First Day of School

My baby is in Kindergarten! I can't believe it. I'm so happy we went ahead and started him in Kindergarten. He was sooo bored in preschool... well at his last preschool anyway. He's also thrilled that there is no more nap and so are we!! He REALLY hated to take naps. It would mess his whole schedule up sleeping that much during the day. He couldn't sleep at night. He's been sleeping now for the last few months! Boy what a difference in behavior! He really is like a new child. Our pediatrician was right! Some kids just don't need a nap!

School started last Wednesday and he really loves it. He is attending a private school called Wonderland here in San Marcos. I wish I had listened to all the clients that had referred us there in the first place! It's really a loving, learning, Christian environment. I love that they pray before lunch! He's doing so well! He loves his new teacher. They have a real curriculum where they don't just do the same stuff over and over. He's already learning new things! If you're a parent looking for childcare you should really check Wonderland out. All the parents/clients I know who take their children there are very happy! Which says a lot!

We've also started Guy in gymnastics. He's going to J& R here in San Marcos. He really is doing great in class too! I had no idea he could do the things he does! He actually has pretty good balance! J&R Gymnastics is a beautiful facility! It's state of the art! His teacher has so much patience too! I've met some really nice mom's too while watching him in class! We don't have class this week but maybe next I'll take some photos of him in class. Course I'm a wee bit nerdy with all the gear I'd REALLY want to bring. LOL

Here are some photos of my sweet and sometimes photographically uncooperative boy! A lot of parents ask me if I have just the best photos of my boy. I do have some really cute stuff but he makes me REALLY work for it! He's in that fake smile stage right now... that will last until he's about seven! LOL I need to work on my funny jokes because he already knows all of my tricks to get kids to smile naturally! LOL

Getting out of my new car!! It's still clean! LOL

We're here!

To quote Guy, "MOM! I don't want to put my foot on the rock!"

So we negotiated the foot on the rock but he decided he will NOT look at me!!

It was rainy. He was excited to go inside! Here's that fake smile!

The children wait in the cafeteria until their teacher calls them into class. Guy choose a superman backpack this year!

Guy meeting his teacher. She pinned an apple with his name on it for the first day.

This is Guy reminding me that he is VERY VERY strong!

This is his cubby with his name on it. Guy's first name is Joseph after my Dad. We call him by his middle name Guy. So he didn't believe me that was really his Cubby. LOL

More children have arrived and I've got to get to work so one more shot attempting to get a "real smile!"

He's had enough!! Time to go! Please Mom stop with the photos!!

Happy Birthday Jonah David!

It's hard to believe it's been a year! Jonah is one of those babies with an unforgettable face. He had SO much hair when he first visited us! Even then he had such mature expressions. What's funny is he really looks very much the same! He's as cute as ever and boy is he a little flirt. We had an awesome session. He's such a good boy! He made it very hard for his momma to choose! I dug up our original session photos to compare! He's so handsome!

About the blog!

I got an email the other day from a client asking why her baby wasn't on the blog! I love to share our session images on my blog but I only do so if you've signed my model release giving me your consent. So if you're not included on here... it's because the release wasn't signed!! There are quite a few of you out there who've "not" signed them so if you'd like to be showcased please call the studio and I'll be more than happy to email you my forms!

Thanks!
Laura

The Beautiful Meagan

Meet Beautiful Meagan! She's a cheerleader at San Marcos High School! I photographed her for our new highschool football program! Here is a quick one from our session as well as the way cool ( if I do say so myself! LOL) design I made her for her senior ad in the program!! I'm excited that we'll be doing a regular session too! Meagan photographs like a model! Much more of this pretty girl to come! :)

Michael & Rayna

Ahhh a young couple in love!! Meet Michael & Rayna! My shooting partner Troy and I photographed this awesome couple last weekend in Austin! They were sooo much fun and you could just "see" the love! We're very honored to be photographing their wedding in October at Lakeway Resort and Spa. We LOVE shooting at that venue. It's so beautiful! We can't wait! Here are my favorites from their session!

The Beautiful Mattison

Ahhh sweet baby Mattison! I've photographed her a few times now! She's got such bright pretty eyes! She's now 2.5 years old and talking! We took portraits of her in her pretty dresses and oh how she loved to help mommy put on lipstick! All things girly! Mattison goes to the same school as my son and when I see her in the morning she's always says hi to me! Such a friendly girl! Here are some favorites from the session isn't she a doll!

Happy Birthday Catarina

Catarina is another one of my favorite babies. Actually *sniff sniff* I don't suppose I can still call her a baby! She just turned three!! I met her when she was just three months old! Wow has the time flown by!! We did a tutu session a few weeks ago! These are some of my favorites from the session. I plan on doing "tutu limited edition" session promotion very soon! Just need to get the rest of the tutu's I ordered in!! I will post an update about this soon!! I just couldn't resist sharing these! :) I also just photographed her Three year portraits! I'll have those soon to share too!

A few more of Brinkley

I can't help but to post a few more favorites from Brinkley .Now that her mom has picked out her favorites too! :D We did a really cute collage of her and of course the cow print pink ones make me want to run out and get a baby girl so I can buy girl stuff!! :)

Clint & Keegan

Meet Handsome Clint and Keegan. We did some portrait of them and their beautiful mom Michelle. It was a funny session because the boys simply did NOT want to get close to each other and in portraiture that's really the thing you try to do! You want both subjects to be close so that the view can appreciate "both" of the subjects at once without jumping back and forth! LOL they weren't having it! So there was a lot of laughing and funny faces! We also did individual portraits! They wore my favorite color pallets... I love earthtones! We made some beautiful classic portraits.