happy holidays! | wichita photographer

Andrea Dawn Photography is officially closed for the holidays! Thanks for all your support in 2009, I can't wait to see what 2010 brings our way! I'll return on January 5, 2010 until then... חנוכה שמח, Happy Hannukah, Feliz Navidad, Joyeux Noël, Buon Natale, Merry Christmas and a very happy New Year!

guilty pleasure | wichita photographer

A couple of fabulous photographers have teamed up to do online mentoring for fellow photographers and are holding a contest to win a spot in their first mentoring session.

The participants (that's me) are to take a self portrait and include their guilty pleasure... it didn't take me long to figure out what my guilty pleasure was, but I had to figure out how to capture that in a self portrait (me, taking a picture of me) and this is what I came up with...

all or nothing | wichita photographer

I'm an all or nothing kind of girl, so the weather we've had this past couple of days does nothing for me! If it's going to be so cold that the car door freezes shut or that my baby slips and falls on his bottom every time we go outside (poor lil' guy) I'd just rather we had snow to go along with it! I don't mind the cold, but I don't like the in-between, so today since we don't have any snow I want this...


Kohala Coast, Hawaii (just north of Kona)

I took this photo on our last trip to Hawaii in the fall of 2006, it's been too long.

a birthday brings our newest addition | wichita photographer

Somewhere between Halloween and Thanksgiving, 12 years ago, I had my baby girl, Madi. I actually know what her birth date is, but with the craziness of life during this time of year more often than not she ends up celebrating her birthday late. I'm busy, but she is just as busy... school, friends, wrapping up the end of her outdoor soccer season, starting indoor soccer and this year she decided to try out for the volleyball team, being the star athlete that she is, of course she made it, so she was finishing up that as well. She was okay with it all and really didn't even want a party, but kept asking for a dog, which her father and I kept avoiding the subject, as we really wanted another too.

My mom came to visit over the Halloween weekend, just a few days before Madi's birthday, and we decided to take a detour on the way home from shopping, ending up at the humane society, before it was open I might add. To make an already long story short, Madi fell in love with a puppy that was out getting some exercise, grandma & mom were easy to convince and she now has a new friend, plus she got an early birthday this year! His name is Baxter, he is a schnauzer/pomeranian mix and cute as can be! He's been with us for a month now and is fitting right in with the family, including our much larger than him husky, he can hold his own, they run & play most of the day... when he's not sitting at me feet while I'm working, preventing me from rolling in my desk chair. And so without further ado I introduce to you Baxter...



and the belated birthday girl...


I can't believe how the time has flown and wow! her hair grows fast! She just cut off 10" in Sept. to donate. Ahhh, my baby girl is growing up... *sigh*.