I cant tell you how happy I was to see this beautiful lil angel again. This family is one of my longest clients and has referred me so many wonderful clients to this day. I just love them too much. This is Miss E’s 6 year portrait. This is much more formal than you are used to seeing from me but I think they turned out beautiful. Her mom and grandmother hand made this elegant dress just for her. So delicate and beautiful! Im sure it will be a family heirloom for many generations. IT makes me kinda giddy to think of this portrait hanging for many generations and them duplicating it with her children and so on.! Kinda cool~huh?

Look at this beautiful smile. She was full of energy and did so well to sit still for us for soo long!!
She was happy to take the dress off and dance around in my petti. This is the new tree my dear friend Pat painted in the new studio. It is soo dreamy…Im so excited to use for different portraits.
Hope everyone is doing well and staying warm. Anyone want to go to the Islands for a session??

Well tonight we were in the new studio…great thing about it being at home!….Molly and I decided we would make her custom Valentines cards this year..so of course we needed a new pic of her for them. Well easy enough..right? I am a Nationially Known Photographer (ha..just daydreaming a lil…sorry..) anyway I should be able to get a pic of my own kids Right? Yeah. NOT! It becomes the most stressful thing ever. Molly wants to wear ONLY what Molly wants (how dare her….not sure where she gets this from) and wants to do some Whacked poses and such. So we laugh a lil and spit spat with each other alot. I am in awe in how much she looks like me but more of her attitude..I learn how mine is by watching her. It is quite humbling! SHE IS ME 100% NO PART OF HER DADDY JUST ME AND MY…UMM…ATTITUDE..AND STUBBORN….OMGOSH!….. so I would like to officially apologize to my sweet sweet mother who is so not stubborn and has almost no attitude. HOW totally unfair that she had to put up with me for all of my youth and still today. I am soooooo sorry and I will never show you that side of me again….well I will pray on that! So anyway we had totally diff ideas of what her card should look like. This pic is her looking so happy with me. But honestly it is my favorite of her from the shoot. I love her sweet innocence here. She is also the most caring and thoughtful child ever! When I returned from my trip last week she had made me a Welcome Home Banner and a MOM project! One of those things that you have no where to put but no way are you throwing it away! She does love her mommy!….I am unsure if I like the color version…but it shows her beautiful red hair and her fashion!

Now here walks in Phoenix…he cant stand to take pics unless it is some Whacked out crazy thing. But he came into the studio so he asked for it. He is in major need of a haircut and has a swollen lip but I thought….why not! He is in this awkward stage of not smiling but not being serious either. So I told Molly to stand behind me and make him laugh….This is what I got. He would start dieing laughing at her but would turn his head so I could NOT take his pic. LOSER! But again I always keep snapping and I looooooove this image of him! THis is sooo him. He is such a cut up and has his dads sick sense of humor so he is always got this dorky laugh going. Just tonight…it was bedtime and he asked if he could have “just a lil sip of Coke”~ now mind you this is his bedtime question each night and the answer is 99% of the time NO! But he just has to ask. Well tonight I say “No you can have milk or H2O” so he starts pretending to have a meltdown…a real arms flaying~screaming at the top of your lungs~ banging on the wall tantrum. I honestly was rolling on the floor laughing. It was hysterical. One of those moments I would do anything to have a pic of! He could defiantly be a lil comedian!
There is only one thing they hate worse than taking pics of themselves…taking pics TOGETHER!. This is the worse thing ever in all of life. You mean sit beside each other and maybe feel each other breathe?? Are you kidding? This is by no means going on the wall but it nice to have one of them tog. I realized how pretty Phoenix looks in these…really he is a boy!

So I hope you all enjoyed this post…life behind the lens..with MJ Photography Love you all…..

I have been waiting to meet this lil man for a while and it was so worth the wait! He is so happy and Adorable!! He has the sweetest family and I feel lucky to have them as clients and friends. Thank you guys for coming to see me and the new studio…i will add some more later for you.

His wonderful mom works at http://www.bmasseycreative.com/ ~ they make really cute custom frames, so check them out!

Meet Lil Miss A…she is my neighbor and my third child! She has grown up with her Aunt Mamby snapping a camera in her face and that beautiful smile…makes you melt! She truly has the best hair…Now that she is a bit older she can walk over all by herself (of course not knowing mom is watching every step from the window) we will just be sitting around and the door opens….she comes in takes her crocs off and never says a word..just plops in my lap..DOES it get any better than that?? OF course she thinks Molly hung the moon and wants to play with everything in her room, which sometimes Molly allows
I had just finished a session in the new studio and her and Molly came in to play…photo op!!!!

Surprise mom!!
Dont even ask what Molly has on????? She puts all of the studio “props” on…arent they so sweet. I just love how they love each other!