mason : omaha baby photography

Little Mason was one year old, and his mom called on me for some fun pictures to commemorate the milestone!


I could not love these next few bed shots more. It really shows Mason as he is on a daily basis...a total charmer!












Of course, with a birthday, comes...balloons!




Can you imagine a one-year-old with a cake aversion?? I can - I met one! Mason wanted NOTHING to do with the cake. Crazy boy! He'll soon learn that cake is one of the greatest things we have here on earth.



Mom had fun cleaning that mess, I'm sure!

look what i made!

After taking off nine months to grow a human, I'd like to introduce you to our daughter, Carys Josephine.




She was born on July 7 and was nine pounds even and 20 3/4 inches long.


After the devastation we experienced with the last pregnancy, I'm so grateful to have her here with us.




Lots to catch up on posting - it will be an explosion of beautiful brides and adorable children in the next few weeks!

alex : omaha baby photography

Remember this little guy? From one of my favorite newborn sessions EVER? (Seriously...I had to hold myself back from sneaking him away in my purse!).

Well. He was even cuter at six months.








Seriously, cutest family ever, right? I think they should just be tasked with populating the earth and handing out adorable babies to anyone who wants one. I'll be first in line!

Because wait...

It gets EVEN MORE ADORABLE.

I know, you don't think it's possible, right? Let me prove you wrong.










Can you even...I mean...tell the truth. You stopped breathing with all that cuteness, didn't you? It's okay. I did.












Seriously, that kid needs to be a baby gap model OR SOMETHING.

Don't you want a baby with a huge mess of dark hair that flops everywhere and giant brown eyes? I do, now! Alex's mom and dad are super lucky!

mckinley : omaha baby photography

In another shoot from around Christmas, I headed down the street to shoot McKinley. Literally. Her parents live just blocks from me! I know this little girl pretty well now - I've been shooting her since before she was born! I've also shot her as a newborn, and a six-month-old, and a one year old.

And finally, as an eighteen months old. And at this shoot? She wanted NOTHING to do with the camera. Absolutely nothing. She didn't want to sit for pictures. She didn't want to smile (not for me, anyway). She just wanted to run around and play. And run. And play. And run. And play. How her parents keep up with her is beyond me, because I was exhausted after a two hour shoot! She's a bundle of energy. Cute energy, though. Definitely cute energy.

Her parents pulled out the secret weapons for her to sit still. Books.

And.

Jurassic Park.

SERIOUSLY! Jurassic Park is her favorite, favorite movie. She calls the dinosaurs "dodos" and swoons when they come on screen. She's not one bit scared of them, even with half a man hanging from their mouth. It's pretty hilarious.


DODOS!












Did you catch the name of the book her dad is reading to her? DINOSAURS. It's pretty hilarious hearing someone read about diplodocuses (diplodocii?) and pterodactyls and velocorapters to a baby who can just barely say her own name.


SWOON! Such a sweet smile. Little does it show that behind that sweet smile lurks the Energizer bunny!

I hope you get some sleep, mom and dad! :)