Wow, that was a mouthful to say. Boulder, mini, photography, mother’s day, photos or portraits or whatever. Just know they are fun, fast, a great memory, AND you get beautifully mounted prints included so that you remember forever dancing out at Chautauqua or Wonderland Lake in north Boulder with your kids and your dog or cat or grandma or whoever you want to bring. Every time you walk past the portraits on your walls going down the stairs or the big one over the bed or the few you printed small just because you can’t stop looking at them and they are not in a frame but up on your refrigerator so that every time you open it you have a smile on your face.

Well, those ARE the photos I give to people. The make-you-smile-and-laugh type. Not the pinching your kids from behind to smile at some doofy photographer while he tries to get them to say cheese even though they are wearing their frumpiest, itchiest clothes.

I am the laugh-out-loud, have-my-assistant-hit-me-on-the-head-with-my-flip-flop type of photographer. Kids love it, moms love it, and dads even crack a few genuine smiles here and there (more than a few, but they won’t admit they actually like getting their family portraits done).

So, mother’s day is coming up. Simply forward this link or email or whatever to your husband/father, whoever, and tell them THIS is what would make your day perfect. YOUR day. Because as moms, we DESERVE this day. This day where for once, every one sits backs and realizes how much we do for them, how much we love them, and how much ENERGY that love takes. It takes a lot. And we second guess all the time how we should feel guilty bc we think it is exhausting. But it IS. And this is our one day of year to sit back and get what we want. And I know for a FACT that the most important thing to moms, aside from their children, are the memories, the authentic memories, of their children in this moment of time. Just as they are. Just as YOU all are as a family. If there was a fire you would not stop to grab that $500 Scandinavian high chair you just had to have at your baby shower. You would grab whatever photos you could and leave the rest behind. Everything else is replaceable. These moments are not. So….here is the fabulous rare deal I offer on mini family photography sessions:

$195 includes:

20-30 minutes of fun, laughing, rolling around and being silly or formal or stuffy-your choice:)

15-20 images in an online, password protected gallery

2 11×14 beautifully mounted prints of your choice

Your own blog link with my favorite photos so you can show off your gorgeous kids to your friends and family through Facebook or email

The ability to purchase further images, digital negatives, canvases, albums, or whatever your mother’s day heart desires

Fun. And memories. And happiness.

Call me to schedule. The slots go fast. I give preference to current clients but you have to contact me within the first few days of the announcement to get the good times. Second preference goes to those who email or call me and tell me how much they love my work.

xoxo

stacey

720.310.0336

boulderbabyphotography@gmail.com

Beautiful day in Boulder! Stunning weather, clouds in an endless open, big sky. Kids running around the lake, chasing geese, fumbling from one weird exercise equipment to the other (what is with that in Boulder anyways? More slides, less sit up equipment!!).

Either way, it was a fantastic day. I am finally getting caught up on old orders, loving the new families that are coming to me for photos, enjoying the sun, and my neighbors are having a pig roast. Yes, we ARE vegetarians. So all day the kids were hanging over the porch trying to understand what that whole, almost alive pig was doing spinning on a rod. Wilber? Charlotte’s Web? Yes, very confusing. If only this pig had a spider to weave amazing words for him…but, no. So the kids get a lessen in eating meat. They are not made to be vegetarian, that is just what we are. Elijah will eat meat every once in awhile, meaning, when grandma comes into town he can not resist chicken nuggets from Mc Donalds. My kids didn’t know what a chicken nugget was, and they did not know who Mikey Mouse was, either, and my sister one year threw a fit. Denying them the basic American rights is wrong, I know. But, I think they are not going to eat meat for awhile after seeing poor Wilber, who they so lovingly named him, turning round and round in the fire all day.

So, we’ll see. Maybe I will actually go to a party tonight. Its next door, why not? Doubtful though. My nights look like me falling asleep at 8pm with my little ones lately.

I AM feeling better though. Every day, more strength, more motivation, but still very little eating. I figured out that the quality of my day is directly proportional to how much I eat. So I have been living on Muscle Milks and Ensures.

Ok, lots more to come. I am blogging every day! Yay! I have finally come back around. Feel free to call or email to schedule a family photo session. Boulder is starting to full bloom and I LIVE for this time of year. Lots of beautiful photos, fun families, and doing what I love, which is being outside near the mountains, taking photos of sweet babies:)

xoxo

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Just one from an amazing photo shoot in Boulder at Chataqua in south boulder  (or west Boulder or what?).  l love, love photographing babies. Love photography. Hopefully, daily posts to come. If you follow my blog, pul-eeeese comment and encourage me to keep going on with it. I need that support right now. This photo was from a couple days ago. Love photographing babies. Even b-day portraits. And yes, that sweet baby is screaming because she is happy. Just to be free, in the fresh air, weather changing in Boulder is like the highlight of my year.

xoxo

stacey

Oh yes. It has been a hard few months. I have been sick, going through ups and downs and turn arounds. All over the place. I moved into a sweet little house in South Boulder with my two sweet little babies and we are doing well. Well…as well as I can be without doing photography every day. That is when I am happiest. So for now, I’ll post one photo. But, I am full-on in photo-shooting mode again and will be announcing my spring mini photography sessions soon.

