Keep Believing

(this picture was dug out from the depths of my drawers of old pictures, and yes, that is quite the hair!)

This Monday evening, my oldest and first friend from UMR (my roomie in the dorms) lost her husband of 13 years. She is such an amazing woman, and has shared her story through her blog entitled "Keep Believing". I had lost contact with Angie since college and found her on facebook. (yes, I'm a facebook junkie). Brian was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor just one month after they were married in 1997. Brian was also from UMR in the same class as we were. He was only given 4-5 years to live, but defied the odds and lived 13 full years and together they had 2 children. Angie has made me appreciate my family more completely, both the ups and the downs with her unwavering faith and positive attitude. May God Bless you and your family Angie, and may I only have half the strength and Grace you have had through your journey.

God Bless you and keep you and your boys close, and my God welcome Brian home to his final resting place in Heaven. Keep Believing! http://www.aboneill.blogspot.com/

Ready for Spring!!

It seems like everyone I talk to is sick! Does anyone else feel that way? We are just coming off of our second round of strep for me and the girls. This last week has been rough! I cant wait till everyone can just be outside!

A couple of sneak peaks from last week. One super cool family, and another one of my baby planners. How are all my clients so darn cute?? Enjoy the little peaks...

Twin Week-

I always love twin sessions since I have twins myself. This week was crazy with one set of identical twin 9mo olds, and one set of fraternal 6mo olds, and booked a newborn identical twin session for next week! It seems so crazy that mine were once that size!

Had a couple of other little cuties last week as well, we had a birthday cake for little mr. "B" and man did he smear that cake around! My last little cutie was an adorable little 4 month old with the cutest chubby cheeks! I think theres nothing sweeter than chubby baby cheeks!!!!

Hope everyone is enjoying the warm weather! I'm so excited to get into some outside sessions again now that its warming up!!!!

Rock-a-bye baby...

Each newborn shoot goes so differently. My stuff is usually all wet, and sometimes dirty, and has to be washed, sometimes I end up wet or mom and dad do. Some babies are wide awake, some are sleepy. The perfect scenario is sleepy... In my mind there is nothing sweeter than a sleepy-dreamy baby. I had to do a full post of just this little guy as he was impossible to wake up! I haven't ever had a session that when this quietly! He let me do anything I wanted with him, and we got to have so much fun! Lauren, he is such a little dream and I just hope your nights are as quiet as our session was! Hope you enjoy your sneak peak!

Newborn Season!

It seems every time this year I get hit with a bunch of newborns. Last week I had 2 in one day! What a fun day it was! Newborns are absolutely my favorite subjects! Just so innocent and sweet! I'm going to post my first one from California, MO in this post, and the second in another to make sure with the small pictures everyone knows which is their little bundle of joy!

Also posting some of a sweet little 9 month old, that Ive photographed since she was born! Its so fun to watch their personalities grow and change over the months! This was by far her most expressive session, and was so much fun!!