Well I am enjoying a couple weeks at the farm in South Dakota where my mother grew up.  We are exploring the farm and visiting with Cousins and Aunties and Uncles and having a blast!  We must be juicy because the mosquitos are LOVING us too:)  Anyway, I am in photographers absolute PARADISE, but before I share any of that fun, I gotta show off this little fella.  I can’t believe I am saying this, but he has turned ONE as well and this year has just been a blur.  I was giant and prego with my little guy when I was shooting this session and seeing him just made me soooo excited to meet my little bambino just two weeks later.  His parents were so great and even though this was their first baby, they looked like pro’s and grandpa is one heck of a photographer too so I know they have some fabulous images of his first year.  Happy belated 1st “R”

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.

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!

so, this is the oober adorable baby boy of a good friend of mine that was born – uhhh – like two MONTHS ago!!!!  I know, and these are some of my all time faves, and I am just sick that I have been such a slacker on getting them posted.  Well without further adue, I would like to introduce a VERY handsome “M”

He was SUCH a good boy, he slept the day away:)  I hope he has been just as good for mama!

Congratulations “S” family ~ he is PERFECT!

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season and may the new year bring many blessings!!!

So I am officially the crappiest blogger EVER! Here I have literally MONTHS of photos to blog and I am hogging all of these  to myself.  Well shame on me!

Allow me to introduce – {about 3 months later} baby “T”  she is the beautiful daughter of the mama shown HERE.  And like mama like daughter for sure!!! She was such a joy to photograph ~ I can’t wait to get my hands on her again:)

YIKES!  I can’t believe I am just now getting to this, but I just HAD to post a few more from my two BFF’s baby girls sessions.  I told ya you’d be seeing more of this buggy, but I could just die that got her in this pose!!!   I have been trying this one for a while and little “I” was just too precious for letting me ~ Thanks baby girl!

And this is baby “P” all the way out in Colorado.  She was such a peanut that she curled up to pose in Daddy’s hat.   Ahhhh, you girls were soooooo good for Auntie!

and look at the lips… just like mama’s!

Okay… a few days after I got home from Denver my girlfriend calls and tells me that there was a BEAR ATTACK at the location we were at above! WHAAAAAT???  Holy %$#@!

Note to self… scout locations VERY carefully when going out of state!!!  Really pretty spot though, I’d use it again  ~  Nope, didn’t learn my lesson:)

You girls have the most beautiful babies and such GREAT models too!  You must have given them a pep talk before I got there:)  It almost makes me want another girl…  but then I remember about a little thing called {hormones}   Naaaaa!  Besides, now Bruce can hang out with my BFF’s beautiful girls ~ LOL!

I just love you girls!  And your girls!  xoxo

Introducing little “I”  This is my very dear friends newest daughter.  I had so much fun on our wilderness shoot…  coming very soon:)  I just HAD to post this one ~ it is definitely one of my new favorites. Congrats Hammy’s, she is PERFECT!

I just got home from Denver shooting another BFF’s baby girl too ~WOW, tow girls in one week.  Be on the lookout for her very soon too.  They were born one week from each other and they are both going to be GORGEOUS just like their mamas:)  I love you girls!

xoxoxox Auntie Jackie

aka… the crazy lady with the camera attached to my face

It’s a BOY !!!!!!

And daddy was so exhausted, I caught him taking a little cat nap in the hospital.

Our newest little man is super handsome if I do say so myself… I just LOVE his little chin, and he is pretty impressed with himself as well.

It just amazes me to see what nearly 10 months of pregnancy is capable of producing.  Even more amazing is how darn fast it is all over and you blink your eyes and these tiny fingers and toes turn into big old hand and feet that belong to little people with minds and ideas of their very own.  I am definitely enjoying this itty bitty baby phase that is so priceless.

I had some of my lovely and talented photographer friends come and help me capture this super tiny phase of my little “B’s ” life and I love the little props that they brought!  I have many more from the session to share, just not enough computer time to share them yet.  Be on the lookout for more of my little monkey soon.

This next shot is the brainchild of another one of my super photog friends and I.  I got in touch with the original owner of this AMAZING vintage pram and I jumped at the opportunity and snatched it up.  In talking with a good friend of mine that was going to help me take some pics of my little guy, she came up with the perfect location for our idea, and Viola!  Of course I love everything about this photo, especially the subject:)  But another thing that I love about this is the sense of history that this stroller has.  I could feel the connection that it’s owner had with it and the reluctance to selling such a great piece that has been in the family for so long and seen and strolled so many babies.  I can’t wait to stroll my little man around in this old gem and I hope to keep all the great  memories coming.  I am just positive that you will be seeing a lot more of it in the future.

A big thank you to everyone from the bottom of my heart for helping our family with everything from photos to dinners and everything in between!  We are truly blessed with amazing family and friends and I just don’t know what we’d do without each and every one of you!

Last weekend I met up with a photographer friend of mine to have some photo fun with her brand new twin boys, and were they ever sweet!  She’s a pro, not only at photography, but as professional Mama too, this is her SECOND set of twins!  ”Say WHAT???”  Her girls just turned 3, how fun is that!?!  Anyway, the spotlight was on these guys and they were such good boys, not to mention handsome. Take a peek…

Congrats “L”, they are absolutely perfect!

Allow me to give a warm welcome to little baby “T”… well I suppose she’s isn’t so little anymore, at nearly 6 weeks she has grown some beautiful chub:) Which, by the way is one of my favorite baby traits!

And we can’t forget about her beautiful new big sis “C” you may recognize her from HERE!!
She is just the sweetest thing ever, she greeted me with a hug and gave me tons of hugs all throughout our session – I just love you to pieces “C”

You have the most precious girls “H” family! Thanks for letting me share in the celebration of your new addition.