With my oldevilwoman’s witch disease (crohn’s-autoimmune), sleep has to be the #1 priority for my health-and you all know how I overdo it with getting excited about work and neglecting my health.. So, I do NOT feel bad paying someone fun and young and loving to take my kids to school tomorrow. I WILL be home with them and done with work at 2:30pm, so I am not neglecting them or anything for the sake of working late and sleeping in every once in awhile.

I AM this incredible tornado of creative energy lately. In fact, there is so much happening that I can’t keep up with it and need to hire out even more help. I am so, so ecited to share with you all the projects I am working on. For now, you’ll have to be satisfied with one very beautiful maternity photo of one extremely gorgeous pregnant mama. Can you believe she is 35 weeks? This is Chataqua, btw, in southwest Boulder, I will post the Flatiron photos from this shoots soon, I promise!!!

xoxo stacey

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So yes, I was VERY sick. With my old woman witch disease (crohn’s disease-an autoimmune disorder) and have been out of the loop for 4-6 months. Time has passed so quickly. But I am here, getting healthy, nurturing myself, and ready to go! I am so excited about so many things and have a ton to share with you all.

Let me give you the background on this photo. I was talking with my good friend Kim earlier in the day yesterday-and even though she is a maternity photographer herself (check out the link, she is an amazing photographer for those of you in Englewood, Co), she STILL had not had any photos taken yet of this, her fourth pregnancy (and she is only 28 yrs old, can you believe it!?). I was the last of five children, and there are about 6 pictures of me total. Total. About 6 from the time I was a baby until I graduated high school. There are definitely no photos of my mother pregnant with me. So I INSISTED that Kim capture her belly for this little one. It always made me feel a little sad that they did not bother to take pictures of me growing up. And then ironically I became a child photographer, hmmm…

I told her to pack up the family and head down to Boulder all the way from Engleton and I would do some photos of her that evening. I had to take Elijah to a birthday party in Superior and then we would all meet to do an impromptu photo shoot at my house at 5:30pm. Well, at 5pm the storm clouds started rolling in, so I called her from the party and told her to just meet me there and we would try to get a couple photos in before the torrential downfall. So, it was freezing, windy, raining-AND all the kids were locked up in the car with Kim’s husband.

We ran out to the side of the road somewhere off Rock Creek Drive in Superior, and spent like 5 minutes getting some photos. At least she has a few now! I have another disk of even better images from this 5 minute shoot-but I ruined it-it cracked somehow. Does anyone know how to fix a cracked memory card? I will have to take it in somewhere to get the photos taken off of it. Maybe Mike’s Camera? Anyways, there are more photos from this 5 minute maternity shoot to come. Probably the quickest photo shoot I have ever done.

You are beautiful, Kim, and a dear friend. I can not wait to meet this new little life you and Chris have created.

xoxo stacey

It is actually good that we had to change dates because the Boulder weather is not looking so great this weekend. AND I lost my voice.

And because no photographer’s blog post is complete without a photo, here is one of my stunningly gorgeous, 33 week pregnant friend, Monique, again. How much more beautiful can the human form be?

Here she is at week 32 of her pregnancy. With clothes on.

xoxo stacey

ps-keep checking back here-I am going to post soon about needing models for the photography workshop at the end of the month. So if you are in the Boulder, Co, area and you want your baby, child, or belly to model check in soon-I will *try* to post the info tomorrow.

I am taking on only 1-2 shoots a week right now, so if you do want something soon please contact me at boulderbabyphotography@gmail.com to discuss. I always leave room open for newborn portrait sessions, too, so those can always be last minute.

Anyways, for my health. Who knows? Every time I get better I get sick again, and then there are all these side conditions that come with it. For example, I had to leave a newborn shoot after taking three photos a few months ago because I did not feel well. I felt awful, like I should have just stuck it out. Well, I ended up in the ER that night and my lung had collapsed, so I am learning it is better to trust myself.

Anyways, I did not pick up a camera for four months-and then my best friend had her baby shower last night so I HAD to bring it and take some photographs. It was like riding a bike-and so good for me as it reminded me of how much I love the simple art of photography.

I am going to try to blog every day for now on-we just bought a house in south Boulder and I am trying to sell our house in central Boulder so I am busy with that, but otherwise I am going to just dive back in to photography.

On a personal note, since I know those of you who read my blog have been worried-all is well here. I am home from the hospital and was given an intense drug on Thursday called Humera. You have probably seen the lovely commercials for it on tv-it is advertised for rheumatoid arthritis but works wonders for crohn’s disease too. It could put me into and possibly keep me in remission for the rest of my life. Who knows? If not, I will go to that expensive energy healer in Detroit. Or maybe somewhere in India….

Lots and lots of and lots of shoots lately! So much to post. But just wanted to get this one little photo up because I am so happy for them!
xoxo stacey

So, our closing on the new house has been postponed so many times now. It is so frustrating! It was supposed to be last week, then yesterday, then today…now everyone is going out of town. I just need to have that settled feeling of having closed, you know? So maybe in the next few days. It just seems like we are missing one document after another. I know that getting a mortgage now is a lot more difficult than it was a few years ago when we bought our first house, but this seems unreasonable. I will keep you updated though, and post photos once we move in!

Took photos of the cutest little 2 year old boy this morning, will post some soon!

xoxo stacey

We had a great weekend though. We went to the air show in Longmont, we watch Goonies in the Park with the kids (north Boulder has outdoor movies every weekend), we bbqed, as always, played outside, and Adam got his tattoo finished (finally after two years!). It was a great weekend and the weather was perfect.

Anyways, loved these gorgeous maternity photos and wanted to be sure to post a few. Here are a couple of photos I posted right after the session. Love all of Lily’s personality!

xoxo stacey

So, I am getting caught up today and tomorrow. Yesterday was rough, as I was at the hospital for the birth throughout the whole night the night. I was kind of walking around in a daze yesterday-so if we chatted and I made no sense whatsoever, that is why. I am actually going in today to-gasp-do my taxes. My, ahem, 2009 AND 2010 taxes. Which is no easy thing as I am super unorganized and own two businesses. I am getting the jitters about it, but just need to get in there an DO IT. Please, please, please send me some good getting-your-taxes-done energy around 1pm today. If you have ever had a huge block getting something done, if you just freeze up thinking about a certain something, then you know exactly how I feel about taxes.

I will be photographing a sweet newborn boy tomorrow (Katarina and Mike’s new baby!), and have about 5 sessions I still need to put up on the blog. If you want to see some of the birth photography I did yesterday, I have posted it to my Facebook fanpage here. I will also be doing this newborn baby’s photos this weekend! Wow, so many newborns and pregnancy’s. It IS spring, after all, though, right?

More to come!

xoxo stacey