Meet Elisabeth and Brett!  These two were already officially married, but had a ceremony and reception for all of their families and friends December 26th!

We met up at the Toledo Zoo for some shots before the ceremony started.  Elisabeth was amazing, it was extremely cold that day!  You can’t tell from these shots because she is amazing!  And my wonderful second shooter had a blanket in her car to wrap up with between shots!

Loved the butterflies with her butterfly tattoo:

It was so nice to meet you both along with your wonderful family and friends!

Ceremony and Reception: Central Park West

Second Shooter: Sarah J

And I about died when I saw his room…mom has a fabulous eye for great finds and putting together such a great retro style room!  She’s painted furniture, gotten cute stuff off ebay that reminds me of my childhood, and added an adorable little baby to top it off!

Love hte hat she had too!  And he was such a great sleepy baby!

It was so nice to meet you both!

I was happy to run over to the Maumee Valley Country Day School Teacher’s party to take some quick shots of the yummy food that the Two Seasoned Chicks had set out.  They’re so versatile, this was a whole different spread from the bridal shower I shot earlier in the year, but still so delicious! This first shot is of the best bread I ever had:

And the wonderful ladies behind the food:

Right around the same time, I ran over to the wonderful photographer, Sarah’s house for a fast Christmas session with her and her adorable son.  Sarah recently moved into my hood and I ran into her while out walking the dog, I’ve been so lucky to get to know her better since then.  I’m excited to be going to a big photographer’s conference with her soon!  Isn’t her son so handsome?

Mom owns the cutest boy’s clothing company, Somebubby…the little shirts and ties are adorable!!

How cute is his room?

He is so adorable!

It was so nice to meet you all!  You have a beautiful family!

This was such a favorite of mine…Kirsten’s dad working on his speech while everyone was getting ready.

Kirsten is gorgeous!

Kirsten and her friends grew up acting in the Toledo Rep, and the wedding ceremony had several original musical acts depicting how Scot and Kirsten met, a typical day, etc!  I was SOO impressed by the talent of everyone and the show was quite entertaining!

I always love watching the parents of the couple…

A little dance on their exit:

Kirsten’s matron of honor had to go on a military tour of Iraq and miss the wedding.  She was able to watch the ceremony and reception and deliver her speech through Skype…there wasn’t a dry eye in the house!

The Courtyard at the Navy is such a beautiful spot for a reception!

Ceremony: Toledo Rep

Reception: Courtyard at the Navy

Second Shooter: Gloria Avina

DJ: Decorative Sound, Michael

I miss chubby little baby frog legs:

This little guy has a really gorgeous mommy!

How sweet are these ones?

It was SOO nice to meet you all!

I’m still working on my list, and made some good progress, so I thought I would share another session from last year.  And it was a very pink session, perfect for today!  This was the lovely family I enjoyed spending some time with in early December…

I had to include both of these, I couldn’t decide:

And finally, mom was so creative with her gift wrapping

It was wonderful to meet you all, can’t wait for March!!

These two beauties came to the studio with their jammies, pretty dress up dresses, and their doll and stuffed dog with matching dresses!  They are cousins with two little boys I’ve had in a few times before and it was fun to see the similarities.  I am getting ready to run, but check out how much fun we had:

It was so nice to meet you all!

Next, I have to ask you all to keep the Seedorf family in your prayers.  I was shocked tonight as I was working with the news on as background noise…I heard a name I recognized and started to pay attention.  There was an accident in Wood County, Shannon went off the road into the Portage river and later died.  I took pictures of Shannon and her boys this past spring, her boys will be turning 4 and 2 soon.  It breaks my heart to think of them without their mother…I’ve been crying all night and thinking about how we had talked during her session, how she wanted to do a session for herself for Mother’s day every year and that she wanted to wait until the next one, when she lost weigh/felt better about herself to get a good family picture.  I told her I was waiting for the same thing… we laughed about it and I am so grateful that I got a few candid shots of her interacting with the boys anyway.  Shannon was a wonderful person and motherand my thoughts are with her family.

Now, I apologize to the S family for putting these up after writing about something so sad…but this is what I was working on when I saw the news and I want to get it up.  Your beautiful little girl puts such a smile on my face!  We started out in the field and I am so glad we did because once we got in the house and I got closer with my big camera she was scared!  Poor little doll!  Check out this adorable family:

I love this mirror shot, it was at the end of the session, at this point I was trying to hide and stay far away

It was great to meet you all!  Hopefully A won’t be so scared of the camera in the future

I LOVE their property, perfect for a session!

It was so great to see you again S and to hang out again!

I am almost to December for the blog!  Just two more November sessions!  This weekend was my middle son’s 6th birthday… he had his buddies out at Hero’s for a party, I love that place!  We did some family celebrating too… he is such a cutie, he was telling everyone “it’s my birthday you know”  He had to keep reminding me he wanted Marco’s for dinner…”not just any pizza, Marco’s pizza…because it’s my birthday you know”  So I have to include a few pictures of him, these were from the summer, we took a short trip up to Traverse City for the first time.  He was in heaven, he loves the beach.