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This newborn session though. Seriously. It's not often that you get the perfect combination of sleepy baby with alert content baby all in an hour in home photography session. I love photographing babies at home, everyone can be a bit more comfortable and relaxed.
This baby girl. How adorable is she. Her hair, her FACE, her amazing big sister. TOO much sweet.
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Um, still haven't caught up on blogging.
Can't believe I have yet to share this gorgeous baby boy and his fun lovin' family.
It's not often that you laugh through an ENTIRE studio photo session. But, we did.
If you know this family, you know that you it is not uncommon to find this sweet family full of laughter.
So happy to be a part of capturing a little bit of what makes you all fabulous.
A gorgeous family. A rolly, polly happy baby boy. What's not to love?
(from our session in DECEMBER) omg.
One thing became crystal clear to me today in regards to the newborn/infant stages of our little girls life.
This will all be a beautiful memory one day. Just as my pregnancy is now. Just as the delivery is now. Just as her first week is now. Just as her first month is now. Life moves on, with or without you. You don't stay in a moment. Good or bad. You move along. Looking back along the way, over your shoulder... watching your life as you choose to remember it. If you are able to hold onto that thought in any moment... it becomes sweeter. More poignant. More precious. Everything is more precious when you realize how impermanent it really is.
I jokingly wrote to a seasoned momma Crystal "I'm hoping this newborn-no sleep thing doesn't last forever, and that the crazy tiredness will eventually be a memory!?!!! (if it is not so, please lie to me and tell me a full nights sleep is somewhere in my future!!!!!)"
She wrote something that touched me so sweetly, she said "Don't sweat it, it will come, and then you too, will have the precious memories of the sun rising while your sweet bundle finally crashes, hands relaxed, breathing even and bottom lip moving rhythmically while she still nurses in her dreams. The times when you forget how tired or frustrated you are and revel in the magic. Enjoy, Erin, and remember you aren't necessarily missing out by not having that perfect sleeper of a baby."
It got me. In 2 months, a year, ten years... I will remember this time in our lives, as Crystal does and miss it. Likely miss it more than I know how to control. When Maisie starts to walk, when she is dressing herself, or when she no longer wants to cuddle with me. I'll remember when I used to rock her to sleep in the middle of the night with her swaddled up tightly in my arms, kissing her perfect little face over and over. We've all heard it a million times, especially with kids. "It goes so fast". I know this. I am all "live in the moment" but, I wasn't really. I mean, I was living in 'moments'... mainly good ones, but not all of them. Today I tried to consciously live in all of them.
I'm grateful that I've had this awakening now... and not regretfully in five years, wondering where all the time has all gone. I'll likely have moments, hours, days, where I forget... but hopefully I'll be able to soak it all along the way (and thankfully I'll have a little help from countless photographs as well).
Here are two of my favorites of our little girl over the past few weeks.
Brace yourselves... these two little girls may just melt your heart into a big mass of warm and fuzzy goo.
They were a photographers dream, so precious. I can barely deal with how much I love the babies in a bucket shot above... and then there is this one next of little Marley who was not loving being photographed... until this very moment, and just look at the expression on her perfect little face!!!
SO SWEET!
Thank you Kiley and Adam for sharing such precious moments in your little girls lives, they are truly wonderful!!!
Well, I've come out of hiding... or partially. I am still enjoying some "me" (and puppy) time. Going for walks, day treks with my fellas (Bryce and Frank) and just really getting myself all back together in preparation for another "busy" season. Which begins in March this year.
In any case, I'm not really back shooting yet. I am only taking on about one shoot per week until March. I really need to or else, I fear my creative juices will run dry... leaving me without anything to offer my clients, and that would be awful.
So, I'm re-grouping. I have shut the Willow Point studio doors, and am only doing studio shoots that were booked before the holidays, in my home. We are in the very beginning stages of building our own studio in our own yard. I will keep you posted on that as we move along with that.
In the meantime, here is beautiful Jana, her husband Craig, and their amazing little boy Shea. Congratulations you guys, he is such a LOVE BUG!!!
Off to answer emails, phone calls, re-design wedding packages, business cards and write up wedding contracts, and then eventually clean my house... yah, that's my "me" time.
More soon...
