Shake-n-Bake

Long Time

2008-09-03T16:53:00.000-07:00

WOW! I hadn't realized that it had been so long since I have posted any pictures! A lot has been going on including having had shoulder surgery. I will put a link here to my myspace where I have been posting some of the latest photos that I have taken. Here is the link -

www.myspace.com/lindaelliot

under my picture you will see where it says "pics" just click on there and it will take you to them!

2008-02-16T20:18:00.000-08:00

I know it's been several months since I have posted pictures. I'm sorry. We have been really busy with Kyle's basketball and wrestling and doing some remodel on the house. We are nearing completion on all of the aformentioned projects, games and matches.

I do have more pictures on the other computer and some out on my laptop. I really need to get them all on this computer. Maybe someday soon I will have the time to do that too. LOL!

For now here are a few pictures for you to enjoy!

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Before and After pictures. I have a new program that is just awesome! Have a zit? Click it's gone. Have one eye open more than the other? Click....they are open evenly. Smile uneven? LOL you guessed it....click and it's even......Well, ok, more than just a click but you get the idea!

baby photo shoot

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I love the pose for this photo. We are going to reshoot this one and add more of the moms face and reposition the baby's head. mom was just changing positions when I snapped this one so it wasn't a planned one, lol!

Baby Photo shoot

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These photos are uncropped and untouched with a paint program.

Lindsy's Senior Portraits

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These are just a few of the photos that I took of Lindsy. These are just a couple of my favorites. She's such a beautiful girl, I love taking pictures of her. Those of you that know me will know that that is my car she is laying on in the picture. LOL Her mom and I carefully placed her up on the hood. Lindsy also happens to be my bestfriends daughter.

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The young ladies in the following pictures Kayla and Nikki. These ladies are the daughters of my husband's best friend. Kayla lived with us this summer, she leaves at the end of October for Navy bootcamp. Nikki is a senior in high school. We were out doing nikki's senior pictures and decided to get some nice ones of the two together.

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OK the following pictures are just a few that I took while on vacation on the Oregon Coast.

On the final night of our vacation we headed for Seattle, stayed at my brothers house and went to the Mariners baseball game. I have some pictures from the game to share, but, I need to edit them so that you don't have to look at them all sideways.

Hope you enjoy!

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OK I am kind of doing these pictures backwards, lol!

Sunset at Seaside, Oregon

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Beginning of the sunset at Seaside, Oregon. June 18th.

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We bought our son a nice kite to fly on the beach. He had a blast! He wanted to do nothing but fly it and do tricks on the beach.

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Depoe Bay, Oregon. If anyone goes down the Oregon Coast they need to stop in Depoe Bay or Newport and have some clam chowder at "The Chowder Bowl". The BEST clam chowder we have ever eaten!!!!!

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This star fish is just cool. It looks fake to me but it was alive. This picture was taken through the glass.

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A cool picture of a Jelly Fish

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This a Puffin. My all time favorite bird. Isn't he just adorable?

Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport Oregon

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Isn't this just the cutest lil guy? He kept rubbing up against the glass wanting to be rubbed. Two little girls were rubbing on this side of the glass and this lil guy was rolling around acting like he could feel it, LMAO!

Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon

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Took this sunset picture from the balcony of our room. This was our first night, June 15th.

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The view from our hotel room in Lincoln City, Oregon

Sorry!

2007-07-11T16:21:00.000-07:00

I was sent an IM telling me to update my blog, lol! Thank you for reminding me Ruth!!!

I am so sorry! I know I promised pictures from the Oregon Coast last month. I will still do that, I promise. All of the pictures are on my laptop and not on this computer.

Very soon, maybe even later tonight I will load a few up. I took some awesome sunset pictures at the beach!!

I am now in the middle of doing senior pictures and will soon have some of those to load also!

Missing in action

2007-06-07T20:49:00.000-07:00

OK, I know I have been missing in action for a couple of months. But I will be back on June 23 with some new and awesome pictures from the Oregon Coast and the Seattle Mariners baseball game!!!!

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OK here are some new pictures of one of my favorite guys to photograph. This is my youngest son Kyle, who is now a (god forbid) a teenager! I took these yesterday (Easter) while we were at the park for a picnic.

