Archive for the ‘Children’ Category

Danielle deserves a SUPER MOMMY award.  She has a fresh newborn baby girl and a 11-month-old little boy.  Wowzers! Don’t worry Danielle, sleep will return in a good 10-12 years.  No worries.  :)

Sweet baby Hadley is a whole 5 days old in these pictures.  Such a little peanut.  Big brother Kellen has been a JEM baby since he was a newborn and I couldn’t wait for this session to photograph his little sister.

Thank you Danielle and Eric.  Such a pleasure to photograph your wedding and your babies!

Meet these brothers: Chace & Jaxon. They were born a little over two months ago and they were just peanuts when brought home…now they are packing on the pounds. I was able to hang out with these twins a couple weeks ago, along with Justin and Heather who are amazingly proud parents. It is written all over their faces. We love connections and feeling and capturing all this was easy to do since schnuzzling with their new baby boys is second nature.  This was the first set of newborn twins I have photographed, and you can imagine that when one was sleeping, the other one would be awake and vice versa. It took us a little longer to coo both babies to sleep, but that doesn’t matter….they ended up sleeping, and cuddling  next to eachother for quite a while.  The bucket in one of these pictures was purchased with the intention of placing the two of them in their and even though that never worked, we went along with the idea that Jackson was 2 months old.  I also have to add that my favorite picture was unexpected, I was testing out my light as Heather was taking her hands away from Chace’s head, as I loaded my card, I was drawn to this picture…her hands have so much love in them and it reminded me of a mother’s gentle love.  Though it was only a short amount of time that I met you both, I know you are not only amazing people but you are amazing parents.

We had planned this tea party for over a month and when the day arrived, I woke up to realize that I didn’t have a tea set that was in once piece…I was planning to run to Meijer to see what they had.  As I made it out the door, my neighbor happened to be up at the crack of dawn as well and conversation led to her finding out I needed a tea set. Perfect! She had this German tea set she found at a junk store for dirt cheap and wrapped it up for me, saving me a trip to the store.  I say this because maybe some of you wonder, where does JEM get their things, or as some of you might refer to our precious trinkets and ‘what-not’s’ as garage sale items. Well here is a break down from The Triplets Tea Party Session:

—Tea Set—my neighbor, Sue, who got it at the Junk Store in Bowling Green.  Children’s wood table—Antique Store in Dundee.  Tiger Lily—Elaine’s Backyard (that is not a store, it is really from her backyard).  Assorted vases—my wedding,  which in essence came from a garage sale in the heart of South Toledo (there is a back-story to that).  Rocking chair—Amanda bought it off Craigslist and I, in turn bought it off her.  Pretty Table Cloth-Antique Store off Otter Creek Exit in Michigan.  Blue Feather in Lauren’s hair–Blue Blue Pink Bowtique.

All these thing randomly purchased within the last 5 years and what a coincidence that Samantha, Abigail and Lauren matched perfectly!  We couldn’t have planned it better if we really did plan this. LOL. These girls met me at Secor Park and we enjoyed a tea party until it got a little too hot and humid for us to all function outside. We packed up all our things and drove to the studio to finish up our shoot. I love watching these girls go from quiet and reserved to playful and talkative.  I just can’t imagine the patience that Amanda and Seth have, day in and day out.  Which, leads me to say-congratulations on 5 years of marriage this September!!  Did you ever imagine within 5 years you would be blessed with 3 girls??!