Twins!

By Joyful Heart Photography | April 28, 2009 - 9:40 pm | Children

I got the chance to take some more pics of the twins, Aly and Matt, yesterday. Last time I was there, Matt just didn’t want to have anything to do with pictures. I was doing just about everything except bouncing off the ceiling to get a smile out of him. This time however, WAAAAY different!!! He was full of smiles and his sister even was having a good time! (And with two-year-old twins, that can be a challenge!!! LOL)

We had a lot of fun, and it almost wasn’t even work.

Behind the scenes…

By Joyful Heart Photography | April 20, 2009 - 10:44 pm | Biz Stuff

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I haven’t posted a lot lately, but I’ve had some things going on behind the scenes. Keep tuned within the next few weeks to see what’s happening!

While I’m at it… Congratulations to Randee and Chris on the birth of their new baby girl! Lydia Grace was born on April 15th and weighed 7lbs 2oz. Welcome to the world baby girl Lydia!!!

My mom is doing okay from her surgery. Getting tired of not being able to do a whole lot by herself, but the pain is going down. I think she has about another month before she might be able to start walking again.

Something fun that I treated myself to is a new phone. Hubby and I decided to get a set of Blackberry phones. I’ve been using a prepaid phone service for the last 4 or 5 years and I was tired of it. And I wanted a fancier phone.

Yeah… it’s all about the toys. There is definitely a learning curve to this phone, but it can do so many COOL things!

With any luck, spring will stick around now and I can’t wait! Bring on the sun!

~Nicole

Crazy weather

By Joyful Heart Photography | April 5, 2009 - 7:49 pm | Uncategorized

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I blame my current cold on this insane weather. It just can’t be good for the body to have to keep adjusting to the extreme swings in temps like we have. One week we’re wearing coats and heavy clothes. The next we’re wearing short sleeve shirts (and the brave – or crazy – among us have been wearing shorts) and running around without our coats enjoying the warm sunshine. A few days later, we’re huddling under umbrellas and wondering why we put our coats away already. Then guess what? We’ve got more snow on the ground and they’re saying we’ll have temps in the 40′s by the end of the week again. Ugh. Let me off this rollercoaster!

My mom had surgery on her ankle. Again. This time they went in, removed a bone spur, and then lengthened the tendon. She gets to spend the next 8 weeks putting absolutely no weight on that foot. She has this nifty scooter thing that she kneels on with the bad leg, and then kind of hops with the other one. Better than crutches, she said. But, she’s dealing with a lot of pain from the surgery. She said on a scale of 1-10, it’s a 12.

I hope it eases up for her soon.

I don’t have anything new to show at this time. I’m working on some orders I’ve received and then I’m going to put some thought into redoing my site a bit. We’ll see how ambitious I get with it.

Have fun and stay warm!

April, all ready?

By Joyful Heart Photography | April 2, 2009 - 9:32 pm | Uncategorized

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This year is flying by, isn’t it?

March was certainly a crazy month. Besides the normal crazyness that is my life, the weather and flooding added their own twist. I went and helped sandbag last Tuesday, and am still suffering for it. I guess I have to realize that I’m not young and in shape anymore. This lazy, out of shape body can’t handle hauling heavy sandbags around for 6 hours and not expect to pay for it. Doesn’t help that I slipped in some mud and landed hard on my right knee and elbow. Those are still giving me fits. Ugh.

I had a few sessions in march and a few weekends ago, I was able to take some maternity pictures. My first chance at maternity, and we both had a great time playing around. I think she makes a cute pregnant mommie!