Posts Tagged ‘baby’

family, newborn, and JETS!

August 20, 2010

We have been lucky to have been connected to some pretty amazing clients, who we’d also like to think of as friends. We owe a lot of our connections to one awesome couple, in particular. This family was one introduced to us by that couple. We met them when baby R was just 6 months old. So sweet to watch her change in the months between our visits. Now, they’ve welcomed a new baby girl to their family, and we were lucky enough to photograph it. Being around a newborn just made me nervous…she was so so teeny, and we’re out of the teeny, uncontrollable head phase. I hope next visit I’m ready to hold her! (she just needs to put on a few lbs.!)

Sweet big sister playing games with her little baby.

Oh a sleeping baby. Is there anything sweeter?

I couldn’t ask for better advertising with these photos on the wall. We’re copying the set up with pics of Finn for our house!

And onto the BIG sis.

Love the big kid toys. (can’t wait to have our house filled with them!)


LOVE this. As she’s playing, Dad says, “I’m a little obsessed with airplanes.” Perfect lead into the next shoot we did with them.


We were lucky enough to join them on a special day for their family.

Can’t wait for the holiday shoot, G Family!

Ahhh! Look at this little face we’ve come to frequent in our photosessions…Little Asher is just adorable, and his parents are pretty fun, too!! We met at the Franklin Park early morning to shoot some family pictures. Asher, being the drool and spit up monster that we’re told he is, came shirtless until the last second when he got dressed for the shoot. So cute, and ACTIVE! It’s fun to see what we’re in store for in the next few months.

a break from work

July 14, 2010

Finn seems to have a trend of goodweek-badweek (badweek = less naps, a little more fussy), and we’re in the midst of a fabulously wonderful goodweek that’s been filled with almost giggles and lots of smiles. So as a reward to myself, for Mike and I clearly being such wonderful parents to have raised such a happy baby (this week anyways :) ), I decided to take a break from the weddings to catch our family pictures up to date.

I can’t believe how much Finn changes in such a short period of time.  I’m truly now loving this parenting thing. Not that I wasn’t before, but I know that all the mom’s out there understand what I mean. We had a sort of ten week get to know you period. Now he knows I’m his, and he’s mine, and that’s fun for everybody involved!!

Jagee takes Finn swimming at Nanny and Papa G’s pool. So happy that he was able to go in, and that we have pictures of it. My mom swam here when she was a little girl! Such an important summertime place for our family.

Finn helps us scout out wedding shoot locations :)

Finn and his cousin Ellise. Every time I’m looking at a picture of them, I think, “they’re going to be REAL people someday. What are they going to think about all the crazy pictures their parents made them take together!?”

….and my babIES. Trying to keep Bella as loved as she was before Finn boy came and stole the spotlight.

Back to editing for me! I’m absolutely loving the weddings we’ve done so far. Each has been so unique and special. Two more next weekend that we hope are just as fun!

a holiday getaway

July 5, 2010

Amidst all the thousands of wedding photos I’m editing, I had to take a break to share our 4th of July holiday weekend with you (look at me all blog-connected!). We road tripped up to Cleveland on Thursday night after some deliberation, let’s go tonight, let’s go tomorrow, ok really let’s go tonight….and got there around 10pm. Always love returning home, even if this summer it’s almost every other weekend, it’s still fun to look around and see what’s different, and feel that sense of home. Extra good that there’s usually a full house to greet us, too!

On Friday we went to visit Aunt Sandy who insisted on us getting out so she could ‘babysit’ Finn. Getting out consisted of a quick trip to the bank and Quizno’s for lunch. We came back to see the babe had awakened and was solely entertained (read: stopped crying) when Uncle Mark did a out-of-control-move-every-part-of-your-body-at-once-style dance. How’d he know it’d work? C’mon! He’s a dad! He knows how these little humans work. :)

Friday night Dad (aka Jagee) convinced us to join him for a cookout at Freddy T’s house where he could show off Finn, us, and his lovely wife (aka Nanny) to some of his teacher friends. Turns out Freddy T and his wife live on 10+ acres where they devote their “off work” time to an organic garlic farm (their website is coming soon, we were told, in the meantime, check them here. It was a great cookout, and it’s always fun for me to see my parents as people, not parents! Finn experienced his first live music and campfire. And did GREAT! It was a sign of things to come for the weekend and him.

Saturday was my parents anniversary (34!) and filled with a day at Nanny and Papa’s swimming, eating, and family-ing. Mike manned the grill, per the new norm in our family, and Finn got to spend some happy time with everybody.

Sunday was Finn’s 2 month (birthday? what would that be exactly?), and while we didn’t see fireworks, we enjoyed more time with our family doing nothing but being together, and Finn got to give Uncle D a little extra love and attention (without being rescued because of cries).

What a great weekend for everyone! Phew, and now back to the real world….even though all I want to do is stay home from work tomorrow and play with this new big boy who has emerged. All of a sudden, he’s a smiling, giggling, interacting little baby who is taking his world in.

The garlic at Thaxton Organic Garlic Farm.

GrillMaster Mike!

Hope your holiday weekends were great! Shout out to Ms. KLC, who we hope had a fantastic birthday weekend!

summertime

June 30, 2010

This weekend kicked off the beginning of our wedding season, and we couldn’t be happier. We had a long stretch between our last (New Year’s Eve) wedding and Friday. And I’m thrilled to be shooting weddings without an extra person in me!

I figured before I flood the blog (because, yes, I intend to blog – in detail – all of our jobs this summer) with beautiful love bird newlyweds, I could give a family update.

Finn is growing like a weed! We’re having more and more fun everyday as the bouts of crying are replaced with smiles and cooing (or a-goooo! -ing, as it were). It’s beyond amazing to see a little personality develop…and then to think about how everyday, every interaction, we’re helping it to be created. I find myself anxiously waiting for his naps and sleeptime to be over to see what new skills he’ll show me, and reluctantly put him down for more rest when it’s time. All in all, life is good!

And now a random assortment of pictures….

Helping Jagee to celebrate his retirement ! And saying hello to Nanny with his cousin Ellise.

Dipping his feet into Nanny G and Papa’s pool!

Where have we been?!? A bit preoccupied, I’d say…..

introducing….. Mr. Finn! We welcomed baby boy into our family on May 4th, and he’s completely changed our lives. It’s been amazing to see him grow and change already in just the short (and I mean SHORT, this month FLEW BY!!) time he’s been alive. Needless to say he’s captured our hearts, and we wonder if there will ever be a day when simply watching him sleep and studying his adorable features will ever get old.

He’s got us pretty busy, but we’ve had time to shoot two E-sessions, a baby shoot, and will be starting our wedding season soon!

Here’s a sneak peak of what’s in store in the next few weeks

We had a blast shooting Asher’s 6 month baby pictures. He’s such a happy baby. He attends the daycare where our baby boy will likely go for a few days a week. Here’s hoping they become best buddies!!

We got to meet little Claire just about 10 days after she entered the world. Photographing babies takes on a whole different meaning knowing that we’ve got a little one coming our way in 12 weeks! She was so tiny! And so good. She just laid there, didn’t sleep, didn’t fuss. I’ll take one of those, please!!