A Promise to Fulfill

I promised a mom at the football game tonight (at which this senior had a part in winning!) that there would be a blog post up tonight or tomorrow for her son's Senior pictures, so here I am, blogging at 12:30 am! Maddie Kate has a buddy over to spend the night, and they are still up playing anyway, so I have more than one reason to be up! :) I have a lot going on tomorrow (a meeting with a potential bride and a Sr. shoot) and I didn't want to fall short on my guarantee, so here we go!
I will admit I was a little nervous about this shoot, Todd was the first Senior boy I had had so far this year, and boy sessions are pretty different than girls! I think the pictures turned out good though, hopefully mom will think so too! :)
Well, I need to get these little girls to go to bed, and this preggo girl needs to head that way too, especially with the busy day I have ahead of me tomorrow! Goodnight!

Jessica

I am sitting here with the laptop on my belly...

...and the baby is kicking it! I suppose I'll have to sit differently when my stomach gets bigger...apparently he's uncomfortable now, so I'm sure it'll just get worse! We have been buying him new clothes already, and my mom has too, he's practically already got a newborn wardrobe! I'm sure not done shopping yet though, I haven't ever had a boy to shop for! I have a few nursery ideas, too, so I'm sure we'll be painting Ava's room differently in the next few months and redoing everything! Ava is going to have to move in with Maddie Kate, so that should be an ordeal I'm sure! We so need a bigger house! :)
We are so excited about our new baby!

I am also excited to have completed another wedding! I have been working hard to finish up several weddings, so here's a preview for Lisa & Bryan.

Outdoor weddings are the best! If you aren't afraid to gamble on the weather, they can be the prettiest weddings!
These next images were taken by my assistant/sister, Alisa. (Edited by me) She has such a great eye and is such a wonderful asset to me when we are doing weddings. She is able to get shots that I cannot get to because I am too busy, or just a different angle while I am photographing. I really hope she gets to work with me on a permanent basis one day! This first one is my favorite!


That's it for now! More weddings and seniors coming soon!
Jessica

New ultrasound pictures

We got to go on Wednesday for our ultrasound at the hospital to see the baby and they checked all his little parts and agreed that it was a boy! We got a few new pictures, though they aren't very good! I was a bit disappointed in them, we have much better pictures of the girls at this age, but at least we get to do a 4D in 2 months, so that will be way better anyway! He weighs 8 oz. What a big boy!

This is another bottom shot, but I think the other one we got last week was MUCH clearer!

This is a picture of his face. It looks like a skeleton or an alien, but you can see the head shape, the eye sockets, nose, mouth and chin.
Leg and foot!

These are his hands.
I am 18 weeks pregnant now, and if you are interested to read about the development of an 18 week old baby, click HERE.

Thursday & Friday my friend Kellie came to stay a few days while her husband was at a men's retreat. I hadn't seen them in a few months, and her kids are growing up so fast (just like mine!), she has Mason pretty much potty trained, and Millie is trying to walk...it won't be long! For some reason I didn't take any pictures while they were here! That's silly of me!
Johnny has been super busy with school and football season, and we don't feel like we see him very much lately. The girls practically attack him when he comes in the door! This is them hanging on him when he came in from football practice this morning.

We are having a one night Bible school at our church tonight, so as soon as Ava wakes up, I guess we'll be heading over there to help get things set up and ready. My sister Alisa is home from college this weekend so we are going to my parents house for lunch tomorrow. Mom wants to celebrate my birthday early because Alisa is here now, so I got to choose the lunch menu! My birthday isn't until the 28th. It doesn't have to come this year as far as I'm concerned! And next year will be worse! :(
Jessica

Kids!

Last night I had a senior shoot, and Kayla (a sweet girl from our youth group) came to babysit. She has been sitting for me quite a bit lately with Johnny in football season, and my sister away at college! I keep worrying about Ava wearing her out! :) Anyway, Ava was sitting on the arm of the couch looking around the doorway of the playroom trying to watch me in the front room while I took pictures. She kept trying to talk to me, and I said, "Ava, you be good!" and she said, "I be good...Muahhahahaha!" And it was SO funny, but I have no idea where she learned that! She is too silly!

