My Maternity Photos – Oliver

As a photographer, I’m used to always being behind the camera.  Most of the photos of Grayson and me are selfies taken with my iPhone.  So I was extremely happy that one of my friends was willing to take some maternity pictures for me to document my pregnancy with our second son, Oliver.  We used my camera so I could easily take the memory card home and edit the pictures myself.  Grayson cooperated for some of the photos, but he was more interested in walking through the crunchy leaves.  Still, I’m glad I have a few photos of him and me together while I’m pregnant with his little brother.  He still has no clue what’s going on, and the only interest he has in my large belly is poking my belly button.  Haha!

Unfortunately, Steve was not able to be in these photos because he has been working incredibly long hours getting our second retail store ready to open, but I’m hoping he’ll be able to take an hour or so off soon, so we can take a family photo for our Christmas cards.

The sun was just perfect, and the water on Old Hickory Lake was so calm it looked like glass.  I couldn’t have asked for a more beautiful setting.

A Gift for Dad

With Christmas coming up, sometimes it can be hard to think of the perfect gift to give the dad in your life.  Whether it be the father of your children, or your own father, this gift would work for either.  I took these pictures and framed them for Steve last Father’s Day and he loved them!  I also did a version that said “Papa” for my dad, and I only had to swap out 2 letters!  Super easy and super sentimental!  Dad is sure to love it!

Grayson’s Cake Smash (better late than never)

Last night I was going through my pictures, seeing which ones still needed editing, and I realized that I never finished editing Grayson’s 1st birthday cake smash photos!  Which means that no one got to see them!  Well, I just finished editing them, and it was so fun to go back and reminisce about my little boy’s first birthday.

He wasn’t really into eating the cake (I think he took maybe two bites max), but he sure had fun digging in and making a mess!

I made his cake and decided to use the same colors and flags that we were going to use at his birthday party.  That flag banner was actually the same one (of many) used at my baby shower for him!  I was so glad for a reason to be able to use them again!

I ended up having to put a little frosting on his lips so he would realize the cake was for eating, and not just for squishing between his fingers.

“Oh!  I can actually eat this big, blue thing!”

Haha!  I’m not sure what he made this face for, but it was too hilarious not to include in this post.

Finally starting to really dig in!

They don’t call it a cake SMASH for nothing!