10 Days 10 Things - Day Two

Days 2  is all about my favorite foods! 

1. Hot Wings....This is one my of my weaknesses. I LOVE hot wings and could just eat them all the time. There are a few favorite restaurants that I just love to eat wing at, I would prolly have to say Hooters is my favorite place.

2. Pizza...I love me some good pizza! We have a little pizza place down the street from us that we do love. We don't eat there a whole lot but it's some delicious pizza.

3. Tacos...Mexican tacos I love! Mexican is my favorite food and I could eat it everyday and never get sick of it. Margarita's is my all time favorite restaurant to eat at. We had them cater our wedding, yes that's how much I love that place.

4. Shrimp...All I used to eat before was popcorn shrimp. I used to think all other shrimp was gross. Well when I meet Shane that all changed...He made shrimp boil one night for dinner and I just loved it! So now I like all kinds of different shrimp. Shrimp Boil I will say is my favorite right now.

5. Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwich...Love these!! That's all I need to say

6. White Chili...I love chili when it starts getting cold outside. I will make this about once a week in the winter time. I never heard of White Chili till I meet Shane. I thought it was weird at first but now that I make it a lot I love it!

7. Tootsie Rolls...I know this isn't a food, but I do love me some Tootsie rolls. I forgot how much I really did like them until I bought some over the weekend and I have almost ate the whole bag. Eeek that's bad but oh well they are yummy!

8. Pickles...I love me some pickles. I have to eat at least 2 at a time. HaHa!

9.Breakfast...I love breakfast foods. We eat breakfast a lot for dinner. Some weekends I will wake up and make a full breakfast bacon, eggs, hash browns, toast. Yum love breakfast foods!

10. Ribs...I guess I should say only Shane's Ribs.LOL. Once my hubby started smoking ribs all the time and get really good at it I learned to like them. During the warm season he likes to smoke meat as much as he can. Right now his are the only ones that I can stand to eat and they are delicious!

Well now I can say I'm hungry for everything on this list! LOL

Photo Shoot: Shari, Ashley, Aaron, & Tylor

A few weekends ago I got to shoot my first family. A girl I work with wanted to do photos and I'm so glad she had me do them. I was nervous and very excited to do this shoot! We did there shoot at Hodge Park. I just love this park it's so cool and has lots of neat stuff to do pictures with. I was so happy how these pictures turned out and I was very happy to have done my first family. They were a lot of fun and I look forward to doing more families. :)

After the family pictures were taken. Shari wanted to take some pictures of Ashley in her cheer-leading uniform. Here are a few of hers! 

To see more from this shoot please visit my Facebook Page.

10 Days 10 Things - Day One

As I mentioned in my early post of random-thoughts. I'm going to give this 10 days 10 things challenge a try. So here goes my first post. This should be fun right?!?! :)

I'm just doing this for a little fun and so you can get to know a little about me. Enjoy!

For day 1 I thought I would start with something I know it easy for me to come up with 10 things.

So to start this off....It's all about TV Shows.

I love watching TV and I have all kinds of different shows I watch weather it's one I just love or ones that the hubby and I like to watch together. I know there are tons of shows I watch and our DVR always has shows on there we need to watch...Haha!

1. One Tree Hill.....This show is my all time favorite show EVER!! I'm going to be sad when it ends. It's been on for 8 seasons and season 9 is going to be the last one and it's going to be a short one :(

2. 90210....I love this show as well. One of my favorites! I did like the old 90210 as well but I never watched that one from beginning to end and this one I jumped in right when it started and been hooked ever since!

3. The Secret Life of the American Teenager....I actually have never seen season 1 of this show. I believe I started watching when Season 2 came around. I guess I should make time and watch season 1. It will be so weird seeing them so young now. Haha

4. Grey's Anatomy.....This show always has me on my toes. I get so into this show I find myself yelling at the TV. This is one show that the hubby and I watch together. Yes I did get him hooked on this one!

5. CSI...This is one the hubby and I watch together as well. We are a little behind this season due to the DVR going out, so we have to find a couple shows online before watching the ones we have on the DVR. We would buy seasons of this one the weekends and just stay in and watch the whole thing together. It was a nice weekend. We loved doing that and just ordering food in.

6. Dexter.....Shane and I just actually got into this show. A friend mentioned it us awhile back and we finally decided to check it out. It was a slow start getting me hooked on this but I came around and I'm officially hooked! We have been renting the seasons from blockbuster and we have watched this show pretty much everyday since we have got hooked. I also just found out that there are booked on this show. I might have to check them out after we are done getting caught up.

7. Stargate SG-1....Yes I admit I'm a dork and I watch s few shows on the SyFy channel. This would thanks to my hubby he watches this channel a lot! When I first seen him watching this show I was like oh lord what are you watching. So, one day I decided to watch this with him and I have been hooked ever since. The no longer has new shows on but we did buy all 10 seasons on DVD and watched them all.

8. Tosh.O.....This show cracks me up!! I love it. This is another the hubby and I watch together.

9. Private Practice.....I started watching his show when Kate Welsh left Grey's and got her own show. I had to check it out and see what that was all about. Yep you guessed I have been watching ever since.

