Remember these two?…

Anne & Josh are expecting a baby very soon! It’s so flattering when a fellow photographer asks you to photograph them. I traveled up to Maine to photograph Anne, and her husband Josh met up with us during his lunch break for a few. I love how calm and relaxed Anne is during the first portion of our shoot, and once Josh showed up I got to see the hammy side of her! She and Josh are so silly and cute, I couldn’t help but laugh the entire time editing these! Congratulations to you two!

Happy Friday everyone! I have another baby shoot to share with you today. Meet new parents Tori and Amber with their little 1 month old daughter, Blaise. This was my youngest baby shoot to date and I must say I really *really* love watching new parents interact with their child. The territory is always new and changing. With all of the sleepless nights, diaper changes and busy schedules, I think it’s great when couples take the time out to document this important time in their life. I know when I look at photos of me when I was a newborn, the excitement and joy in my parent’s eyes makes me forget about all those teenage fights and “I hate you!”s (we’ve all been there!). I am sure Blaise will look back at these photos when she is in her 30’s with the same thoughts.

I’ve been told you can’t mess with Tori’s swaddling skills!

Since shooting weddings has slowed down a bit for me this winter I have had time to take on other photography adventures. I don’t discriminate when it comes to photographing, I just love doing it! The March-November months is mostly filled up with weddings and so I am so psyched about photographing people and their new children! Most of you who know me are like, wut?! Kids?! Well, since photographing Charley’s kids back in 2009 I’ve decided that I love other people’s kids! Especially photographing them.

This is Ashley, Andy and Lila (and Carra!). Ashley calls her “Lila-bean” which makes me happy because I love the word bean. It’s possibly my most favorite word. I went to high school with Ashley and I probably hadn’t seen her since graduation but I have to say, seeing people you went to high school with, with children is something else. They’re people that you were all angsty and teenagery with and it was great to see her in the beginnings of motherhood. She and her husband Andy are great parents and it was such a joy to watch them interact with Lila. This was my youngest shoot, which was followed by my even younger shoot the next day (a 1 mo. old!). I’m loving it! These are just a *few* of the images. I took sooo many and can’t even knock it down under 150 images! Too many cute faces. Plus we had a lot of nekkid bum time, which I have decided won’t go on the website.

Carra the sheeb has been an excellent big sister. She had a bit of a rough start with the new addition to the family, but I think that is definitely understandable.