Over the holidays I was lucky enough to have some family friends in town with their sweet little one year old that was celebrating his first birthday.  So we had a fabulous cake made by Designer Cakes By April and had some fun!  We had SUCH a great session and this was just the very end, but I was looking at them today and just had to giggle a bit and share!!!  Take a peek!

Well I hope everyone has their gifts wrapped, cookies made and eggnog drank:) Over here, the dust is finally clearing as my holiday photography season comes to a close.  A big, fuzzy THANK YOU to all of my sweet, sweet  clients for making my season {and year} such a great one!  I haven’t had the kind of time I had hoped for to update this old blog, but I have a minute now, so I thought I’d show off some more of last years goodness.  Yes, I said last year ~ I’m afraid it’s become a bit of a habit to blog year old pics.  But I love them so much.  Enjoy and Merry Christmas!

This little fella is very near and dear to my heart!  His mama and him were two of my very first clients and I have been lucky enough to see their family grow both in age and in numbers!  Just this past year, they were blessed in welcoming their second baby boy into the family and I was there to witness their AMAZING home birth.  with their first bambino just recently celebrating his second birthday I wanted to take them on a trip down memory lane.  Thank you “S” family from the bottom of my heart!  Trey’s newborn session was SUCH a great experience and hands down, it gave me the confidence that I needed when I was thinking of turning this hobby of mine into a career!  Still some of my all time FAVES.

Such a handsome little 6 month old

All smiles at one!  And just LOOK at those curls!

Okay people, this is why I love this girl!  She is fearless!  Now don’t go judging, this shot was a done as a gift to her hubby whom completely gets her style and humor.  When she pitched me this idea my jaw dropped as I gasped {under my breath of course}.  I was truly petrified at this shoot, not only because guns of any kind scare the bejeezus out of me but also I thought “how the heck am I gonna pull this off?”  Well I actually LOVE how this turned out for them… maybe not the maternity shot to try and sell the rest of my clients, but for them – I love it!  And for those of you that know this family – I am sure you got a kick out of it when it showed up on her facebook page:)  Way to rock those 5 inch heals mama!

A few short weeks later I was there for the home birth of baby #2.  I must admit, I was TERRIFIED {hopefully it didn’t show}  I wasn’t really sure what to expect, but I am so glad I was there to experience a true miracle!  I was able to get there right in time.  When I left to go home I felt like I had drank about 60 red bulls – what an experience!  I can’t even begin to express the courage, love and determination of this entire family to make this happen ~ especially you mama!  whew!  I get butterflies again just thinking about it.

Then a few days later I returned to meet little “B” again for his newborn session.  What a handsome fella he was, and boy does he look like his big brother!

“Give baby brother a kiss”  What?!?!

“I don’t know about this”

“Oh, okay”

Awhhhh!  ”I luv my baby bruder”

Happy 6 months to you little “B”  and a big happy 2nd Birthday to you “T”.

… and keep those babies coming:)

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!