Thanks to my awesome business partner at Life's Little Blessings for this amazing photos!  I love them so much Nicole!!












 

I love taking pictures.  Love it.  Someday I hope to make my living from it.  Working on that.  So it was pretty cool last month when the pictures I took of NJ's Wee were posted on a local wedding magazine blog.  I, of course, sent it out immediately to everyone I knew.  Guess I can cross that off the bucket list!

Many, many, many, many, many months ago.  Before I had mommy brain and my time wasn't spent covered in snot and drool my pal and I got together and decided it was time to pursue our passion.  And so began Life's Little Blessings.  And what a blessing it has been.

We were both nervous about it.  We wanted to do it right.  We wanted to not just be successful but we wanted people to walk away happy.  We didn't want to hurt our friendship.  Most of all we just wanted to learn and share our joy with others.

What I didn't expect to get out of it was the joy that others brought to me.  Capturing THAT look.  Your little one's perfect smile.  Love in the eyes.  Your blessings.  It's been so awesome.  I'm grateful for every shoot and every client that has put their faith in us and let us to your lives.

NJ got married in January.  Less than a month later I had Jackson.    The week we came home she kept pestering me to come over one day and I kept telling her no because I was having a really bad new mommy day.

A few days later I finally let her in and she showed up with a bag in hand.  Inside the bag was the test results from the hospital confirming she was pregnant.  I cried.

She's my one of my nearest and dearest, my favorite margarita maker and my business partner.  And now she's a mommy.  But before that she was a really cute pregnant girl.  Thanks for letting me capture it.

If you have been hanging around this site for any length of time you know how much I adore my nieces. They are the funniest little human beings I've ever met.  My youngest niece, the Lovebug, seems to be the most excited about Jackson's arrival and also very concerned about the size of my belly.  She's asked me more than once, "Why you belly so big?"  And the other day when she was at my house she stuck her ear to my belly and told me that Jackson told her that he is ready to come out and play with her and that he loves her very much. 

My oldest niece, my Butterbean, has proudly declared that she believe Jackson's is going to be a genius.  I believe she is probably right.  I had a dream the other night about her holding him and cooing at him.  She also asked me a few weeks ago when he was going to come out.  I told her in February and she asked if that was after Christmas.  I said yes it was and she sighed and said, "That's forever from now."  I agree kid.

I took the girls out a few weeks ago to get some fall pictures of them.  Here's a few of my favorites.