Clicking Through Life ~ photography by Shannon Schwabe: Nick's 60th Brithday!

I can't believe it's been a week since my last post! The thing is, when I get busy my poor little blog gets put on the back burner. And these past few weeks I've been insanely busy. Of course, it's me and my typical ways trying to do everything all at once. But I can't help myself. When I decide to do something I set seemingly over the top goals, like say launching a new part of my business in a matter of 2 months. It's sort of Veruca Saltish. As in "I want it and I want it NOW!" And sometimes I just have to realize that these things take time. Because I'm also a perfectionist and want everything to be in perfect working order before unveiling it to the world. So... in addition the the Lifestyle Sessions I'm now offering, I've also been working on a new website. It's almost there, and I'm hoping to launch it this week! More on that later, but first I want to share some images from a recent shoot with my fabulous web designer Tammy and her family.

They were such a fun family to be around! Nick is Tammy's husband's step father and what he wanted for his birthday was to spend time with the family. He wanted to take the kids to Marvelous Marvin's! Seriously, how cool is that? I've never been there, but I definitely want to check it out! But first was some family portraits.

David's sister Lisa and her family came into town from Chicago for the party. I love the laughter you see in this image I captured of Lisa and David sharing a laugh over the giant ring on the coffee cup.

Here's all 5 grandchildren! This was my first time working with so many kids at once and I gotta tell ya, getting them all to cooporate at the same time, was definitely challenging!

Of course there was silly faces!

My awesome web guru Tammy and her husband David.

The birthday boy Nick!

A fun shot of Nick with his gorgeous wife Catherine

By now I'm sure you all know what a dog lover I am, so imagine how excited I was when I was greeted by this beautiful 2 year old Akita puppy. Yeah, I wanted to take him home with me, I know Coby would love to play with him!

Sometimes you have to move furniture and other things around to make sure they fit into the image. As I was setting up this shot, I noticed that the statue you see here on the table first sort of appeared to be growing out of Catherine's head. But as I went to move it there were gasps and I was pretty embarrassed that I took it upon myself to move. They carefully repositioned "Buzz" in the middle of the table for me. I'm not really sure of "Buzz's" story, but he looks pretty cute and fits right in with the family.

I'm not sure that Catherine exactly approves of Nick's pipe smoking, but agreed to his requests to include it in their images. All he needs now is a smoking jacket!