What's more precious than a smile on a baby's face? A smile on on their face while they try to coordinate shoving cake into their mouth! The increasingly popular trend for memorializing a child's first birthday by giving them a whole cake is a photographer's dream. Giving a child a cake is a great way to almost guarantee a happy model during the photo shoot. The theme for this cake smash was teal, purple, and gold. Nearly 50 paper fans in the themed colors were hung to mak

Cora and Dean were 2 years and 2 months respectively when I photographed them. Cora was the most polite little toddler ever, and so patient. But she did have a penchant for only wanting to sit on the photo props when we put her baby brother on them. The old "grass is greener" issue. Fortunately, once we figured this out we had a winning strategy to keep her happy and in the photo sets. Plus, I brought out my bubble machine and she was completely enchanted. Sometimes 2 mon

This little sweet baby boy came to my studio in Lenexa, Kansas at 8 days old. I love when parents are as passionate as I am about getting creative and painfully cute newborn pictures--and his mommy was. They made 3 trips to the car before they got everything lugged in my house! She had perfect props for newborn photography: a striking navy blue cheesecloth, a crochet bear hat with matching miniature stuffed bear, a giant toolbox, lots of tools, beautiful dark wicker basket