For those of you that would like to get in before my pricing changes, contact me as soon as possible!  My schedule is really booked between now and June, but I can work you in through the week if your time allows.

I also wanted to announce that I’ve hired my beautiful niece Amanda as my part-time assistant.  I’m going to be training her on ordering, packaging orders, as well as tagging along with me to sessions to help with posing and reflectors.  So, you might see her at one of your sessions.  By training her on orders, this means that instead of placing orders as I receive them, I’m going to be placing them once or twice a week with a set day for them to be back to the studio.  With many sessions a week, my time is filled with sitting at the computer each day placing orders and packaging them.  I feel that by combining multiple orders that are received weekly, I can better streamline my schedule and personal time.

Meet my niece.  Picture taken yesterday for her prom:

I get to post this since I’m now 35 weeks pregnant myself and swollen up like a blimp. Luckily the swelling has just started over the last 2 weeks… but, it’s definitely making me miserable! Compared to Mrs. K, I look like I’m now about to give birth to twins.

I thought I’d get these out there so you can see what cards are available this year. You can view the available cards by going to my main website. Click on ‘Portrait Galleries’ and ’2009 Christmas Cards’ are at the bottom of that list.

She picked a bridge that’s not too far away from my house… and I live in the sticks. So, I wasn’t too worried about it. Well, we show up and as we’re shooting in the field nearby – two strange guys in a minivan drive by staring us down. I told her to sit still while I ran to grab my can of mace. They looked like they could turn around at any moment and come back for us! So, there I am… in the middle of nowhere, shooting a senior session with a can of mace stuck in my pants. I’ve been in strange places… especially in downtown Tulsa and I felt more uncomfortable in a deserted field!

Then, since I didn’t have anyone to tag along to hold the reflector, I was trying my best to hold it myself while shooting on the bridge. Lo and behold a nice Oklahoma gust of wind came up and blew my reflector off the bridge. I had to crawl under the stinky bridge (where I just knew I’d stumble across a dead body) to retrieve my reflector! Ewww…

Needless to say – I immediately went home to shower.

Thanks for hanging in there Alicia!