Berlin & Elijah

The other day I did a super mini-session with each of my kids. I stopped in Davison to a little ice cream shop called Scoops. Nice little place! The kids were a little distracted by all the ice cream but as a reward for the pictures, ice cream treat! (my husband James too!) It is so funny how the personalities of each kid come out. Berlin is such a ham and a little on the crazy side. She insisted on the outfit she is wearing too. She likes all things sparkle. Elijah is more on the serious quiet side. You'll see... :)


My Berlin is a little crazy! :)



My baby boy is now 16 months old!

Mr. Hayden.

Last weekend I was able to photograph Hayden again--I haven't seen him since he was 2 months! WOW, he got so big! LOVE his hair! Here are a couple pictures of him now that he is a 17 month old toddler:

















Standing still was NOT easy to capture with this one! :D

illustrator fun + my crazy daughter.

Ha ha! I don't usually post my silly stuff on this blog...I save it for my family to endure. But hey, why not post here? I normally use photoshop for all of my designing but started my hand at Adobe Illustrator and this was my first try and I came across this picture from summer of my daughter Berlin that I thought was hilarious. This was one of those in between shots of her making silly faces for me... pretty much the only kind she knows how to make once a camera is on her. P.S. This is a design for the Portfolio and Proof Boxes that I offer for both weddings and portraits.

Sisters H.

Last week, I had the pleasure of meeting these two girls. We had a nice time walking around (and playing around...). Sisters are such a wonderful blessing!



Here are a couple:

Tina and boys....

Last week, I met up with my friend, Tina, to do some annual pictures of her kids. It was a bit cold and dreary out, but the kids didn't mind (of course!). They ran around and played, stopping every now and then to pose for me--little cuties! Below are some of my faves:

Between tackles.... :)

Additions.

Look at this beautiful baby! Meet my new nephew Egan. He is hiding his dark hair under that hat. Just beautiful! Here he is only a few hours old. I am sure there will be many updated pictures to come.

300 Reasons.

I could give a number of reasons why this weekend was a good one. First, I was able to get out of the house to watch a movie. Second, the movie I saw was amazing! 300 was really just one of those movies that I was happy to see on a big screen. At first I wasn't sure I would like it because violence and wars aren't really my choice features of films but it was done really well. Mainly, I loved the look....the style was fantastic. The characters were developed and the violence was offset by some humor that was actually funny.

This weekend I was also able to take pictures for this little cutie! He turns one next weekend.

At first he was afraid to touch the mysterious goo.






















Then he got into it...that goo tastes good!

Yum!




Tired after his cleanup...






















All in all, a good weekend!

Baby can rock.

If you are a parent, there is no doubt that you have walked around with the alphabet song in your head all day or humming the melody of the song from random toys (mine in particular is 'I'm a magical unicorn with rainbow colors and glowing horn...'). This last year I was photographing a senior, Charlie, and he told me about Radiohead having a lullaby record that I should check out. Well, I did check it out and found that there is this company www.babyrockrecords.com that has many rock band renditions of lullabies including Pink Floyd, Coldplay, Bjork, and Queens of the Stone Age. Soothing for both child and parent!