I am proud to announce Jen Snyder Photography has a new home on the web!

Check out the new site: http://www.jensnyderphotography.com

A brand new look with brand new images! Starting tomorrow, you will find the blog at http://blog.jensnyderphotography.com so please update your bookmarks and blog readers.

Check out the new blog all this week for giveaways and special deals in celebration of of the new look.

Pardon the mess, here.  I found a new template that I fell in love with, so there may be a bit of dust around here as I finalize everything.  It shouldn’t be too long before all the detailed are ironed out.

I also wanted to take this time to point out some of the new features here!  My favorite, of course, is the bigger photos.  bigger=better!  (If things become too big for you, feel free to let me know and I can try to tone it down)  Also, take a look at the bottom of each post!  There are now little icons you can click on which will post an entry to your favorite social networking site.  So if you want to share your session sneak peek with your facebook friends, all you have to do it click on the facebook icon!  You can also digg it, prop it, and add it to google bookmarks, among other options.  I’m also loving my new banner, which will probably change constantly.  If you haven’t noticed by now, I love to change things up.

I also am going to (try to) institute something new to keep this blog fresh: Family Friday!  Just a little time for me to talk about what’s going on behind the lens, so you can get to know me and my beautiful family.

And since today is Friday, here we go.

This is my daughter Kaylee. I’ve talked about her plenty before on here but I don’t think I’ve ever given her a proper introduction. She’s 15 months old and she is amazing! Her favorite thing to do is point out bodyparts. She’s got plenty of them down, but “eye” and “arm” are her favorites, and she announces what it is as she pokes you. (”EYE!” as she stabs her finger in your eye) She does this all day long, and she especially loves to be quizzed. (”Kaylee, where is your leg?” “Where is your butt?” “Where is your ear?”)

As you can see in the photo (which I am cheating, I apologize, I did not take it this week), she also loves to have “big hands”– watch out if you leave your gloves laying around.

She has learned to open zippers and unscrew things (all in the same day)… how did I find this out? She got really quiet (why is it that being quiet always means there is trouble?) and I peek over at her to find that she’s got my purse around her neck (this is where she likes to wear purses), it’s open, and she’s got my lipgloss open and she’s waving it around like it’s a fairy wand. There is lipgloss all over her face. There is lipgloss all over her shirt. There is lipgloss everywhere.

Must. Not. Giggle.

She’s a girly girl at heart and I love it. She got a new pettiskirt from Grandma today and she insisted on wearing it over her pants all day long. To the point where we had a total toddler meltdown when it was time to take it off so she could take a bath. She wears her plastic bracelets every day (and actually, anything that is circular is a bracelet, she often wears my roll of gaffer’s tape around her arm), she “applies” my chapstick often (luckily she doesn’t know how to take the cap off yet), she has to have a purse on most of the day. I did not try to make her a girly girl, I did not push her in any direction so she could forge her own path, but I must admit I’m so excited for the girliness. I can’t wait for tea parties and dress up!

Well, I’ve probably babbled your ear off, so I hope you will forgive my tangent. I’ll try to have more of a point to my family entry next Friday.