Elias & Silas

Such adorable brothers. We are good friends with this family, and I was really excited when their mom called for pictures. What great kids - Elias listened really well and has great manners, and Silas look at him, he is an adorable 1 year old. I struggled to narrow this session down - way too many cute photos. Here are my favorite.

We took some photos in the studio and thankfully no thunderstorm, so we went outside for a little fun. Look at little Silas below, I didn't pose him like that - so cute! Toward the end I think Elias was done, but we were still getting some great smiles out of him. I love what parents do to get their children to smile.

Silas is a pretty serious little boy, but I LOVE the picture below. So innocent.

Look at those eyes!

I didn't even notice this until I started editing the pictures, but these two kids have the best eyes and they are different color. Elias has beautiful blue eyes and Silas has beautiful green eyes.

Thank you so much for driving into town. I really had a great evening with you and the kids. They were really easy going and you will have tons more to pick from. The bubble pictures were a lot of fun also. I just couldn't put them all up here. I hope to see you all again before the end of summer.

Jaxson

What a week-with company, birthdays, and parties I have been slacking on my photo blog. Thank you so much for waiting for these pictures.

We took Jaxson's 1 year old photos last Monday and he was the happiest 1 year old I have had in a long time. . . possibly ever! It was so hard just to pick a couple for this post and Jen you will have tons to pick from because I just couldn't pick the best 30-40 pictures.

This was a fun session with both parents in some of the pictures. We took some of the photos in the studio and all the family photos outside in my back yard. I love my yard, lots of maintance, but I think it worked well for their photos.

Jaxson can crawl and FAST. He would crawl out of the lighting within seconds. . . until daddy started signing the Twins baseball song - I think I'm right? Right? Jaxson would start dancing and smiling.

Jaxson also got a cake for this session. He didn't really like it. It took awhile for him to smile about the cake and he never really ate any of it. He did like the frosting though. Note to all the moms out there. Albersons gives free birthday cakes for 1 year olds. So if you have a 1 year old and want pictures with a cake or just want them to have their own cake at their party, pick one up there.

Thank you so much for calling. Jaxson is such a happy baby and I had a great evening with you all.

Shaylee

I have had quite a few girls in the past few sessions. Usually I'm blessed with just the boys, but this past week it has been a lot of fun with the bright colors, flowers, bows, and tutus. She was 5 days old at this session and both her and her mom looked great. I was excited for an early baby, they always sleep, still supposed to be flexible and let me put them into any position. Now Shaylee, she was very alert and once again another baby that stayed awake for 90 minutes before giving it up and sleeping. Once she fell asleep we got some great photos of her, she is adorable.

I love the two photos below. At least once we got her to sleep she let us play with positioning her hands. Look at those lips!

Chelsie, thank you so much for trusting me with your family and 5 day old girl. I had a great time and I do have a family photo that I'll have to post later. With the 4th of July I got busy and needed to get some pictures out there for you to see. Thanks for calling I always love catching up and photographing your family.

Lila

I have some of the best clients with the best taste. Lila is adorable, she has amazing eyes and a wonderful personality. This was another photo session that I didn't know how well it was going to go. She fell asleep on the way over to the session and didn't take an afternoon nap. Some babies would be done at that point. We just brought her dog out and we could get smiles out of her regardless of how tired she was.

Jill you did an amazing job on this tutu, and this hat is perfect. Look at those eyes!

This dress came from Pride and Joy and I think it is adorable. I love the walking photo below. Once again toward the end of the session and we still were getting smiles. Lila is so even tempered, nothing like my little guy. When she does cry it is so soft and sincere.

I love this photo below. She was starting to walk through the some light shinny through the trees, but it is still too cute.

Thanks Lila for being such a great little 9 month old. I love watching my newborn clients grow up. I was lucky to photograph her when she was around two months old. They grow up too fast! Thanks for the fun evening.

Quinn & Ava

What adorable girls. This was Quinn's 1 year old session and she really wasn't into pictures. I think there are some beautiful pictures of her serious, but not a lot smiling. At the end of the session all she wanted to do was touch my camera, maybe that is why she didn't really enjoy the session. I love the photo above with the sisters and after turning the photo below into black and white I fell in love with it too. So precious holding her teddy bear.

Now Ava was really into pictures. A girl that loved to smile, dress up and pose for me. Maybe this was her session?? I fell in love with this photo below too. These tutus were very cute on the girls.

For a 1 year old session this is such a fun idea. Bring a cake in and take photos of the fun, some kids love cake some kids don't. Quinn loved this cake.

Even though she is crying I think she looks adorable in this hat. The photo on the right was the smiles we got during the last 1 minute of our session outside.

Ava did awesome during the session and I think had a lot of fun.

Thank you so much for calling. I enjoyed your girls and someday Quinn will LOVE photos and dressing up.