Utah

Hello all. Last weekend I took a road trip with my friends and youngest baby,to utah for an engagement shoot. we celebrated day's of 47, paid a visit to the great salt lake where we had a great seamonkey experience. watched fireworks, sat in a hot tub, celebrated a 2nd birthday and just enjoyed each others time.

needless to say we had an activity packed weekend.lol.. any way  it was good to spend time with family we havent seen in a while. It's amazing how a trip "home" feeds the soul and re-charges the battery. any way here are some pics as promised.I will post more as they come out of processing. thanks for reading.

The Springs Preserves.

This past weekend was eventful. We went to see the Sorcerer's Apprentice, and loved it. We also went to the Spring's Preserves here in Las Vegas. though it was really really hot out we did get to play in the air conditioning for a while. and watched wall-e and had snow cones . It was so much fun just spendin play time with my family. here is a picture of my family all 6 of us.. .  thanks for stopping by. more to come.

playing with mirrors

The other day two of my three girls were playing with a mirror I got, as I snapped the pictures I remembered  when I was a little girl, how much fun it was to make faces,put lipstick on,and come or brush mine and my sisters hair. they looked up to me the same way that my youngest daughter looks up to her big sisters. and as I watched them interact with one another I thought wow these are My girls. It's always nice to catch a glimpse of yourself in your children. I love you Tina Rosie Izzy you are forever my girls.

DisneyLand

we are Finally going to DisneyLand.. woo hoo. Im totally soundign like a nerd right now,but I dont care. I am 31 years old married for 14 yrs now have four kid's, and I have never been to disneyland. nor have I seen the ocean.. this is a dream come true for me. I have always wanted to go, then when I had kids I really wanted to go..more than ever. we have everything taken care of  by the make a wish foundation. they are wonderful. and now I can take my babies somewhere un forgetable. were planning on flyin out aug 10th via limosine to the airport, then getting a rental at SNA. were staying on the site at one of the hotels, and having breakfast with goofy.. also having a meet and greet with mickey mouse..my daughter loves minnie and mickey. this is going to be an awesome trip. our family is soooo excited to go. I will post pictures as they happen.. Thanks for readin. talk to you soon..

My first Project.

This friday was so much fun. I have decided to give back to the community by taking some pictures for my local boys and girls club. Every friday they will have lots of fun things for the kiddos to do, and I will be there to capture some of those moments for their end of the year slide show. This friday they had face painting and  relay races, alot of the kiddos went for the Avatar look. I  plan on making a disk for the club. Im also planning on making extra disks for the parents as well so that they can have some of those pictures for themselves. they will be 10.00 . All proceeds of the sales are going to be donated to the club. I just want to give a thank you to all the staff members for being so helpful this past friday and a thank you to Mark their  new director for making it happen. I feel so grateful for this oppertunity and without your help I would have never been able to do this.. THANKS.. ok the good part. (pictures) are some these kids are so great.. Im glad to have met them among others.

Childhood..

Last night Rosilee and I were having so much fun on the trampoline I had to get the camera out. When I did I realized,I hadn't tried to take a picture of someone jumping before. So I  set my camera and started shooting. I was on the tramp with her then had to get off because she's not so little anymore lol. to get a good shot of her I had to get off! So I did and this is what I got.. It was alot of fun then she started crying for me to come back and I did what any good mom would do and took a picture of her and got back on! 

It's a RAW Thing..

Hello everyone! I did some learnin this weekend, my bff for life taught me a thing or two about photoshop.. here I was editing pictures in what I thought was raw. As my luck would have it I wasn't. But not to worry I was schooled on that real quick..lol.. We also had a power lesson session about masking.. and needless to say "I get it" yay!!! I am working so hard on learning all stuff that has to do with the technical side of editing.. or should I say Processing,because when you process something your not changing anything in the picture, Just enhancing the things you want to stand out.. and when your editing your changing other things..lol. learned that on my cafemom website..any way here is my first Raw image This is my son John. he is such a characater. There will be more to come.. Im officially addicted to it..lol.. For those of you interested in a session please feel free to e-mail me at vihansen@aol.com.. talk to you soon and thanks for stoppin by..