Elizabeth Pellette

Things that make me happy....

For starters... my kids playing basketball together in the yard makes my heart happy oh so happy.

this also makes me happy... Zachary has gotten really into wood working this year and is taking it in school.. he made this for me as an early birthday present. I love it.. he did such a great job.

Also makes me Happy.. Cierra with her good friend Lexi.. they are too cute together.

Springtime makes me happy... I love things growing and the wonderful colors.. I love my crab apple tree when it blooms all in pink and my neighbors tree flowering all in little white flowers.. and just the wonderful springtime smells.

ok seriously now.. can some one please gentically engineer a tree that will stay like this from spring to fall?

well folks.. thats all I got for you presently... stay tuned for more spring stuffs

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eight..

Well Miss Cierra is officially eight now for a few weeks infact.. we had a lovely morning on easter this weekend and I talked her into some photos.. she was more than happy to go along.. check these out..

I just cannot get enough of her... or any of my kids for that matter....

 

just about eight....

Tomorrow our baby girl is turning Eight Years old.. I know I say this with every one of the kids birthday's but seriously where does the time go?  She is such a good girl.. truly.. she does awesome at school, everyone seems to really like her.. she's girly yet not.. she loves Monster High Dolls and the Lochness Monster.. She loves to read, and draw.. play on the computer.. loves to play basketball and swim.. she is just such a good girl.. we all love her so much.. Happy Birthday baby girl... ( one day early ) I willdo an official 8 yr birthday shoot sometime this week... Here are some recent photos of her.

She is such a lovely light in our lives.. her smile and laugh.. her smartassness... she is just perfect.

 

 

 

wonderful weather

We have had the most wonderful weather for March.. so much so that this week we got the pool ready and the kids actually went swimming.. Yep thats right.. swimming in March in Western New York.. unheard of... Personally not sure how the kids could jump into a pool of water only around 68/69 degrees.. but they are kids and well I guess they dont care.. I need it to be in the 80s pushing 90's before you get me in the pool..ha.. anyway.. a few shots from our lovely weather...

Just lovely... we love to take advantage of this awesome weather for sure

 

ok so yesterday it was like spring... it was up to like 65 degrees the sun was shining.. it was just lovely.. you know my kind of weather.. so after everyone got home we took the kids hiking/shed hunting.. for those of you who are not sure what shed hunting is.. its not looking for a shed like for your yard.. its actually deer antlers.. they fall off the dear this time of year and if you are lucky you can come across them out in the woods.. kind of like a treasure hunt.. so.. we went up where my husband does alot of hunting and went out walking around.. just felt so good to be out in the fresh air.

( Miles clearly is not great at walking yet... ) sigh

I love this bark crown Jake made

me.... 

even I look lovely in a bark crown..hahahah

( I love the smell of mud ) not sure why

 

love this light at the end of the day.. 

a successful family outing in the sunshine .. yay

 

recent portraits of the kids...

Misc.. from the last few weeks

a lovely mix of instagram and regular photos...

jake got glasses.. pretty snazzy huh

cierra got new glasses

Zach got his learners permit to drive.. whoohooooo (sob sob ) 

dude its february.. the kids are playin basketball and riding dirtbikes.. and I can hang laundry out to dry.. whoohoooo 

my favorite boots... 

miles is hoping to get some cupcakes..

I need to spend more time on my balcony this spring/summer... just sayin.. 

Let me just say so far best winter ever in my 45 years of life on this planet we have never had such a mild hardly any snow winter.. its freaky but so awesome.. just sayin.

yep we had a bird IN OUR HOUSE.. a speckled starling... WTF? it was cute though.

and that is it for this evening...

 

Sixteen...

Well this past weekend my oldest and the child that made me a mom for the first time turned sixteen years old.. I am torn between being happy and excited for him and sad.. I cannot believe how fast these sixteen years have gone. I am so very proud of him and the man he is becoming.. he is responsible, kind, caring, helpful,  a great student, a good big brother, easy going, thoughtful, handsome, funny, he loves dirtbiking, and drawing, and history and reading.. he also loves Hunting,snowmobiling and woodworking, and photography, he still likes baseball as well.. He is well just such a good all around kid and we love him like crazy.. I am not so crazy that he can get his learners permit and it studying to do so.. not because I think he will be a bad driver.. oh no no.. because I dont trust everyone else out there driving with my son's life... ya know.. I know I have no control over some of these things.. like him getting older.. but I will say I have enjoyed the ride so far.. and have enjoyed being his mom for every single minute of these sixteen years so far...  Happy Birthday Zachary.. I love you more than works can ever say.

( we did an impromtu session yesterday here are some shots from that ) 

Opening gifts on his birthday

( a quick cat or dog nap before the party ) 

and a few quick shots from the party I really didnt take many...

next day.. party fun.. some of his friends spent the night

so all in all I think it was a good birthday weekend for Zach... 

 

 

 

 

 

taking a break

from cleaning my house and getting it ready for Zach's 16th birthday to share a few photos from yesterday.. since its been awhile since I updated over here.. haha.

Ok well back to cleaning trying to get the house in order.

 

hawaii five o

so normally I dont go around tooting my own horn.. but I just wanted to share because I think this is pretty cool and exciting.. this past summer I did a session for a client.. and took this photo.

and this photo is going to be used in an episode of Hawaii Five O next monday ( the 16th ) one of the main characters is going to be holding a book and this will be the cover of the book.. He will be reading it to his x wife I guess..  its pretty cool.  I think anyway.. I had to sign a release with CBS and everything..