Kaitlyn, 1 year Cake Smash

On Valentine's day my good friend Nicole's little girl turned 1! So of course I wanted to try out another cake smash, plus Kaitlyn is my buddy and she is SO adorable! I'm going to be so sad when she moves next week and then we move after, they are going to Korea so I won't see them for a LONG TIME! :) So I was happy to do this for Nicole before they left :)

The Birthday Girl! 

Some girly pics...with a silly face :)

see? adorrable! :)

I love this one!

Time for cake! She sat there like this and yelled at it for a bit before she ate it...so silly!

and then went all delicate..one finger at a time...testing it out ya know? :)

Then she decided it tasted good and went for it! 

didn't even care when the tulle got caught

absolutely loooove this one!

and done!

I really love doing these cake smash shoots and hope I can do more in the future! They're so fun!

NMCB 1 Delayed Party Homecoming!

I know it's been a looooooooooooong time since I've posted here but things have been suuuuuuper slow since I moved back to Mississippi and will continue to be slow especially since I'm moving again in March! :) I did do a 1st birthday cake smash session for my good friend's little boy but am having an editing slump with it...I was expecting a nice sunny day outside and so I set it all up in a nice spot in my house to get the sunlight but it was cloudy and gloomy and I wasn't prepared with anything else but my regular lights. So I've had to mess with it a lot more to make it the way I wanted and it's taking a long while. :/ Eek.

But anyway.....this past week I had the opportunity to take pics for my good friend Chelsea and Jaime who both had their husbands come back from their deployment this week! I was so super excited for them and so excited to take pics. It's such an exciting day anyway but BOTH of these women had babies while their husbands were deployed so that made it just even more exciting/special/amazing. I still tear up just thinking about it! It was just so sweet and wonderful to capture those moments of the daddies meeting their babies for the first time and it just melts my heart! I loved being a part of it! So here's my friend Chelsea first. Her hubby came off first :)

waiting for the buses to arrive!

Love this cutey! She's so pudgy baby cute! :) 

And the buses are here!

Yay! almost time!

Daddy is found!

So happy!

Meeting his little girl!

I ADORE this shot!

Trying to hold Avery but it didn't work out so well :) 

The happy happy family! Yay!

And here is the Connor Family! I was worried I was gonna miss them, she had asked me two days before to take pics for her because she had heard I was taking some for Chelsea so I was definitely ok with that as long as they didn't come off the bus at the same time. Luckily, for me anyway, they had a hard time finding him and by the time I was done taking Chelsea's pics, I went over to them and followed til they found him. One of the little boys took off and we tried to get him back but he actually found his dad! So cute!

Looking for daddy!

Found!

Mom made it over... he was waay done the line. 

Meeting the new baby!!! SO sweet!

And the other kids finally made it over! SO happy!

Spending a few more seconds with the new baby, see? isn't that one of the most touching things ever?

heart melting right here! Love it so much

And the family is complete! Congrats again you guys!

Avery {Infant Photography}

I recently took a little vaca to visit family and friends down south and while I was in Mississippi I was able to take a few pics for my good friend Chelsea, who just had an ADORABLE little girl!!! I was super excited to do them for her but wish I had more of my props/etc. with me to do cuter things! I wasn't really prepared but got some cute shots still! I'm still super new with working with newborns so I've gotta work on my skills/techniques for that and be more confident about doing things. I've also got to learn more about lighting/flash/etc for inside. I've kinda been focusing on other things lately because I've been doing so much outdoor work so I haven't put much time in learning more about indoor so that's definitely on my list to do! So here's some of my favs from Avery's session!

This one is my absolute favorite! Love the little half smile!

I saw someone do something similar to this on pinterest (LOVE the military ones, so cute!) and I definitely had to try it out! Her daddy is deployed to Afghanistan right now so very, very fitting! She didn't quite like it so I grabbed a quick shot and we got her off :)

Miss E, Just for fun

When I got my new Canon EOS Rebel DSLR in February, I just had to take it out for a spin. So I dolled up Miss E and hit the beach and a nearby campus that had this awesome tree and took some pics! Well a lot of pics but I couldn't help it! It was so fun and so amazing, I love this camera! Miss E wasn't the most cooperative subject but I got some great shots! She's so adorable. :)









These last two shots are two of my all time favorites!