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

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

Welcome to the world Greta! My wonderful neighbor, who had the cutest pregnant belly ever, gave birth to a beautiful newborn girl on Friday. Congratulations guys! I can’t wait to meet her and take her newborn photos!

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

This sweet little newborn is Penny, sister to Charlie whom I posted photos of the other day. this whole family is so sweet! They live in Golden on this beautiful ridge and have a ton of gorgeous land. I am envious, for sure, though I am happy to be in Boulder. Anyways, isn’t she so perfect? Makes me want to have another baby sooo bad.

Good news all around here-my intern, got to adopt her baby girl!!!! Some of you have met her a on photo shoots so I am sure you will be happy to hear that. I just am overjoyed.

Adam and I really want to adopt a baby or child with special needs. He doesn’t want me to have another (I am a hormonal, whiny b@#$% when I am pregnant). But, I did my master’s specializing in early attachment-especially with foster and adopted children. And Adam is a behavior analyst, so works with autism and developmental disabilities on a daily basis. So maybe we will adopt a little boy with downs or fetal alcohol syndrome. We just have to wait to move into our new, bigger house, and wait for Amelia to be a little less of a firecracker. But it is a big dream of mine and I can’t wait.

The other good news is I am feeling A LOT better today. It might help that I am now on 60mg of liquid (yuck) predizone (steriods). But I have hardly been able to move the last week, and today I am feeling a little better. Bad news-the drug that they want to put me on is $4200/month. A month. Yes. And our insurance sucks. Whatever, I guess I will have to raise all my photography prices to $4200 a session to cover it. I am just kidding, of course:) We’ll manage it.

Lots and LOTS of shoots coming up, I will try to update the blog daily now that I am doing better.

xoxo stacey

These sweet newborn boulder twins are all I can post for tonight, Mom is flying in tonight bc I need the help. More tomorrow.

xoxo stacey

Another good day. And not so good. I got to photograph three gorgeous families and I am sooooo happy with the beautiful photos I got. Bad, bc I just am still sick, and want to not be. This is a shoot from a month ago, I am so behind! How sweet is Sasha? 7 Years old’s are so easy compared to two year olds.

Anyways, four more mini photography shoots at Wonderand Lake in north Boulder tomorrow. Sooooo many blog posts to come!

Okay, okay, you all know I have been gushing and awing over Miss. Barb Uil, Jinky Art (from Australia) FOREVER. She is my favorite photographer EVER, and I am so inspired by her daily.

Well, I am the kind of person that just goes for it. You know? I have an idea, and I DO it. Sometimes it works, sometimes not.

9 months ago I wrote Jinky an email telling her how fabulous Boulder was, how cool my cohousing community is, and how perfect it would be for her to do one of her US workshops here in Boulder. And….a few months later, she wrote back and said YES!

So, I hosted Barb and 30 photographers from all over the country in my home and community a few weeks ago. It was awesome. I learned so much, and was inspired to change my art in a way that is already filling my heart with joy.

So, whenever, 7 months ago, when we decided to have the retreats here, I asked Barb if she would have time for a family session. This is before i asked my husband. I casually one day, after making sure to make him HAPPY, asked him if we could throw down $5k on a shoot with Barb. My idol.  My favorite photographer in the WHOLE world who is coming to OUR house. He answered with a big fat, absolute, “NO.” Anyways, Barb wrote back and said she had no time as the workshops were hectic and too much was going on.

Two days before she arrived I got a casual call from Barb: “So, Stacey, did we talk about me doing a shoot of your family as a thank you for hosting? I hope you can come up with something that is amazing and totally YOU guys.” In two days. Two days.

So I freaked out. I told all my neighbors and friends and posted on my photography forums that BARB UIL was photographing my family. MY family. In two days. What ideas did they have?

Nothing.

I was taking Amelia on a walk the next day and saw that my neighbors had brought their orange vw bus out of storage. Well, I remembered an awesome shoot that Barb had did with a vw, and thought it would be perfect. AND, I used to be a dead head, (even though I was only 15 when Jerry died)-but I did go to SIX shows and had front row center for the Grateful Dead’s very last show in Chicago. And I wanted to drop out of school and get a vw bus and follow the dead, but a good teacher talked me out of it. So I went on to get my college degree and then my master’s in Boulder where there are a lot of old deadheads anyways.

So the bus idea was perfect. We took it up to this ridge in north Boulder. And got these photos. Is she the most freaking amazing photographer you have ever seen?

Then, casually, she says later that night “It would be cool (or maybe she said neat? I don’t know or remember Australian lingo) if we did a series of shoots with your family in Kombi’s.” Btw, “Kombi” is what they call vw buses in AU. Never heard it before, but I like it.

I posted IMMEDIATELY to my Boulder mom’s groups and to craigslist looking for two more buses. The next night we had an awesome red bus out in a field. The night after that we had an amazing yellow Kombi that was driven into the MIDDLE of a sunflower field. I kid you not. Freaking amazing. A full-on sunflower field.

So, here are a few photos from the first of the shoots. I am not sure why I am so lucky, but I know that the more I open myself to others, the more these amazing things and opportunities land in my lap. I just feel like it is unreal.

Thank you Barb, I love you!

xoxo stacey

Just wanted to get one sweet one up for today. I love this one because Penny is just so snuggled in there-the way a newborn should always be and feel.

Amelia is still sick so I am scrambling to get up client galleries and make phone calls while she takes her short nap and before Elijah gets home from school in 5 minutes. Sigh, the joys of working motherhood.

Though-just got an awesome phone call from a mortgage broker that sounds like our new house might FINALLY be closed upon. We shall see. Not getting my hopes up. But send me some good new-house-buying-energy if you have any to spare.

xoxo stacey

Last night I did a last minute photo shoot in north Boulder for my two new slings that are coming to target.com soon! We are working hard on clearing out all of our old inventory and ONLY carrying organic. AND they are made in the USA. And we only have ever offerred Target organic ones. For those of you that are new to my bloggity-blog, I also created and own Karma Baby Slings. So, these are the two gorgeous new colors-Cloud and Plum, on my gorgeous sales manager, Reg, whom many of you have met (and love her). Of course I post the beautiful close up of the baby first-really, baby photography is my first love and Karma Baby comes way down the list, although I am always giddy to think of all the sweet little babies that are being snuggled up by their mothers right now in something that I created.

So, on the homefront-Amelia has the stomach bug. Or something. She woke up at her normal time (thank god) and started throwing up all over the bed (loads of throw-up wash I am NOT looking forward to do so I am blogging instead of doing laundry to avoid it further). She got sick a few more times, and then not again. She has taken in some food and water and seems fine now. Might have to cancel my newborn shoot this week, but hopefully it is a 12 hour thing. She is taking a nap. Sure, she was winey as hell all day and I CAN NOT get the freaking Dora the Explorer song out of my head, but overall we had a really nice, cozy day.

Sorry Reg if all FOUR of your boys are sick today from having dinner with Amelia last night.

Anyways, go tell all your friends to buy my new slings at target when they come out in a month or so…

xoxo stacey