One Year

This little guy has changed a lot since I saw him for his newborn pictures. While I went through his pictures one thing that I noticed was that this boy has a lot of different smiles. He had a closed mouth smile, a cute little smirky smile, a big open mouth smile, a scrunched up nose smile and a super adorable smile that showed his bottom teeth. He’s too cute!

Little Heartbreaker

I hadn’t seen this little guy since his newborn pics. He’s now 5 months and his eyes were sooooo blue!

Brothers, Green Grass and Football

This is one of my favorite locations in the winter because there is a large section of green (and I mean GREEN) grass. It’s so green that I actually have to tone it down on the computer because most viewers would think “Wow, she really over-saturated that green grass”! This family was wonderful! The boys were so good natured for photos and we even played around with their football at the end. I loved seeing their playful brotherly love and rivalry over their parents and the ball! Hope you enjoy your sneak peek:)

Baby B

This little guy was the first newborn shoot of 2011 and I was ready! I hadn’t worked with a newborn in weeks and was missing my sweet baby fill. He didn’t want to sleep for a while but decided that it wasn’t worth the fight and gave it up for some super sleepy poses. Hope you guys enjoy your sneak peek:)

R.P.

Reverse psychology. I figured out pretty quickly that this little guy would do just about anything if I told him not to. I’d say “Don’t you dare go sit in my green chair” and he would immediately go do just that. It worked the entire time. Well, the entire time except when he was running like a little football player. He was fast and had his parents running after him quite a few times.

He loved playing with his dad.

And he loved snuggling up to his mom.

And throwing leaves at his dad AND me. The more I told him not to the more excited he became:)

Try and catch me.

Can’t get me.

Starting to get worn out so it was time to snuggle with mom again.

10 on almost Tuesday

1. I’m having a hard time jumping back into work after having some much-needed time to slow down. Can you tell? I know the blog has been the first to be neglected.
2. I picked up the kids from school last week and Drew tells me that they had learned about the letter “W” that day. So, I ask him what words start with w. His answer, “D”. What? I was puzzled with this answer so I asked again. No, what words start with w? His answer again is “D”. AND then it dawned on me. He thought that I was asking what letter does “W” start with. And sure enough if you spelled out dub-a-you it would start with a “D”.
3. So, then I realize that I had never thought about spelling out a letter. And I went through the alphabet to see if I could spell out any other letters:) I’ll bet Drew could tell me.
4. I’ve spent the last several days doing some online photography learning. There is always so much more to learn…it’s never-ending!!
5. Even though I’ve had a hard time making myself work I have actually been working on my new website….THAT I PURCHASED DECEMBER 2009.
6. Pathetic, right?
7. Followed this blog from another photographer’s blog and am so glad I did. She makes me want to step outside of my comfort zone and have bigger dreams and go for them! Very inspiring read
8. We do a lot of things with several families that live on our street. We mostly have parties in our cul-de-sac but sometimes the women have been known to have girls night out without the men. Sometimes there is an eencie,weencie tiny bit of complaining from the men so we always encourage that they too have a guys night out. I think the women have had 4 or 5 GNO while the men haven’t done any. So, this past Saturday the men decide to go eat New York style pizza and to a hockey game. The women and kids hang out together while they’re gone. One of the husbands texts around 10:00 that they are headed back. After they’re not back 45 minutes later we figure they must have found somewhere else to go and we find out that they stopped at a local bar/hangout that we’ll just kindly say “looks a little rough”. We joked that they were probably exhausted but there was no way that on their first ever GNO that they would come home at a measly 10 o’clock on a Saturday night. We also joked that even though they’ve ventured into a GNO that there is no way they’ll ever catch up to us on the number of outings because 1) we’re women and we do that sort of thing to recharge and have a bit of sanity and 2) they don’t have a good organizer in the group that will get them going out regularly. So, they stay at this hangout for a couple of hours and whilst there one of them who after a few, ahem, drinks always brings out his mad dancing skills. He decides to do a little break dancing and a woman that walks out of the bathroom sees him and decides that she has a little break dancing in her. They actually have a break dancing duel…right then and there in a walkway of a rather “rough” establishment. And that’s when I decided that their GNO was a success.
9. Drew loves to try and break dance. Now that our neighbor friend has dueled a woman at a bar I’ll see if he wants to duel a 5-year old:)
10. And now I’m really craving some New York style pizza.

Parking Lot Troubles

I know to allow extra time to find parking when I go to this location. BUT I figured (and here’s where I went wrong) that it had poured the day before, it was going to be a mud pit, and it was getting late in the day….surely, it wouldn’t be a problem to find parking. In fact, I figured that I could get close parking. WRONG! I got there a few minutes early only to find herds and herds of cars circling to find parking. I tried to call the client to let her know I was looking for parking and she didn’t answer. I was getting panicky. After 15 minutes I finally had a spot (and this was only because someone walked to their car that was right where I was stuck in an unmoving line. I ran up to where we were meeting but I didn’t see anyone that looked like they were there for a photo shoot. Then the mother of the client that had been putting this together came up to me. She said that there were 3 cars of people in the family that were all circling the parking lot for spaces! It was crazy. We started about 35 minutes later than we had planned but ended up having just enough time to get all the pictures done. Whew!! You know what they say about assuming. That will teach me!

This little guy tried to act shy and non-cooperative but he had lots of smiles and play in him once he warmed up.

Sweet Baby Girl Makes 4

The last newborn of 2010:) Congratulations C family….she is absolutely precious!


And my favorite!

Happy New Year

Whew…longest picture post ever! The past year was wonderful and busy and as I got into November I just couldn’t keep up with the sneak peek and blog posts. I wanted to get a little up to date so I decided to add a picture or 2 from the sessions over the last couple of months. And with this post I’m officially caught up through Christmas:) There has been a couple of sessions since then and I’ll post those in the next couple of days.

Thanks to all of my clients for a great year. I loved seeing the regulars (especially seeing how the kiddos have grown and changed) and loved meeting new families. I’m looking forward to 2011.

Rainy Day Shoot

We were going to do a little bit inside and then a lot outside but it got really dark and rained so it ended up being the other way around. Gorgeous kids…I loved their eyes!