For the love of quilts!

Last week Samuel got his first package in the mail, a quilt from his Great Aunt Jan who has a blog called www.laughingdogarts.blogspot.com which features her beautiful artwork. She's so creative and thoughtful! We were excited to add this to our collection; Aunt Jan made a gorgeous quilt for our bed after we got married (in our wedding colors even :), made a matching quilt for Hailey when she was born, a very well used one for Joe that he sleeps with every night, and now Sam has one too! Sam also turned 6 weeks old this past week so I took his photos with the quilt.

Here are all three quilts which amazingly, capture the 3 kids personalities perfectly (I don't know how she could have planned this since she made each of these before the baby was born or before she met them. Simply amazing!) On the far left is tranquil sweet Sam, then loud bold Joseph, and pretty princess Hailey on the right :)

Close up of Sam's quilt:

Full view - such beautiful work!

During the shoot, I caught an action sequence of Sam's skillful rollover technique. This is how he avoids his tummy time. Every time. 

Rolling up to the side and flinging his leg over, and...

he made it!

Hanging out on big brother's quilt (shhh!)

Super baby!

Close up of Hailey's quilt from Aunt Jan

And a close up of Joseph's quilt which is very soft and worn in :)

These are a couple of blankets that I made a few weeks ago for Sam and Hailey (Joe's isn't done yet)

And just for good measure, a tied quilt (because I admittedly don't have the patience required to actually quilt anything!) that I made for Hailey's nursery before she was born using fabric from our wedding. The large squares were my centerpiece place mats. 

Isla 9 Months

I think one of my most favorite photography packages for infants is my Milestone Package which captures babies at birth and then every three months until their first year (where we smash CAKE! Yessss!) The reason it's my favorite is that the babies make such obvious changes in those 3 months and, being a bit of a baby fanatic, I enjoy seeing and capturing those changes :) I should probably look back through my blog posts because I feel like I may have mentioned this before! This was Isla's 4th session with me and it was lots of fun. We got to play outside; something we missed out on through the winter and I got to capture MOBILE Isla. She is definitely fully crawling, on the verge of walking, and makes the cutest pre-talking noises. Plus she's adorable and sweet natured (she rocked this session even though she was super tired) it just doesn't get much better :)

Little Hunter ~ 3 Weeks-ish :)

Mr. Hunter made an early appearance... it's still not quite his due date even though he's almost a month old! Even still, he is a STRONG little guy! This little 6 pounder put up quite the struggle about some of the poses I tried to put him in, but finally after a big lunch and a couple of pees and poos, he drifted off to dreamland and did such a great job of being sleepy :) I love his hair... his sweet little face and his SHARP eyes. Oh man, he was looking around at everything. Just a tiny little perfect boy :)

Sometimes I wonder which baby it will be who will make me decide I need #3 :) That person will definitely get some kind of photo credit. Anyway, on to the good stuff! All of my favorites!

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This one's my favorite...

My personal goal has been to try to find inspiration in new things, so when I was brainstorming the session this morning and saw this ceramic planter out on the back deck I (ok, ok, the Hubs) emptied and cleaned it for me to use. I'm SO GLAD I did! 

No this one! This one's definitely my favorite!

No this one! See what I mean?

Going with kindof a Southwestern theme, I used a brightly colored cloth to swaddle and a southwestern blanket for accent.



Khloe turns 1!

I met this little cutie when she was just a few days old and then a couple of other times at 3 and 4 months so she had changed A LOT since I last saw her. She is just gorgeous! Pretty blond hair and green eyes and a little angel face :) Khloe is adorable. Happy 1st Birthday sweet girl!

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