i can't help it

must. stop. posting. pics. of. my. babe.

sigh...i can't help it. i like him a lot. i mean REALLY, REALLY, REALLY a lot.

5 days old...


11 days old...


15 days old...

my tiny love

so they say (not exactly sure who "they" is) a photographer never gets as many pictures of his/her own kids as they do of others kids.

huh. i believe them.

when i was large with child, i had visions of the hundreds of newborn pictures i would take floating through my head. but, alas, twelve days after having my baby, i am horrified to admit that i have only had time to take a few pictures of my beautiful little boy. i guess i forgot how crazy life is for the first little while with a newborn (not to mention with three other kids)!

soooooooo, with nothing else to say (except that i WILL pick up my camera before he grows right into a teenager), here is my beckham at four days old...

oh, and admit it...those cheeks are the BEST. i certainly can't get enough...

first glimpses...

i have facebooked, emailed, and family blogged our news all over the internet, so if you are one of the lucky ones who HASN'T been bombarded with our news...we are now the proud owners of baby boy #4...beckham owen smith!

a few shots from his first day in this big, crazy world...

waiting

no baby yet. soooo...we wait...sigh. if the baby doesn't come on his or her own by thursday, then i will be induced.

so, if you call or email and i don't respond right away, you know what i am up to :)

wish me luck!

oh, and p.s...this is NOT me at this horrid moment of 39 and a half weeks along...this picture was taken by my hubby at 35 weeks.

hot legs

haha! what a post title. sorry...couldn't think of one so i wrote the first thing that popped into my head with this family. yep, i think we can all agree that this is a beautiful family with a mom with hot legs. oh brother...it must be late. oh yep...almost two am...

i have photographed this family before and was excited to see them again. what a fun, fun, fun family!!!





ok, raise your hand if you have ever had THIS happen during a session. you know whether it has been your own family session or are a photographer during a session, one child has to have a meltdown somewhere in there (usually at the end). i LOVE this picture!

joe and jessica

pretty people. pretty location. pretty evening. yeah, this engagement session was fabulous. not much else to say except that i can't WAIT to photograph their wedding in august!!!

repeats

call them repeats, call them returning clients, call them what you will, but i love, love, LOVE seeing and photographing kids as they grow up and change. these three sessions from last weekend were all return clients and look how they have changed!!!

you can see these guys from this post last fall (pics 12-14)...



and this guy was the winner of my urban contest last may (first pic)...



and WOW, look how this one has changed since last june (pics 4-5) ...