A few weeks ago Ava and I had the chance to work with Lisa, owner and creator of My Sweetpea and Company.  I was so excited when she contacted us because we just love her bows and hats!  She produces some VERY good quality stuff, and Ava was THRILLED to model Lisa’s new product—the bottlecap necklace!  

Please head on over and check her out at http://www.mysweetpeaandcompany.com (sorry, the html code isn’t working tonight!) and let her know that I sent you!  

And some photos just for me…..how did she get to be so big?  Her beauty inside and outside just steals my breath away. ?

Happy February!  And Happy (almost) Valentine’s Day!  I hope each and every one of you are spending this weekend with the one’s you love most <3 <3 <3

We had a couple snow days this past week, and it sounds like most of the country has had the same!  YAY for snow!!!  Snow is GORGEOUS for outdoor pictures, so if you would like a snow session, please email me before it all melts.

Right now I am starting a Fresh Faces campaign for NEWBORNS!  I need some new newborn faces to update my portfolio so if you are expecting or have JUST had a baby, please contact me asap!    

What do you get?

A free newborn session and 8×10–a $140 value.  Baby must be 10 days old or younger and you must be willing to sign a model release.

I am also looking for twin newborns as well!

A post isn’t a post without a picture….so here are a few that I haven’t blogged yet of a sweet little newborn baby boy.

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!

WOW!  I am severely behind on my blogging, aren’t I?  I am so sorry, I am going to attempt to getting caught up on posting pictures.  I have been so busy that I wanted to make sure my clients needs were taken care of promptly and get those galleries up as soon as I could.  So now I am going to post those galleries.  :)  

This mini session was the SWEETEST set of  quadruplets I have ever met.  Okay so I have never met quads before but I can bet they are really the sweetest.  ;)  Such nice and polite kids and mom is a saint. I met them through another client-turned-friend….Sara, thank you!  I’m gong to keep each post short on words so that I can get to posting the important stuff.  Enjoy!

I recently had the absolutely awesome PLEASURE of meeting up with Nikki and her two girly girls.  She had them dressed so stinkin cute, and we ran around the orchard stomping on rotten apples, slipping and sliding, and taking a moment or two here or there to snap a photo.  By the time we were done, those girls smelled very strongly of fermented apples, LOL!  I think they had a lot of fun though.  Not sure if Mom was worried that we got any good ones…but I think we got our share

Nikki, thank you SO much for bringing your incredibly sweet and beautiful girls to me.  I seriously had SUCH a hard time narrowing them all down…I hope you love them as much as I do.  <3

Mini session part one went AWESOME!  The weather was cold, but the sun was shining and the kids and families that came were awesome as always.  I am finishing up but wanted to get a quick sneak peek of each of my families and kids that came.  I can’t WAIT for everyone to see their entire collections!!!!  Just another day or so and be looking for an email…I promise your wait will be completely worth it.

Enjoy your sneak peek!

Helllooooo!  Remember me?  The chick that hasn’t updated her blog in EONS!?  **ducking head**

Yes, I have been a total blog slacker lately, but I promise I have still been working hard, just not as hard as I was this past summer.   I’m enjoying my family time and watching my babies grow up.

I did promise you newborn pics, yes?  I am absolutely INFATUATED with this baby girl.  And when I say infatuated, I mean in LOVE.  <3  This baby girl is my bestest and oldest friend’s first child.  Lori and I went to school together, and really didn’t like each other—at ALL.  Then one day, we were just together.  And we never seperated.  Just like that.  She knows everything about me, my deepest secrets, hopes and fears.  We have survived her moving to Seattle for 5 years and me being in the Navy on the East Coast.  We even survived living together—but barely.   We survived us both getting married, me having children, and her living in South Carolina.  But now she is back in Michigan, with her husband and her new baby, and I selfishly couldn’t be more happy.  Lori, I’m so glad you are back in my life.  I love you and your new little family.

The new family….Chad, Lori and Baby Avery….

Just a reminder…mini sessions are filling up, I only have a few more slots open!  Please contact me asap if you would like to schedule a time!

Coming soon….this beautiful mama and her precious baby girl.

Miss Amelia came allll the way from Boston to see me!  Yep that’s right…JUST me.  Well okay, maybe she had a LOT of family that was waiting to see her too, but I feel so honored to be a part of this families lives.  I LOVE this family!    Anyway…Baby Amelia was over 2 weeks old when I first met her, and boy oh boy, she was WIDE AWAKE.  Nope, she wasn’t going to sleep for anything!  We did what we could but then her mama brought her back to me when she was 4 weeks old (I know, right?!?!) and she was sooooo good, she slept most of the time!  Yippee!!  I can’t wait to see her again. <3  You might remember the Mama…she is the super hot mom holding the little boy with the balloons….remember?  That’s her.  Doesn’t she look awesome?  She does, believe me.  Ladies and Gentlemen….meet Amelia Piper.

Just a reminder**  Mini sessions are booking up FAST so please contact me ASAP if you would like to book a session!  They will be sold out soon!