Amy Smith Photography

and on to 2009

time to play catch up with all the goodness 2009 has brought so far :)  I keep thinking about holding up some posts for the new blog that will soon be in the works, but I have some fun stuff coming up and I can't wait to share all the recent cuties.  This sweet little girl was in town on vacation with her momma.  I couldn't believe that she was only 2!  She was so sweet, so gentle, and did I mention adorable?!

the last itty bitty for 2008

She was my last newborn for 2008, and what a sweetie she is.  

and her gorgeous momma

happy little family

They were so much fun to work with.  Big brother was a ball of energy, little sister just as sweet as she could be, and two parents who just went with the flow.  

this one makes me smile

baby sister didn't last long

big brother never stopped :)

Springtime at Lulu Belle

If you haven't been to their new website, Lulu Belle has some fabulous new items in for Spring.  Ahh, love that store!  I'm also excited to announce the Spring Mini Sessions to be held there.  If you'd like to schedule, give me a call or send me an email.  We had so much fun with them in the fall, I can't wait for the Spring!

I really wish I was a better writer

I'd have all sorts of fabulous adjectives and lines to describe these wonderful little beings.  To describe the wonderful parents who welcome me into their homes and hand over their brand new babes for me to photograph however I'd like.  They trust me...with their babies who are usually only a few days old.  It's an honor really.  I'm thrilled too.  They're never this little again, this sweet, this new...so amazing.

these two watched me carefully :)

sweet little girl

She was scheduled to come to my last round of mini sessions at Lulu Belle.  Unfortunately she was still in the hospital.  I made a special trip when she got home and I'm so glad I did.  She's just beautiful.

those sweet little newborns

My littlest turned the grand old age of two today.  Ahhhh, two.  A mind of her own, a will like no other.  And yet being around all the sweet newborns that I have the joy of photographing, they make me want to do it a hundred times over.  There's nothing like bringing a newborn home.  Those first few sweet days that turn into a blur.  Falling asleep with them cuddled up in your arms, feeling their sweet little breath on your cheek.  *sniff* I miss it so.  This little guy was an angel.

I love it when the weather is nice enough to venture outside with a newborn.

On a side note, I'll be announcing the Lulu Belle Mini Session information this week.  If you were on my email list, you should have gotten the information this evening.  Can't wait!

why is it...

that we always seem to need a vacation from our vacations?  Upon returning home, the girls, my husband, me, everyone got sick.  And not only sick once, but multiples times with various ailments that didn't seem to be linked.  We'd get one thing, get over that, then immediately get something else.  So that explains my absence as I've been working diligently to get everyone healthy.  Well, ok, I guess I couldn't really work on it as much as lay around and say, 'please, can we all just get healthy already?!'

Despite the miserable return, we had a great little vacation.  The girls had their first plane ride (how cute are they in the photo below with the little hug and an ipod).  We sadly didn't have any snow so we ventured off to the hillside where they had made some for tubing.  I love this little tubing place.  Their sign on the wall says, 'rules....you're not allowed to do anything that begins with "hey y'all, watch this!".  I soooo meant to take a photo of it, and of course forgot.  I do believe my sister in law snagged one for me though.  Ha ha!  Gotta love North Carolina.  

And of course we had our photo session.  Sadly, no snow on the ground that day, sniff, sniff.  I had all these visions of us playing in it, snow ball fights, snowmen building, etc.  I think the photographers did too.  But they were champs about it and brought some fake snow for the girls to play with.  We did have some lovely 20 something degree weather and I have to say that the white box girls had no fear and were awesome to work with.  Unbelievably my girls did great thru all of the cold too.  Baby A had a meltdown or two, but would quickly recover.  Have I mentioned how nerve-wracking it is to be on that side of the camera?  I'm now just trying to pretend to be patient while I secretly stalk their blog hoping for a peek at my photos.  I tell you this 'waiting on gallery' thing that we photographers do to our clients is torturous!  But I know it will all be worth it :)

So that's the update on all of that.  I'll be back all this week to post the last little bits of 2008 sessions (sad, I'm that behind!), and get on the fabulous families I've been working with in 2009.  It's good to be back :)