My baby turned three today! He is such an adorable, cuddly little kid, but one of the most bossy kids I’ve ever met! I love him so, and he allowed me to take his picture this morning after he found this enormous birthday hat in my studio closet!

I’ve been photographing Gracie since she was 3 months old.  I was thrilled to receive a phone call from her mom 9 months ago announcing her pregnancy, and booking me far in advance.  Mom knows how fast I book up, so she was on the ball!

Photographing siblings can be quite challenging, especially when it’s a 3 month old, and a 3 year old.  I was beyond excited when I pulled up these two images.

future librarian perhaps? 

Boutique Holiday Headstart

Wednesday November 19th 6-9 pm

Allred Resisdence

2737 West Sanborn Drive

Riverton, UT 84065

approx. 13500 South

Vendors Attending:

Faithful Homes (home decor)

Home for the Holidays (holiday Decorations)

Quilary (baby clothing)

Jessi Stringham Photography

Rebbecca Halliday (pillows, Sweatshirts, and Interior design)

Scentsy

Jewelry

Heritage Makers (scrapbooking)

Princess Trends (tutus)

Lily’s Edge Clothing

It’s so easy for me to love my job when I work with kids like these three.  They were incredibly cooperative, and I walked away from the session thinking, “that was too easy!”  More images to follow another day….

Thank you to everyone that came out to the Christmas boutique last week at Natalie Weller’s home.  It was a huge success!  If this is your first time visiting my blog, and you saw my work in person there, please feel free to leave me a comment!  I very much enjoyed meeting a ton of new people!

Sarinda Jones is the artist behind these beautiful glass sculptures – check out her website for more of her work at  Reflective Art Studio:

Shawna Turner is the artist behind this darling line of children’s clothing.  Her website is Flats Platypus:

Need to get a head start on your Christmas shopping?  Looking for unique gifts?  Come this Friday or Saturday to Natalie Weller’s home located in Sandy, Utah.  Her address is 7737 South Pheasant Wood Drive….come to see her home…..it’s to die for!

I’ll be there displaying prints, and selling gift certificates just in time for Christmas!

It’s going to be a great boutique, with many homemade things, including a few choices of camera straps from my niece’s shop, Cotton Candy by Natalie available for purchase.

When I first met this little munchin’s mom, she mentioned that her father was a paramedic here in the Salt Lake Valley and that he had passed away in the last couple years.  She wondered if we could incorporated her father’s helmet and hurry-ups into a shot with her new little boy. “Of course!” I said….I understood the significance, as my father was also a firefighter, who passed away over 22 years ago.  I’m so glad the shot worked out….it wasn’t easy putting him in that helmet, or having it balance! 

I love her name!  She was a TINY peanut with red hair when she came to visit me a few weeks back……I think 5lbs 14 oz or so……just so tiny!  Both of my kids were over 8 lbs, so I can’t imagine a 5 lb baby….and she was most smiley newborn ever.  She was definitely camera ready!    Mom is a librarian, and you may remember the shot while little Nora was still inside, but we had to get another shot of Mom reading to Nora on the outside.  Her parents also brought one of their favorite red blankets to the newborn shoot too (I love when people bring stuff that means something to them!).

what a fun couple!  you could totally tell that they truly loved one another!  their baby girl was born yesterday, so I am very excited to meet baby Nora and photograph her next week!