Documenting life...: My Child-Ren

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

My Child-Ren

I finally did another official shoot of my chillins last week- it only took a year and a half to gear up for it. :) It went much smoother than I'd expected. I get all freaky when I'm photographing my own kids. Here's a picture overload:

17 comments:

andrea said...: love all of these pictures! and the color choices are lovely!; April 28, 2010 at 4:58 PM
C'est La Vie said...: JEN I LOVE THESE!!!!!!
that one of tae all dressed up on the bench is SO ADORIBLE; April 28, 2010 at 7:17 PM
cami said...: OH MY GOSH I LOVE, LOVE all of the pics!!!! You and Jasper make the cutest darn kids I tell ya! There is not one picutre I hate. They're all so expressive and capture so much emotion. My fav(if I had to pick)would be the ones of them tickling each other and laughing.They made me laugh and remember what it felt like to be a kid again! Thanks for sharing!; April 28, 2010 at 9:20 PM
Brian and Kim said...: I kept thinking each new picture that I scrolled down to was my favorite. Dang girl, gorgeous family!!!; April 28, 2010 at 11:17 PM
Ruth said...: I adore the pix of Chase standing there by himself..All the pictures show such a happy happy family, so glad to be together.
What love you share in these pictures.; April 29, 2010 at 6:46 AM
LeMira said...: I can't believe how grown-up they all look! What a good-looking family.; April 29, 2010 at 7:54 AM
Lindsay said...: Beautiful kids, beautiful pics! You are so gosh darn talented!

BTW - just got my D90 and 50mm! Now, I'm trying to learn *Gulp*; April 29, 2010 at 11:22 AM
Amber said...: Jen, I want to be a photographer like you when I grow up :) These pictures are AMAZING and your kids are adorable! Love Chase's toothy grin!; April 29, 2010 at 1:39 PM
Michelle Arnett said...: I LOOOOVE THESE! All of them:) But you know that all ready.; April 29, 2010 at 7:24 PM
Sarah Welsh said...: You are SO talented!!! You're kids are ADORABLE!!; May 1, 2010 at 10:33 AM
Jacqui said...: If I did't have the cutest kids in the world (smile), I'd definitely say yours are!

Absolutely breathtaking in every way.; May 1, 2010 at 11:20 AM
A day in the life of the Campbell's said...: LOve em'..what a cute and simply adorable family you have.; May 3, 2010 at 9:40 AM
Lisa said...: I especially like the one of Maddie standing under the tree, looking over her shoulder. It's kind of otherworldly. Like she's in a fairyland or something.; May 3, 2010 at 3:12 PM
Anonymous said...: Beautiful pictures as always, Jen!; May 7, 2010 at 11:09 AM
Erica said...: These are 5 very gorgeous and VERY lucky kids! You are so talented Jen.; May 12, 2010 at 11:04 PM
AudyCamp said...: Glad to see Maddie in her "meadow of flowers"...like she wished for. :); May 22, 2010 at 5:07 PM
Kristy said...: What a rich, full life. Don't you just wish you could push "pause"?; June 3, 2010 at 11:58 AM

Out of the mouths of babes

5/11 Tae: "My dad is bigger than my mom and my mom is mini-er than my dad"
5/11 Tae: "Don't coffee me!!!" she and paige seem to think the word for copy is actually coffee.
05/11 Tae: After going in the front yard after me telling her not to.. " oh mom, I accidentally thought the front was the back"
03/09: Maddie: " Why do we have to pay taxes? Why do they have to have laws...like pay your taxes? Or don't stand on swivel chairs?" Ha ha!!
12/08: Tanner: "mom, don't pick your nose and throw it on the ground or you will slip on it like a banana peel. So you have to put it on a picture, or a high shelf"
Tae 3/09: Today she was looking for little scab on her hand and noticed it was gone. So she said "Mom, my owie went home!"
2/09 Maddie: Kimi is eating a burger, Mad hates red meat. "Mmmm, that looks good" Me: "But you don't even like hamburgers!" Maddie: "But if it were the only food left on earth, I'd pound it."
12/08 Tanner: "Mom, when can we get out our bean stocks?" I realized he was talking about Christmas Stockings. :)
11/08 I'm in the bathroom, alone. But never really alone. Maddie comes to the door and says "mom what was your best moment?" Uh, can we talk about this later?
11/08 Tanner: "Mom, is my bones warm or hot?" later that day..."I wish our house was made of nachos." Ya, me too.
10/08 Me" Well Maddie when I was little I only got a quarter or 50 cents for a tooth" Maddie" Ya, well that was in the OLDEN DAYS mom! The tooth fairy hardly had any money then."
9/08 Tan:" Mom, when you have the new baby, will we sell Taelyn?"
01/08 Maddie: "Guess what Mom, when I lose my front tooth the tooth fairy brings me $20" What?? Who said that? "A girl in my class! I'm so excited to get my very own $20!"
10/07 Madeline: "Mom I remember what it was like to live with Jesus before I was born" Oh really? "Ya, it looked just like it does here, but it was on clouds."
09/07 Tanner: "Mom sometimes your mean to me, but Sister Castleberry (nursery teacher) is always nice to me...like this many times ( he holds up his little 5 fingers right in my face)" How cute is he??
Just the other day Madeline came to me after practicing some intricate dance moves with Jaren and said "Mom, I just wish I could marry Jaren because he dances with me, he does whatever I say, and he's such a gooood guy. Why can't I marry my brother? " I then explained just why we don't marry our siblings. Hopefully she'll have no problem finding a guy just like Jaren in 20 years.
"Shake your bootie, shake your bootie..." This goes along with a mooning of sorts by the 3 yr. old Tanner
“Do you wish you were Dad so you wouldn’t have to change Taelyn’s diaper or do all the work, and you could be at church on time?” -Maddie
"I'm the last number strong" -Jaren

Deep Thoughts...

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean ? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.

If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward.

I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye.

When you go in for a job interview, I think a good thing to ask is if they ever press charges.

To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.

We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me.

Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.