Brad, Chelsey & Gavin!

A couple weeks ago, I had so much fun taking Brad, Chelsey and Gavin's pics.  As you all know, I love taking photos and when they are family friends, it becomes even more special to share the time with them and capture some special moments in photos that they will have for a lifetime.    Gavin is such a sweetheart and melted my heart in minutes after I met him.   I love his beautiful eyes and he has such a great smile it was just so much fun.

Fun Family Photos

Need to catch up....and .... I AM!  Woo Hoo!!!  Thank God I have such a great husband and friends.  For those who don't know, my husband started working four day weeks to help me in my business and I have hired some additional help as well.  So far, it is going great!  I have spent the last several days editing, finishing up a new website, working in the studio and looking toward the future.  It has been a great week!

But, I need to get my posts finished on my blog so here is the first of many to come in the next several days.  For those who don't know, in the past few weeks I have had a computer crash and my internet took a "nap".  But, everything is back up and running and most importantly I did NOT lose any pics in the process.  I am such an anal backup freak, I have copies all over the place.  Anyway, now that we are working properly again.....I WILL get caught up on my blogging too!   Thanks to everyone for your patience.

This family was so much fun to work with.  I cannot believe how many pics we took when they were here.   I love doing photos of Grandparents and their grandkids and they were great to work with.  Thanks for a fun shoot. 

Sneak Peeks!

Just a few from one of my sessions today.  I am having a few internet problems this weekend and uploading pics is difficult at best.  But, I got these three to load.  I absolute love these pics.  This is such a sweet family and I loved taking their family photos.  I will have more to share in the next several days but, just had to show you a couple.  I nearly wet my pants laughing when the pic of Olivia came up with the hat.  What a cutie!  Definitely a benefit of this job is all the snuggling I get to do with babies! 

Just a couple....

I absolutely am in love with this pic.  She is such a sweet little girl......

I had to add this last one.  She was such a smiley little girl.  I think I took 100 pics of her with a big smile on her face.  Then she gave me this face....I love it!  What a sweetheart. 

Sisters......

Just a few from a session I finished tonight.  Madilyn turned 5 today - Happy Birthday Maddie!  Hope you had a special birthday!  Such sweet sisters that were so much fun to work with.  Thanks for another great session!

I am getting all caught up and will be posting lots of pics in the coming days.  I am several sessions behind on posts - sorry for the delay.  Thanks to everyone for being so patient during the past couple months as our family dealt with the loss of my younger sister.  Your prayers, support and friendship has been so amazing.

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Livia...a few sneak peeks

Today was a day of photo shoots.  It started with a shoot of this beautiful little girl.  She is such a sweetheart!  It is so much fun watching her grow.  I had so much fun with her newborn pics and I shot a wedding that she was a part of and now got to spend some time taking her 6 month pics.  When she walked in the door I have to admit, I was a bit nervous.  She took one look at me and cried.....oh nooooo!!!  But, within about 30 seconds she stopped and was all smiles.  She even snuggled with me when I held her.  So sweet!  We got so many cute pics of her....mom and dad were great making funny faces, funny noises, "dancing", laughing, etc.  At one point I was thinking, I should turn this camera around and take some pics of them as they entertained their little peanut to get some of these shots.   Now wouldn't those be some fun ones on my blog.......

Several more shoots to get caught up on from the past few weeks.....I will get there.....I have been editing, ordering, designing all week!  Lots of sneak peeks to come!

Happy Easter Everyone!

Sneak Peek.....

Just a few from my session tonight.  This little girl is just the sweetest little peanut.  I had so much fun with her tonight.  She smiled constantly while here and she even was cooing and "telling me stories".  I absolutely loved it!

A couple sneak peeks....

 

Just a couple of quick sneak peeks of my session from earlier today.  Love having kids in the studio.....such a great diversion with everything going on in my life......

I'm Back.......

First, I need to apologize for being gone for a while......as many of you know, my sister suffered from a brain aneurysm last week.  It has been a long week of praying, crying, talking, etc.  Fortunately, she was in a large city close to one of the best hospitals for situations such as these.  God has answered our prayers and helped her through the surgery and her recovery thus far.  We know that it will be a long, slow process but, we are thankful for her to still be with us.  We continue to pray each day for a speedy and full recovery.  I will be taking her daughter back down to Milwaukee tomorrow so we can see her again but, I am so far behind in my blog posting that I thought I would share one with you tonight.  As I looked through the possible posts, this one jumped out at me....These are two beautiful little girls that I was so fortunate to be able to photograph one morning.  As I was looking at the photos, it made me think of me and my sister as we were growing up, laughing, playing, fighting and sharing secrets.....I can just picture these two doing that as they grow up.  They were such sweet little girls and I so enjoyed taking their photos.  Can't wait for them to come back in a few months as they grow......
Love that part.....

Such a wonderful family!!

Recently I had the great pleasure to take family photos for this wonderful family.  I have always wondered what it would be like growing up in a large family.  Although my husband has seven brothers and sisters and over the years they have truly become like my own brothers and sisters, I always kind of wondered what it would be like to grow up with all those siblings.  When I had the opportunity to work with this family, they let me take part in their family and capture their personalities for a bit and find out what it is like.  They were so loving and wonderful.  I was so honored to be a part of their time....one of their sons was home on leave from the military (he is stationed in Iraq  and hopefully he will be able to look at these soon) and another son lives in New York and was on vacation spending time with his whole family while his brother was home.   I know how difficult it is to get a small family organized and ready for photos, a larger family makes for a much more difficult time that all can get together and get their photos taken.  I cannot thank them enough for allowing me to capture some memories for all of them.  You were all awesome and I enjoyed it tremendously.