Baby "G"

The cute couple that I did maternity photos for last month had their baby! He is so teeny (well compared to what my boys were) and very adorable! He did not want to be awake for the photos but that made for some cute sleeping pictures! Here is your sneak peek mom and dad!

Been awhile

I haven't posted in almost a month! I promise to catch you all up!

Yesterday I found out that I won an incredible prize! I will be getting a Tracy Joy® SUSIE camera strap cover that was given away by MCP Actions. Tracy Joy makes custom camera bags in some fabulous prints and someday I hope to have one for myself! And Jodie at MCP Actions has some incredible actions for photographers! My thanks to both!

On another note, my baby will be one next month! Collin is getting so big and has started walking! I am so excited but I am also sad at how fast he has grown up. I plan to do some fun one year pictures and I'll share them with you soon!

LOLcatz

I don't know if any of you have ever seen thses but they are hilarious! If you have a chance, go to http://icanhascheezburger.com/ but be warned that it is addictive! Here is a photography related picture!

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Some sports action

This weekend I had the privilege if working with 3 great photographers doing youth sports team and individual photos. I was an assistant for the first time as well as shooting photos. We had each team in and out in 10-15 minutes and got some great shots. I borrowed a Canon 5d from one of them rather than using my camera for consistency, now I can't wait until Sony comes out with a full frame camera! Still love mine though!

Look, a new tongue!

Collin had a frenulumectomomy about two weeks ago due to his tongue tie (the tissue that attaches to the bottom side of your tongue extended all the way to the tip of his tongue and made swallowing food difficult and would have caused speech problems). This is a very basic procedure where they put clamps on the tissue to cut off blood supply, after numbing the area, and then clip it. Daddy held him while I occupied Ethan and Collin didn't even cry! The problem was noticed shortly after birth but most pediatricians have a wait and see policy unless there is a serious problem nursing and there wasn't. But as time went on, I realized it was causing some problems and he had a hard time eating solids. I had to convince the pediatrician we needed a referral to an ENT (the ENT was very proactive believing it would definitely cause speech problems), but I was very nervous about it even though I knew it was the right decision. There were no after-care issues and breastfeeding was already easier. About a week later, Collin realized that his tongue was different and did something amazing: he stuck his tongue out for the first time! For the next week I couldn't get him to keep his tongue in his mouth! We joked about him being our little Michael Jordan but I worried he would bite his tongue. He's finally able to eat thick foods but he still doesn't like chunky foods.

Maternity photos preview

Last weekend I had the opportunity to photograph this sweet couple. They are both very excited about the nearing arrival of their baby boy and she is just glowing! Here are just a few of my favorites from this fun session!

Postponing the contest

It looks like I'm going to have to postpone the contest. There haven't been enough entries, so for now I'm going to put the contest on hold. If you know anyone that wants to participate send them here. If you sent in an entry, I'll hold onto it until I try this again and I'll let you know when that will be. Thanks for understanding!