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This is St. Joseph's Mission. It's a very old church on the Nez Perce Indian Reservation, about 10 miles from Lewiston. Here is a little about the church:

"Father Joseph Cataldo began working among the Nez Perces in 1867 and built this church in 1874. Chief Slickpoo, a Catholic Nez Perce, gave the land. Lewiston friends, some Nez Perces, some Coeur d"Alenes, and even some Chinese miners gave money for the church."

This was on a sign in front of the church. I took pictures of the sign but only this half came up. Not sure what happened to the other side, lol!

Enjoy the pictures! I am sorry that some of the pictures are just a little slanted, I must have been kinda slanted myself, LMAO!

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St. Joseph's Mission

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Statue at mission

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Stained glass windows in the mission

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St. Joseph's Mission

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Statue at St. Joseph's Mission

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St. Joseph's Mission, Idaho

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Look at this little guy, isn't he just adorable ?!!! I saw this guy along the road and just had to take his picture. His face is just the cutest and sweetest little thing!!

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This is Rich and Crystal. At our Christmas party I donated a free photo session and this is the couple that won it. These are their engagement photos. I was so happy with the way they turned out. LOL Of course I took a lot more than these but I just chose my favorites to post here! Enjoy!

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OK Jeanne, you always give me crap because you don't think I ever take a bad picture...........TADA!!!!!! Here is one!! LMAO!! My youngest son Kyle is in wrestling this year and had his first invitational this past weekend. LOL Nothing like sitting in a gym full of hot, sweaty and smelly kids for 7 hours just to watch your kid wrestle 3 different matches, for a grand total of about 7 minutes! LOL! He won 1 match which is in the picture it shows him pinning this kid, and he lost his other two matches. His team took first place overall though, and brought home a damn nice trophy!!!

Precious one!

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Isn't she just precious? This is Jessica and I just love her to death! She's the youngest daughter of my husbands best friend. In fact here in a few months her older sister will be coming to live with us while she attends college. WoooHooo I will have a girl in the house!!!!
Now, if Jimmy and Amber would just get busy and make me a grandma, I would be the happiest lady on earth! LOL!!

Shake-n-Bake

2006-12-14T17:10:00.000-08:00

Sorry I have been missing in action. This is a very busy time of the year and I haven't taken a whole lot of pictures. I will be back after Christmas. In fact I have 10 whole days off from work!! WoooHoooo!! See ya soon!Shake-n-Bake

2006-11-12T07:56:00.000-08:00

Hi there, sorry it's been so long since I have posted anything. Just not enough time in a day anymore.

This weekend my brother, Mike, sister in law Cassie and niece Shelby, came for a surprise visit. Well, it wasn't a surprise to me, but it was to surprise our mom on her birthday. We drove up to visit our grandma on Saturday and I decided to get a little photo shoot going. These are just a couple of pictures that I took of the three of them.

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My brother, Mike and sister in law Cassie.

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This is Shelby, our gorgeous niece. She will be 16 later this month.

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Our beautiful niece Shelby

Kari and Lindsy

2006-10-22T19:42:00.000-07:00

Today I headed out to the park with my friend Kari, and her daughter Lindsy to take photos for Christmas presents. I have posted a few of my favorites here.

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This is Kyle's first year of hunting. In fact today was his first day hunting ever. Look what he shot!!!!! His was a 3x4 and his friend Kody shot a 3x3, both are first deers ever by both boys!!

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I took this last Sunday, I just love it!!!

HAPPY FALL YA'LL!!

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Sorry I have been missing in action. I have actually been having trouble with Picasa, it hasn't been letting me load pictures for some reason. Even right now it's taking me forever to load these pictures.

This picture is actually going back a few years. I took this one just after I got my first digital camera in 2002.

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Look how blue that sky is!! We were up camping last weekend, and of course I was snapping pictures left and right. I was looking down from the road and I just happened to turn around and look up and this is what I saw. I think this is why a lot of people call Idaho heaven!!

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This was taken standing out in front of my house a week ago. I have to enjoy the view while I can, they are building a couple of houses over there and we have no idea how big they are going to be!
Be sure to click to make it bigger so you can see the bird that I happened to catch too!!

