My baby is one!!!

Happy 1st Birthday to my sweet boy :-) . We celebrated with friends and family and snuck in a couple mommy/baby moments too :-) I wasn't as emotional as I thought I'd be, but mostly happy at the thought that I haven't completely messed up his life in one year - ha!

Oh, how I love him.

I had the wonderful opportunity to shoot a couple portraits for my good friends Dave and Gina this weekend. It was my first time on the Belmont Abbey campus - and wow, is it beautiful!

And on the subject of beautiful, Gina... is.

(Please excuse the fuziness of a couple of these, I still haven't figured out how to blow them up on here and keep the clarity of them!)

Easter Happiness

This weekend we were able to take a 3-day weekend and spend it all doing our favorite things... breakfasts together... walks in the neighborhood...a little shopping (I'm not quite sure Matt or Jack would agree that's a favorite thing)... and just generally not caring about anything but squeezing in each second of time we have with each other.

And then add Easter on top of that, and it's just icing on the cake.

My little Republican:




Add in sunshine, blue sky and my family, it was one those perfect days.

Been so busy....

...with a little one who makes getting up early easy... and who has forced me to learn the art of eating dinner in 5 seconds flat... and who every day, gets more and more a mind of his own.

If you asked me 3 weeks into Jack's life if I enjoyed being a mama.... I don't know what i would have said. His colicky little self threw me for a huge loop... I took his constant ... yes constant crying 100% personally - I thought he hated me, I thought I was a terrible mother. Turns out he just has a terrible stomach. But 10 weeks into his life things just got better, and now 10 months into his life, I find myself practically running through the doors of the little daycare he spends his days at so I can snatch him up.

I haven't had a lot of time to take pictures. I've been studying other photographer's work, and realized I just don't have the camera I need to take the shots i want to take. So... in about 20 years I'll have saved up enough spare change to buy the camera I want!

But in the mean time, I do want to introduce you to something that makes everyone laugh, makes my heart melt, and gets this little guy anything he wants (almost).

I give you...

...the lip.

Noor's Engagement Party

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of shooting this formal engagement ceremony for Noor and her family.... and what a sweet and beautiful family they are! The camera loves Noor, she is GOR-GEOUS!


Here are they bride and groom-to-be's fathers formally accepting their engagement.



Stunning!

They had ALL their family in from all over the world for this occasion, and there were some DARLING babies!

Just a little thought...

In this economy, I'm grateful to have a steady, decent job ... but dang, do I miss these two today...

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year from the Hewlett's!