The Hoods 2012

This year for my sisters annual pictures we decided to do a bedroom shoot, since schedules, daylight and healthy people were not lining up.  We had seen many fun ideas on Pinterest and decided to have fun with it!

I was amazed at how well Sydney was able to read "Guess How Much I love You"

 Even TJ was impressed

 A few Christmas pictures

 I love this picture Sydney is giving Tom the only person looking at the camera a dirty look

 A little tickle time

 Mommy and Me

 Daddy and Me

 Tom and his boys TJ and Rosco,  a bonus to doing the shoot at home we were able to include Rosco in the pictures.

Look at the love between these two

 Aww TJ is so darn adorable

 A parting family shot

Thank you again for letting me try new things and use your family as my guinea pigs.

Aunt Date

It has been forever since I posted a personal post.  This week I took Sydney ad TJ to a pottery event at my school.  We had a little extra time to play in my classroom.  Sydney had a great time doing a sight word scavenger hunt while TJ enjoyed crawling under tables and relaxing in the library.

Playing

 It is amazing to see how much her writing had changed in just a few months.  

Go Play

After taking these pictures my niece convinced me to race her down the hill so down I went laughing all the way. Go on a dare you be a kid and go play today!

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Sydney part 2

I forgot to add these images. Here is just a little more cuteness

THis is one of my favorite the off shoulder shirt make it so her!

There was a lady watching and she was yelling I am a cute princess, as she should all of her Top Model moves.!

Grrrrr

Sydney

This weekend I kidnapped for a little photo shoot and an adventure, I can't share the details of our adventure but I will after Christmas. I took her up to Lake Las Vegas armed with 3 changes of clothes, and a 3 year old full of SASSY. We had a great time and Sydney was a great sport.

A quiet moment watching the sun set on part of the lake
Check out the energy
MMMMM and that yummy smile!
While shooting I was telling Sydney to hurry because the sun was going to go away including hurrying to a special spot to watch it disappear. As you can see she was very excited as she amused a couple walking by, as she was yelling "There it Goes, Goodbye Sun"
Playing in the fountain
This shoot also served as her Christmas pictures. I did not know this huge tree would be out there but it was a very happy accident!
Isn't she adorable!

I am a very lucky Aunt to have such a happy niece to spend an afternoon with!

The Hood's 2010

I was lucky enough to go hiking at Red Rock with my sister and her family. We had so much fun and I took a million pictures well maybe not a million but more than normal here are just a few of my favorites.

Sydney- Look how big she is getting!

Chrissy and Tom

Family

Smooches

Sydney wants to say hi to all of my blog readers.

Getting silly together

Mommy and Me

Daddy and Me

Daddy keeps me warm

My favorite Big Girl Niece Sydney can you believe she is 3.5

She is full of energy

and smiles

Chrissy my beautiful sister

Tom my handsome brother in law

I snuck this one while we were driving back