But for the most part, I want to say how grateful I am to the moms in Boulder that have supported me during this time. I got sick, photos turned in late, but moms understand. You all stuck by me when I needed it most. The kindest cards, letters, emails, and visits. From my photography clients. Because you are all like me and know what it is to be a mom. Hard. But worth it a million times over. Email me soon to book a spring photography session, weekend dates are getting full, weekdays are still open.

Love you all for still checking in here.

xoxo

stacey

I knew I was missing these photos from the blog.  Last fall I was so sick I only posted about half my family portrait sessions. But there is no way for me to go back to see which ones because when I do post, I post every day or almost every day.

So I am glad I found these, because he was such a happy little guy at this session. I got about 200 photos of him just laughing and smiling-he was in that great of a mood. Here are a just a few of my favorite photos.

Today was a good day overall. I am feeling really healthy and good today, though my doctors are still messing with my meds so who knows? I saw my beautiful friend’s baby Indira today and SO wanted to take photos of her, but realized I left my camera in Boulder. If I could have a session every night, I would be a happy photographer. If my office manager could come back from vacation (only two more days!) then I could actually shoot every day and not go crazy. During the holiday, I actually do end up shooting seven days a week some weeks. Sometimes 10 or 12 a week, it is that crazy in Boulder. So, I just have to be totally healthy by then, and hire a live in maid and nanny and I will be all set.

Hmmmm, what good news to share today? I guess my best news is when I have something to talk about that gives me fire in my belly, and I didn’t have that today. So I would say the happiest part of my day was cooing and loving my best friend’s 8 week old baby. Yeah, babies are good news.

xoxo stacey

Just a super quick post tonight. Yes, I am going to bed at 9pm. I had a great and busy day. I wore myself out. I made a new friend, showed our house to a few people (we are renting out our gorgeous, light filled, 4 bed/4bath, north-central Boulder home which is like a treehouse if anyone is interested), talked with a bunch of my clients, answered emails, played with my two little ones, and then this. All in all, a good day.

I am feeling better, seeing a lot of doctors, and shooting a bit (being a photographer is what makes me happiest, well-my children make me happiest of course and then being a photographer, but that really does go without saying).

I have been photographing this family since Matthew was a baby. For some reason I did not post his two year photos, but I remember doing them, so here are his 10 Months photographs and then 2 more here and here from this session. I will have to dig up those 2 year photos and post them tomorrow. Anyways, I love this family, and love seeing Matt grow up.  I can’t wait to see what he is like at four. He was pretty serious at this session, but we still got some giggles out of him.

That’s all for tonight.

xoxo stacey

First off, this is the BEST family. I love them. They are so good to me and always think of me first. And they are so in love. Each one of them with everyone else. I have posted several photos from this session already, but really, it was such a fun session and the photos are so beautiful because there is just so much love, joy, and happiness here. And the children are pretty cute, too. And mom and dad are also gorgeous:) I am so happy they came to Boulder to do photos with me and I hope you guys come back again next year! Maybe with a new baby…? That’s just a hint, I just want to see you have another one:)

So I am feeling MUCH better. Healthy and good and way too thin but that is not the worst problem to have. I tell myself I look like a gorgeous model and that makes me feel better about it.  It is nice in a way, because my illness makes me not want to eat. At all. I have no appetite. It just isn’t there and when I eat I have to make myself, which is not often. So I do a lot of protein smoothies and Green Machines. And the only food I actually like eating right now is oatmeal and yogurt, and that is good for my tummy, so I have that going for me. Seriously, am I a Zen master at always looking at the positive of everything or what? I heard a quote recently by Wayne Dyer:

“Loving people live in a loving world.

Hostile people live in a hostile world.

Same world.”

That’s my motto for the moment.  Choosing the world that I live in. It is a great feeling.

Ok, so I have done a few shoots with this family and it is always fun to break it down with links so you guys can see the photos from all their previous family sessions (and one commercial photography shoot).

1 year of Elodie

Commercial Photography shoot (Holly was totally pregnant for these and you can’t even tell! I gained 55lbs with Amelia)

Maternity Photos (I love these, some of my very favorite pregnancy photos in my portfolio)

Incredibly stunning Elodie (this is from this past family photo shoot-I love the wind blowing back her hair like we staged it with a fan, yet we did not. I am totally serious. No fan.)

Gabriel and Daddy loving each other and having fun (also from this last family session-just a series of the same exact photo yet each photo tells its own unique story about the two of them)

I thought there were more blog posts but it is too late to look for them. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I am going to bed now, at 10:30pm, what do you think of that?

