Its been a while

Its that time of where when the air is cooler one week and the next week it feels like spring.  Cincinnati weather is strange.  So with the weird weather comes sickness and yucky germs!!  My kids and I have all had the yucky sick bug for what seems like a month now :(  I am still trying to get over it. 

In the meantime I've had several sessions that I haven't uploaded yet so I will do that now!!

First up I want to say the lovely young lady and man seen below; I will be doing their wedding in May.  Can I just say how stunning they are?!  They are two of the sweetest people I've ever met!!!  I am thrilled to work with them more, for they have become a friend to me!



Some Family portraits in October-Below.  October is my favorite time of year and how gorgeous is all the fall colors?!

I've had a birthday shoot with my oldest for his 7 year pictures; Below

 And because he loves Halloween we did some pictures in his costume too!!

Another wedding I'm doing in July-Engagement Pictures; Below

My favorite little "g" girls; Below

 And their gorgeous momma and my bestest friend in the whole world!!  She has been there for me no matter what!  She's never turned her back on me and she's there when I need someone to talk to!!  She's not judgemental and she accepts me for who I am!!  I <3 her!!

 The 3 little Amigo's, that are just so darn silly...and a little bit wild!! Below.

 My cousin's beautiful little miss "p"!!  I am so glad that they came to my house and let me use them as my Guinea pigs on my new backdrop!! 

 And the reason I love doing senior photo sessions so much is because all the unique locations I get to travel to!!  I had such a blast during this session!!! Below.

To end this I will just say that November has been a great month so far!!  I am being featured at a local Starbucks for a full month of recognition on their "Art Wall"!!!  I am beyond grateful and excited!!  I am so thankful for all my wonderful clients and friends and especially my family!!

Mario time...and other adorable-ness

I photographed this family a while back and her boys were tired, and really was not interested in having me in their face.  So I rescheduled a session with them and couldn't be happier with how well the boys behaved!!  Even Mario was happy to participate in having his photo taken!!  Here are some pictures from all their sessions combined :) 

I am so happy when I get the opportunity to photograph them!!  They really make me smile!!!



Candy anyone?

My neighbor just had her 3rd beautiful baby boy and I had the opportunity to photograph his cute-ness!!!  I just ordered the most perfect candy corn hat off eBay and couldn't wait to use it.  He was the perfect little baby for the hat!!  I love having their family as my neighbors...they are awesome!!!

I'm in love with crochet props!!! 

Army Family

My gorgeous cousin is married to an army man!  With that comes the life of an Army Wife and basically a single mother.  She has two stunningly beautiful children!  They are so sweet and I love them so much!!  My cousin's little girl is a total ham and has a fireball personality.  She didn't want to sit still for 5 seconds and honestly what 2 1/2 year old does when there's things to be exploring!  Her son however didn't have a choice he's only 6 months old and soooo chubby!!  If there's one thing I love about babies...its the chubs, the rolls, the puffy cheeks :)  He was pretty well behaved despite the freezing cold weather we had that day!!  Here are some shots from that day!!

Love them <3 <3 <3

Birthday Boy

You never realize how small our world can be until someone you've taken pictures for lives about 2 minutes away, has quite a few mutual friends, and never even knew each other!! 

I am so lucky to have met this family!!  I am thrilled that she has asked me to do her engagement photos as well as be her wedding photographer in 2012!!  I have only done one small wedding and so I hope I will be prepared enough to capture her amazing day!!  She also asked me to photograph her little boy's 1st birthday portraits!! 

He was a total "Mr. Serious"  He seemed to like me, just not enough to smile for me!!  He has THE MOST AMAZING blue eyes!!  He is definitely going to be his Mommy's little heart breaker!!!  Here are some shots from his session!!!



I cant wait to photograph this family more!!!  The one's I have met so far are just lovely!

Slacking...Time for an update!!

Birthdays, sessions, family gatherings, school, being the Shaffer, wife, mommy, and maid=BUSY!!!  I have been totally in love with the season's changing and staying busy that I have let my blogging slack a bit...forgive me? 

