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Life through the lens of an iphone

admin — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:13:07 +0000

I love the ease of taking pictures with my iphone. I always have it on me and I tend to take more pictures these days with my iphone than my real camera. Some of my absolute favorite pictures ever of my children were taken with my iphone. This is what my life looks like through the lens of my iphone.

I use this app for the pictures and this little piece of collage making heaven for the collages.

Happy Easter

admin — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 07:28:12 +0000

The eggs are dyed. The Easter Bunny has been here. The treats are made for our Easter brunch with friends. It has been a great Easter already and it isn’t even here yet.

Happy Easter.

Love,

Bree and the rest of the Hester clan

Valentine’s Day and Happy New Year to you.

admin — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:36:22 +0000

We had a very nice, relaxing Valentine’s Day this year. It was spent in our jammies, watching a very long race (didn’t football season JUST end?), making and eating yummy treats, and celebrating Chinese New Year. It is was a busy day indeed. Will had been learning all about China in school this week so we decided to make shrimp dumpling and scallion pancakes for dinner. I am not sure which was better, having the kids make them with me or eating them. They were really good. Seriously good. Wes doesn’t even like Chinese food and he asked me to make them again. I hope that your Valentine’s Day and Chinese New Year was as wonderful as ours was.

I love you too.

admin — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:39:08 +0000

Sometimes the artwork that comes home from school is so cute that it deserves a picture too.

Have a ball this Valentine’s Day

admin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:55:28 +0000

I cannot take credit for this adorable creation. I was on Dandee’s blog and completely feel in love with this idea. I had been looking all around for a cute boy Valentine. Preferably one that did not have a Transformer or Batman on it. And there it was. Exactly what I was looking for. Something easy, something quick, and something inexpensive. Thanks Dandee!

Here is a link to a PDF of the labels in case you would like to make one too.

My Year in Review

admin — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:53:09 +0000

I am in the process of changing the look of Bree Hester Photography and I was making a new splash page for my website. I created this collage using this template and was going to have this as the main image but changed my mind. After taking a good look at it, I have had the BEST year. I met a ton of new families, shot my first weddings, held new babies, celebrated first birthdays, seriously could my job be any better?

I am really looking forward to 2010 and all of the changes that it has in store for me. I can’t wait to see what other things come my way. Thank you for being a part of my 2009. Thank you for taking time out of your day to come here and see what I am up to. I love it and I love you. I hope that 2010 is the best year ever for you.

xoxo,

Bree

Under Construction…

admin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:40:31 +0000

Please excuse the appearance of my blog and website. I am in the process of making some changes to all of my “places” and it will take a day or two to get one cohesive look.

Well Bree, your previous look was adorable, why would you want to change it? Good question. Because it was not “me”. It does not reflect my personality or how I want my business to be portrayed. I like clean, modern and simple. I like my pictures to do the talking. I love white. I love calm and I really love peaceful. I decided that it was time to change it up.

When it is all said and done, do me a favor, tell me what you think…

Because posts are lonely without pictures here are a few outtakes from my Christmas card picture shoot. I have never been more proud of my children. Our shoot was 12 minutes from first frame to last and they were AWESOME! I got a ton of cute ones and all it cost me was a trip to Big Spoon.

A Day of Rest

admin — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 03:36:20 +0000

Whew… this holiday season was busy and crazy and wonderful and exhausting all at the same time. We had a really nice Christmas yesterday. The kids woke up at a reasonable time and we opened presents and ate a delicious coffee cake and then I spent a bit in the kitchen getting ready for Christmas dinner. I really wanted to make this Christmas special so I set a pretty table and used all of my good china and silver. It really looks so pretty that I wonder why we only use it for special occasions? We had a truly wonderful evening with friends and could not have asked for more. I hope that you all had as nice of a holiday as we did.

Today, we did nothing. By nothing I mean laying on the couch watching movies and trying to get rid of our headaches from the delicious Champagne drinks that we consumed. They were worth the headaches.

I splurged this year and bought myself a point and shoot camera. I really wanted a camera that we could stick in our pockets and not have to think much when using it. I love my big camera (my Nikon D700) but sometimes I miss taking pictures of things because I am too lazy to lug my gear around. So after much research I bought a Panasonic Lumix LX3. It is a fun little camera and some of the pictures are taken with it. I am not telling which ones, you will have to guess…

Yes, that is a toothbrush in Clay's mouth. It lights up and he loves it and would not put it down for me to take pictures. What are you gonna do?

Very Merry

admin — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:27:42 +0000

to you and yours.

Hester Holiday Part III

admin — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:03:14 +0000

We took the kids on a little overnight holiday adventure to San Fransisco to see the city at Christmastime. It did not disappoint. It is a more subtle Christmas than New York City, perhaps because it is not as cold as NYC this time of year? Which is surprising because San Fransisco is hands-down one the coldest places that I have ever been in my life and I have lived in Canada… anyway, it a beautiful city, one that is in the #2 position of my favorite big cities (Philadelphia takes the #1 spot), and one that I could spend copious amounts of time in. We took the kids to Point Reyes earlier in the day because I am so missing the ocean. As much as I truly love living here in Sacramento, I am desperate to be closer to the ocean. My entire 33 years has been spent minutes away from the beach and it is a part of who I am. Which is completely strange because I never really loved going to the beach as a kid and I not much a sunbather. But I miss the comforting smell and the sounds of the beach. It was worth the long drive and the carsickness that I experienced to get up and back. In the same day, I also ate a piece of pizza that was so delicious and so close to East Coast pizza that I got teary at the table. If there were not people around, it very well could have turned into weeping. Next to the beach, the other thing that I miss the most about my hometown is pizza.

I hope that everyone has a wonderful and safe and lovely and perfect Christmas.

xoxo,

Bree