Ok, lots of fun photography family shoots coming up! But the thing I am MOST excited about is a birth I am photographing at the end of the month. Birth photography is such a passion of mine, and I really wish more people valued it. I give a super duper discount for photographing births just because I love it so much. I am also a doula, which I think helps me capture the raw emotion of it all, you know? You should see my birth photos of Amelia by photographer Kim Rodgers, they are stunning.

Maybe more tomorrow, we shall see.

xoxo stacey

Ok, so like I said, if I don’t post every day or almost every day then it probably means I am in the hospital, which I was, and just got out and am fine and lovely and all is good so no need to worry. It was just a side effect of a medication I was on for my old evil witch disease (Crohn’s), and so I am not going to take that med anymore.

The best part, though, of coming home from the hospital, is how enthralled and in love my children are with me and I with them. To work out some of the unconscious worries of mommy being in the hospital again, we made a full out hospital room.

We got one of those tall, stand up fans (as the IV stand) a spatula taped to the top of the fan as the bag of fluids holder. A Ziploc bag filled with dirt as my water and potassium fluids. A piece of dental floss to connect the bag to the spatula,  Then we taped a zillion straws together to be the tubing that went into my arm, and a piece of tape to hold it in place. There. Mama is all better. Tomorrow Dr. Elijah will be patient Elijah and I will take care of him.

He was so sweet, he even massaged my feet with lotion and wrapped them in saran wrap (long story, another side effect from that awful medication).

So right now I am sleeping in my own bed with my two sweet babies and am happy and content and feeling better.

If you have called or emailed me in the last week, now you know why I have not responded. But will try to catch up quickly (but not too quickly) in the next week.

xoxo stacey

ps. how gorgeous is this mother and her sweet little newborn Mary Claire?  And how sweet and chubby is that little baby girl? As always, I will post more when I get some time but here is one of the photos from the mother’s maternity portrait session, which I will, too, post more photos of soon:)

Oh, I am so loving the break in the Boulder heat wave. It is making me feel so much better and happy and alive and just good, you know?  I am so ready for some photography sessions.

Life is good now. The heat got to me more than I knew. I am spending the weekend with my babies and catching up on old work and creating new work and looking forward to some photography sessions coming up. I love how each one brings something totally new and unique and special to that family. It is on the top ten list of things I love as a photographer. I will write that list someday. Not today, but someday.

So meet Lily. She is a beautiful 5 year old little girl whose parents love her to death (can you tell?). She is so happy, vivacious, full of energy, fun, excitement-everything a five year old should be. Go mom and dad. You did something right.

No matter how many times I scold myself for letting my kids watch a movie rather than baking cookies with them, I know that I am doing something right because they are these happy, wonderful little beings that bring joy to whomever they are with. Like Lily, that have that aliveness-that quality of childhood that I see lost in so many children today because they are not getting the time or presence they need from their parents.

Someone told me the other day that she tells everyone that my children are like little angels-with their blond hair and beautiful faces and the kindness that comes from an authentic place-not a place that desires to please someone. I can’t disagree. Could YOU as a parent? I know, I talk my kids up. But I have to. That is my job as their parent. I need to think they are the most wonderful, incredible little people in the whole wide world. And I DO think that. I know every parent does, but for me it is true:) (for those of you that don’t know me, I am just kidding, but not really).

Ok. get off the computer and go enjoy this Boulder weather!

xoxo stacey

ps these photos were taken at Chautauqua in southwest Boulder-It is THE spot to take photos. On any given Saturday morning you will see about 15 photographers out there doing their thing. I ONLY do weekdays there, that’s for sure.

pps, I DID say I woud post more of her photo session and look! I have:)

I am still here! I am not in the hospital, just resting, enjoying the break in the awful Boulder heat wave. Who remembers it being THIS hot in Boulder in June? I DO realize it is July now, but still, even Boulder’s July weather has never been this bad. And who gets hit the hardest? The youngest, the oldest, and those that are sick, sigh.

Anyways, feeling TONS better now that the weather is sooo nice and that stomach bug I had went away and I have a million beautiful photos to sort through and edit and present to my photography clients. I just love it when they see their photos for the first time and sometimes they call me crying because they love them so much. That is on the top ten list of why I love my job.

There are a TON of gorgeous photos from this maternity/family portrait session, and I WILL post more photos (I always promise that, don’t I?). But really, there is this amazing set of photos with the little girl and her big dog in the mountains.I can’t wait to post those.

But I wanted to put up these photos now because they really exemplify what it is like to have a second baby. You get a moment of peace and then you have a little creature crawling all over you.

Don’t get me wrong, it is perfect-wonderful-magical-amazing to have two children, but that moment of peace you see there in the first photo-that really is all it is-a moment. The love from them makes up for it all, though.

Okay, go out and enjoy the 80 degree Boulder weather this weekend-I heard it is supposed to get down to the 60′s even on Monday in Boulder. I can’t wait! More soon, I won’t let so much time pass between photo posts this time.

xoxo stacey