artsy fartsy!!

so this week i went from not being able to take a picture if my life depended on it to getting to have 3 amazing photoshoots. my heart is seriously so full it's about to burst. i really need to look into making this a full-time job. i LOVE it sooo much. so, originally the plan was to take whitney's pregnant belly pictures. Apparently mr. matthew had a different plan in mind and graced us with his face 4 weeks early. So i had the great honor of taking his new born pictures!! Here's a few of my favorites:

Next, Haley asked me to take Grace's 1 yr pictures to go out in her birthday invitations! I was SO excited about this one bcuz Grace is such a smiley baby in all her pictures and i knew i was going to have fun being able to move her around & catch different poses & faces! (with newborns it's a little harder, bcuz i definitely work for them, they don't work for me!) Grace was SO easy to shoot! She cooperated the entire time! She didn't move around one bit & Haley & Whit made her giggle & laugh the entire time! It was so fun being able to shoot with them because as they'll be able to tell you, I go all out when I take my pictures. I get SO into it, so i'd drop on the ground or stand in weird positions and I didn't even realize it because I was totally comfortable with it. At one point, whitney was totally sitting on my butt trying to get Grace to look @ the camera and Haley was right on the right of my face when Whit realized (before I even did!) and said "i'm sorry! I'm totally sitting on ur butt!!" It was so fun & comfortable and did I mention fun?? Whit, you'll definitely be my assistant if I ever make it big because i know i don't need to use manners with you! (unless somethings wrong!! hahaha). Here are a few of my favorite Gracie shots:

Lastly, but definitely not least, I got to take my beautiful niece's 4 month (first pool shots) pictures. Paige definitely has a mind & temper of her own, so last month (or maybe it was @ 2 months) Jaimie ended up @ the studio for 3 hours trying to get Paige's pictures taken and walked away without a single one, so she asked me if I would start taking them. I was SO stoked. It was SUCH a huge compliment. So this month (being August and all) I asked if maybe Jaimie wanted to take her 4 month pictures in the pool (the perks of not being stuck in a studio!). She thought it was a great idea and here are the results:

I'm seriously so excited things are looking up in the photography aspects, I hope there are MANY more blogs to come involving my pictures! Again, thank you SO much Haley, Whit, & Jaimie for trusting me to capture these amazingly important pictures for you. It is SUCH a honor.