Happy Father's Day!

I just wanted to wish all the dads out there a very Happy Father's Day!!!

Here are a couple of my favorite daddy/newborn shots in honor of all the wonderful men who make a difference in a child's life!

This Newborn Rocks!!

And so does his Mom for coming up with this idea!! I first met this family in November of 2008, when I did newborn photos for their middle son, M, and now we're doing photos of Mr. R, boy #3!!

Isn't this photo with Dad's guitar just the best? Seriously, who can resist a baby with a mohawk and a guitar tie? :)

And Grandma made him this little bear hat before our session... isn't it just adorable?

Finally, Mom asked if we could try a family shot in their bedroom on their bed. Heck yeah!! I loved the idea, and love the way it turned out!! Look at Mom and all her men... Testosterone City :)

Thanks to the K family for letting me capture these memories of your newest family member! You certainly have 3 handsome boys... congrats!

Another sweet newborn girl :)

Last week I had yet another sweet newborn girl to photograph :) Miss C was such a cutie... and even though I'm showing these sleeping photos, she was awake and alert a lot of the time too. Such big, bright eyes... I even got some eye contact!

I was able to sneak in a few of her in this adorable hat...

And finally, one with my macro lens. I just love this shot!

Thank you to T & R for letting me photograph Miss C, and her big sister I. You have such a beautiful family - I really enjoyed meeting all of you :)

Sweet Newborn Girl...

I had the opportunity to photograph this sweet doll this morning... she was SO very good!! I can honestly say she is the first newborn NOT to have any accidents on my blankets... or on any of the people who were present:) She slept like a dream, and didn't cry once! Look at this adorable little bear...

And we had to get her older sister in on the act! Miss K is 4, and she was very proud of "her baby"! I love the expression I caught on her face in this one...

I have so many fantastic photos from this session, but wanted to get these 2 up as a very quick preview before I begin the weekend of softball madness and get behind. Thanks so much, K and R for allowing me to photograph your two beautiful daughters!

Newborn! Sweet Baby A

I've been a bad blogger lately... I apologize :) I need to do better about that... but here is a sneak peek of a sweet little newborn girl. This little doll is the spitting image of her father... I was amazed when mom showed me his newborn photo, because they look so much alike!

As fate would have it, the little baby who slept nonstop for the first 11 days of her life decided that Day 12 was going to be the day she stayed awake all morning!! So while we didn't get the curled up, sleepy naked baby shots we were hoping for (Miss A was also modest and didn't seem to like being naked very much!) we did get some other sweet photos.

Isn't this family shot just beautiful?!

Hope you enjoyed your quick preview, A & S! Congrats on your new addition, she is truly precious!

Sweet baby girl...

Well, I returned from vacation to find a message that my maternity client from June had delivered a baby girl while I was gone! I was so excited to have a session when I got home!!

Little Miss O was just the sweetest thing... she would alternate between being awake (and wanting to eat, pee or poop LOL) and sleeping just long enough to get some great shots in!!

This was the base of table in my clients' home... we just took off the glass top and set it in the hallway. I loved the texture of it... and so did their cat, who kept jumping up whenever we would move Miss O!!

This blanket was extra special, as it was knitted by Miss O's great-grandmother before she passed away.

I was SOOOO excited to have a newborn girl again, since my last few newborns have been boys. I had a fun flower hat I wanted to try with her... so imagine how happy I was when I arrived to find my client had this little hat!! I was in heaven :)

I tried a new "honey" like process on this photo to give it a different, dreamy kind of feel. I think it works well on this one... what do you think?

B and K, I hope you enjoy your sneak preview! I had so much fun with these... congrats on your adorable new girl :)

Newborn Baby D!

I was fortunate to be able to photograph my friend M's new baby... her fourth, and her first boy! This was just a quick mini session, but we did pull out some fun "boy" props that we weren't able to use the last time. I'm not going to blog those yet, because she hasn't chosen her birth announcements and they should be a surprise!

But here are a couple previews... Mr. D was SO cute and sweet. Made me wonder why I stopped at two!

I just adore how his fist is pushing in on his little lip in the second one... too too cute!

Alert and strong newborn boy...

I did a newborn session last week with the V Family... Baby "E" kept me on my toes! He was so alert and awake for almost the entire session! We cranked the heat up to 80, mom fed and rocked him (more than once!), gave him some background noise... but still he only slept for about 10 minutes. I guess he couldn't bear to miss anything LOL!!

Look at those big bright eyes... so sweet...

Here he was during his VERY brief nap... love those newborn wrinkles!!

And one with big brother "T" when he got home from preschool... I was amazed at how strong baby E was. We'd lay him down on his stomach to get some pics with big brother, and he would push up and turn his head away from me to look at his brother. So we flipped his body around, thinking maybe he liked facing to the right better, and he did the same thing back the other way! I was getting a complex... either he hated my camera or really loved his big brother... I'm sure that's what it was :)

So here's your preview, P and J... thank you for the opportunity to work with your sweet boys!

Sweet snuggly, sleepy newborn boy!

I just love referrals - thanks A!! I was so excited to get the email that someone had seen my work and wanted me to take newborn photos of her soon-t0-be born grandchild! And they wanted me to do them in the baby's first week (yay)! Babies are so much easier to position in the first week, as they're still bendy and foldable and will usually stay where you place them once asleep :)

This family was great... they cranked up their heat and let me work with their naked, sleepy baby boy for over 2 hours to get SO many adorable shots!! Mr. M was the tiniest, sweetest little peanut... I wish they were all that easy!

Mom and dad really wanted one with big brother Z, who wasn't all that interested in getting his pic taken! So we just snapped a few, and came away with this gem :) Isn't it perfect?

So thank you, K family, for letting me meet your new darling boy! I hope you enjoy your sneak peek... I'll get the full gallery to you soon!

Sweet newborn girl...

Here are a couple preview shots from my session with sweet little "A" last Thursday. I had to laugh because her mom kept saying how big she was getting (at 2 1/2 weeks she was right around 8 pounds) but that seems so small to me - both of my kids were closer to 9 pounds when they were born!

Here is Miss A in her Easter dress... I love a baby in a basket :)

She was such a good girl... hardly cried at all. And once she went to sleep towards the end of the session, she pretty much let us put her wherever we wanted!

And a foot shot... just because I love them! Look at those tiny little toes!