Jessica Shepard Photography » Families

Easter Sunday

Jessica — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 04:28:03 +0000

I almost completely took the day off from work yesterday. I slept until 7:19am! This is very late in my house with an early rising toddler. My hubby brought me coffee in bed, and we lounged around as a family upstairs for a little bit. While I was taking a shower, Dan took Mackenzie downstairs. As I was getting dressed (into clean pajamas) I heard the little one excitedly talking about an Easter egg. I hurried up and joined my family. I wanted to be a part of her finding the first egg.

The night before we had made up a basket and hid plastic eggs with candy inside. We left the real eggs that were colored on Good Friday to hide later, upstairs. On Saturday night as we were filling eggs, I was putting in 1-2 little mini candies in each egg. Hubby of course commented, “but look I can fit 4″. For some reason I listened and starting putting in more. Back to Sunday morning, no breakfast yet and now Mackenzie is finding lots of eggs, all filled with multiple pieces of candy. I start running around the room discretely taking eggs that she has not seen yet and stashing them in a kitchen drawer, realizing the sugar madness we are about to experience.

After way too much chocolate, and a rejected breakfast of strawberries, cheese, and whole wheat crackers, one at a time we hid colored real eggs upstairs. I was a bit scared that they could not compare to plastic ones full of candy. We went up and started our hunt. Apparently I hid the eggs for my hubby to find. My little girl is bright but I seemed to forget she is just over two and couldn’t possibly find them in her doll’s diaper case or under a bunch of pillows. She did get a kick out of it though, running around announcing “we found egg!”.

We had tons of fun, and once the sugar wore off, enjoyed a quiet family day together.

Dan Shepard – Awesome Portland Oregon Buyers Agent

Jessica — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:44:19 +0000

I adore my hubby. He is wonderful and sweet. I thought I’d do a little bit of a promotion piece here for him. After buying our own home, and my relentless taking over the remote control to put on HGTV, Dan got very interested in real estate. In between working full time as a teacher for Job Corps in Portland, and being a very involved dad, he managed to go back to school. Last spring he passed the exams and became a licensed real estate agent. Just Friday, he completed another certification making him a short sale specialist.

Check out his blog or Facebook page. Even if you are not quite ready to buy or sell your home, he’s always willing to give advice.

We met over ten years ago, and I am still amazed by his determination!

Toddlers Together

Jessica — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:43:12 +0000

I thought I’d share a fun personal photo.

During our trip back east we visited my old friend Kendra in New Jersey. I mentioned her a few months back in a post. Her son is one day younger than my daughter. This was the second time they met, and seemed to become instant friends. I think at one point three of the four adults had a camera out and were trying to keep up with the little ones running around.

This is one of my favorites because it captures them. It reminds me of their dashes that would start in one end of the kitchen, and end in a very brief break looking out the window at a cold winter day.

Crisp & Muddy {Portland Family Portrait Photographer}

Jessica — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:55:20 +0000

It was very cold on Saturday morning when I met Katie, Andy, and Alton for their family portrait session. I was so bundled Alton who is almost two, and a friend of my little girl, didn’t seem to recognize me. The family braved the cold romping through the muddy Christmas tree farm with me, still managing to smile and have fun.