Minneapolis Photographer specializing in custom maternity, newborn, child, family and senior portraits.
This is how she usually is…smiling away. The snow was melting all around us, falling off the branches and sprinkling our faces. All new to this little girl who spent most of her life indoors. How lucky we are to be surrounded by her joy…what a reminder to embrace the small gifts life presents to…
More like snow showers. Yes, it’s mid-April. Post Easter. Post when it should ever be aloud to snow. But…true Minnesotans make the best of it, right? And the girls don’t seem to mind that much…
Weeeell. It just so happens I was bringing home this sweet little one from China… She’s something, isn’t she? It’s been a whirlwind 2 months. Hence, the crickets chirping away here on the blog . My maternity leave ends the second week of May and so I’ve been doing a little here and there to…
Dear Miss P. I’m thinking this will be our last month of just you, me and your daddy. We have waited for what seems like an eternity to add to our family again…but in a way, it is bittersweet. Amidst the anticipation and truthfully, blatant impatience I feel waiting to bring your sister home. I…
It’s month 4 for this very special photography project I am participating in. After you finish reading my post, please pay a visit to the blog of Amy Lucy Lockheart | Minneapolis Photographer to follow the chain of letters from other photographer moms around the world! Dearest Sparrow, Today we received a gift. 2 minutes and…
Prepare yourself for a massive amount of photos. I couldn’t help myself. Partly because of who is in the photos and partly because this session hits so close to home for me. This is Emily…and her girl, Lulu. Emily and I met when we were adopting our girls from Vietnam 6 years ago. They are…
“But then how do you know who you are till you know what you want? Which you don’t. So then which do you pick? Where you’re safe, out of sight, and yourself, but where everything’s wrong? Or where everything’s right and you know that you’ll never belong? ” – Cinderella | Into The Woods I’ve…
Today is it…your last day of 4. Tomorrow you wake up as 5. Here are my last snaps of you. I loved 4…so much. But I have a feeling 5 may be even better. Bye-bye 4…
Disneyland purchases: t-shirt, light up balloon, Minnie Mouse hairbrush…pirate set .
Disneyland. What can I say? I felt like I was 9 again…except not only did I feel the magic and joy…I saw it on your face. Can’t wait to go back.
There are so many reasons to love you. One is how you played that dang accordion the whole trip . For some reason the incessant sound similar to a dying cat made us smile. Especially when there was a room full of Barbies and Polly Pockets to play with. You are such a cool kid.
At the pier in San Diego (which I like to call Deb’s Pier, hee). You were so happy to be reunited with you sweet pal, Alexa. You 2 held hands for 7 days straight. I was so happy because of the dreamy light .
Sooooo. I was gone a bit spending time with my family. But there was a bit more to it than that. On Sunday morning we woke our girl up and surprised her with a trip to Disneyland for her birthday! This was in conjunction with a work trip for me (more on that later). Here…
Someone got their very first mani-pedi today ! This is the start of a whole week of birthday surprises for our girl. I will actually be taking a blogging break for a bit to spend some time with my family…but will still be continuing with the last of 4 project. I will update things in…
A gloomy spring day. I think we are all coming down with something. Again. Another reminder…to slow down.
Sometimes I fail you. Like today. I promised I would be home to tuck you in. But I was late. I had a session and then a client consult and it ran over. You waited up for me…reading in the half light. I also failed because I didn’t have time to take a ‘real’ photograph…
Blanket. You had each other at hello. And then there is thumb. Hiding underneath. Your little buddies. We’ve talked recently about letting go of thumb before kindergarten. But who knows…since I think I sucked mine longer than that…and only cayenne pepper could seperate us, ha! I’m not in a real hurry though. It’s how we…
As mothers…we often want to give our kids what we didn’t have. That is the deal with this dollhouse. I bought it for me her . I LIVED for playing with my dolls as a kid…and I always dreamed to have the biggest dollhouse they made. It didn’t happen for me for one reason or…
Wow, Jess. These images are…not technically very good. They’re grainy…not perfectly in focus. The light? Not the best. Yes. But sometimes in life…there isn’t time to move into the perfect light. Sometimes we need to crank the ISO to 2500 and just go with it. Sometimes capturing the moment is more important. And this was…
