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!

So the season is in full swing, and yes, I still have pics from last year to blog.  I know, I know…  I SUCK!  Dear blog:  I WILL stop neglecting you, that will be my mantra for the day.  Take a lookie at some of last years cuteness!  And get ready for this year my peeps!

A HUGE thank you to all of my sweet families from last year for being so great!  I am off to my first mini session of the season today and I can’t wait to get started at this new location:)  Yipeeeee!  See you guys soon!

These little sweetums were just precious!  Baby brother and sister were so comfy and snuggly at three weeks old.  I love playing with textures on certain images – this one was screaming “use a texture”  and I LOVE how it turned out:)  Of course beautiful babies as models are a BIG plus too!!!

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:)

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