Little League Baseball

Take Me Out To a Ballgame

I absolutely love little league baseball! I love watching every year as these little boys and girls learn the basics of the game and acquire the skills to play. The expression on their faces are priceless when they hit the ball or manage to catch a ball. Their joy at being able to play this all American game is contagious and just leaves you will this happy warm feeling all day after the game.

In our little town, everyone loves Little League Baseball. Every year on opening day we have a big parade and the teams ride through town throwing out candy and prizes to the people lined up on the streets to watch them.

Below the teams are all lineing up at the middle school getting ready for the parade to start. The grown up "little boy" would be our coach "Andy" Our practices are never dull!

This would be our team waiting for the parade to start! Mrs. Stacy thought that these blow up bats would be "good" for the boys to "wave" during the parade. As you can see, they had other ideas on what to use the bats for!






Can you see all the excitment in their faces?


I have no idea what they were looking at but I love the expression I caught on his face!


The children really have a great time and can become quite boisterous during the parade, so please watch out for flying missiles, aka candy or you may find that you get hit in the head.

The parade ends at the little league ball fields where the opening ceremonies take place. All the teams line up out on one field with their coaches and someone sings the National Anthem. All the city officials are present for the opening ceremonies and someone is chosen every year to throw out the first pitch. Then the games begin! This year we actually had beautiful weather and I hope that everyone had a great time, I know I did!

Is he not the cutest little boy you have ever seen! You gotta love those big blue eyes.



And last but not least we have our own "Famous in a Small Town" Jackie Clemmons! Everyone knows Jackie and she might be running for Mayor of DeFuniak Springs one day, so everyone make sure you vote for her!

I hope you enjoyed my blog today. Come back and visit again.

Until next time, GOD BLESS,

Tina

Seaside Beach Portraits

Beach Portraits at Seaside Anyone?

This is my favorite time of the year for beach portraits before it gets so unbearably hot!

Last week Lacey and I went down to Seaside to shoot her Bridal portraits. For those of you who don’t know where Seaside is or have never been there, you are missing out! Seaside is one of my favorite places on the Emerald Coast. It was founded by builder/developer Robert Davis in 1979 and many scenes of the 1998 film The Truman Show were shot at Seaside. It is really a great place to visit with many shops, restaurants, and of course the BEACH and all the people I have meet there have been very friendly and helpful. So if your have never been or haven’t visited in a while, take a drive out there this weekend and have a look around.

OK! Enough about Seaside. Like I said, Lacey and I were there to do her Bridal portraits and since I can’t post those shots just yet! I will share with you a few shots of Lacey’s son and her mom who tagged along that day to join in the fun.

Isn't he the cutest little boy?

Zane was having a blast filling the seashell up with sand over and over again.

Grandma finally convinced him to have his picture made with her and stop playing with the sand.

I hope you enjoyed your stop here today. Check back again soon and I'll have Lacey's Bridal Portraits ready to view.

Until next time.

GOD BLESS,

Tina

A Baby Shower

Debra's Baby Shower

This past Saturday I attended a baby shower as a guest. Well, I thought I was there as a guest, soon after arriving I was put to work as the photographer. But of course that was fine with me as I never leave home without my camera and will use any excuse to take pictures. Debra is one of my good friends and is currently living in Tennessee but all of her family live here in Walton County so she came home for the shower. It was held at the Pizza Hut in DeFuniak Springs and the place was almost too small to hold all the quests. This will be Debra's second child. Her first child being Katie who turned 18 this year and will graduate from high school in May. Yep! that's right she is starting all over again! So here is a picture of the happy mom to be.

Debra and her husband Chris are very excited about this new edition to their little family and are looking forward to spoiling their new little princess!

Here are a few more pictures from the day....

Here is a close up of the cake. This is one of the cutest cakes I have ever seen at a baby shower! Baby shower cakes sure have changed since I had my children. All my cakes were flat sheet cakes from the bakery with little plastic babies and blocks! Which I might add that I still have tucked away in their memory boxes.


Here is Mom with her new "best mom" nightgown and her first princess and pizza!

Debra was very blessed to have so many friends and family show up and bring tons of gifts! This is going to be one well dressed little princess. The bottom right picture is of Debra and her Mom who had to be bribed to pose for the camera.

Isn't the pink bunny "cuddly" the cutest thing?

Family photo op! From left to right we have The first princess Katie, her Mom and the Mom-to-be, then it's Grandma and next we have Becky, Debra's twin sister and last but not least we have Miss Brittany who is Becky's daughter.

The little princess isn't here yet and she already has her first pair of diamond earrings, courtesy of Aunt Becky and a beautiful memory box from another guest.

Mom received a swing from her first princess and this made her very happy and she finally sat down to enjoy her cake!


And our last picture is of Ms. Debra practicing for the months to come. Miss Alyssa is teething and thought Ms. Debra's necklace would make a wonderful teething ring, then she broke it!

Did you notice that I referred to the expectant child as "the little princess" all through this blog? That's because the mother to be will not tell anyone what the "little princess" name is going to be. They have two names picked out and are waiting until the see "the baby" before they choose the name. Debra explained that they want to make sure her name matches her face! Isn't that sweet?

Well I hope you have enjoyed my blog today and that it brought back fond memories of your own baby shower's or left you with anticipation of your future showers. Until next time..

God Bless,

Tina

Spring is in THE AIR!

For those of you who know me, you know that spring is my favorite time of year! It's not too cold and not too hot and all the flowers are blooming and new animals are being born. Spring is the time of birth or new life, it's exciting! One of my favorite pastimes is to take nature walks with my camera. I don't get to do this very often because life just gets to busy sometimes, but when I feel stressed or in need of a "time out" as my loving family likes to say, I take a walk. It is amazing what a walk in a garden or in the woods will do for your mood and help you to put into perspective what is really important in your life. So today I would like to share some photos of one of my spring walks.
Did you know that dragonflies come in all different colors? I didn't until I started documenting my nature walks. Dragonflies are also difficult to capture an image of. They startle very easy and fly away very fast.

First up we have an orange dragonfly. Isn't he beautiful?



Next is a green dragonfly. He almost blends in with the plant.

And last a blue dragonfly. Pretty cool.

Butterflies are another of my favorite things. They also come in many colors shapes and sizes. Here are some of my favorites.





Now my next example may make some of you cringe and I have to admit they aren't beautiful creatures and can be really scary if they happen to jump on you when you are least expecting it, but they are still one of God's creatures and they have their place on earth too. What am I talking about? Giant grasshoppers! Okay, so I might be a little crazy about some of the things I decided to capture for prosperity, my family sure thinks so. But these grasshoppers are really neat. They don't run away, they don't talk back and they actually will sit and pose for the camera and look you right in the eye. So with no further ado, here are my grasshoppers.

So what else will you find on a nature walk? How about a bumblebee and a lizard?


Aren't they cute?

Okay, so I've showed you that there are bugs in nature and maybe you don't like bugs, most people don't. But they do have their place and captured in their environment, they can be beautiful.

Okay enough of the bugs, now I will share some of my favorite flower images with you so that you can see I'm not completely "bug" crazy and I do draw the line at snakes. Sorry, there is nothing beautiful about them. They are scary and I run as fast as I can when I see one!

I hope that you enjoy these images and the next time you feel stressed, angry or upset, take a nature walk and remember to enjoy life.
Until next time,
GOD Bless,
Tina