Joy in the Journey

with this little cutie…

couldn’t you just melt into his eyes…

He just turned one and was so fun to hang out with!

Mom and Dad were referred to me by a long time friend and it was so nice to play with little “M”…he loved my airplane rides and cheerios and the yummy cupcake for his Birthday Mini Session.

These Birthday Mini Sessions have gotten to be so fun for me…I ABSOLUTELY LOVE watching the kids of all ages dive into their cupcakes. I have another couple Birthday MINI Sessions coming up soon to show you and….

A CHANCE TO WIN A FREE BIRTHDAY MINI SESSION COMPLETE WITH ALL THE DIGITAL FILES… a value of over $500!  So stay tuned tomorrow for a fun contest and some fun news to get the year started off right! In the meantime…here are the dates for the year of 2011…to sign up you can go HERE to my shopping cart and pick your date and then just enter a round about  time between 8-10 am that you would like your child/children to be photographed.  I will email you back with the closest time available and then send you a paypal invoice for payment. To learn more about these mini sessions you can go HERE!

I have been blessed to be busy this year and have met some amazing new clients. I truly LOVE what I do and I know that although I may look like a crazy lady when I shoot…it’s just because I am truly enjoying the rush that comes from meeting new people and making them look the very best they can while capturing  their story and loved ones. It is an ABSOLUTE HONOR to be able to record  my clients history.

Here are some of the new clients that I got to meet this month.  This sweet little boy was such a tender little chub a lub…

You can see more images of this little boy  and other families on my FACEBOOK FAN PAGE

which is updated a wee bit more than my blog.

Another new set of clients that I have had this year are these little sweeties…

and their parents….

UP next tomorrow…sneak peeks for the S family, and two G families.

Also….I am *thinking* of doing some Halloween mini sessions…LMK if you are interested…

I know you are all wondering what is going on over here in photography land and to be honest it has been like this:

Surgery,

surgery,

broken bones,

travel,

shoot,

edit,

travel,

shoot,

sleep a little,

and then shoot some more!

The last month has been an ABSOLUTELY WILD ride for my family. My hubby had a FULL hip replacement a month ago and had some complications.  At the same time my grandmother was having some tests done, my mom had just had surgery, and my dad had major surgery and was in the hospital for 2 weeks.

Right about two weeks later we went to my cousin’s reception in San Diego and then came back and did some more shoots and then went to my inlaws cabin for break when my hubs realized he had broken his foot…the one he has to use to support him from his new hip. Once he had it x-rayed they told him that he had been walking on it broken for a quite a while…now this wouldn’t have been so bad if he hadn’t just broken a bone in the OTHER foot a month and a half before!

Once home I had loads of Mini -Sessions at the Chateau de Vie which were quite exhilarating  and I am SO loving that new location.

And then…I got to come to Dallas and Austin to do shoots and a few mentoring sessions  and it has been an amazingly fun time with some really cool new and old clients. The Dallas Arboretum is TOO DIE FOR…it was one of the most beautiful garden’s I have ever seen and compares equally with all the gardens that I photographed this summer in Europe. Then in Austin I went to another park and caught some pretty cool structures on film.

I am traveling home tomorrow and am really excited to be able to get through all of these amazing shoots! I can’t wait to see all  the Christmas cards that will be created from all the family pictures taken in Chandler, Dallas, and Austin!

So because I have SO many sneak peeks…I am going to add SOME here….but to see ALL of the sneak peeks you can go to my FACEBOOK FAN PAGE become a fan and then you will be able to see oodles more sneak peeks and be able to comment.  The FACEBOOK FAN PAGE is where I announce all kinds of specials as well as ask for models for different projects…which i have been doing a LOT more of lately!

So…first up…I got to photograph some pretty dang cute cookies for SUNSHINE cookies…they don’t quite have  a website/blog up yet but the owner TARI BENICH has a facebook account and you can contact her through that if you want. The cookies are a thinner sugar cookie that is really buttery and then has super thin sweet frosting…they are SERIOUSLY so yummy…we fought over the cookies at home! But beware…they are super addicting…I keep craving them every time I look at the images!

Here are just a COUPLE of the pics….you can see quite a bit MORE at the FACEBOOK FAN PAGE

And this little guy was just so awesome!!!! He was the best little model…I really wanted to have a red headed child for this shoot and I found him on facebook…on my fan page….I love it! I really want to use him again for some other modeling jobs because he did so fabulously and so did this rooster!

Tomorrow I will show some of the fun shots that I have gotten at Chateau de Vie….it is such a BEAUTIFUL location and I have been so very lucky to be able to shoot there! I hope you are all enjoying a gorgeous fall day!

I just sent out the dates/times and all the details for the exclusive  MANSION Mini Sessions in my newsletter. If you didn’t get the newsletter and wanted to please leave your email address in the comment section and I will get it to you! I do know that some of my current clients got left out inadvertantly and I am correcting that tonight.

And because posts are no fun without an image…check out this little beauty that I got to nibble on the other day! MAN I LOVE MY JOB!

Seriously…can you get over the rolls on this little guy?

Both of these images were taken in my home studio during a mentoring session.

Stay tuned for more of this little chubby guy!