Announcement!

This was an announcement for a friend of mine in CA. We were in Bible study together in college. This little guy has been long anticipated and is finally here! It's been so fun to reconnect with Amy through this new stage of life. She's an amazing mom!

Brugh!

What can I say, other than that we are all in love with our little Bruzer! Here are his stats:
Merrick Brugh (sounds like Drew)
born May 14th at 7:42am
6lbs 13oz 20"

And here are a lot of pictures!

Long time, no see!

I'm just not at a stage of life right now where I can juggle my photography and blogging and raising my little ones. But I'm okay with that. And if I take 6 month breaks between posts, that's okay too! Well, here is the latest. Just a personal one. I can't guarantee that I'll be up for posting pictures of the new baby when he comes. He does have a name, finally, but we're keeping it under wraps until he's born. We're 1 month from due date.

We hired the Zoo Lady to come to our house to do face/body painting. This was a combo maternity/4-year portraits for E/18-month portraits for S. We had such a blast getting painted and taking these pictures! One of E's favorite things right now is having her face painted. We do a little paint on her cheek every Wednesday (would be every day if I didn't set a limit on it!), so you can imagine how excited she was to have the REAL face painting lady come to our house!

Family

Yes, this is two posts in one day! Unbelievable. Anyway, here is a snapshot of a little session I did for my sister-in-law's family. We did a really fun shoot out in a grassy field with gorgeous evening sun...even got covered with burs and sticker things from the plants and these crazy bugs. BUT, we forgot that my in-law's computer doesn't seem to like our memory card and we lost all those pictures. It was disappointing. Fortunately we found some time the morning my sister-in-law and her family were driving back home.

Another Newbie!

It's been a long while since I blogged and it's not for lack of material. I'm backlogged, but hopefully will be posting a couple sessions this week. This is the most recent session. The Mom and Dad have become great friends of Andy's and mine and we are so excited for them to welcome their first baby! They are going to be amazing parents.

Here's a snapshot of our session.

Cutest little redhead you ever did see

We have been busy with life, and I have not gotten much time online to post this snapshot of my session with this cute little redhead. I'm so excited because they live near us and also just moved here, so that should make us automatic friends, right? That's what I thought.

This little gal was jam-packed with personality to match that hair. She can boogie like no other one-year old that I've seen. And after an extended session (sorry I stuck around so long, A & J), I finally had to quit because all she wanted to do was sit in my lap. Made it hard to get any good shots, but I had plenty already.