Free Photography Sessions

I guess I should mention this here, because I just realized I haven't already, but if any of you who read this (and I really have no idea who reads this to begin with haha), have kids, live in the Houston area, and would like to have some photos taken of them for free, please let me know. I am working on portfolio building and would love to get some practice on your children! You might get some great photos, and hey, it's free, so what have you got to lose! Thanks! :)

Photography Blog

So this is still a work in progress, but I set up a separate blog for photography related posts. Seems this might be something I'll want to do on the side for awhile (and who knows, maybe full time one day) so I thought it would be a good idea to have a separate professional blog that I can direct people to in order to see my previous work, or pictures I've taken for them. Feel free to follow it if you'd like.

It's http://kerrimccormackphotography.blogspot.com/

Not much on it right now (in fact the posts there are just copied from here thus far); as I said, it's a work in progress, but it'll get there.

Oh, and if anyone is good at designing brands/logos you could make me something fancy that says Kerri McCormack Photography to use on my header and I'd love you forever! :)

Samer and Siblings

Here is part two of my shoot with baby Samer. After taking pictures of just him, we took a few with his brother and sister. Farris and Leenah were such good sports through the whole thing. They helped make their little brother laugh and did whatever I asked them to. I honestly had no idea how hard it would be to get two kids and a baby all looking at the camera at the same time though! Even with awesomely well behaved kids, it was quite a challenge. We managed to get in a few good shots though, and their mom was happy with the preview she got so far so I guess it was a success! :)

Here is a preview of The A family kids:

This one is my favorite!

Sweet siblings loving on their baby brother

Such a challenge to get them all looking toward me at once! Especially when Samer was already worn out from his photo shoot

I had to include this picture because I just love sweet Samer's face! It cracks me up every time I look at it.

Samer - 7 Months

Yesterday I had the privilege of photographing the sweet son of one of the wonderful ladies that I work with, Kristine. Baby Samer just turned 7 months old, and just started sitting up on his own last week, so I knew it would be the perfect time to snap some pictures of him. You would never know he just learned how to sit up though, he was sitting like a champ! What a sweet, happy little boy Samer is! He let us pose him however we wanted and never fussed a single time. His sweet older siblings were there to help make him laugh, and boy did they ever!

I've heard photographers say that around 6 months is their favorite age to photograph, and now I see why! Babies this age are so happy and full of personality, but are not yet big enough to crawl away from the camera hehe!

Thank you so much Kristine for sharing your sweet baby with me for the morning! I hope you enjoy this preview!

Stay tuned for pictures of sweet Samer and his siblings together :)

What Super Heroes Do

When my brother was little, he had this adorable catchphrase that he said all the time, "that's just what little boys do".

"Woody, why are you playing with those animals in the bathtub?"

"that's just what little boys do!"

Cutest thing in the world!

Here's my updated take on that, in picture form: That's What Super Heroes Do!

Super Heroes pose for pictures

Super Heroes joke around with their brothers

Super Heroes play baseball

Super Heroes Blow Bubbles

Super Heroes mow the lawn

Super Heroes learn their letters

Super Heroes read books

Can you tell these boys love their capes?!? They seriously wear them ALL the time! It doesn't matter what we are doing, they are playing super heroes and wearing the capes. Makes me smile! :)

Chick-fil-A Cow Day!

Every year Chick-fil-A has a promotion one day in July where if you come dressed like a cow you get your meal for free. I first heard about this last year when I was watching the boys, so I dressed them up and took them. They thought it was pretty much the coolest thing in the world!

Outside Chick-fil-A before last year's cow day. Getting them to pose for a picture was a challenge haha

Because cow day was such a hit last year, of course I had to take them back this year. Every day this week Tate has been asking "is it cow day yet?!? When is it going to be cow day??" Apparently when he woke up this morning he opened the door to his room and yelled "IT'S COW DAY!!!" and ran down the stairs screaming. haha. I had to put the costumes together again, but it's pretty much the same thing as last year. I totally love this picture of the three of them! What sweet boys! :)

Picture taken before leaving for cow day today. They are getting so big!

Cow day works out to be a pretty sweet deal for the kids. They get a free kids meal, and if you don't want your toy at Chick-fil-A, you can trade it in for a free ice cream cone. Free food and free dessert. Can't go wrong there!

Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes

I saw this idea on a baking blog I read a few weeks ago and just knew I had to try it for our 4th of July Party!

Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes!

I decided the presentation was the most important part of these, and since I was already doing a TON of cooking for the party I made it easy on myself and just used a store bought cake mix and store bought frosting.

For something that looks like such a simple idea, these were pretty tricky to pull off. First I dipped each cone in chocolate and added sprinkles. You could skip this step, but I think it really adds to the whole looks. After the cones were dry I popped a chocolate cupcake into each waffle cone. Now comes the trick part. First you have to use a knife to spread frosting over the edges of the cupcake showing outside the cone. Then using a piping bag (and the right consistency of frosting, which is more difficult than one might think) pipe on the frosting to make it look like soft serve ice cream. Finally add some sprinkles to the top. So cute!

I'm really happy with how these turned out. They really do look just like real ice cream cones! Hope everyone loves them as much as I do :)

Homemade Pizza

I have been wanting to make homemade pizza for awhile now, but was too scared to try it due to the fact I have never made any type of homemade bread before so I had no idea if I could do it or not. Through a cooking/baking blog I read, I found a recipe for a simple crust that was supposed to be amazing. I found a simple sauce recipe from the same blog, so I decided to give it a try last Friday when I had the whole day free to mess with it.

I am happy to report my pizza turned out fantastic!! I absolutely LOVED it, and Tony compared it to pizza from New York Pizzaria. The dough was light and airy with a great homemade bread taste, and sauce was light with just the right mix of seasoning and tomato. Both recipes made enough for 2 pizzas so I actually made both this time so we could have cold pizza the next day. However, this is good to know because the dough is easy to make and freeze. I'll probably start keeping a batch in the freezer so I can throw together a pizza at a moments notice when needed.

I wish I had taken more pictures while I was making this, or even some good ones after I was done, but since it was my first time making pizza it took awhile to figure out the tricks like how to transfer the dough to the pizza stone haha. By the time they were ready we were starving so I snapped a few quick pics and we gobbled it up. yum yum yum!

In case you are interested in trying it, The crust recipe can be found here: Annie's Eats Perfect Pizza Crust, and I used the sauce recipe found here: Annie's Eats Pizza Sauce