The Ramirez Crew... :: Sweetwater Photographer, Abilene Children's Photographer

Check out all these little munchkins in their fancy matching Christmas dresses! What fun to take their photos... they were full of energy and spunk! Mom, Samantha, has become a sweet friend of mine and I was excited that she wanted me to do their holiday photos. They were one of the last families to get to have their pictures done in all the pretty fall foliage... this was one of my favorite spots this season too! Enjoy these sweet little faces! :)

Miss Dailyn- 4 Months :: San Angelo Children's Photographer, Abilene Children's Photograper

This little lady definitely deserves a blog post with all her cuteness! These images were in honor of her 4 month milestone! You may remember her from her newborn session a few months back... it was so fun to drive down to San Angelo and see how much she's grown and changed since her sleepy newborn pictures! :) Still sleepy, but even more sweet and alert! This session was supposed to be a family session as well, but big brother Peyton ended up getting sick in the middle of the session and was down for the count!! Poor guy! Hopefully we'll have better luck at the 8 month session!!

My Dusty Blog... and Some Gorgeous Gals :: Abilene Senior Portrait Photographer, San Angelo Senior Portrait Photographer

Ugh, I decided to go to my blog this morning to listen to some music (I put all my favorites on here) and was horrified to really see just how behind I am on posting. I don't even know if everything I've shot this holiday season will make it up onto this page... mostly because I'm about to have a baby literally any day now... and in January I'll be figuring out how to do life as a mommy of 3 AND packing my house to move! Yep- slight insanity, but we are excited to be buying our first home and I know once we are in, it will allllll be worth it! I've been much better about uploading client previews to my Facebook fan page, so if you want to check out a good selection of my holiday shooting... click here!! Otherwise, I'm going to try to do some quick posting just to update this blog a bit for those of you who randomly find me or don't do the Facebook thing! :)

So when you live in Sweetwater, Texas... November and December is the time for the local high school's New Year Girl competition. What is a New Year Girl, you ask... well, the girls get nominated by their peers and are required to submit an 8x10 for the contest. The images are sent away to be judged by some mystery person (who is usually announced after the deed has been done) and the title is awarded! All of the nominees get their pictures in the paper too. I personally think the school should give them some sort of prize or something... maybe a gift card or SOMETHING for going to all the effort?! But that's just me.. what do I know!

Photographing these girls was a lot of fun... I tried really hard to create different looks for each of them and find the sparkle in their personalities... some of the girls had very specific looks they were going for (i.e. out in the country/foliage look) .. and others left it entirely up to me! I told my husband that seriously, I could shoot these sessions all day long, every day! Girls this age are just so much fun! Fortunately, a handful of these girlies were Seniors and will be enjoying a $50 print credit when they return for their Senior Portrait Sessions in the spring! I look forward to that because we can have even more fun and not be limited to head shot and 3/4 length shots! :)

Just wanted to showcase some of my favorites... the only girl not featured in this post is Megan, who I actually managed to get blogged earlier on! :)

Miss Genea....























Miss Joselyn....











Miss Caroline.....

















Miss Heidi....

















Miss Sarah....

My Dusty Blog...

Sweet Baby Will :: Sweetwater Photographer, Abilene Children's Photographer

Never seen a little guy so excited to be plopped into a tin bucket!!!






I had the opportunity to work with Will's sweet family a week or so ago for their holiday pictures... I fell in love with these shots and since I'm struggling to keep the blog updated, just thought I'd do a very quick post to share these! Mommy, Lesli, brought this great stool and I about gasped thinking of trying to put him on it.. it was so tall I was afraid he'd fall off!! She assured me he would be fine and boy was he!!! I've got about 6-8 shots of him like this... complete with arms flailing and wide open mouth joy-filled smiles... and he stayed on the whole time! LOOOVE it! Lesli gets the bravest first time mommy award in my book! :)

New Year Girl Candidate- Megan :: Abilene Senior Portrait Photographer, Snyder Senior Portrait Photographer

So this is Megan, she was my first NYG candidate for 2010 that I had opportunity to shoot with! Megan said she wanted to more urban look and bright colors for her images... so we scouted out the scene and found some fun places to shoot (always the adventure portion of a session with me!!). She did a great job, just posting a couple of favorites of hers (and mine)! Mom wanted to add onto the session and have a few family pics taken too, so glad she did because WOW do I love these pictures! Another great addition to my updated family gallery on my website (one MAJOR item on my to-do list I have YET to accomplish?!!).

I'll be doing another post here soon with my favorites from all of the NYG sessions I've done this season so you can see.. I have one more this weekend before I'm all done so I think I'm going to wait for her and be able to do a complete post then!! Enjoy!