I apologize!!!

My voicemail is been backed up about 7 people over the last 3 days. I have been working nights for the last week, so I haven't had much time during normal hours to call anyone back. I promise I will get everyone called back Thursday, please bear with me!!!!!

Reminder, of the $10.00 sitting fee special going on in May!!! I am filling up fast! I have about 6 days left available in May! This is the perfect chance to surprise Mom for Mother Day pictures!!! Sorry my weekends are completely full for May.

I will be back on track next week!!!

Cutler Cutie

This is Cutler and OMG he was sooooo stinking cute!!! His little smile just warms your heart and you can't resist picking him up and squeezing on him! He didn't care much for the grass but was a little trooper!! We also had another beautiful day to be outdoors and caught his cute personality!!!

Ryann

This is Ryann, she has such a cute and fun personality! I knew she would be lot of fun to hang out with!!! I invited Ryann to come hang out with me and just have fun and play around. We had a beautiful day to do pictures and she did an awesome job! These are the times I love the most with photography, just a fun day with no demands or deadlines to meet =) Thanks again Ryann for hanging with me I had a fun day and you're a beautiful young lady!!!!!

~~~~~May Special~~~~~

I will be running another special for May. I've had lots of possitive feedback about my March drawings for free photobook, so we are gonna do it again for May!!!!!

All sitting fee's will be $10.00 for a regular session in May only. That is a $30.00 savings!!! The perfect time to get that family portrait you've been putting off!!! All May sessions will be entered into the drawing for the "Free Photobook" and "Free 16x20". That is $220.00 worth of free pictures!!

All sessions for May will be $10.00 for a regular session. (excludes seniors and large families, they are welcome and will be entered into the drawing, but the sitting fee discount will adjust accordingly to the size of the group) REMEMBER Newborns are free anyway, so you can still be entered into the drawing if you have a May session!!!!

At the beginning of June, I will draw a customers name that had a session in May to win a 16x20 portrait from your session of your choice and custom designed photobook with the photo's of your choice from your session!!!

You can contact me at 217.433.0035 or atteberry73@yahoo.com

I'm extremely excited to capture some great outdoor shots with all this nice weather!!!

Little West boy

He did a great job, we got lots of great pictures! This is a hard age to expect these little ones to sit, pose and smile. When we broke out the bubbles, and toys, we definitely captured his personality!!!

Photobook winner

Congrats to Megan Kircher for being the winner of the photobook!!!! My daughter drew her name Monday morning out of the selected names entered to win a free photobook. She will recieve a 5x7 custom designed hardback book with the photos of her choice.

Thank you all for your business! I had a wonderful time seeing so many new and old faces!

I will continue to have specials every so often, so keep your eye out!! I am hoping to run another special in May. I am waiting to see how my part time job schedule looks these next couple months before I commit to a month just yet.

Thank you all again for your participation in the March special, I loved every minute behind the camera!!!!

Sick and Tired of being Sick and Tired

A week ago I get this little spot on my lip. I wake up thinking I scratched myself on the lip, not thinking anymore about it. As the week goes on, this thing starts getting a little bigger, I'm still thinking I just scratched myself. I start feeling a little yucky, tired and a constant headache. I'm thinking allergies are kicking in with these 90 mph winds we have been having, so I am popping extra allergy pills. I worked on a Wed. and would have up and downs of not feeling well. When I got off work I thought I would just take a big drink of nyquil and that would knock me out and I could maybe sleep it off. I fell asleep and woke up the next morning and could hardly walk. I was sore all over, my throat was killing me, I was chilling terrible, running fever, my ears hurt, my eyes burned and I just wanted to sleep. Craig makes me get to the Dr., not even remembering the drive to town. and they tell me I have the flu. They give me tamaflu and tell me to rest over the weekend. I make it back home from the Dr, cancel 3 shoots I had for that week and go to bed. I wake up on Friday this thing on my lip is the size of a nickle! I am feeling a little better and really tired of laying around so I start to get up and move a little bit and then I am hurting again. At this point as long as I have motrin in my system, I feel better except for this terrible sore throat. I go to work on Friday night midnight shift and my throat is killing me. (don't even ask why I would cancel all picture appointments for one job, but go to another)???? I keep thinking if I can keep eating and drinking I will keep it limbered up or something =) then I start chilling again and feeling bad when the motrin was wearing off. In the mean time at work, I do a search on this thing on my lip and figure out it is a cold sore. Something I could have been treating a week ago instead of waiting until it's the size of a nickle and swollen!!! Never had one, never seen one, so I had no clue what the heck it was. I called the Dr. first thing Sat. morning  for my throat and he called me in an antibiotic. So he tells me I need to be home resting and getting over this. I go home and go to bed. I took the next night off and used my whole beautiful weekend laying around praying the next day I would feel better. Sun..... I am feeling pretty good. The throat is a little better the lip is still terrible, but no chilling going on. All the other symptoms are subsiding pretty good and I'm starting to see the bright side of this flu. So I get up and start moving around a little bit and then get nauseous and have to make a trip to the bathroom. This happens twice on Sun.  For pete sakes, I am ready to get up and do something! Here it is a new week and now my oldest daughter has it. =( I feel her pain so much!! Same exact symptoms, she's chilling, sore throat and everything. Just minus the big honking cold sore on her lip. I am totally babying her because all I seriously wanted was my mom and my bed.

I am feeling pretty good and knocking on wood as I say that got meds for the cold sore, got outside and got lots of flowers planted and enjoyed some sunshine today!!!! The Dr. told me there was a new summer flu going around and sounds like we def. ended up with it. I am praying the other daughter doesn't end up with it too =(

I am back in business, just keeping all my sessions out of the house right now. The weather has been perfect to be outside, so I am def. taking advantage of being out there. Hope everyone stays well and can avoid this flu!!!

Lacy

This is Lacy, I use to take care of this young lady when I worked at the dentist office. I couldn't wait to see her because the last time I had seen her she still had braces on. Her smile was fabulous!! Lacy and I have kept in touch through text messages over the last couple years after I left the dentist office so I already had her picked out to be my Senior rep!!!!

Staci

This is Staci, we was my first outdoor shoot of the year while it was nice out. We had a pretty nice day to do pictures as long as we stayed behind buildings =( Staci is a very cute girl and she did a great job!!!