Lillian Grace

Lilly was named after two of her great grandmothers, and she is every bit as delicate and pretty as her name implies. She has the most beautiful, smooth baby skin I've ever seen thanks to her mama's wonderfully olive complexion.

Even the sweetest little girls cry sometimes...

And this is the chandelier I mentioned in her mom's post...
nurseries like this make me want to have a baby just so I can decorate!

It's a Surprise!

Last week I managed to have a session scheduled on a day it didn't rain or even threaten to, yay! My favorite thing about this couple was how much they laughed. He put on fun music for her, joked about the absurdity of what a maternity session really is, and they just went on being themselves. Meanwhile I stood guard at the glass doors and made sure no children learned about baby bellies before they were meant to. Jenn and Mike don't know what they're having, which I personally find so fun! In the days of 4-D ultrasounds and all the great world of technology can offer, isn't it nice to just keep it simple?

As convient as technology can be, sometimes it just takes the fun out of things. Even with all that I have at my fingertips, I can still find myself feeling uninspired. And it seems, as always, the best thing to do is just get back to the basics. This Sunday just happens to be Pinhole Photography Day, the very thing that sparked my interest in the first place! So if you find yourself like me, occasionally complaining that your brand new Mac Pro is as slow as a dinosaur and wondering why it's necessary to plug a cable cord into your television in 2009, maybe it's time for good dose of old mother nature. I'm sure Ansel wasn't complaining about his photoshop actions taking too long to run...

Baby Jax

Finally back to work after a dying computer, a new computer, Mac lessons, an escape to Cabo, visiting friends, welcoming home a new family member, and celebrating our first anniversary. It's been a chaotic couple of weeks to say the least. If I was cool, I would have made a seamless transition back into the work world, but instead I fell backwards off this family's couch and possibly broke my elbow. Oh yes, it's good to be back!