Long awaited...

Hello again,

  Long time, no see... I've been on quite the hiatus lately.  The holiday season was quite hectic, as I had an important family member go into the hospital, which led to many hours spent there making sure company was there.  So in the end the photography has been left to the wayside for a good portion of that time.
  I did manage to capture a few details of our Christmas and will share them with you now...

A small glimpse of the weather while visiting my husband's family down south for Thanksgiving:

Christmas Cookies!!

A few ornaments from our tree:

I hope you enjoyed this glimpse of our holidays, I'm glad you stopped by, I hope you and yours have a wonderful 2011.

~Jennifer

Happy [day after] Halloween!

  Halloween was such a blast this year. It's amazing the things you can do when you aren't required to be at work doing other things. Josh and I were able to spend our first official Halloween together at the house passing out candy. We managed to give away all of our candy despite having an overall low number of kids out(compared to how many kids went out when I was younger).

  In addition to being home, I was able to put up a whole bunch of lights! I have ALWAYS wanted to light up my house, but was never able to when I lived with my folks. Now, there are lights nearly everywhere. In the windows, in the screen door, even found out that orange icicle lighting looks awesome along my garden edging. So, needless to say we had the brightest house on the block! 

  The only thing we wish we could have down, would have been to don costumes ourselves. Although even if we had, no one would have been the wiser, as we bundled up to beat the cold weather.

  Oh, I almost forgot to mention the pumpkins!  Between the two of us, we carved four, count them FOUR pumpkins.  All of which stuck to a Futurama theme, later renamed as "Pumpkin"-rama 2010.  I found the stencil for the Bender pumpkin online here.  For the other three I ended up utilizing my photoshop skills to create line drawings from some Windows icons that I found.  Both Josh, I, and all the neighbors who walked by during Trick-or-Treating loved the final products.  So the time spent turned out to be worth it.  To answer one question we were asked quite often, no, we did not use any dremels to do our carvings.

Close-ups of the two I carved:

Leela

Bender Bending Rodríguez

Until Next time,

Jennifer

More photo sharing!

Time sure does fly when you're having fun!

I can't believe it's already been a week since our 10 day Honeymoon/Vacation to Texas, most of which was spent on Padre Island with a view of the ocean.  My husband and I had such an amazing time.  Somewhere between spending hours upon hours exploring Padre Island's beaches, visiting local and historical locations and travelling in a rental car(Catch me on facebook for full story on this car); I managed to capture an astounding 16 cards worth of images, plus 2 rolls of slide film, and point & shoot images(& My husband didn't once complain!?! [even with a near loss of data from a corrupted card]).  On with the show:

We saw many awesome sunrises...

We witnessed some active wildlife too...

Some more wildlife...

Saw some beautiful flora...

One of several fiesty blue claw crabbies...

A shy Hermit Crab...

First time seeing a live jellyfish(This one is a Sea Nettle)...

First time seeing a living starfish...

Loved the waves crashing in...

Witnessed some beautifully lit scenes...

Have I mentioned the sunsets?!?...

That concludes all of my image sharing for now...

Anyways, so yes, not only do I have more images to shuffle through, but I have also decided to scrapbook this honeymoon adventure, as well as our post wedding Mackinac trip, dubbed honeymoon 1.o(noted in previous posting). 

If you're interested in following my other photo uploads you can check me out elsewhere on the web with

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jenniferleighphotography

http://photo.net/photos/JenniferNeal

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/pages/Detroit-MI/Jennifer-Leigh-Photography/148226101856213

With all the things to come, I look forward to uploading more images, working on my scrapbooks, spending time with my husband, and everything else in between.  Life sure is busy, and it doesn't look to be slowing down.  I just pray I am able to slow down long enough to capture all the memories along the way!

Until next time!
~ Jennifer

Photo Share Time

I've finally had time to go through some of our photos from what has been dubbed "Honeymoon 1.o."  After our awesome wedding in early July, we ventured up for a long weekend to Mackinaw City, as well as a day spent on Mackinac Island.  Today, I have a handful of images to share from the trip.  I think you may find them enjoyable, and I hope soon to share more from this specific trip.

Without further ado:

Until next time...

Food!

So in my "free" time while not either at work or shooting an event of some sort, I have found myself shooting a variety of things around the house.  The majority of which has to do with food.  In some cases, I have taken shots of preparing food, shooting images of a variety of things coming out of my garden, or the final product of how dinner turned out.
  I have found in the short time Josh and I have been married that I thoroughly enjoy making food and trying new recipes.  The only unfortunate thing is that not everything is exactly good for you, if you know what I mean!

Until next time, I will leave you with a feast for the eyes (I apologize for the bad pun nothing).

Things from my garden:

One of my fun oven mitts:

From meals:

(these were soooo good!)