Our Lena Grace

On March 21^st, my family was blessed with another beautiful baby girl! As our family is adjusting to life as four, I was able to take a few minutes to photograph a few pictures of our new precious cargo. Here are a few shots from Lena’s first photo session… of which I am sure many more will be to come J I hope you enjoy!

Lena with her proud big sister. I am sure that this picture will bring tears to my eyes from now until my girls have babies and on!

Baby will soon make FOUR

We are eagerly awaiting baby to make our family of three, four!  As our addition could be here at any moment, I wanted to let everyone know that I will be taking some time off to embrace this journey of mothering two. I anticipate returning sometime late spring to early summer. I have been receiving some emails about booking outdoor sessions and just because I am on leave please don’t let that stop you from sending me your requests. I will plug them into the calendar accordingly and I will surely try to fulfill everyone’s schedule and requests. I look forward to meeting new faces and seeing old friends again! In the meantime, you can find me snuggling my sweet girl as we round out our last few days alone J I will surely post pictures when baby arrives and let you all know if we will be sporting pink or blue!

As I exit this post, I wanted to leave you all with a symbolic photo; one that embraced spring and motherhood and all those warm fuzzy feelings surrounding. I wasn’t sure I had such a photo in my files until I stumbled across this one…

Happy Spring!

Shaffer Family - Session 2

This was my second session with the Shaffer Family and I enjoyed myself for so many reasons! Reason number one, their little guy shares a birthday with my baby girl. This is all too much fun for me because raising the girl portion of this birthday duo is totally different from the boy portion and it made me smile from ear to ear watching this little guy show me his favorite toys and ropes of their home. Reason number two, they have the sweetest baby girl! She was perfectly content watching her brother zing by and spoke the sweetest baby coos. It may be because I am expecting and am in total baby mode, but I didn’t want to put her down J I could go on forever, but I am sure you are ready to see the pictures. Without further ado here is the Shaffer family 6 months older!

I was totally in love with her “skinny jeans.” I wish I looked as cute in them as see did :)

I am still in love with this little man's hair/eye color combo!

Even though the little man isn’t looking in this next photo, I LOVE his arm around his sister’s neck!

The Shaffer Family!

I had to put this last one in here... It may not be the best lighting or photo, but I just adore it!

Remember sweet baby Layla? I did her newborn pictures a few months back. It seems like it wasn’t that long ago, but this blue eyed doll is almost 10 months old!? Layla was a pleasure to photograph as a newborn and her calm sense hasn’t changed a bit! She didn’t fuss, nor did she even cry! We got some great Christmas shots as well as some very cute giggles. Meet baby Layla a few months older J  

Her momma threw on this adorable little ring for a few shots. Little Layle didn't even mind!

 

Anyone who has visited my blog before knows I am slightly obsessed with baby thighs. I LOVE everything about them! Layla in her Christmas tu-tu surely made her sweet little legs no exception ;)

You can surely see where she gets her baby blues!

After about a perfect hour of shooting, Layle decided we were done :)

 

On that note, I would like to wish Layla and her family a very Merry First Christmas!

Marie and her boys ;)

As my response to blogging has been a bit untimely… again, this post is not necessarily a preview for this family. As I already have their pictures done, I will contribute this blog as an addition to the group of growing families that I have had the great opportunity to meet and photograph. So here goes nothing ;)

Meet Marie and here two handsome boys! I had these poor guys out of bed pretty early for their session and we walked a path through a local State Park during some pretty frigid temps. At first they were not very fond of the idea of being photographed and I couldn't blame them, but as we warmed up they turned out to be some pretty comical guys and I got some great grins in the process. Here is another “preview” to yet another great family session!

We had some great light as the afternoon sun set into position! 

We also shot some senior pics, as this fellow has his high school graduation right around the corner.

As I edited this session I had to laugh as I went through her youngest sons shots. For every regular smile I received, I got a simplistic series of some pretty comical poses and faces.

Finally, her is Marie with her boys :)