I still have a ton of sessions to blog from 2009 so I thought I’d take one off the list.  Life is crazy, as usual, especially when you have two small kids.  We have been battling the sickies and then pink eye, yuck!  I have never had pink eye…that is until last week.  It is the WORST!  No contacts for a week for me!  I’m completely blind and my best friend jokes that we could go and burn ants with my glasses with the sun.  Except I don’t think she’s joking.  

Anyway, we are all healthy now, so I think we’ll hole up  here in the house until the weather warms up.  

I have so much to share, including some new designs that my kiddos have modeled for a great clothing company, so stay tuned!

Until then…..meet the D family.  You might recognize these pretty kids from an urban session we did last year.

The oldest here was telling me all about how his dad works on bones at work

Grandma and Grandpa wanted some family photos….and I love how they turned out. (Even if middle “N” was D-O-N-E at this point, LOL!)

He’s happier here

Little “L”…she was the big “1″!

We have LOTS of fun on our sessions!!!!!!

Pretty Baby

I puffy heart this one:

Thanks so much D family….love spending time with you all!

These are some of my favorite people in the world.  Derrick is my cousin and is 2 years older than me.  We were pretty inseparable while growing up and we are still pretty close.  Our families of 4 spend a LOT of time together when we are back “home”.  He and his wife Cari are some of our very closest friends and I love them. <3 <3

Here is their gorgeous family:

Ava and Britton just adore these boys……and I’m pretty sure the feeling is mutual

One of my fav’s….they are so good together

This is Chase…him and his mom are just alike and he is way too smart for his own good, LOL!

This is Tyler…he is very sweet and I swear has almost no teeth left in his head right now, I am truly amazed at how he even eats, LOL!  The tooth fairy has been super busy lately, LOL!

Cari is so beautiful <3 <3  (and Derrick isn’t too bad either but that’s weird since he’s my cousin)

The boys were some of my easiest subjects, they did whatever I asked and even posed themselves at times.

We don’t see them nearly enough but I’m very excited because we’re headed north in two more days, and I’m hoping we can make time to spend with them!!!  Love you guys so much!

Whoo Hoo!  It’s been awhile, hasn’t it?  I have been SUPER busy (story of my LIFE!) wrapping up the end of summer  with short vacations, sessions and my little girl starting kindergarten.  I can’t believe my little girl is in school!  That has been very for us.  Pictures of THAT to come soon.  BUT…first things first…

Meet Grace.  Grace’s mama arranged for me to do pictures of Grace and her grandparents…all the way from England.  I feel honored that she found me all the way over there!  This time is so special for this little girl, getting spoiled by her grandma and grandpa.  What an awesome family they are, you can see the love they have for each other and for Miss Grace, and hear it in their voices when they talked of Grace’s mama.  I’m so glad I got to be a part of this brief time in their lives!

Look at that laugh!!

I {heart} this…

Grandma and Grandpa also got some shots of themselves….such a great looking couple!  And TALL!  I felt like a midget next to them, I’ve always wished I was taller!

This was the very first time little girl had touched the sand.  <3 <3

The light was gorgeous that evening!

My fav <3

W family…thanks so much, I am so glad to finally have met you!!!  There is MUCH MUCH more to come!

I recently had a session with Miss Lauren, who toted along her mom and dad along for some family pictures.  Meeting Lauren was SUCH a delight, she is one of THE most mature and precocious little 3 year olds I have ever met, she is just PRECIOUS!!!!  I loved every minute of being with her!!!  Mom and Dad were pretty awesome too  Miss L told me when she met me exactly how she was going to smile, she had me cracking up the whole session.

Meet Lauren….isn’t she a DOLL!?!?

Her outfit was exactly my style!!!  A hat and a TON of color, I LOVE!!!!  (and a tutu )

And this is Lauren’s family….you can see how she got her good lucks, huh?  Aren’t they all stunning?

Seriously….gor-GEOUS!

My fav…

I love this, little L was pretending like she was sleeping and it made such a sweet shot…

The light was AWESOME that night!!

Love this too! <3

Thanks for being patient with me guys!

**I have been on vacation for 10 days, so it is taking me a day or two to get my bearings back, LOL!  We had a great time, we celebrated Britton’s 2nd birthday and my grandpa’s 80th birthday…all in the same week!  I took a lot of pictures and will be back this week to share!  It is so great to go and spend so much time with my family, but I did miss my hubby and am glad to be back in my own bed.

