My blog has moved!

It was time. I had been planning this for a while and I finally did it. I moved my blog! So, please go check it out:
MY NEW BLOG

I do have a link back to this blog at the top of the new one, so you can find your way back here if you are ever want to find something here; but for now, head over to the new blog. Leave a comment. Let me know what you think!!

And... for my last picture here, how about a little cutie offering you some flowers?

Time sure does fly!

I can't believe McLean is already a year old!! I just love this family and feel honored to have been there to record so much of their son's first year. I loved all of his little teeth and his toothy smiles! I learned that he really enjoys watermelon, balloons and cake! I can't wait to finish editing this session!

Dancing in a field!

I have been a bad, bad blogger! I'm way behind. So I'm trying to catch up. I hope to get at least 3 blog posts done this week (including this one). So lets start with some adorable girls dancing in a field. They had so much fun and I just loved the light! They loved the flowers, especially the dandelions, or the "wish flowers" as they called them.

Some more from Dino Park in NYC

I posted some pictures the other day of this mom and son swing dancing in the park, here are some more traditional pictures that I took that day. Could he be any cuter??

Twins in NYC - rooftop garden

Look at these cute babies! We had fun talking and getting some pictures in the garden on the roof of their apartment building. Certainly not something I see in the suburbs of Atlanta! I had a hard time narrowing down the pictures to put on my blog and I'm sure once I get back home I will be adding some from this session to my website. :-)

Swing dancing!

I did a mini session today with a wonderful mom and son. I need to get to bed; but I couldn't resist checking out some of the pictures of them swing dancing in the park. So cute!

I'm on vacation...

I'm sorry if I'm a little slow to get back to you right now; but I'm out of town with the kids. My parents and I decided to take the kids to NYC for a bit and we are doing the tourist thing. My poor husband is stuck at home working, so I have been sure to take lots of pictures. One thing that I have thought about on this trip is how important it is to make sure that you capture your kids being themselves! It is great to have smiley (often posed) pictures; but it is also important to have pictures of your kids doing their day to day things as well as the special fun things - like vacation. In that mindset, here are three pictures I have pulled up from our time around the city - one daughter at the New York Public Library, reading to some stuffed animals; my other daughter wearing her favorite new thing and my son's latest fashion statement. These are all moments and things that I want to be sure to remember for years to come. And I want to remind all of you to pick up your cameras and capture some moments; let the kids do their own thing and you snap away!

A Father's Day shoot

I had lot of fun getting pictures of these six cute kids!

Such a fun birthday party!

I'm going to post some personal snapshots because it was such a great time and I want to give credit to the place where we had the party. My twins turned 6 and we decided to have their party away from our neighborhood. I some how stumbled across this website. I am so glad I did! The kids all had so much fun. Jessica, the girl who does the parties, was very easy to work with to get everything set up for the party. The kids loved riding the horses, doing a craft, hitting the pinata and watching the miniature horse do tricks. If you are looking for something a little different to do for your kid's party I really recommend you talk with Jessica about doing a horse party!

Having fun riding:








I got paranoid that there wouldn't be enough cake, so at the last minute I ordered the Scooby Doo cake. It turned out that I didn't need it. We had a LOT of cake left over. The adorable horse cake was made by Jessica's grandmother. :-)







Arts and crafts were a big hit!



"Biscuit" doing some tricks:






And finally, the mad dash after the pinata broke.

An adorable 13 month old!

You might recognize Lucas from some of his pictures over the past year. I can't believe he is already a year old! We missed 12 months due to the craziness of spring; but got some super cute shots for 13 months. I thought I'd post some black and whites because these just look so good in black and white! Don't worry though mom, you'll get to see them in color too. :-)

Prepare yourself for some cuteness!

Hannah's mom and I now joke that I probably just need to have a "Hannah gallery" on my site because it is so hard for me to pick from all of the pictures I have of her when selecting pictures for my galleries. My kids have had this kitchen for years and Hannah's mom made her this adorable apron and chef hat. I love how the picture came out! And the other two, well they are just pure Hannah cuteness! (kitchen picture inspired by Life in Motion Photography.)

Another little red head!

This was an impromptu mini session for my youngest daughter's ski teacher. We had too many groceries when it was time to go home and her teacher agreed to take them off our hands. When he answered the door with this adorable guy in his arms I just had to take a few quick pictures.

Shame on me!

I can't believe I forgot to post the big brother's pictures (I did get them to mom and dad though). I hope that my son grows up to be this great of a big brother! He is such a nice kid, his mom and dad should be proud!

Sometimes you have this picture in your head...

You know how sometimes you have this picture in your head of what you want? Sometimes you get it, sometimes you don't. I didn't this time. ;-) Little brother did NOT want to be on big brother's shoulders! But I think it is still sweet because you can see how much these kids enjoy each other!

So, first is the picture that didn't work out like I imagined:



And on to a few pictures of the adorable little brother. LOVE his eyes and eyelashes!

3 cute kids!

The other day we took advantage the gorgeous weather (well, it was for a few days, now it is back to RAIN) and got a special session in. Dad is out of town for a while, so mom and I are working together to surprise him with pictures of the kids. As I started going through the pictures I realized that I couldn't narrow it down to just a few for my blog. So... I'm doing 3 days of posts - one kid per post. But first, how cute are they?



Now, on to the big sister. She is a dancer and so full of life. Oh, and how sweet is she with her dog?! (I guess technically she is the middle child; but that still makes her the big sister to her little brother...)

A big thanks to The Verve Pipe!

I am so glad to have my site up! I have been working on it for at least a month and it is a weight off of my shoulders to have it done. A little back story...

I decided I wanted music on my new site. My husband wasn't sold on this. But he humored me as I talked about it. I could NOT find the right song. I must have listened to hundreds of songs that I could get permission to use or royalty free music. But nothing was right. In my mind I kept thinking of this song on a kids album that my three and I started listening to online at the end of last year. There was this one song that was right. The problem was it was a song by The Verve Pipe. I mean seriously, how would I even get in touch with them? But... as time went on I just couldn't find anything that was as perfect as that one song. I couldn't even find anything that came close. So, I asked my husband how I would get in touch with a band to ask to use their music (he knows WAY more about music than I do). He gave me some suggestions. I found an e-mail address for The Verve Pipe and decided to go for it. I e-mailed and asked if I could use it for my new site. I called my husband and told him I had sent the e-mail and I hoped that I would hear back. At this point he asked who the band was. When I told him he chuckled and asked if I had a back up plan... they were kind of a major band and might not even own the rights to the song.

But I kept my hopes up and I worked on my site. And last Friday I got an e-mail from The Verve Pipe's manager. And we worked it out. I got permission to use the ONE song I wanted for my site!

So check it out here. If you like the song, check out the album. You can listen to it and buy it here:
The Verve Pipe Family Album

My kids love all of the songs and I enjoy them too! Even my husband had to admit that if I'm going to have music on my site that this is a good song for it.

It's up!

Whew! It's up. Check out my new site here. I'm sure I will be tweaking it over the next few weeks; but YAY, it is up! Let me know what you think. :-) Oh, and now I will start working on changing my blog... I'll hold off on setting a deadline for now though. ;-)

It's coming, my new site that is.

I know I've been talking about it for a while now; but it really is coming. My goal is to have my new site up by MONDAY! By putting it out here I now have a deadline to be held to. I am very excited about the new look! Remember, along with the site will come my new pricing. If you book before I roll all of it out you will get my current pricing until your gallery expires (30 days after it is posted), so call or e-mail me now to book a date!