I'm a day late.
Great way to start a new project. Oh well, better late than never. Decided to give another project a try this year. Since I'm only doing project 52, I have more pictures to share. So every month on the tenth, I will post 10 pictures from that month that don't make it into their own blog post.
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So I wanted to look back over the past year and choose some of my favorite photos. I decided to narrow it down to my top 14 of 2014. I tried to choose pictures that evoked some sort of emotion from me or brought back a special memory. So after careful consideration, here they are (in no particular order).....I LOVE this picture. Some of my favorite people caught in the same frame. Cousins table at Thanksgiving. I love the tone, the lighting from the blinds, their angelic faces. Kaleb was saying Grace, and I'm sure he was nervous. Jack looks like he wants to laugh. Cameron probably was laughing and messing Kaleb up. I love Bella's clasped hands. Yeah, this is a good one. For the obvious reason. I don't have many pictures of all 3 of my kids together. But this is so....them. Cam dressed in full basketball uniform, including his favorite Heat hat, his mouth full of sunflower seeds. Jack brought along the basketball for a family walk on the beach. Bella with that sweet little grin & her sunglasses. The background with the perfect amount of blur. The backlighting. How pretty is she! I had so much fun with her that morning, curling her hair; I even put mascara and lipstick on her. She was loving it. I love how little girl-ish she looks here. And those dimples. Some of my favorite ornaments peeking in the background. That's Jackson's handprint in the bottom left corner. Such a great memory of my mother with Bella. Taken at a baseball game, they were picking wildflowers and Mimi was showing her how to make a necklace out of them. Sometimes things just work out. You get 6 kids, ages 10-1, all smiling and looking at the camera. And you get a picture you can cherish forever. Not sure why I love this one so much. It just screams "childhood" to me. I hope they never forget this feeling or these childhood friends. Sometimes I just want to capture so much about what it was like when they were little. The dirty knees and baseball cap. The bandaid on her shin. I can imagine her dirty fingernails and his sweaty hair. Having fun with Daddy. The boys love playing video games with him. And she just loves {pretending} she's one of the big kids. This totally captures our lives at this moment. I am in love with this football portrait I took of Jackson. A while back I decided not to waste any more money on sports (or school) pictures of my kids when I can take better ones myself. And get what I want out of it. Jackson loves to make that "tough" face when he poses for pictures. And it's perfect for football. He was wearing his new Nike receiver gloves and his pink socks for breast cancer awareness month. She loves this table, her babies. She's such a girl. This is another great childhood moment that I never want to forget. And I love this one in black & white with the light from the doors behind her. It's a soft, sweet moment. Another one of my favorite black & whites. This one tugs at my heart strings. Bella and her great-grandfather blowing out his candles together. Old and young. So much love. This was the first day of school. And they look so freakin cute! Still have a slight tan from our trip to the beach the week before. I even love Cam's long-ish hair. Their new school clothes. And their genuine smiles. Those are always so rare to catch. It doesn't get much cuter than this. Bella with her friend, Sean. Can't remember how we got them to laugh. We were rolling them up like burritos in their blankets. It was so cold that day at the baseball field. But they didn't seem to even notice. This one Josh took and I will always treasure it. Her perfect little toddler body that is growing before my eyes. Her sweet kissy lips and that precious little braid. Her arms around my neck.
When you take a photo like this, you never realize at that the time just how perfect this moment is and how much this picture will mean to you for the rest of your life. And that is what I love so much about photography. I know this sounds cliché, but this year really flew by. I remember thinking our summer vacation seemed forever away; then, all of a sudden it was August and we were rushed into planning and packing for a week long stay at the beach all the while finishing up baseball, birthday parties and just trying to get some family time in the pool that we had neglected before Summer had passed us by. I just finished putting together my 2014 family album. It's fun to look back through all the pictures over the year and remember stories and memories, that without my pictures, could easily have been forgotten. Like the night I took Cam to the E.R. after Bella threw a remote control at his head, and I thought he needed stiches. I was there for nearly 4 hours for them to slap a butterfly on it and send us back home. Or how much she loved Easter egg hunting..... ...and One Direction. Or the science project we worked on together. And then I got to watch him give the presentation to his fourth grade classmates. How much he dreamed of being like Lebron (and how much he wore this jersey). And how she used to fear the ocean. How hard it is to get a family picture when your kids are little. And your dork mom and neice have to photo bomb. How all the neighborhood kids loved to come over to our house. And how they all treated Bella like their little sister. I could go on and on, but that is what the pictures, and the albums, are for. All those little things I won't forget.
2014 was a good year. Looking forward to 2015 and all the possibilities a new year brings. This year, Jackson will start middle school (yikes) and Bella will start preschool. My niece will get her learner's permit. There are some changes taking place at my job that could be a good thing or a bad thing, only time will tell. And maybe, just maybe, I might take this photography thing to the next level. Possibilities.... I remember how much Cameron loved sharing a room in our old house with his big brother. They had bunk beds and went to bed every night together. Although Cam usually talked and carried on, getting in trouble and driving Jackson crazy until he eventually fell asleep.
He was only 4 when we moved to our new house. We split the bunk beds, and he got his own room. Jackson was so excited. Cameron, however, was not. He was very tearful the first several nights, begging to sleep in Jackson's room. It broke my heart. I had to remind Josh that he had always shared a room with his brother and transitioning to his own room was going to be hard. Eventually, it became the new norm. This past weekend, Jackson moved up to a bigger bed. And, in turn, Cameron got the bunk beds back all to himself. He was more excited than I thought he'd be. And, most surprisingly, he begged for Bella to be able to sleep in his room with him. So, tonight, I consented. Putting the two of them to bed (they wanted to sleep in the top bunk together), Cameron was so excited. "This is like the beach house!" he said with a huge smile on his face. (That kid loves the beach house). Then, only 10 minutes later, he comes back downstairs. "Mom, I can't sleep. Bella is being annoying." Reminded me of another "little" sibling who used to annoy his older sibling at nighttime in that same bunk bed. Karma? |
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AuthorMy name is Kaci. I am a working mom of 3. Wife to Josh. Mom to Jackson, Cameron & Isabella. My life is dinner, homework, baseball, basketball, grocery lists, laundry, middle school, wine, video games, and schedules. I started this blog because I love taking pictures, and I needed a place to document our life. I wanted a place to write it all down, to remember little details so easily forgotten in the mad rush that is the life of a family of 5. Through my photos and words, I endeavor to capture our story. Categories
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