Last weekend I had the pleasure of seeing Miss Ireland again!  You may remember her sweet face from last December, she got her Christmas portraits done by me…you can see them HERE
Ireland brought along her whole family this time, including her mama and daddy, her auntie and Grammie and Papa!

Here she is……

And here she is with Mama and Daddy….aren’t they a beautiful family?

Grammie and Papa adore her….

And it’s easy to see why….

The whole family together….

And Grammie and Papa together.  Papa doesn’t like his picture taken but he did GREAT and Grammie looks beautiful.

We had to do some pictures of Auntie alone too, isn’t she gorgeous?

Sigh….I could just eat her right up!

I love these….Ireland was DONE with pictures way before we were…you can see her fighting it in this picture:

And then….she was off.  She wouldn’t crawl on the cement but she got around quite fine this way

And one more family picture because I can’t help myself!

Thank you so much K family, and thank you for being patient with me, I have had a few problems with my computer for the past two days and it’s been slow working the kinks out.  Your gallery will be up soon!

I recently had the absolute PLEASURE of photographing this little one to mark the turning of the big “ONE”.   His family tagged along and we got some awesome shots….I seriously had such a hard time choosing!  I know I’m lagging on the blog posts, hang with me guys!  I have TONS of stuff to post in the next few days and week!  I’m an editing fool!

On to the Birthday Boy!!

The sweetest, funnest (most fun?) family….

Big Brother….

I love this one!!

Look at that sweet face!  I could just eat him up!

Save the best for last……sigh…..

“H” Family!!  I had such a great time with you guys!  You gallery will be up tomorrow, I’ll shoot you an email.  Enjoy your preview!

What an honor it is, to be a featured photographer on the Photographer Cafe…a new blog geared totally for photographer’s!  I was blown away when Mary emailed me asking for information so that she could feature me on her blog, and completely humbled.

So PLEASE, head on over there and check it out! Photographer Cafe.

And lastly…what is a post, without a picture?

I had the pleasure and privalege of photographing Katie and Jesse for maternity photos of their very first baby.

These two made my job SO incredibly easy, aren’t they just beautiful????  Katie is a natural in front of the camera, and I absolutely LOVED photographing her!  I am in love with all of the pictures and had a hard time choosing which ones to share with you.

Stay tuned, hopefully their baby girl will make her much anticipated arrival VERY SOON and I will get to photograph her as well!

Miss Scarlet came in for her 7 month portraits today.  I have met her before, I did her newborn pictures but I don’t think she remembered me.  It was so nice to see her again, I love having repeat clients and watching them grow.

Mama brought her in wearing red, to compliment her pretty name.

She was so serious….

This picture taking is some serious business!

She loved being nakie, although she’s not too sure about this bowl she’s in…

I love me some bare baby bootie

Red really compliments her pretty skin, don’t you think?

I have this new prop that I wanted to try out right at the end but Horsie and Scarlet just don’t get along.

Inga, I hope you enjoy your sneak peek, the rest will be ready very soon.  Thanks for coming in, she is such a perfect little girl!

Can you believe this weather we are having?  Awesome!!!!  I am so hoping it holds out, these long Michigan winters just seem to dragggggg on and the warmer weather seems to put a bit of pep in everyone’s step!

So, onto the model search. =)

Chixie and Honey is looking for some Newborn Babies.

That’s right, brand new, fresh-into-this-world wee ones.  I need at least one baby GIRL and one baby BOY. They must be less than 2 weeks old, preferably 2-7 days old.  This helps ensure that they stay sleepy and squisy during the session.

What do YOU get out of this?  A FREE session, valued at $100!!!!   You will also get DISCOUNTED print prices! ( In exchange for the free session, you must sign a session contract. )

I have some NEW and DARLING little props perfect for a little prince or princess and I can’t wait to try them out!

I do need to schedule the sessions ASAP! Please contact Tara, at chixieandhoney@hotmail.com to schedule your little one’s session.  Please note that a typical newborn session does take approximately 2-4 hours.

And what’s a post, without some pictures

I will also be putting out a search SOON for older kiddos as well, so be on the lookout!