Thanks for having me capture your beautiful girl again!

Happy 1st Birthday Miss S!

See how much she has grown!

Meet Mr. B!

I took some updated shots of him at 5 months of age and just learning to sit. I love this age so much! This age is such a joy to photograph! I love it when baby’s grab their toes.

This is a shot of him with my little dog Katie. Katie was so good with him. She rolled onto her back and had no issues with him exploring her. He was very curious and didn’t quite know what to think!

My husband and I will be expecting our first baby this September! That makes me 15 weeks along and nicely in my second trimester. Trimester one kicked my butt and left me so depleted of any energy and nauseous pretty well all waking hours, so I took a few months off from shooting to focus on my health and this little baby growing. I am feeling great now and am back in action, with some blogging to catch up on!

We are very excited and I cannot wait to have my own little photography subject

I still often find myself asking “how did we get this OLD?!”. I still feel like the 16 year old girls who are passing notes back and forth to each other in between classes asking “who do you like?” and who decide it is a good idea to eat an entire lemon meringue pie together right out of the pie pan with forks just because we felt like it and who skip class cause we are tired (if we only knew then that our adult futures would result in a constant state of tiredness!). How did we get to become 31 year old married woman and now one of us is someone else’s MOTHER?!. How did that happen? Where oh where did the time go? The best thing though about longstanding friendships is when you get together you are brought right back to that place where you still would think it was okay to eat an entire lemon meringue pie together right out of the pie pan with forks and instead of passing notes back and forth to each other, we are texting back and forth.

The best thing about having such a wonderful friendship is the pure happiness we have for each other during such exciting times in our lives. I seriously cannot be more thrilled for my BFF and am excited to have a sweet little girl to watch grow up.

Without further ado here is little Miss Emilie! She was a dream to photograph and soundly slept for her Auntie Trina for almost three hours!

I had my friend take a shot of me and Emilie together as I was holding her getting her into position for the next shot. I love that I have a nice picture of her and I.

Welcome to the world baby girl, you are a very lucky little girl to have such a wonderful mother! xxoo

Meet Miss Hailey

Hailey was born with Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH). Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH) occurs in approximately 1 in every 2,500 births.

The cause of CDH is not yet known. The diaphragm is formed in the first trimester of pregnancy and controls the lungs ability to inhale and exhale. CDH occurs when the diaphragm fails to form or to close totally and an opening allows abdominal organs into the chest cavity. This inhibits lung growth. 50% of babies diagnosed with CDH do not survive. Of the 50% that do survive, most will endure long hospital stays, feeding issues, asthma and other problems.

Hailey’s parents learned at their routine 20 week ultrasound about Hailey’s medical condition which caused them to worry for the rest of the pregnancy about her survival once she was born. The doctors really have no idea about survival as each case is different and many factors can affect their health. Hailey was one of the lucky ones, she was only in the NICU for 39 days. She had her guardian angel, her uncle Jamie, looking down on her the entire time. It turns out Jamie had been watching over her from the beginning.  Hailey’s parents found out about Hailey’s condition on Jamie’s birthday. Hailey was born on the anniversary date of Jamie’s passing from Leukemia and finally she went home on the day of the annual fundraiser for Leukemia.

Hailey’s mom and dad are so proud of her! She has overcome so much already at such a young age. She didn’t let any challenges get to her and she has overcome every obstacle in order to go home very quickly. Her mom and dad are hopeful  if she develops any other health conditions due to CDH she will overcome them as well. Just a few days before our session Hailey had her four month check-up at Children’s Hospital and I am thrilled to say she is a happy and healthy four month old! It was such a pleasure photographing her. She was so smiley and happy and made my job VERY easy!

This little princess is a lucky little girl to have two great parents and an adorable older brother. This little lady is utterly perfect and I loved every minute of photographing and cuddling her! Thanks for the session and for allowing me to capture your little princess at her smallest!

Here are the maternity photo’s. Look at how gorgeous this pregnant mama is!

Look at how sweet she is!

I do not particularly enjoy sharing my own personal “resolutions” with others. I keep them close to my heart and work on them for my own self satisfaction and personal growth. One of my goals for the year though is to enjoy more time with family and friends and to capture more of my personal life on camera. I often find myself so exhausted from working full time at the hospital and with my photography business that I have no energy to leave the house and/or pick up my camera to just take snapshots. I intend on sharing more of these personal snapshots here on the blog from time to time. I know some photographer’s frown upon mixing client work with personal snaps on your business blog, but I feel differently. I enjoy looking at other professionals sites and having a bit of a glimpse into their personal life, just enough so you feel like you get to know them a bit better.

I do not intend on flooding my blog with snaps, but just adding some here and there a bit more this year. I am such a perfectionist at heart and often find it hard to even want to take a picture if the lighting is not perfect, if there are distracting elements I cannot avoid etc. I need to learn to embrace imperfections a bit more and simply capture a moment before it is gone irregardless of how imperfect the image is.

I hope you all have a fabulous 2012 and thank you for all your support and love!

Here are a couple of snaps I took yesterday!

My cat Shady.

My bestie had a sweet baby girl December 30th. Here she is at 3 days old. I will be doing her official photoshoot in a few days, so stay tuned!

I am excited to begin a new year! 2011 was not the greatest of years for me for a variety of reasons, but I am sure 2012 is going to be an awesome year!

Despite 2011 having it’s challenges, I had some great times! The highlight of my year was the birth of my little cousin. He is such a wonderful addition to our family and I am so happy for my cousin.

In terms of photography, this year started off with my wedding business partner, Ashleigh and I flying down to Texas to go to the Professional Photographers of America’s big photography convention. It was a great way to kick off the new year! We met with some other fabulous photographer’s and were able to learn from some amazing speakers. Ashleigh and I have been able to get our feet nice and wet with wedding photography and have seen our work grow a ton! We are excited for what the new year will bring!

I have been given the honor of photographing several newborns for their first portraits and also saw some of my previous newborn clients again as bigger babies!

I met other great little babies and kids and also some amazing families!

I have made a collection of my favorite shots, both personal and clients from this year! Thanks to all of you who have had me capture your special moments for you and for making 2011 a success!

Cheers to 2012!