Darien McGuire Photography

In addition to my Project 10 on 10 (see post below), I’m also participating in a Project 52.  Well, I’m at least sort of participating in the project 52,  I managed to miss week 1 so I’d say my participation is pretty pitiful so far!

This week’s theme is Sparkle so I thought it would be a perfect time to get out those left over sparklers from our wedding almost two years ago.   Hmmm…it seemed like a good idea at the time until the majority of the sparklers just caught fire.  Yeah, that was interesting.  They were like mini-Roman Candle flaming sparklers.

I think I will title this picture “The Little Sparkler that Didn’t”

 

Now you have to check out everyone else’s take on the Sparkle theme.  Next up is Cris at CrisStephensPhotography.com.

For this month’s Project 10 on 10, I decided to complete my project on Christmas Day.  I couldn’t think of a better day to capture than my little guy’s first Christmas!  Oh and I cheated a little and had my hubby grab a couple of snapshots of Hudson and me as well.  Get ready for cuteness overload!!

Hudson getting ready for his first ever Christmas morning festivities.

He didn’t understand the concept of unwrapping presents…

But he LOVED the paper!  Rawr!!!

And the bows were also a big hit.

Finally took his first picture in front of a tree.  Thankfully, the Grandparents put up a lovely tree since I was super lazy (I blame the vampire baby) and didn’t put up ANY decorations this year.  Unless you count all of the fun Christmas cards we received.  I’m counting them.  He’s doing his “happy baby arms”.

Yay for new cousins!

And unwrapping presents with help from Dad!

Mom’s little reindeer

Again, he just loved that paper!

Now make sure you check out the other nine photographers participating in the 10 on 10 project starting with Janelle and her beautiful family at Tatyanna’s Hope!

As I get busy shooting clients, I want to make sure that I still take the time to take pictures for myself.  I also want to make sure that I don’t forget to capture the everyday little things that I love.  As a way to keep myself motivated and accountable, I am taking part in a photo project called Project 10 on 10.  For the project, I am taking 10 photos in 10 hours each month and I am then posting the photos on my blog on the 10th.  Can you guess how many photographers are taking part in this project with me? Yep, 10.

Well, this month I accidentally waited until the last minute to do my project since I apparently don’t know what day it is anymore.  I realized that it was the 9th at about 2:00 today and hadn’t even started taking my hourly pics that are due tomorrow morning!  So, we are going to pretend that all of these pics are actually an hour apart, even though that would mean we had the little guy in the tub for an hour.  Hmmm….

The little guy has become quite proficient at getting up on his hands & knees and….not going anywhere.

Oh how he wishes he could crawl!

LOVES his doggies.  Window nose smears and all.

Diaper Laundry Time!  Love our cloth diapers.

Getting ready to go for a walk.  It’s a bit chilly for us Texas kids.

Hug from Daddy!

Dinner time.  Sweet Potatoes and Apples, doesn’t that sound lovely.

Bath time in the big boy bath.

Mom’s favorite part of the day The only light for this picture was the light from my iPad.  No way am I waking him up by turning on lights!

Thanks for looking! Now go check out my fellow photog Amanda’s Project 10 on 10 for December on her super cute blog hotcocoaphoto.blogspot.com !

Love,
Darien

This week’s photo challenge theme at I Heart Faces is “Friendship”.  I know those of you on Facebook have already seen this photo but I thought it was a perfect display of Friendship.  This is my little guy with his best buddy Maxwell.  Max LOVES his baby!

Check out I Heart Faces for all of the other great pictures of Friendship!