Kevin and I went to an art festival put on by Stookey Companies out at Valley West Mall this weekend. Kevin and I like to attend this show every year. We love talking to the artists every year and hearing about how they create their art. This year I ended up finding a beautiful bracelet that Kevin got me as a Valentine’s Day gift and got a photo of a pretty water lily as a Christmas gift for my friend (I like to shop throughout the year when I see things for my loved ones, not just after Thanksgiving).
Kevin and I fell in love with a painting created by N.D Gordon. I love horses and we love how the movement is shown in the brushstrokes. Also we love how the bright colors show how lively and fun the horses are. Kevin got it for me as an early Christmas gift. Here’s how it looks above our mantle:
This Saturday, I went to Kristen’s baby shower. Kristen is one of my best friends and we’ve actually been friends longer than Kevin and I have known each other. Her shower was a lot of fun and it was such a special day to celebrate with my good friend.
Kristen and her mom loved this gift. It was a cute toy that had soft music that Kristen wants to play when they pray with their son before bed.
Kristen is opening one of the gifts I bought her. This is a frame with an ink set that you can stamp the baby’s hand print and footprint on and then hang on the wall. I also bought her a prenatal massage from Body Center Therapeutic Massage. She is looking forward to getting pampered before the baby comes in a little less than a month.
This is Kristen and our friend Carla. Carla, Kristen and I had all met while in the same Sunday School class at Valley Church. We had also been in Bible study together. The three of us still like to get together to go out to dinner or for a coffee.
Even though Kristen and I have been friends for a long time and been a part of many of each other’s big life events (we were both each other’s bridesmaids), we have very few photos together. I started thinking about it before the shower and I think maybe we have about 6 or 7 photos total with each other. So on average, about one a year for every year of our friendship. So I made it a priority to get a photo together at the shower.
Kristen ended up getting a lot of cool things for her new baby and she says her nursery is complete now. I’m excited to meet her new son in mid-March.
Kevin and I might be teaching a photography class in the Spring. What kinds of things would you like to learn about your digital camera or photography in general? We would love to hear your input. I wanted to include this photo just to remind everyone that there are warmer days to come . . .
I was catching up on some of my photography blogs yesterday and I found this post with some really cool stop action photos. Hope you enjoy!
http://www.smashingapps.com/2010/01/17/40-stunning-examples-of-high-speed-photography.html
Congratulations to our new photography assistant, Courtney T., for her photo being on the National Geographic Website! Check out this great moment she captured of two hippos fighting at:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/myshot/categories/gallery
(It’s the second photo on the third page of thumbnails)
Courtney is an up and coming photography super star who we’ve enjoyed working with the past couple of weeks. Great work, Courtney!
Here is some of our favorites from 2009.
What is your favorite photo from Barber Photography this year?
Had to sneak one more photo from this session on. I love this sweet moment.
On Saturday, we spent Christmas in Omaha. Chris and Christy, my brother and sister-in-law, had been snowed in during Christmas at Sioux City so it wasn’t until this time that we all got a chance to get together. Christmas with Kevin’s family is always fun and relaxing.
Chris and Christy had just bought a Wii and brought it along. In this photo, Mike and Chris are having a boxing match.
This is Kevin’s parents, Mike and Jackie. They have one of the strongest marriages I know and I think they really showed their sons a strong example of how to be a great spouse and just how great marriage can be. I know Christy and I both feel blessed to have such great husbands as a result of having such great parents as role models to Chris and Kevin.
We loved this one of Drew.
Mike and Jackie had taken down their Christmas decorations since it was so far after Christmas but they decided to decorate their plant and put the presents under that.
Here Drew is listening to the Christmas story.
A rare thing. Kevin and I actually getting a photo together. Since we’re photographers we usually only get a couple of photos taken together each year. We were glad that Chris took this of us and he really did a nice job with the composing it.
This was one of my favorite that I photographed that day. Just love that Kati was in this shirt that day.
Such a sweet moment.
I’m leaving it up to you to find 1,000 words for this photo today 
As I’m sure happened with many others’, our Christmas plans were delayed due to the massive amounts of snow we’ve gotten in Iowa. So the other day we went to Omaha for the Barber family Christmas. We were fortunate to be able to get some great photos of our new niece.
Kindra also wanted to contribute to “Photo a Day” today and since I had forgotten that Kindra took this photo, I think it is welcomed.
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