Holiday Babes/Asheville Baby and Child Photographer

Today I did holiday photos for some of the babies and kids in my playgroup.  I’ve wanted to do this setup with the lights since last Christmas so I was very excited to try it out.  The kids all looked so cute and had a great time, mostly.  😉  For some reason, a lot of the moms came in today saying that their child didn’t take their morning naps.  Somehow they always just know!  This is my last session for 2012!  I may have to do a Photo of the Year Contest.  Hmm….stay tuned!  Happy holidays to everyone out there!!

Urban Asheville/Asheville Family Photographer

Today I did my final outdoor session for the year.  When we planned this session, we thought it was going to be freezing outside, but today ended up feeling like a beautiful spring day!  I thought I was ready for winter, but after today, I’m not so sure!  It was so great!  I did pictures for a family and the cousin and her parents too.  The older two I hadn’t seen in a while and good grief, the son has grown like 2′ it seems like!  Where did the time go?!  This session was so much fun!  I haven’t had the chance to do photos downtown yet since we’ve lived here, so I was very excited to find some new fun spots that were a little more urban and colorful and we found just that!  Can’t wait to go back to these spots.  This might be my favorite location so far!  It was so perfect spending the afternoon with you guys!  Thanks for being open to all of these great spots!

Just Too Good!/Asheville Child Photographer

This afternoon I did pictures of kids that are older than the children I normally do a session with so I was a little nervous wondering how I could make them laugh and smile.  I’m really good with toddlers.  I know them really well.  I used to teach kindergarten so I know 5 year olds well too, but I’m a little rusty on what makes them laugh.  Well, I was nervous for nothing.  These kids were so awesome!!!  The little girl was a natural model.  I couldn’t get over how she would just pose and tilt her chin at that perfect angle.  And their son was a hoot!  He was like a little Jim Carey.  He had us laughing the whole time.  These two together were like best friends and it was so cool to see!  And the weather was just amazing.  It has been so cold recently but today it was around 65!  Just perfect!  I really loved this session so much and can’t wait to edit the rest of their pictures!  Thank you guys for a really great session!

Happy Half/Asheville Child Photographer

Mya just turned 4 1/2.  I wasn’t going to do pictures this time around because we just did some at the beach, but one day out of the blue when I told her that she would be 4 1/2 soon, she said, “Oh yay!  That means we get to do pictures, right?”  So I found a cute little outfit for her and have been holding onto it ever since. My sweet little client that I was supposed to do a session with today was sick so I thought this was the perfect day to do Mya’s pictures.   I had to wake her up from her nap to get her ready since the sun is now down by 5:30 and she was not happy.  I almost said, “Forget it,” but once I told her that we needed to get going before it got dark so that we could take her pictures, she was up and so happy!  She was the cutest thing ever when we were out there.  Every person that passed by, she said, “I’m 4 1/2!  We’re doing pictures.  This was my idea!”  😉  If you know my girl, you know that she is very outgoing and loves to talk to adults, much more than her semi-shy momma!  And it just so happened that we went to a birthday party today so she wanted to bring her balloon, perfect!  I love this girl more than I love Mexican food.  Now that’s a whole heck of a lot.  LOL  Happy 1/2 birthday my sweet girl!  You rocked it tonight!

Her face is just so perfect to me, so angelic.  🙂