole Cassity Breast Cancer Fund.
Fight like a girl!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's raining, it's pouring

This weather is just absolutely crazy. It was so windy last night that when I took my dog outside this morning to go to the bathroom, our backyard had some extra things strewn around. I guess the wind picked things up from the neighbors yards and plopped them in ours. The fall leaves that just turned colors are now all on the ground thanks to the wind - time to go out and rake it all up. Hmmm, wonder if I can find a kid wanting to play in a pile of leaves. LOL The only thing we are missing from our yard is one of our bird feeders, so no biggie for us personally.
It rained, but nothing too hard. My son is patiently waiting for the snow to hit. I am too - can't wait for the first flurries to come trickling down.

TV Shows

I am mad that some of the shows that I was into last year are no longer. But.....at least there are a bunch of new shows that are recently premiering and seem pretty good and replace the "void".
PHEW....Grey's Anatomy is still around and I can't wait to see it in a couple of days.
Watching this new show now called "The Forgotten" and it seems pretty good. But of course I'm biased big time being a huge Christian Slater fan (I'm such an 80's girl at heart). But even thru the fantasy of Christian, it really is a good show.
Stay tuned for further viewer "so-called reviews".