Welcoming My Nephew

My sister recently gave birth to her third child. I was able to take a quick weekend trip up to see the family, the new baby and take some fun photos!  Here are my favorites.

High School Senior

I had the pleasure of photographing this high school senior at the Marine Corps Museum Chapel.  It was a great location. This is one bright kid. He will be going to the Naval Academy next year! Congratulations!  I just know he's going to have a successful four years.

Changes for the Pumpkin Spice Oatmeal!

Okay, so yesterday, I posted a recipe for Pumpkin Spice Oatmeal after I made it that morning.  I liked it, but I felt it could be better.  So this morning I made some changes.  I want to pass the changes along, so you can benefit too.



It's pretty much the same with a just a few changes. I'll underline the changes.



Ingredients:

1 3/4 C Vanilla Soy
1 C old fashioned oats
1/3 C pumpkin puree
1 Tbs butter
2 Tbs Brown Sugar (or to taste, I added a tiny pinch more) 
1 tsp Pumpkin Pie Spice
1/4 tsp Nutmeg
1/4 cup chopped pumpkin spice almonds (or plain if you like)


Bring the vanilla soy milk to a boil and then add the oats.  Cook for 5 minutes and allow to sit (if needed) to reach desired consistency.  Then add the butter.  Add the brown sugar and spices next. Last add the pumpkin puree.  Then top with Almonds and mix if you want.


I thought the pumpkin puree was just too much last time.  So you can see I reduced it by just a little. I like to taste the spices.  So I added a little more nutmeg.  I really felt it needed to be a little creamier and have a hit of vanilla, so I added the soy milk.  See what you think!

Enjoy!!

Pumpkin Spice Oatmeal

Today I tried out a recipe for Pumpkin Spice Oatmeal.  It is delicious, I think I'm going to experiment with the recipe and see if I can't make it more delicious.  I think it needs a little less pumpkin and more spices.  It's very good though.  Someone else suggested dried cranberries.  I didn't have any, but that could be good too!

Even though this is my photography blog, I thought I'd share this here anyway.  I did take the photos.


Pumpkin Spice Oatmeal

Ingredients:
1 3/4 cup water
1 cup old fashioned oats
1/2 cup pumpkin puree
1 tablespoon butter
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
1/4 cup chopped almonds (I used Planters Pumpkin Spice Almonds)

Bring the water to a boil and add the oats.  Cook for 5 minutes.  Turn off the burner and allow to thicken if needed.  Stir in the pumpkin puree, butter, brown sugar, and pumpkin pie spice.  Fold in the almonds, or any other toppings you think are delicious!  Enjoy!

Merry Christmas 2010

My littlest one in his Santa hat.  We are celebrating his first Christmas!

A few favorites From Recent Sessions...

The ones of the baby and her parents I just love! I had a great session with them when she was expecting the little one, and then had the pleasure of photographing her at 9 days old. She's so beautiful and I know that her mom and dad are going to have a great time being her parents. The other two shots are of my baby all dressed up for her first communion. The time just flies by so quickly, it seems like yesterday I was cradling her in my arms for the first time.

Catching Up After The Holidays!

Well, I have been really busy over the holidays! Everyone wanted photos for Christmas cards. I stayed happily busy, but had no time to blog. So in an effort to show a few photos, I have selected some from the past couple months. I wish I could show them all to you, but there are so many! I hope you enjoy the few I picked to share!