I have a preview for a sweet family that I used to babysit for. I went to their home near here and did the shoot outside around their house. The setting sun was perfect lighting, and their home is beautiful! The little boy wasn't much in the mood to have his picture taken, he was more interested in visiting the cows with his dad, but I think we managed to get a few good images out of him! Here are Sadie & Colton:


Jessica

A Late Night Blog for a Senior

I haven't been sleeping well lately (again) and I have decided to try staying up a bit later to see if I will crash and be able to stay asleep all night. I hate preggo insomnia, but for some reason I have it about half of the time!!
I just finished these up and got the proofs ordered, so I thought I'd get a little preview up for this cute Senior! I actually had 2 sessions with this girl, because the first time we spent so much time on the indoor shots that we were kinda late getting outdoors, and it was pretty dark! So we had to schedule a second session later for the outdoor images. She and her mom were great sports about it though, thanks guys! Here are a few of my favorites from my session with Chynna:


She looks like such a model in the one above! :)
Thanks for a great session(s) and I will call you the second I get your book!

Jessica

Babies, babies, everywhere!

I just finished up some photos from the other day of my first twin shoot ever! These little girls are four months old, and so adorable! I was a bit worried about what to do with 2 babies, but it went fine! It was fun, and they did need little timeouts, just like I thought they would, but when one was sad, often the other wasn't, so I could take photos of the happy one while mommy took care of the other! It worked out great! And we managed to get some really cute ones of them together too, so that is icing on the cake! Here are Baylee & Chloe.

I love all of these, but I really love the last one of Mommy holding them each over her shoulders at the end of the shoot. They were worn out! Having your picture taken is a lot of work! :)
Mommy, I should have the proof book early next week!

Jessica

Looks like we're having a....

We just got back from my 17 week Dr. visit, and they were only planning to check the heartbeat, but I asked if they minded to do a quick ultrasound and see if they could tell what we are having. They were super nice and happy to oblige, and the Dr. was warning us that he might not be able to tell, but he would check. We told him we understood, but we were so anxious! So he looked, and Johnny and I could both tell even without the Dr. telling us that there was a little something there that wasn't there with the girls! The Dr. typed the note on the picture and printed it and handed it to Maddie Kate, and she read it slowly, "Looks....like....a.....boy!" and she was so excited! I don't think Ava really understands any of it, but she was happy along with us. My Dr. said he was surprised at how obvious it was, and that he was almost 100% sure that it was a boy. We called all the grandparents and aunts and uncles, and we let Maddie Kate tell pretty much everyone that we called. Everyone is so happy, most everyone says, "Oh, good for Johnny! I bet he's so happy!" Which is totally an understatement! Actually at first I think he didn't believe it, he had convinced himself it was a girl, even though I kept telling him I thought it was a boy!
We go next week to have a detailed sonogram done, and they are providing free 4D ultrasounds now, so we'll get to have one of those in a few months I guess! We had one with Ava, but we had to go on our own and pay for it, so it's nice that it's part of the deal with the Dr. this time, so that's pretty cool!

Things sure will be different around here! Johnny won't be so overrun by the girls now, (he's already talking about hunting and fishing and football...) and I will have to figure out how to be a mommy to a little boy. I also have a nursery to redo! That should be fun!

Hopefully next week after the next sonogram I won't be on here telling you it was a mistake! ha! :)

Jessica

Labor Day Picnic and a 3 mo. old baby shoot

This is Ava with her first real ponytails. So far we had only been able to pull up little ones on top!
Yesterday we went to my home church's Labor Day picnic that they have had every year for forever, and it was nice to see everyone, since I don't see them too often! Someone had set it up so the little ones could play a version of flag football, but they were all to little to actually play! Here's Ava wearing the flags!

My friends and I try to take a picture of our kids together there every year, actually I guess this is just the 3rd year, since they were all born around the same time in 2005. They were so hot and sweaty and dirty in this picture!
These kids were all born within 2 months of each other, except for the boy on the far right, he's a year older. Now 3 of the moms of these kids are pregnant again (one of them is me) and are due within 3 weeks of each other! We sure know how to time it, huh?! :)

I have a preview for a mommy! This is Benjamin. I did his one month pictures a few months ago, and we did his 3 month ones a few weeks ago, and I know his mom is anxious, so here's a little preview for her!

He is such a cutie and did such a good job! He didn't hardly cry this time, though he did take a few little naps, which was fine with me! Whatever they need to do to not be sad in their pictures!

Jessica