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    Hi, my name is Jonni and I am Mommy to Sofia (5 years old) and Samantha (5 years old) and wife to John. We reside in upstate NY. Our daughters are 5 mos. apart in age and a whole lot of fun. Sofia is from Jinchang City, Gansu and she turned 11 mos. during our trip to bring her home from China in 2007. Samantha is 5 mos. older but was our 2nd adoption. She was 3 years, 4 mos. when we brought her home from China in 2009. She is from Yangzhou City, Jiangsu.

    I love blogging about our girls, photography, fonts, printables & crafts and I also have a slightly obsessive John Mayer addiction. Thank you for stopping by. :)

Category Archives: Photography

Samantha & My Day

Today Samantha and I went out to one of our local parks to take a few pics and go to dinner together. I really want to make an effort to spend time with each girl individually. I told Sofia that in the next couple of days I will take her out for pictures and dinner…

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leah - beautiful!!!!!

Amy R - WOW! You are doing great! Samantha has just blossomed and is so beautiful! I love the running shot!

Sue - Wow, what beautiful pictures! I love them and her pretty smile.

Our Day at The Amusement Park/Water Park

On June 17th the girls and I had the pleasure of accompanying our dear friends to a fun day at our local Amusement/Water Park. The girls loved it and this was Sofia’s second year of going to the park and Samantha’s first. Believe it or not, it was actually a very cool day but the…

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Norah - They are so cute! Looks like a really fun time : )

The Raudenbush Family - Now THAT looks like a fun day! Fantastic pictures…as usual!
Kelly

p.s. check out the new business I'm helping out with–www.jiayindesigns.com — really beautiful Chinese name charms and other things!

*Overflowing* - WHAT A BLAST!!! That place looks super cool!!! The girls look like they had so much fun! Beautiful pics. :)

The Gang's Momma! - Oh my. Those girls are just more beautiful every time I peek in around here :) And it does my heart good to see the SU shirts. Mmmmm, nothing like fellow Orange-women in training :)

Been a long time, I know. I'm so behind and I just sent the kids out to the pool to wear out Li'l E so I could catch up. First day of summer vacay – finally!!!!

Hugs to you my bloggy friend. I just hopped on the RQ forum yesterday for the frist time in almost two years and re-read some of the sweet messages you sent me when we first "met" – thank you again for being so kind and supportive in that very hard season :) You rock.

Sue - Is it you or your camera or both! Your pictures are beautiful!! I love to look and see what settings you used for pictures. But it wont let me anymore, darn it!
Fun place even better with China sisters!!

Snowflowers Mum - my god jonni, what amazing photos! wish we had a park like that nearby, it's amazing! Your photography is exceptional btw…you are such a talent.

Samantha’s Valentine Pics

I got my rear in gear yesterday and finished taking the girls Valentine’s Day pics. I just want to share the link to the skirt that Sofia has on in the pics at the bottom of this post since a few people asked me where I got it at. It is from my friend Monica’s…

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Chateau » Blog Archive » girls together pictures - [...] Samantha's Valentine Pics & a Few of the Girls Together В» The … I got my rear in gear yesterday and finished taking the girls Valentine's Day pics. I just want to share the link to … [...]

Norah - They are just too cute together!!!!!!!!!!!

*Overflowing* - Ahhh…sooo cute! Do you make their skirts?

Christie - Monica, her daughter, and little Orchid are my close friends. We live only about 40 min. from eachother and, my little Maizi's LID 6-2-06 closet is full on Monica's creations and her daughter's bows. I am also the travel buddy of Gina's. Love your blog, have followed since you were on the May DCT/June DTC boards. Your girls are adorable and gotta love the drindle skirts. I got an asian one ai just love and can't wait to put on my little one someday.

http://www.babyjellybeans.com/web/do/site/home?ID=148897

The Raudenbush Family - Once again, your pictures are amazing. Such such pretty pictures of beautiful girls.
Kelly

Cheri - Cute pictures Jonni! The girls are getting so big.

Jennifer - Oh my goodness, these are precious! I love their pig tails! What dolls!

Half Gaelic, Half Garlic! - These are amazing Jonni…… love them all, but the "sisters" shots are my absolute favs……. you can see them light up when they are with each other……so sweet!!

Hope you are enjoying your weekend:)

xo,

Lisa

Colleen - Ohhhhhh they are ADORABLE!!!! What a pair!!!!! You must be having so much fun!!!

joymweaver - Jonni,
They are just both so precious. I love seeing them both with such big smiles. I am so happy for you.
Joy

MamMaw Monica - OMG I just LOVE those bull tails,it gives them such a different look! CUTE!!
Thanks for the plug, you know me well, I love sewing for the kiddos, and I especially LOVE seeing such sweet faces making my creations looking so-o-o-o GOOD!

groovy mama - LOVE them together! What a PERFECT PAIR!!!

Donna

Sara - Jonni, these are just fabulous! My faves are the girls together of course:) I think your lighting looks great-you are quite the fast learner! Not too flat-love the shadowing! The girls are so cute!

A Couple of Pictures with Sofia Today

I have been working really hard on shooting in Manual and understanding the relationship between ISO, Aperture and Shutter Speed and since that was not already stressful enough, I attempted to try to learn how to use my new Alien Bee 800 and Giant Softbox today. I bribed Sofia to model for me since I…

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Casey - ADORABLE!!! I love your blog. Your pictures are amazing….

Found you through Lisa above :)

Sue - wow, great job. Not only is your subject adorable, your pictures look are awesome. What kind of lens are you using? Im taking a photography class right now and it's so much absorb!

*Overflowing* - Adorable!!! Super cute skirt…did you make it?

Snowflowers Mum - wax on wax off…teach me oh master

MamMaw Monica - Great Prop ! The heart lollipop goes so well with her skirt, so glad it still fits ;)
The whole outfit & photo shoot came out GREAT. She my Cutie Patootie! Can't wait for Samanta's turn.

alely L. - Hi Jonni! A friend of your friend Joana! I've been meaning to stop by and say hello so here I am! Your daughters are beautiful and your photography is amazing. I will be following you and looking forward to reading all of your posts and viewing more of your pictures!
Blessings,
Alely

Janet - Those are SUPER cute, Jonni! LOVE them! Where did you get that skirt?

kerri - Love!!! them!
Perfect little valentine!

a Tonggu Momma - They are all so beautiful, but I especially love the second one and the last three! Oh my lands, is she adorable in those photos! Thanks for sharing.

The Gang's Momma! - Gorgeous! I know nothing about the technical stuff you mentioned, but I do know beautiful pics. And these are :)

WHERE did you get that skirt?!

Norah - Oh my goodness she is too cute. I love her eyeing up that lollipop!

Jewels of My Heart - She is so darling and you did sooooooo good! WOW! You got it girl!

Sara - Great job Jonni! I too, am just starting to experiment with lighting. No Bee there though-I'm jealous:)

Half Gaelic, Half Garlic! - ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE….I love the pig tails and the super cute skirt!!! She is such a beautiful little girl:)

Looks like you are off and running with your new lighting set up…..it is so much fun trying new things, I just find the lights hard when you have a constantly moving target…..

Those lollipops work like a charm, don't they?

Have a wonderful week!

xo,

Lisa

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