Bridget & Wesley... Getting Married!

Bridget's beautiful engagement ring on a Blue Bonnet, the Texas state flower... for my friends in South Florida! These beautiful flowers smell divine and literally cover the fields in the Spring... it looks like a big, blue blanket on the ground!














This beautiful pink flowering tree is called a Red Bud... though they look like Cherry Blossoms to me! Beautiful! I just had to snap a few with this tree!!








My favorite house in West Texas!!!!









Ahhhhhh..... yummy light!



These last few will always have some nostalgia attached to them for me! They were taken on the property where we live now... our first house in Texas (and we move in less than a week)! As you can see, the dirt road that leads up the hill to our house is lined with majestic Pine trees... I was so glad to finally get to bring a couple here for pictures! The sunset was everything I hoped it would be for this session! Yay!






Ok so I shot this awesome session weeks ago and posted just a taste of the images on my Facebook fan page... but slacked on getting a proper blog post done... and this session is quite deserving (I think!). I'll be joining Bridget & Wesley in South Padre Island in July as they tie the knot and begin their adventure! I'm very excited to be with them and see the island! Not only are they getting married on the beach, but they have reserved a beach house for the reception which should be very quaint. The next day, they are going to put their fancies back on and we are going to do an after-session and galavant around the island a bit to do some very artistic and fun wedding photos.... sort of a let your hair down and have fun session! THIS... I'm especially excited about! :)

I was really pleased with these images... I just loved the warm light and the Spring accents. The shot in the house with the light streaming in through the crack in the wall was just yummy! One of those times you look through the lens and go..."ooooh my!?" with excitement!

I'm sorry it has taken me so long to post these... but today, in the midst of laundry, packing, 2 crazy kids, and morning sickness..... a blog post sounded about as good to me as a cup of Starbuck's coffee would on a non-pregnant day! Ahhhh...... here it is... warm, sweet, and delicious! :)

(and that's right, we are expecting Baby Carbone #3 around Christmas time!)

Sweet Selah....

Nothing like newborn, peely toes!












Grandpa made this beautiful cradle... we had to take a few shots with her in it for the scrapbook!



Baby fuzz.... nothing like it!



Daddy loves flowers and plants.... future horticulturist!!



This was actually a test shot.... but I loved her little open mouth and Mom's hand on her back... so here it is!



Little Miss Selah made her grand entrance into the world over a month ago, she's the baby of a family of now 5! Her mommy, Jennifer, is one of my dear friends and I was just too excited to get to take Selah's pictures, especially after photographing her in her mommy's belly a few months ago! She was a little angel to photograph.... I love the shots where she's folded over like a little baby sandwich! :)

Belly Bliss...... :)

Well, my blogging hiatus has finally ended!!! It may be slow-going though, as my family and I are preparing for a move here in the next two weeks! As I said before... I've lost count of how many sessions I need to blog.. but I figured I'd start with my most recent and work backwards!!

Joy & Marcus are expecting a baby girl sometime in the beginning of June. I was really struck by what a beautiful pregnant shape she had.... the outfits she chose really complimented her curves and were in my opinion just perfect! Joy is from the LA area and recently relocated to Abilene with her hubby who's in the Air Force. She found me through a google search for Abilene... which is always so nice to hear that I CAN be found!! There are lots of good photographers in the Abilene area... so it feels great to be the one who was chosen to take these very special photographs!
Joy- it was so nice chatting with you about first babies, birth, nursing, etc! That is one of the things I love about my job... nothing like a good dose of Mommy-talk! You both were so sweet and are no doubt going to be great parents!! I can't wait to meet your little angel-girl and take her first pictures too! Keep me posted on her arrival! :) Anytime now!!!

My Long, Lost Blog.... :)

Ugh, I can't believe it's been over a month since I've blogged a session!?? I guess you could say I've just taken a break from blogging purely due to being so stinkin' busy that I just can't keep up with it. I'm probably behind blogging about 15 sessions, and feel like it would take me forever to get each one posted.. but I will try!!! Ugh, what to do? Maybe I need to hire a "blogging assistant" in times like these where editing and finishing up files in a timely manner is more important than posting them for the world to see? Hmmmm, that may be an idea! :) I have posted a few of them on my Facebook Fan page, because it's fast, but I so prefer to blog because the pictures are nice and big and you can really see them much better! In the last month or two, I've shot with about 10 beautiful seniors... so I will likely just do one big monster post with the highlights from each one... a few family sessions, and engagement session for Brigett & Wesley, the snuggly newborn Selah, Mommy Joy who is expecting her first little girl, and Whitney's Bridals! So, consider this a coming attractions of sorts! :)

Just a few of the highlights of what I've been up to... flew to Philly to shoot Alison & Micheal's reception... just photographed about 100 ballerinas, big and small, at the Sweetwater Performing Arts center over the last two days, and hosted a booth at the Sweetwater High School Career Fair yesterday... hopefully inspired a few students to explore a career in photography! Not to mention that I had 24 Juniors sign up to shoot their Senior Portraits with me next year!!! Woo-hoooo! :)

Amazing Births & Beyond in South Florida has redesigned their website using my photography as creative accents on each page... what an honor! For all my SoFla mamas, I highly recommend their services... everything from birth & post-pardem doulas, prenatal massage, hypno-birthing and a whole host of classes, and an amazing boutique with tons of treasures (including a line of house made shea butter lotions, essential oils, soaps, etc... divine!). It's THE place for the pregnant mommy (and beyond!)! I'm thrilled to be featured on their site... check it out here. Click the menu tab in the middle to see each page!

I promise to get some evidence of all of this fun stuff up on here soon! On a personal note, I am supposed to be packing up my house to move in 3 weeks............................ ya.... NO clue how that one is going to actually going to happen?? I had to cancel my trip to South Florida this month just due to the move and all that I already have going on here in Texas... 10 sessions :( ... but I look forward to returning in late September/October for the holiday rush of family photography!! That's all for now! I'll be back soon!