All newborn babies are cute, but some are just plain gorgeous!  I think I let out an audible gasp when I first caught a glimpse of Alessandra in her carseat. That hair, those eyes, that chin! A Daddy better watch out because she’s going to be a heartbreaker..

Such a beautiful family, I can’t wait to see them again!

Carter kicked off my newborn-a-palooza. THREE newborns in one week, a record!

As soon as his parents took him out of the car-seat I was just amazed at his coloring – just  a wee fuzz of orange hair, so sweet and cute! Carter’s daddy is a firefighter, so we had some fun incorporating that into the images.

The studio was hot (as it always has to be for newborns!) so I had to do a fair bit of convincing to get Dad to put on his jacket, but I’m so glad I did.  Someday Carter will treasure this photo of he and his dad!

K family, it was wonderful meeting you – thank you for allowing me to capture these  portraits of this special time in your lives!

I had to name this post after what Anthony’s parents have taken to calling him – too cute!  Anthony was one of 4 newborn sessions that I had in the course of two weeks, out of all of them, he was the only to make it to the “prop” shot stage despite his nickname!   Not to say that he didn’t give us a run for the money, he spent most of the almost 4 hour session trying his hardest NOT to fall asleep, and only when we are all ready to call it quits did he finally fall into a very deep sleep, which is how we managed to get so many of the bucket shots you see at the end.

As you can see, it was worth the wait!

Thank you C. family for being so much fun to hang out with during our long waits to get Anthony sleeping!  Can’t wait to see you for his future milestones!

I’ve had the honor of photographing this beautiful family and their older daughter Peyton, so I was of course excited to meet their newest little addition Austin. Did I say little? Actually, baby Austin was a strapping 11lbs 13 oz at birth!! He definitely takes the prize for biggest newborn I’ve ever photographed.  And he’s super cute too!

I don’t usually post birth announcements, but I LOVE how these came out:

Dear baby Austin, I can’t wait to watch you grow! Come back and see me when you are sitting up ok? ;)

I’ve been so behind on blogging – time to play catch up!  Luke was the second in a string of 3 newborns that did NOT want to sleep for me.. but, what follows is what can happen during an almost 6 hour shoot when the baby wants nothing to do with sleeping or being posed and then all the sudden you get maybe 10 minutes of cooperation.. magic!

The upside of Luke being so reluctant to sleep was that I had LOTS of time to get to know his mommy and daddy who I enjoyed chatting with very much.. I hope I’m lucky enough to get to see this little guy and his wonderful parents again soon!

Meet the beautiful baby girl and handsome baby boy B.  They were both just 4 little lbs and about 8 inches long when they were born a month or so ago!  Dad finally brought them home, and I must admit -  I was a bit nervous because I typically like to shoot within 14 days of a baby’s birth because otherwise they don’t sleep deeply enough to allow for posing in all those yummy curly newborn ways!   And I won’t say I was completely wrong to be worried , (they didn’t really like being moved once asleep!)  but I will say that it was completely worth it. I think you will agree!

Dear B. family – thank you for letting me capture these precious first moments.  I hope we get to document many more milestones together in the future!