the shuetzler family!

oh the shuetzler family.  this family was a crack up! they love to laugh and be silly and tease each other.

they were really funny and silly, and lee and i had a blast spending that saturday afternoon with them!

the fact that they seemed to be having a fun time really helped my nerves . .

i'm not used to photographing so many people in one day!

and i love being in the presence a tight-knit family like this one.

a family that loves to spend time together, laugh together, and actually hang out together.  it's quite refreshing.

thank you so much, shuetzler family! :)

sunday.

wow, today was super eventful! MTV was in our backyard all day setting up

an awesome stunt involving a car being put in our tree, the tree being chopped down, then the car

being sandwiched/smashed between the tree and the ground.

crazy, right?! MTV at the thomas residence?? never thought i'd see the day!

our house was like.. a "set"!

it was a lot of fun and i took a lot of pictures . . .

but unfortunately i can't post them :(  but maybe someday i can. maybe after it airs on TV?  guess we'll see.

just to give you an idea . . . ;)

after that, we went and saw New Moon.

now, i really enjoyed the Twilight books.  i really really did NOT enjoy the Twilight movie.  it broke my heart.

but, the New Moon movie was much better than the Twilight movie.

so if you loved the Twilight movie, i'm sure you'll go bananas over this one!

well, all in all, today was a lot of fun and super exhausting!

so, i'm going to go rest

g'night :)

this is so funny :)

The Button - watch more funny videos

i <3 funny or die.

happy friday!

i dreamt of everyone but you. but then especially of you.

thursday night.

in my room.

work has been TERRIBLY busy this week.

so i'm sorry if i'm not all caught up on your blogs! i've been taking time to read them tonight.

i also decided to take some time to search for pretty, inspirational pictures.

here are some sites i really love for that:

Recordis Photography

Audrey Hepburn Complex

hanna + landon

The Unicorn Diaries

The Drifter and The Gypsy

our.city.lights.

felinofelice

also, some of my favorite recent music finds:

OWEN   such a relaxing, dreamy sound . . .    

gregory alan isakov (love The Stable Song. sigh..)

well, i'm going foraging for food in my kitchen.

and then maybe back to work on a recent shoot.

i have a photoshoot post coming in the next few days.

maybe two.

who knows :)

well goodnight!

-maddie

hair woes.

does anyone besides myself get that annoying static in their

hair as soon as the weather turns cold?

i'm quite sure i'm not alone.

the most difficult part about it is that my bangs just stick to my forehead.

drives me bananas!

(can you see the static??)

i have two current solutions until my hair is long enough for a ponytail:
the twist back.

and the headband (with the cute peacock feather hairpiece by amanda.).

other than that, i got nothin.  any cute ideas and solutions?

pretty sure i must have these.

from urban outfitters.

are they not totally amazing? swoon.

work is hectic this week (at the mortgage company), so editing has suffered a bit.

i plan to be editing most of my weekend, so, i should have some pictures to post soon.

also, i've had a few people ask me about my pricing.

i finally got that all figured out (at least for now), so you can click on the "pricing" tab

towards the top of my page.  yay!

right now i'm craving a latte.  too bad it's 11:45 :(  boo.

someday i WILL own an awesome espresso machine.

sigh.

goodnight!

hopkin family

this family is so cute.  seriously.

 they are so sweet to each other, and man, do they love that little baby boy!

i knew shawnee and preston in high school (well, i've known shawnee since elementary!),

and we had a lot of fun playing in the leaves,  swooning over their sweet little baby,

and catching up on each other's lives!

shawnee, like i mentioned a few days ago, was our giveaway winner from last month,

and we were so excited to get to see her again and take their family pictures!

thank you so much, hopkin family! it was a pleasure!

well, i have lots of work to do this week, hopefully i can get

a few more posts in before the week is up!

we're planning a few stylized photo shoots, that we can't

WAIT to execute!

i hope you are all doing well :)

-m.e.