This time of year when the leaves start changing and the air is cooler and the smells of pumpkin spice is in every store you step foot in makes me happy!!

I did a session with my gorgeous little girl in her fall attire and her Halloween outfit.  Here's a few of her best!! 

I also did a session with my youngest little guy!!  We did fall pictures of him and in his costume!!  He is so thrilled with his costume this year he's barely taken it off since we bought it 2 weeks ago!! 

 He's thrilled!!!

One of my little guy's best features is his eyes, because they are the most perfect ice blue ; however when he smiles his eyes turn into half moons and you cant even see the color anymore :(  Oh well, he's still super adorable :)

I still need to take pictures of my oldest for his 7 year birthday photos and fall/Halloween so I guess I'll be editing this blog soon!! 

Before I move onto client blogs I wanted to share a photo that I recently took in my neighborhood, and you will see my love of fall!!!

Happy Fall Y'all!!!

Newborns!!!

I photographed two beautiful baby girls, one on Sunday the other Monday morning!  They made me realize that I miss my children being so little.  I wish I had been doing my photography more seriously when I gave birth to my last child, because I love the way newborn photographs look!!  Much better than the costly portraits hospitals offer!! 

The first little sweetie pie was just awesome!!  She was a very content and happy little baby.  She didn't fuss a whole lot when I would move her around or change her position!  She gave me the best smiles, and the cutest faces!!  Here are a few of her pictures!

eeeekkkk!!  I just loved this little girl, and that OOOHHH soo amazingly beautiful smile!!

Check out all the fuzzy-ness this little girl has!!  

The quilt is 26 or 27 years old, and its in amazing shape, and its just beautiful.  It was little miss baby girl's momma's when she was born!!  Her older sister was also photographed with this quilt!!

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I then photographed the most easy going, sleepy, perfect little girl!!  She was amazing!!  She let me put her in whatever position I wanted to, without fussing, without going potty everywhere, and slept through most of it all!!  She was a dream newborn to photograph!!  She has a head full of beautiful hair and gorgeous skin color!!  Here are a few shots from her session!!

<3 her!!

The most incredible swirl I've ever seen on a baby!!!

Now that I'm finished up with my two newborn sessions...I'm on the hunt for more!!  I loved loved photographing them!!



Busy...busy.....busy!!

Yes, I have been busy lately and I feel so badly that my blog has been abandoned for a while :(  Time to play catch up!! 

My son started school a last Tuesday and has already missed 3 days of school :(  He came home Tuesday seemed fine, 2:30am Wednesday morning complained that his throat was hurting him!!  GREAT...he's got strep throat already was my first thought!  So I allowed him to stay home.  He was still sick the next morning so I made a doctors appointment.  NO STREP...thank goodness.  HOWEVER....everyone else is sick too.  Sneezing, sore throats, running noses..yucky tastes in our mouths.  This week has totally bummed. 

On top of everyone being sick, I've been trying to edit photos and get disks sent out in the mail and take care of daily house work and sick children...I'm ready for a new week and hopefully no more sickness!!

I did manage some photo sessions.  I did one Last Saturday with a beautiful young lady.  She happens to live down the street from me.  Her mom and dad rock too!!  They introduced me to a donut shop about 20 minutes away...and its so worth the drive!!  I love me some pastries!!  Here's a few shots from her session!!!

I then had a session with a sweet little guy who didn't want his pictures taken a few weeks prior, so this was a do over!  It was so worth having his photos done on a separate day...he was much happier this time around!!  I'm not sure if his happiness was due to all the water he got the chance to play in!  Either way, love this little guy and cant wait to do more photos of him!!!

Lastly I did a session with two sweet and beautiful little gals!!!  Their mommy won a contest I help a while back called "the sweet fan contest"  Her name was chosen from a drawing with other contestants who participated in sharing my page with their friends and family!!  Its such a nice gesture to see how supportive and loving my friends and family are!!  I am amazed everyday at kind words that people send or comment on my photos!!

Ending with this; DON'T FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS, CHASE THEM!!!