Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Lil Miss Is

this lil angel is Miss Is...she is hte beauty on the front of my splash page. She is such an old soul. You can look into her beautiful blue eyes and just see for miles. I so looove capturing her. Here is a sweet lil moment....

and here she is being quite silly............. dont you just love the baby legs. You can buy them at Target now or most childrens boutiques. They fit just like our old leg warmers :) Beside looking fab in photographs they are great for crawlers, they protect their lil knees!!


Saturday, February 9, 2008

sweet sweet baby M

ok mom stop hitting the refresh button...here they are..

meet miss M
she is beautiful
she is so sweet
she is soooo loved
We had so much fun capturing miss M today. She was so good even with no nap and a long car ride to meet me. She would just get carried away with herself giggling. She loved it when her daddy danced and put pink tutus on his head :)
Can't you just hear the giggles in this one?
It was great to see you all again. Thank you for sharing her with me!

Friday, February 8, 2008

beautiful..pure..& waiting...

Today I had the pleasure of meeting two wonderful people. They are waiting on sweet baby Owen.........she is the cutest lil pregnant thing you have ever seen. They are high school sweeties and are just adorable. It was an honor to capture such an amazing time in their lives. There are so many great images but here are two to tide them over :)

Thank you L & B for choosing me to be apart of your amazing start as a new family. I cant wait to meet Baby Owen!





Wednesday, February 6, 2008

You thought I forgot ...didnt you...

well I didnt. I promised you a special this week and Here it is!

Everyone that schedules a session between today and Sunday...the session must be in March...will receive a $50 credit towards their print order...
So call or email me before Sunday and schedule a session in March and you will totally get $50 in FREE prints..just for being you! Pretty cool, huh?

SOoooooo, what are you waiting for..get busy..email me...call me...knock on my door..well no dont do that...but do contact me.

bless you all and stay happy!

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Mr. Smiley...baby J....

Today I had the pleasure of meeting Baby J and his beautiful mama. They were such a joy to be with and I am honored to capture this precious life. He is so happy and adorable!! You can just tell how eat up mom and dad are with him...well so am I :)

Here he is with his mommy. Told you she is beautiful...

Told you he was soooo happy......
And at the end..we just wore him out. He had some yummy milk and said "Im done"
So guess what ..................we were done! But no matter we captured some beautiful images. Enjoy your sneak peek and I will let you know when your gallery is finished! It was a pleasure meeting you Jenn and baby J!

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Introducing Miss E

I cant tell you how happy I was to see this beautiful lil angel again. This family is one of my longest clients and has referred me so many wonderful clients to this day. I just love them too much. This is Miss E's 6 year portrait. This is much more formal than you are used to seeing from me but I think they turned out beautiful. Her mom and grandmother hand made this elegant dress just for her. So delicate and beautiful! Im sure it will be a family heirloom for many generations. IT makes me kinda giddy to think of this portrait hanging for many generations and them duplicating it with her children and so on.! Kinda cool~huh?


Look at this beautiful smile. She was full of energy and did so well to sit still for us for soo long!!
She was happy to take the dress off and dance around in my petti. This is the new tree my dear friend Pat painted in the new studio. It is soo dreamy...Im so excited to use for different portraits.
Hope everyone is doing well and staying warm. Anyone want to go to the Islands for a session??

Sunday, January 27, 2008

My kiddos.....

Well tonight we were in the new studio...great thing about it being at home!....Molly and I decided we would make her custom Valentines cards this year..so of course we needed a new pic of her for them. Well easy enough..right? I am a Nationially Known Photographer (ha..just daydreaming a lil...sorry..) anyway I should be able to get a pic of my own kids Right? Yeah. NOT! It becomes the most stressful thing ever. Molly wants to wear ONLY what Molly wants (how dare her....not sure where she gets this from) and wants to do some Whacked poses and such. So we laugh a lil and spit spat with each other alot. I am in awe in how much she looks like me but more of her attitude..I learn how mine is by watching her. It is quite humbling! SHE IS ME 100% NO PART OF HER DADDY JUST ME AND MY...UMM...ATTITUDE..AND STUBBORN....OMGOSH!..... so I would like to officially apologize to my sweet sweet mother who is so not stubborn and has almost no attitude. HOW totally unfair that she had to put up with me for all of my youth and still today. I am soooooo sorry and I will never show you that side of me again....well I will pray on that! So anyway we had totally diff ideas of what her card should look like. This pic is her looking so happy with me. But honestly it is my favorite of her from the shoot. I love her sweet innocence here. She is also the most caring and thoughtful child ever! When I returned from my trip last week she had made me a Welcome Home Banner and a MOM project! One of those things that you have no where to put but no way are you throwing it away! She does love her mommy!....I am unsure if I like the color version...but it shows her beautiful red hair and her fashion!



Now here walks in Phoenix...he cant stand to take pics unless it is some Whacked out crazy thing. But he came into the studio so he asked for it. He is in major need of a haircut and has a swollen lip but I thought....why not! He is in this awkward stage of not smiling but not being serious either. So I told Molly to stand behind me and make him laugh....This is what I got. He would start dieing laughing at her but would turn his head so I could NOT take his pic. LOSER! But again I always keep snapping and I looooooove this image of him! THis is sooo him. He is such a cut up and has his dads sick sense of humor so he is always got this dorky laugh going. Just tonight...it was bedtime and he asked if he could have "just a lil sip of Coke"~ now mind you this is his bedtime question each night and the answer is 99% of the time NO! But he just has to ask. Well tonight I say "No you can have milk or H2O" so he starts pretending to have a meltdown...a real arms flaying~screaming at the top of your lungs~ banging on the wall tantrum. I honestly was rolling on the floor laughing. It was hysterical. One of those moments I would do anything to have a pic of! He could defiantly be a lil comedian!
There is only one thing they hate worse than taking pics of themselves...taking pics TOGETHER!. This is the worse thing ever in all of life. You mean sit beside each other and maybe feel each other breathe?? Are you kidding? This is by no means going on the wall but it nice to have one of them tog. I realized how pretty Phoenix looks in these...really he is a boy!

So I hope you all enjoyed this post...life behind the lens..with MJ Photography :) Love you all.....
New Special coming this week!!!!!!!!! Keep looking!