Again… these are posted in no particular order except to say they are from last year and waaaaay past due their blog life ~ by I’m goin for it!.  I love them all {and their owners} and wish I had blogged them a loooooong time ago!  But I’ll catch up, besides I have some REALLY fun vacation pics to show off once I’m caught up.  Enjoy!

These girls were a hoot!

Whew!  sheesh, that was only two sessions? ~ ok, more coming tomorrow:)

So of course it’s been ages since my last post and I keep telling myself, “self, this will be the week I start posting every week”.  I literally have DOZENS of sessions to post and sadly I was looking through my BIG file of photos I’d like to post, but haven’t quite gotten to yet, and just realized it’s been OVER ONE YEAR for a couple of them!!!!  WHAT?!?!?  That is unacceptable!  I’m fired!  And the really sad part is that I probably wouldn’t have even noticed it, but this past weekend I just took one of my newborn baby clients ONE YEAR photos.  Akkkkk!

Having said that, I have given myself 20 lashings and a few hail Mary’s for my sins and I am ready to get going on 1 of what will probably end up as a 3-4 part MONSTER blog post.  Now I would love to write about each of these sessions because they are all so different and fun and ALL of my clients have truly been DA BEST, but really you just want to see the pics right?  Well here goes…

Oh, and sorry about all the watermarking at the bottom.

And last but not least, a post would not be complete without one of my little sweethearts would it?  Here is my most recent FAVE of BIG Bruce – who just turned ONE by the way!  But that’s a whole other post… maybe part 5 to this posting saga.

So… I’ve decided there are certain battles I choose not to engage in anymore, one being ~ the wardrobe!

I have resorted to lovingly referring to my girl as  Little Miss Frankenstien. So anyway I bought her some super cute one piece romper-like outfits that I would wear everyday given it would be cutting edge fashion for a slightly “fluffy” adult to be wearing a romper /unitard /whatever:)  Well, I thought “there’s no way she could make this ONE PIECE  outfit look akward”…   wait, scratch that, sure she can!

Enter into evidence exhibit A:

Oh, and notice her full cooperation with the photographer, yeah, that’s me!

This is my Hallebear’s BFF “E”.  She and her family were sooooooo fun to photograph this afternoon!  I have tons to share, but after our locations allergy ridden foliage, I’m sure everyone’s eyes are about to POP!  So, I must get my beauty sleep and let my bloodshot eyes recover:)  Thanks for such a fun shoot guys ~ oh, and you make GORGEOUS kiddos by the way!

Whew! Lot’s to blog… where -O- where do I start???

I have had the pleasure to work with so many FANTASTIC peeps lately… I have preggers, bebe’s, families & everything in between to share.  I even threw in a few of my gang for good measure!  Thank you ALL for being so wonderful, precious, patient, beautiful, funny, and fertile:)  Shhheesh, what was with all the babies this winter?  Keep em coming mamas!  I have soooo much more to share, the files are endless.  But this is a great start to the year huh?  Now… if I could only drag my floppy butt to the gym, we’d REALLY be on a roll huh?

It should be a outlawed to look like these HOT preggers, I looked like a Beluga Whale.

I thought this made SUCH a great storyboard!  Wanna know more about storyboards? Ask away!

I have more of these girls to share, what a hoot!

LOOK at the dimples on these girls ~ To DIE for!

So it’s official ~ Bruce outweighed his big sis at the same age by a half a pound.  Six months and nearly 22lbs… that was 2 months ago! These are blackmailing months FO SHEEZY!  Um… and yeah, I just used that in a sentence for real!

LOVE THESE MUGS!!!!!

More to come soon, that was just a tease!

Yes… my baby is FIVE, count em’ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 years old this month!  I can hardly believe it myself.  She is a full fledged grade schooler in Kindergarten and everything.  She says things like ” Whatever”  which I REALLY hope she learned at school an not from me (I would just die if I heard that come out of my mouth at my age ~ LOL!)  My favorite is when she said” “You’re ruining my life”  I thought I would never recover from that one.  But she also melts my heart when she says things like “mama, you are the best mama” and “mama, you’re so pretty” and when she composes her own songs in the back seat while we are driving ~ she might be a pop star someday!  She has been an absolute dream since the day she was born.  After countless miscarriages and trips to the doctors we thought we’d NEVER be parents, but after about two years of heartache we were given our miracle  Hallebear.  I always joke that her strong personality wouldn’t have taken no for an answer, she was bound and determined to make it here and I am just SOOOOO glad that she did ~ I couldn’t possibly have imagined having any other baby girl.  So I thought it would be fun to take a look back on her first five years.  I could spend weeks going through pictures, but I can’t wait that long, so here goes…

Now, I know I have said that Halle was quite the chunker, but I’m not sure that does justice to the scale of her chunkiness…

Halle at 3 months:

at 6 months:

Now here is my baby 5 years later:

I HAD to add this pic of her cake ~ She had been drawing pictures of a birthday cake for weeks and they were always three or four tiers so I decided to actually get her a super fun cake.  The designer of this AWESOME cake is April Goff.  You GOTTA check out her cakes and get one, get two, you will not be sorry:)  Halle loved it ~ it was a show stopper an delicious to boot!!!

Also a HUGE thank you to Rebecca Propes of       for designing and making such perfect decorations for my little princess.  If I can pry her name banner from her hands for two seconds I will get a pic posted for everyone to see how adorable it is.  Thank you, thank you , thank you!

A BIG happy birthday to yet another of my very first clients, little “M”. It is soooooo fun to see all these babies hitting the 1 year mark! “M” was an itty bitty  baby born about 6 weeks premature, but she is a champ and doing spectacular!  I could have bet my camera that she’d have been a blondie like mama, but nope… she turned out to be a burnette and a beauty too!

I just love this last one… she was sooooo tired!  She almost fell asleep there at the end, it was so cute.  Poor thing, she was probably actually asleep with her eyes open at one point.  Happy Birthday baby girl!!!

It was so great to see little “M” and of course her Mama and I can’t forget my new favorite assistant ~ her Grami:)  Gotta get her on my payroll~ she was awesome!  But then, I realized just how darn fast this past year has gone.  I have a 3 month old for crying out loud. No scratch that… he is closer to 4 months now (sniff, sniff).  He is growing like a weed and he will be one too before I can possibly imagine (Whaaaaaaa!)

This little sweetheart just does not know how NOT to smile:)  Little “S” is ONE year old already!!!  And just a doll… she was first seen on my blog a year ago with her newborn photos (some of my faves) and I have had the pleasure of taking her photos at 4 and 8 months as well and I tell you, this little birthday girl is ALL smiles!!!  Take a peek:

Happy 1st Birthday!!!

I mentioned I would be blogging some of the fun I had a few months back when I was in a pregnancy induced photographic frenzy… well here goes.  I met this little sweetheart nearly a year ago when she was still in mama’s tummy.  I have barely had time to blink my eyes and her first birthday is just around the corner!  And she has grown into quite the little cutie pie.  She was super smiley and just precious.  P.S.  Love the shoes mama!  If I knew I wouldn’t break my ankle, I would DEFINITELY partake in those heels. But for those of you that know me, you know I DEFINITELY break my ankle… maybe both of them… simultaneously!!!  Ha!

More to come soon, I have LOTS more to share:)