Jordan...six months!

My baby boy is almost six months old now. How did that happen?! We did a little impromptu photoshoot yesterday when he realized he was happy with clear skin (he has eczema fairly bad so this doesn't happen often) and was in cute clothes. So this is about a week early...

Little Zoe

This little girl is the fifth in her family and the first girl! (See her brothers below). I'll have more of her and her family in a couple of days!

I'm sorry

Have you ever done something that you didn't believe in?
Something that went against your beliefs?
Against everything that you hold true?

I did.
Yesterday.

And I'm confessing it here.

That cute picture of the four brothers is actually...




This...



I'm sorry, Cardinal Nation. I'm sorry.

One more...

Sorry that I've been missing here. My husband's grandpa passed away and we were out of town for a while mourning his death and celebrating the life that he lived and is now living! By the way, while we were in California I put together a photo collage of Grandpa and it just reminded me of the importance of photos in capturing the moments of our day to day living!

So I'm wrapping up my editing on this session today and I just wanted to share one more. This little girl will be a new big sister any day now and I just love in this photo how her soon-to-be relinquished baby of the family status is captured as she holds her binky and blankey!

Waiting for Baby

I think a common misconception about maternity photographs is that they are just pictures of the belly. To me, maternity photographs are also there to capture small moments in time. A moment of excited anticipation. A moment of knowing that in just a few short days, life will never be quite the same. And a moment of appreciating life as it has been. For this family, it was all about capturing life as a family of three, waiting on their fourth.

What a cute big sister Chloe is going to be! I can't help but think about my Xavier since he was about the same age as Chloe when Jordan was born this summer.




Chloe likes to watch Barney and we told her that Bop was inside my camera lens. Well it got us this beautiful picture! But it did come back to haunt me a little later when this smart cookie kept asking to watch Barney. Oops!



And Chloe was worn out and ready for a nap after all of those, so onto Mom and Dad...


The next two are so similar, but I couldn't decide which one I liked better!







I can't wait to meet your new little one!

Emma and Owen

Somehow I posted these little ones' pictures on my facebook, but forget to blog about them. Oops! So returning to Emma and Owen...I had the opportunity to photograph them about a week ago. These two darling babies could not be loved more by their mommy and daddy. And part of that love is the sacrifice of sleep and maybe even a little sanity at times. Lisa and John, you are doing a great job!

Now these two made me work hard as they did not really want to sleep at the same time! But it was worth it to capture some of these moments...

Emma was the first to cooperate :)



And then they both fell asleep!





It's a job just to pick up and hold both of these little ones!

Such alert eyes!





I started to panic just a bit when I realized we hadn't gotten many individual shots of Owen...but he finally gave in and slept for us near the end!

37 week checkup

Awww...what a cute soon-to-be big sister!


Just one for tonight...more later this holiday weekend!