My little brother...

I never imagined my little brother grown up and being a man. But he has grown up, gotten taller and quite muscular, has a beautiful daughter and joined the army. Its been almost a year since John joined the army He has been gone in Georgia for about 9 months without any time to come back and visit. This was so strange for me since me and my brothers never lived far from each other and never went much time without seeing each other. However, he did get to come back at the end of August to visit for 5 weeks. Since he is being sent to Korea and then Iraq for a little over the next year, we wanted to get some photos of him and his sweet daughter!
Like I said, it was always hard to imagine him grown up, but he is and has a daughter. I loved taking these photos. I know he will love having them with him while he is away.

I love this one!

This one is from DV and Baby Lilia's shoot the other day. I was playing around in photoshop and I just love this one!

Your Hearts will melt over this one!!!

Baby Lilia is here and one month old! I was able to photograph her mom and dad, DV and Mark, a few weeks back when she was still pregnant with this sweet little one. Oh My Gosh... Little Lilia is such a beautiful baby! Everything about her is just so precious. She has beautiful hair, eyes, I could go on and on... And I was more than excited when the time came to photograph her!
I borrowed an awesome TuTu from my friend Annie Randall, who is also a photographer. You just can't go wrong with a baby girl and a great TuTu. I loved how each one turned out! I will be buying a few of these TuTus in different colors for sure!
I posted quite a few, I bet your hearts will just melt over her!!

Playing Around!

I love to be able to play around in photoshop, just adding a little "something" to photos to give them a slightly different feel. I could do this for hours upon hours and I probably would find myself "playing" through the nights adding effects. Here are a couple I just finished from the current maternity shoot of Camie. This way you can scroll down and see the photo before the "extras!" And I am more than happy to do it to any of your photos if you have already had a shoot with me! Just let me know!

Pretty Mama!

I had the pleasure of snapping a few photos of a long time friend while we were out last week. She actually came with me to help me photograph my little ones and we decided to quickly get a few shots. It was perfectly overcast, AT FIRST, then as we snapped a few of Camie, the sun was blazing. And I know first hand, how it can be quite uncomfortable being in the heat at 9 months pregnant. However, though there are few, I thought they turned out neat, so I wanted to share!

TRAVIS MICHAEL...

I now want to introduce you to the new little, or shall I say "not so little" man in our lives.... Travis Michael Keator was born on August 27th, 2008 at 6:36am. He weighed 9lbs 4oz and measured 22 inches long! Yes, those numbers look big but he doesn't seem to be. When we look at him he just looks so small and sweet.
I have shot a couple different times to get specific photos, he is not the typical newborn when it comes to photo shoots. Well, not the typical that I have photographed before. He has been awake for almost every photo, he doesn't like to be curled up like most newborns. Its like he is ready to take on the world at just two weeks old.
There are a few new ones of Jordyn in there as well. She can never pass up a photo shoot, not too often anyway! Most of my FAVORITE ones are missing, because I am putting them on my announcements I will be mailing out and I wanted to keep some in hiding until then.

Baby TRAVIS is here...

YES!!! He is here!!! Travis Michael was born on August 27th, 2008 at 6:36am. He weighed 9lbs 4oz and was 22 inches long. The little guy had light brown hair with a tint of red. We were pretty surprised to see the red in it, especially since our first child had red hair. Mike and I both have dark brown hair and I heard that statistically a second child with red hair is not likely. But we are so stoked, he is the most handsome little guy ever!
I will be taking some photos shortly. I am just getting back to myself and becoming able walk around more normal.
I wanted to thank all of you for your thoughts and prayers! Things are great. I will be posted some pics shortly!

THANKS AGAIN TO EVERYONE!