
She is doing it! Walking like she has been doing it for years.
A year ago she wasn’t even here yet, and now look at her. Taking over the house.
She is truly a blessing, my little Charlotte.


She is doing it! Walking like she has been doing it for years.
A year ago she wasn’t even here yet, and now look at her. Taking over the house.
She is truly a blessing, my little Charlotte.

I am not ready for it. Nope.
I want her to be my baby forever. And let’s be honest at 5, 15 or 50 they are always your baby.
I am not ready for the cuddly infant phase to be over. It always passes too quickly and you end up wondering where exactly all those sleepless nights when they were a newborn went.
She is 2 weeks away from being one year old, and today she took nine steps. She also had her first set of piggy tails.

The first year is so bittersweet. You never want it to end, but you also can’t wait to see what happens in their future.
One of my 2010 resolutions was to make more personal blog entries. I am not doing such a fabulous job!!
Yesterday, I took some pictures of my nearly 11 month old daughter (where did the time go?!) for an article about one year portraits and cake smash sessions for TAoPaN mag . I know she isn’t one yet, but I had some new ideas that I hadn’t got a chance to try out in my last cake smash session.

I traveled out to Belton, Missouri to met 8 day old baby S. So sleepy and sweet, he love to have his little picture taken.




the winner is…..
#3 !!!

and the random drawing was Christen, cljhoops@—-.com
You have until midnight tonight to contact me about your session, or I will re-draw a number from random.org.
Thanks to every one for playing, it was such a close race!!
I am also looking for newborns right now and the session is on me. I am only taking a few, so don’t miss out on your chance to have once in a life time pictures of your newborn.
Two boys always equals double trouble, right?

Or double cuties, how ever you want to look at it.
I hope every one had a blessed and safe Christmas.
See ya’ next year
It’s hard to believe that its been 9 months already. Little C is the best baby. She loves to cuddle. She loves to head butt (yes. head butt!)
She just plain loves every one.






As a mother I know how frantic birthday parties can be, especially when you have that under 5 years old crowd! As a photographer, I know that I want to get memorable shots, but trying to be the birthday hostess and the photographer can be tough.
I have these two packages that might cure your party blues.
Each package includes a mini session for the birthday boy or girl. This will be a 15-30 minute shoot of just them, doing things they love! Let them give you ideas for location, props, clothing etc. This session will provide the image for their custom birthday invites. This price also includes my time on the day of the party.
basic package- $275 includes the shoot, the 24 birthday cards, me on the day of the shoot and a mini 4×6 album of all pictures taken.
glamour package- $400 includes all of the above and a small studio set up in the party location, pictures of all the kids and individual pictures in 4×6 size of each party goer will be give as a gift to them.
Contact me and we can talk about which package is right for you and your child’s special day!
I got to spend some of a morning with the H family. Little T is just the most adorable thing!
He got a very much deserved treat at the end of the session from yours truly.
Here are a few from our time together, I hope you like them!



Especially for the K children. They met me today and it was all smiles through the bitter cold. We didn’t last longer than 45 minutes, that is for sure!
It’s always a pleasure taking pictures of these kids, this is such a fun family!



This has been a good week for me. First I was nominated in the top 5 (4th place!) Kansas City portrait photographers, and today I was one of the 45 photographers selected from hundreds to participate in a Matilda Jane contest. So be on the look out for some super cute clothing modeling from my little Addie soon!
We love MJ check it out at www.matildajaneclothing.com
