Meet Mr. Owen (my most recent new baby)

This was such a blast! I LOVE puppies so I jumped on this when his owner asked if I'd take pictures of her 7-week old puppy. She kept apologizing that he wasn't being good but he was actually so easy to work with. In fact, one of the easiest new babies ever.






Ummm, he weighs more than that. That's just the front end. A little chunky monkey:)

Fastest pics ever

I spotted this field and loved the yellow flowers. I just know that it will be cut soon so I headed out with my girls and a friend of mine and her girls to take a few shots in the flowers. The only problem was that it had been pouring rain every single day, and was supposed to continue to pour, and I didn't have much time. By the time we grabbed clothes and did some quick hair fixing, drove over there and unloaded everyone and everything, we had 20 minutes until I had to leave to go to another photo shoot. It was like "Ok, you...get out there!" "Act like you love each other"! NOW! "Ok, next"! It was pretty funny but I'm really glad we went.


I love side profiles











Can't you just feel the love between my two? Ha I'm pretty sure they were making smart alec remarks to each other and finding it pretty amusing.



Our poser of the day



















Ahem....couldn't get a real smile out of her until we said a certain boy's name.

Dream Location

This place had it all...sigh:) There were hay bales, huge beautiful trees, and 2 old rustic barns with vines growing on them. I could do pictures there every day.

One of our kids had to do it

Threaten to run away that is. The girls were never brave enough or didn't think of it, but Mr. Drew is a totally different ballgame. Just today I've been told that I'm not his friend, that I'm not invited to his birthday (which is not until the end of May...hello!) and he wanted us to pull over tonight and let him out because he was leaving. I couldn't help myself...I had a little fun with it.
"Oh yeah, where are you going?"
"I'm gonna go to my friend's house."
"But you don't even have any shoes on. What if you step on a rock or glass?"
And then the girls had to chime in and tell him that it would hurt and he wouldn't have any band aids (he's a band aid fanatic) and that it would gush blood.
"How are you going to get there?"
"I'm gonna run super fast." (Yes, he's still using the super word every chance he gets)
We actually did pull over...to rearrange his seatbelt and pants that were halfway down his behind which was one of the reasons he was upset...but he thought that we were pulling over to let him out and that didn't go over very well either. Good times.

Here's one of my fave families and their new baby girl. Momma was one of my first maternity clients and it's been so awesome to follow her growing family. Hope you enjoy the peek of your new little princess...she's precious:)

He's a new big brother

We just did his 2-year-old pictures and he was an only child but I just got word yesterday that he's now a big brother! Congratulations on your baby girl K family. Can't wait to meet her:)

















How many dogs do you see? It takes a minute.



These dads and all their tricks lately...

bang, bang

-mom brought a huge bouquet of balloons for these pictures

-I carried them and tied them onto the stroller (didn't knot it because we did that at a recent photo shoot and then had to find something to cut them off because they get so tight blowing around)

-we forgot about them and did some other pictures several feet away

-there are signs that say "Please stay on the walkways" "Stay on the path" etc...

-I decided to break the rules and step off of said path into a grassy area so that I could get the perfect angle and at the exact moment I stepped off the path we hear...bang, bang, bang

-my first thought...they have this dang thing booby trapped...is someone shooting at me?


-mom asked what that was...I don't know I said

-we took a few more pictures, walked to get our other things and

-the balloons were GONE...stuck up in a tree...popped (you knew where this was going didn't you?)

-I felt terrible and what a bummer but glad to know

-the place isn't booby trapped after all:)

Such Troopers

I know I've talked about having issues with ants at photo shoots before but this time took the cake. We went to a location that I had been eyeing and it was just as fabulous as I thought it would be. I LOVE LOVE LOVE yellows and greens in the outdoor colors and that late afternoon light coupled with trees, grass, and bushes that have yellows and greens and then add in the sunlight streaming though...well, that's what this place has. But what this place also had as we quickly found out was crazy ants -- aka Rasberry Ants.

And the name "crazy" fits them perfectly. They crawl across you at a speed of like 80mph...I'm not kidding! The good thing is that they don't bite. So we would see them crawling across our feet as it they were in the Formula One race but no bites. After a minute or two of this I said I guess we'd better move on...although it was killing me because the light, the yellows and greens, a happy one-year-old adorable girl...well I knew I loved the location (minus the ants) but how could I expect them to deal with crazy ants. But they didn't mind...they said they're not biting us so we can deal for a few minutes...Yeah! So, they get the award for harshest conditions for a photo op with the best attitude:) I hope you can "see" the beauty that I was seeing for this place. Enjoy the sneak peek:)