Thursday, January 31, 2013

Photo A Day Challenge February

Okay, so as usual, I failed miserably at something I started.  I think I took completed half of the challenges in January?  Probably less actually.  

But that’s not going to stop me from trying for February - it’s a really short month!

I will be blogging them here when I get around to it, especially if I use a real camera.  Instagram photos will be found at @rachesak.  Don’t forget to use hashtag #powersalaska so I can follow on instragram or twitter.

Monday, January 28, 2013

Our Cub Scout

We’ve allowed our son to become a Cub Scout.  And to say that this is so up his alley is an incredible understatement.  This boy was born for this.  

The highlight of his week is wearing his Scout uniform to school on Mondays.

This week is a big pack meeting, which is different than the usual smaller den meetings.  The boys were assigned the monumental task of designing and creating box cars to race.

It was incredibly difficult for me not to completely take over all design and construction aspects but I reined myself in and let dad do it all.  

Okay, he  didn’t do it all either.  He did the basic design and construction and the boy did the grunt work.

This is our masterpiece.


 The front view.

 The side view.  He chose #9 because that’s how old he is. Also, the flames were my idea. :)

 The spoiler with hand drawn flames because he just decided to do that, without my permission.  Turd.

 Hand drawn, cardboard reinforced wheels.

 Hand scribbled windshield complete with windshield wipers.

 Dual exhaust and I finally managed to make him stop scribbling all over the darn thing.

 License plate, JHP for his initials and 316 for his pack number.

My sweet brake lights made from cream cheese boxes wrapped in construction paper.

It turned out to be a sort of fun family project that we spent most of the afternoon/evening last Saturday working on.  We ended up being very grateful for our shirt business, which provided all the cardboard and my former scrapbooking obsession which provided all the cardstock and assorted adhesives.

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Photo A Day - 27

Pattern

Instagram photo of my lovely black paisley curtains.  Currently found on four windows in my house.

Saturday, January 26, 2013

Photo A Day - 26

Fashion

Instagram photo of my baby girl all dolled up for Cirque Mechanic.

Monday, January 21, 2013

Happy Birthday to My Friend

Today is her birthday.

Because she is so special, I spent the ENTIRE day going through years worth of pictures.

At a wrestling tournament in 2008.  This is the season that we became friends.  In October of this year, we would start our adventure together as PS Photography.

Here begins a photo collage of 4 years of a friendship that means the world to me.  

Love you Boo!




visiting with our favorite Costco employee
 The day that Target opened in Anchorage.  AKA, the best day of our lives.

Our first trip to CK Seattle for a scrapbooking convention.  But mostly for shopping.







 (Summer 2009, somewhere on the side of the road near Turnagin Arm at our first photo excursion without clients. I remember a crap-load of flies.)
 
scrapping the night away at our local scrapbook store

In 2009, MMMMMM was born.  Still going strong here in the beginning of 2013!

2009 (February) also saw the creation of the Glitterati.  Super duper crafty ninjas.



Adventures in 2009 with kids.  Like the zoo.





school activities

photo session shenanigans

 2010, another year with the Glitteratti




Year two of Creating Keepsakes Convention trips!

The start of 2011, probably revamping our blog.  Haven’t done it since!

Movie night continues!


That one time I took her picture during a kids’ choir concert and she didn’t know it.


AAAnnnnd 2012
When she picked me up from the airport even though I went off to Hawaii without her.

Off to photograph a wedding!

 We discovered Bingo.  And it was brilliant.

Another wedding.  Yay us!

Big hair and big laughs (and big tears) at a friend’s going away party


The following are random outtakes from several years of photos shoots we have done together.
There was this one time, at a wedding, when Tracy lit her hair on fire.

When clients are late, and we are bored...

At a wedding, hiding a snide comment behind Maximus.

Check that light girl!

This became a tradition at every wedding and it still takes us a long time to get it right.

Who doesn’t love a good photo-bomb?

Pretending to light her hair on fire...




Baby whisperer...












Another bomb!


And again!


Some last minute instructions on how to make a marriage last forever.


According to my calculations we have done about 228 photo sessions together over the last three years. That doesn’t count the few that we have each done separately.  That’s a lot photos!




The day we spent awkwardly taking photos of each other.  Can’t wait to do this again!

Happy birthday gorgeous girl! Thanks for always pulling up my pants.