Meet Baby Eloise

It was such a delight meeting this beautiful baby girl! Eloise was recently born to some friends of mine and she seemed to fit perfectly into their little family unit. She has gorgeous big blue eyes and such a lovely content temperament. I am so happy for Joel, Katie, and big brother Copeland!

Copeland is just a few months younger than my daughter and you never really know how a two and a half year old will do during a photo shoot... but Copleland was awesome the whole time! He even had some burst of silliness here and there:)

They sure are cute together.

Beautiful baby!

Congratulations Mayward family on the arrival of baby Eloise!

Happy Birthday Harper!

It's sometimes hard to believe how fast the first year of a child's life flies by. I took pictures of Harper from the very beginning and now he is one, incredible! It was awesome getting to see this little guy since he and his parents moved out of state quite a while ago. It was convenient that he was back in town on his birthday so we could do his 1 year shoot!

Momma Sarah was flying solo on this trip with Harper cause dad couldn't leave his schooling, he was missed but will have some great shots of his wife and boy to place on his desk now:)

We used these little Toms shoes in the maternity shoot, now they fit his growing feet!

And it's a good thing cause this boy loves to run!

The only time during our shoot that Harper stood still was when we came across these beauties. Someone already has a green thumb I think!

Sarah brought along a little cupcake for Harper to chow down on to celebrate his first Birthday!

Happy Birthday Harper! Loved seeing you both!

The McDermid Family

This wonderful family asked me to head over to their property with my camera for some family photos. It was a great shoot filled with Elmo songs (for the smallest member of the group), silly faces, and lots of laughter indeed:) We started things off with all the kiddos and they were quite the energetic bunch!

Proud grandma and grandpa with all the grandchildren.

These two were so sweet.

You all make one good looking family!

Latvian Doll

Back in 2006 my husband Jake and I (we were dating at the time) went on a mission trip to Latvia with a group of high school students from our church. I found out recently that my younger brother Kale is going there this summer on a similar mission trip and I am so excited for him! I found it fitting in light of that news to post something Latvia related:) So back to 2006...Jake and I knew at that point that we wanted to get married and while looking at souvenirs one afternoon in a town called Riga we came across a little paper doll set that we just had to purchase for our future daughter. Totally not joking, somehow we knew one day that we would have our little Ivy:) I have had it tucked away for the past 6 years and now that Ivy is at an age where she understands what it means to be gentle I decided it was time to bring her out. Oh was Ivy thrilled to play with her first paper doll! I tried to explain to her the history and importance of this little lady but she kept interrupting me and asking that I begin to cut out the different outfits so I obliged:) It was such a sweet little moment of play and of course I had to document it a bit so here she is coloring the first paper outfit...

I am so glad that Jake and I purchased this doll those years ago, such a fun little piece of our history!