Gideon Joseph is Here!

We welcomed a son, Gideon, on Sunday January 9th! 9lbs and 6 oz, 23" long...you can read about his birth and see a bunch more photos at the family blog HERE.

The H Family

I'm going way back to summer here for this post---and I guess I'm kinda picking and choosing sessions that I WANT to blog on! This one I am biased on. This is my brother and his beautiful family. I love photographing people I know, but sometimes it can be a challenge, too. I SO want to get good images for them---but sometimes familiarity works against me as a photographer. I'm just Aunt Laura. Nothing new or exciting. And my brother has this little thing about closing his eyes for photos. Let's just say I've learned to take a LOT of frames!

We got some good ones during this session. I love this first one of my nephew. I had been taking pictures of his 3 sisters in this beautiful field of flowers, and he had to come in and steal the best image of all. Love this kid. Love this whole family. It's been a huge blessing to live near them in Grand Rapids (they are just a mile and a half down the road!)

Baby J, 7 months

You'll maybe recognize this cutie because I took his newborn pictures---and some pregnant pictures of his momma, too. His dad is my first cousin. Yes, I have beautiful people in my family. I can't get over this kid's skin---it's still just perfect. And those eyes! And that hair! And that intense look he gives! I literally had to close my eyes and make decisions about what photos to post here, there were too many good ones!

He was such a sport for us the day we took pictures---interested, happy, calm even in a make-shift studio space (a small room in my house, with my two girls whizzing around trying to get his attention, but mostly being over-stimulating :) Yet another fun shoot!

The N Kids

Another beautiful family, another very sweet trio of siblings! These fraternal twin sisters and their little brother were almost too good to be true---adorable clothes, easy smiles, patient with me and any ideas I had. They would be serious and then give the most genuine smiles. And they all had great laughs! We had a lot of fun at this shoot....I had trouble narrowing down photos to post here.

I also included at the end the Christmas card that I designed for them---it's a trifold, so the front is just 5"x5" when it is all folded. I need to post a bunch of other Christmas cards from this year---I did some fun ones!

The U Family

One of my most favorite families to photograph---I got to take their pictures last fall, too (on a much colder day!)--and these 2 kids are just too cute and fun! Add in a super relaxed mom and dad and it makes for a great shoot. I actually locked my keys in the car during this shoot--and was relieved that it was THIS family, because they just rolled with me piling into their car and bringing me where I needed to go :) How adorable is this family? A brown-eyed boy and a blue-eyed girl...