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Friday afternoon we left town to head to Wallowa Lake, Oregon. We had just gotten off the other side of Rattlesnake grade when it started snowing. Come on folks, this is September for christ's sake!! LOL! Yes there was a freak snow storm that moved through the area. We woke up saturday morning to snow and a flat tire on the truck. So we headed into joseph to get the tire fixed and grab some breakfast. In the afternoon we took the tram up the mountain. Wallowa Lake is at 4,000 ft elevation, the tram takes you up to 8,900 ft elevation. Needless to say I had one hell of a time breathing up there with my asthma and to add to that, I have pneumonia, lol this was the last place my doctor would want to know where I was! But the reservations were made several months ago and it was nonrefundable, so we had to go.

We got to the top and it was cold (30 degrees), windy and foggy. This picture is one of the views from the front window in the truck.

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The drive to Wallowa on Friday evening

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One of our deer friends at Wallowa Lake

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Last night out over the lake. There wasn't much of asunset to get there so this was the best I could do.

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My husband, Cameron, up on top of the mountains. LOL Notice noby is safe when I have the camera and nobody sees pictures of me.......ahhhhhh i prefer it that way, LMAO!

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Most of the mountains were hidden in the fog, which sucked big time! Oh well that just means we have to go back again next year earlier in the summer!

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I took this when we were coming back down the mountain in the tram car! That's Wallowa Lake down below.

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This was up on top of the mountain also.

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This old barn isn't too far from home, I made Cameron stop along side the road on the way home so I could take some pictures.

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Found this brick wall in Joseph Oregon and had to use it as the background for Kyle.

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My youngest son up on top of the mountain

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Isn't this little guy just adorable!!!??!!

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My favorite bronze statue in Joseph Oregon

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I was outside tonight watching Cameron wash the truck when the sun was going down, and here is the end result!

2006-08-31T19:46:00.000-07:00

OK ladies,this is my friend Cory and his daughters. We just did this photo shoot this evening. enjoy! I'm sure glad that they turned out nice!

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The rings nestled inside the bouquet

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This is Aimee, isn't she the most gorgeous girl?!!! Today was such a cluster f***! LOL It started out with Aimee being 30 minutes late for her photo session. We were under a tight time frame to begin with, she showed up at 9:30 and the wedding was suppose to start at 11:00. After we got done with her we headed down to where the wedding and reception was. We had so much standing around to do. The Maid of Honor and Bridesmaid weren't even dressed yet, nor was the mother of the bride. The grooms mother was nowhere to be found and she had the bride's bouquet. That is why there aren't any pictures of her and her bouquet. OK I am not going to sit here and write a novel, lol, so I will end it there. Let me just say that by the time we got done with the pictures after the wedding (due to the groom not wanting to see her before the wedding) we went inside to the reception and more than half the people got tired of waiting around and they had left!!

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Jeremy and Aimee right after the wedding. The wedding shots turned out ok, was hard to get them real good because the sun was right above us.

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This is Jeremy, the groom. This is the only picture of him alone that I am going to post. The bride is so gorgeous that I am mainly going to post her picture, LOL

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This is a good friend of mines daughter, Lindsy. For her moms birthday I am altering an address book, journal and a small photo album. So while Kari was out of town, Lindsy and her best friend, Miranda (Kari's "other" daughter) met ,e down at one of the parks so I could get some pictures to put inside the little photo album. We also did some really fun ones with the girls on the toys at the park, lol! But I don't have the time to post all of them.

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Right now we are under severe storm warnings. We saw this sunset and took off over to the golf course to get some pictures. Isn't this just gorgeous. I could have gotten a really cool picture with lightening in this sunset, but I had just put the camera down and was walking back to the truck.

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This pond is one of the water hazzards on the golf course here.

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This weekend I had the chance to do my very first senior picture photo shoot. This is Kyle, he is my husbands bestfriends's nephew. He and his mom came up to where we were camping (a 2 hour drive) just so I could take his pictures up there. This one here is my favorite, but I have posted my top 5 favorites. Not many pictures had him smiling. He was fighting his mom on this all the way, he thinks senior pictures are stupid and there is no need for them, LOL!
The pictures where there is really green plants is actually at a waterfall. Kyle's grandma's ashes are spread on the mountain side right above the water fall.

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