10. Workaholics....Another one the hubby and I watch.....All I can say is FUNNY!

Of course there are many other shows, but these are just 10....I could keep going but that would take a while and you might get bored. LOL

Photography Books

Last week I ordered 2 new photography books. I have had my eye on one of these books for awhile and I finally ordered it! I'm very excited to start reading these books. I'm sure I'm going to learn lots from them!

The first book that I have had my eye on for months is all about my camera. So I'm anxious to see all the new things I can learn that I don't know about my camera. Yes I have the manual but this book is suppose to give you much more details on your camera. I have read a lot of reviews on this book and this seems to be a very helpful book from what I have read. So I'm looking forward to start reading this!

Sony DSLR-A200 Digital-Field-Guide

The 2nd book I decided to get was is about Lighting. I have read some articles on lighting but I thought it was time to read more into it. I know some details already but it can't hurt to learn more! 

Lighting Digital Field Guide

I have lots of reading to do and I'm actually looking forward to it. I just love learning new things about photography! 

Photo Shoot: Kaitlyn

Last weekend I did a photo shoot at Unity Village. This place was really cool and I'm glad I had the chance to do this shoot here. I def hope to go back and do more shoots for people here. It was just amazing and so pretty there! The girl I did was fun to do and she really liked all her pictures. We took a ton of pictures in less than 2 hours. It's crazy how many pictures you can take in just a short time. :) She had a lot of good ones from this shoot. It's going to be hard to pick some to share on here.

I love the all the fall pictures with the pretty leave!

She has such pretty brown eyes.

To see more from this shoot please visit my Facebook Page.

Photo Shoots

I have talked a lot before about getting more involved in doing photography. I love pictures and I love taking all different kinds of pictures. My goal this year was to get in more practice so I could get better at taking photos. I'm happy to say that I have had lots of practice in the last couple of months!! I have had so much fun doing photos shoots for people and just taking my camera out and shooting whatever. I have also got a few books that I need to start reading so that I can learn more. Photography I'm loving and I believe I will always love! Pictures just say so much and I love seeing how happy people are when I'm finished with them and the are wonderful memories to look back on. :)

A few months back I posted on my facebook for people to schedule photo shoots with me. This was one way for me to get more practice in. I'm glad to say this was a success and last month I did 6 photo shoots. I'm hoping to be able to do more this year and lots more next year and more after that and that well you get the point. :)

So this is what I'm offering to help me get in more practice.....

I'm currently in Lenexa, KS and I will shoot anywhere in KS area or in the Northland area (as long as I'm not driving hours somewhere. LOL)

Kids, Seniors, Families etc......

 $50 for a 2 hour session

Picture editing

Unlimited outfit changes

Your choose of 1 location

All pictures on a CD and mailed to you

If anyone is interested in setting up a photo shoot please contact me @ courtney.wickliffe@yahoo.com or through Facebook. I'm hoping I can make good photos memories for you and your family.



Random Thoughts....

It's been awhile since I just blogged about things going on in my life...Normally I'm posting pictures of shoots I have done and places I have gone and what not. But to just sit down and type about life it's been a long while.....So here it goes....

First off I would like to say....I CAN'T believe that it's November already! Where has this year gone and did I miss it. I sure feel like it. HaHa! I'm not quit ready for the cold and snow but I guess if it has to come then just bring it already. I'm so over the going back and fourth of being 60-70's out then the next day being 30 outside. If you are going to bring me cold just do it already, I just don't like the back and fourth.
I'm actually kinda of looking forward to the holidays this year, which is a first for me usually I'm wanting to hide under the bed from them. LOL.I just feel like I have a different attitude this year and I'm ready to bring on the Holidays.

Last month was a little crazy for me. I didn't get to post as often as I would liked to but hey I guess that's life. Every weekend last month we had something different going on. It was busy busy for us. I will say that a lot of me being busy was that I did 6 yes I said 6 photo shoots last month. I had a lot of fun doing these and am so happy to be getting in practice so I can get better. I spent a lot of time taking pictures then editing them between my full time job. I would come home from a full day of work and start working again. But I will say the work at home I enjoy doing a lot more and I could see myself doing this as a job....let's hope for one day! So far this month doesn't seem to be as busy but it's only the beginning and that could change in a flash.

One thing I would like to start doing on my blog is getting more involved blogging about fun things and post about getting to know me. So I'm going to set a goal for myself to start trying some of these things out as I see them on other blogs I read. Here are a few that I have came across that I would like to do....

365 Day Project

This seems like it would be fun but definitely a challenge, but I'm up for it so I'm going to try it. My goal is to start this on December 1,2011 so be watching for those post.

10 Days 10 Things

I found this one Sonya's Blog that I like to check out daily. She seems to be having fun doing this and I thought it looked fun. So I'm going to check it out. I'm hoping to start this Monday 11/7 but I need to start coming up with ideas to do.

Weekly Meals

This I tried to do a few months back but never keep it going. I'm sure many people post weekly about their meals throughout the week. I thought this could be fun so I'm going to give it another try. Hoping to start this one as well on Monday 11/7.

As I come across more fun blog activities I will be sure to share with everyone as I try them out.

Hopefully everyone is having a great week and it's almost the weekend!! Yay! :)