Monday, September 30, 2013

Jade's First Birthday

One of my long time photo clients celebrated their first birthday several weeks ago.  This sweet kiddo has been in front of my camera since before she was even born.  I've always enjoyed photographing her and her family. So when I got the call asking if I could be Jade's personally paparazzi for her first birthday, I instantly said YES! So here are just a FEW of the photos that were taken at Jade's first birthday!
 
Now that's a happy girl on her first birthday!


Stealing some snuggles from her Dad, this little sweetie has always had her Dad wrapped around her little finger.




Uh oh, look what Grandma did! Cake...right in the face.

Don't worry, they got Dad too!

They are so many photos I could share, but these are my favorites!
 
Thank you for allowing me to follow Jade around on her birthday to be her mini paparazzi! It's so much fun photographing a families special moments and to help them not stress out about getting memorable photos, while they can still enjoy their child's special day.

I remember when my own kids were little having to stretch myself between photographing the special moments, and being IN those special moments.  It's not always easy!

Mahala

Miss Gracie

I haven't photographed Miss Gracie since she was a little baby, so I was thrilled to have her back in front of the camera a few weeks ago.  Hopefully she'll be back to visit again, especially since her first birthday is right at the end of October! I'm looking forward to not only some Halloween photos with this sweetie pie, but also some birthday photos as well.  These photos were kind of a spur of the moment idea.  Her family came to a BBQ and we decided that since she hadn't been here for awhile we'd snap a few photos, just for fun, and so I could test out some new photo props!







 
 
Looking forward to Gracie coming back to visit later in October!!

Mahala
 

Birthday Photos Galore

My sweet little Princess turned 6 years old on the 19th, hard to believe that 6 years have flown by.  She's quite the little girl! Some days she's sassy and other days she's the sweetest little girl you ever met.  I'm very proud of the sweet and wonderful child she is growing into, proud that she is able to stand up for herself and her friends.

She had a pretty awesome Sleeping Beauty themed birthday party that went over well with her little friends. 

A few days before her birthday I took her out to do her birthday photos and I am pretty happy with how they turned out.  It was a lot of fun walking through the woods with my family!






The day we did her birthday photos, also happened to be her Daddy's 29th birthday and I was able to snap this super sweet photo of Daughter and Daddy. 

I was also super lucky to snap this photo of my husband and our kids! It's nearly IMPOSSIBLE to get a decent photo of the four of them! Can't wait to have this photo printed and framed.  It is my husband's favorite photo.
The kids at my daughters birthday really enjoyed the photo booth that was sat up and all of the dress up clothes they got to play with.  They were absolutely adorable! Photos booths are such a hit with kids, they can dress up and be silly and play pretend and just have a really great time, and it's fun for all ages.

My daughter is enjoying Kindergarten and so am I! Although, I've decided elementary is quite the expensive little adventure! Fundraisers, field trips, and so much more!  School pictures are next week (I have always loved school picture day ever since I was in elementary).  I am that odd ball mom who chooses the "natural" photos when it comes to school pics.  I don't like the air brushing and stuff they do on the school pics.  I want to see what my daughter looked like in kindergarten, down to any little blemish she MAY or MAY NOT have on her face that day (which being in kindergarten I'm sure she'll be fine...as long as they do photos before lunch...and she is sure to wash her face off after breakfast at school, ha!) Her preschool pictures have always turned out really good anyway. I've already decided that her hand out pictures for her class mates will not be the school pics, first of all you don't get nearly enough of them in a package to hand out to class mates, and I don't feel like ordering extras.  So I'm going to print off some fun pics we took for the whole first day of kindergarten thing, and she can hand those out as wallet size photos to her class mates.  They have a little more personality than the ones the school does.  Now to let her decide which one she wants to print off as wallets and had out to her teacher and class mates!

Personally this would be one of my top choices...

This would probably be one of HER first choices (though I do love this one)

This would be another one of my choices

Or this one....


Ok so this isn't my daughter...but it's her dog and she was in a "training session" on learning how to model for photos, ha!



If you are looking to capture your child's special day or want some "just for fun" photos Fur Ever Yours is ready to help you capture the moments!

Mahala