My friend Lindsay, who was recently seen on the blog as the adorable pregnant lady, recently welcomed her sweet daughter Evelyn to the world. Her sweetness was born on November 9th. I love photographing new parents, there is such a glow to them and they are full of love. Lindsay and Matt are no exception. Evelyn has no doubt captured their hearts and changed their world.

As another joyous note, Rachael and Billy, who was the other maternity shoot I did a few weeks back, just welcomed Lizzie into the world yesterday! Yeah, for sweet, precious baby girls!

Over the holiday weekend I got the opportunity to see most of my family, including my precious niece Lorelei! Since she’s grown quite a bit since her newborn shoot, so of course it was time for a little photo session with aunt Megan. Unfortunately, it didn’t work out to do the shoot in the morning, when she’s in the happiest mood, but she was quite the trooper for an evening session.

Lorelei is one special little lady and I love being her auntie!

Our friends Stephanie and Adam welcomed their first child, a handsome little guy into the world last week. I just took a few quick pictures of his new-ness at the hospital. His official newborn shoot will be coming soon. Congrats to the new parents and lots of love to little Eli!

Last weekend was my sister-in-law Amanda’s baby shower! Amanda and my brother are expecting their first child (a girl) at the end of next month. Amanda’s mom put on the shower of all baby showers. She planned every little detail out and had the cutest ideas. She has a gift in party planning. We started out by each of us decorating an outfit. I was a little rusty with the puffy paint but enjoyed the creative outlet. Of course there was cake, strawberry cupcakes! Several other games were played with the coveted prizes of custom grocery totes that Amanda’s mom had made. The tie breaker for the games was who could built the tallest tower of blocks. Their little girl got so many cute outfits, she will be quite the little fashionista. Stay posted in about a month for pictures of my first niece!

Some of you might remember the adorable quads that I photographed last year at this time on their 1st birthday! It was a day I don’t think I could forget. Well, their mom, Jen has an awesome blog (http://murraycrew.blogspot.com/) telling the tales of life with quads now entering their “terrific twos”. They’ve been nominated for 2008 WEBLOG AWARDS in the “Best Parenting Blog”. Currently they are back in forth between first and second place by about 10 votes! So if you can spare a moment, give this awesome family some love by clicking the link below.

It’s one click voting – no need to create an account, and you can return every 24 hours until Tuesday, January 13th
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http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-parenting-blog/