Collin at 6 months...

It is hard to believe that this little guy is 6 months old! He is getting so big and even more adorable. The day of his session was definitely his day...nothing but smiles the entire time. His mom and I were getting so tickled when he would give a big smile and then put his hand in his mouth. Either way...cute shots. It wasn't until it was time to go home that he crashed and I had to grab a couple of shots of his "lovin' on mom" time. Enjoy!











Can you do this? ;)

Baby Joel is here...

What a story. First of all, I will try not to ramble, but there is a lot of information, so here goes. First of all, this session is of our new baby nephew, Joel. He was quite the special surprise and talk about adorable! Jeremy's brother and sister-n-law had tried to have children for several years and resorted to IVF which is how big brother Cale came into the world. For their second child, they thought they would try the natural way in hopes of it happening. Well, much to their surprise it did...and much sooner than they had planned. These two brothers will be about 14 months apart...wow!

Of course, these new moments were worth the documentation. They happened to be visiting for a long weekend, so we took advantage of the opportunity. Well, things didn't go exactly as planned. Baby Joel was a little out of sorts from his long travel and we thought it would be fun to get a picture of all of the grandkids (6 under the age of 5) for Grandma. All of the stimulation made for a long session. It worked out just fine...besides we had some time to catch up in the midst of the craziness. :)







These two shots make me laugh...smiles in one, chaos in the other...story of our night. :)

Kynsey turns 1...

It is hard to believe that lil' miss Kynsey is a one year old. I had the opportunity to document those precious stages of her first year and I am so glad I did. She is an absolute doll and has been full of smiles during her sessions. In addition to capturing these moments, I have developed such a sweet friendship with her mom. We met several years back and have since then, documented special events within their immediate and extended families...the next one being her brother's wedding. All of these moments have allowed this friendship to bloom. What a blessing. Love to you guys...

Kate & Lanny

Jeremy and I will be starting our wedding season this weekend and we are so excited that it will be with Kate & Lanny. Schedules and weather prevented us from getting their engagement session in earlier, but I am so glad that we were able to work it in before their wedding. They are such a sweet couple and the love they share is quite evident...just scroll down. :) It was wonderful getting to know them better and makes me that more anxious for Saturday. A special thanks to my good friend, Shelly, for joining me on this session. Shelly happened to be downtown with me for the OSP conference and had a new lens to try out. Thanks Shell! Anyway, enjoy and stay tuned for their wedding preview!

Finally...

It's here!! As you may recall, we have been working on our new website for quite some time. Well, after much delay it is finally ready to share. The original goal was to have this up and running a couple of months ago. However, problems with our host prevented that from happening. A big thanks to Harald and Zahari at bludomain for all of their help. I will admit that there were some frustrating times when we couldn't figure out what was going on, but it has been worth the wait. A clean, fresh look that describes us...Real.Life.Forever. Stay tuned because there is much more to share-new blog, new products, new, new, new...woo-hoo! So, keep checking back for more and feel free to leave us a comment with what you think about our new looks.

Also, after a couple of weeks of pulling our hair out and trying to send the same email over and over...we are finally up and working again with email. It was such a bizarre situation...every once in a while we could send an email, but 95% of the time it would give us a lovely error message telling us that it was not connecting. I was having to go a completely different route to send even one email...what a process. We had multiple conversations with our internet company before they finally figured out the problem...another woo-hoo! If you have emailed, thank you for being patient. I will be in touch very soon. In the meantime, check out our new site: www.carpenterpd.com. Enjoy!!

Gabe & Claire

It has been a while since I posted pictures of our two, so I had to share. Claire was in such a smiley mood (that is, until I brought the camera out:) that I had to grab a couple of shots. I even managed to talk Gabe into smiling for a couple of pictures as well. I can't say enough how blessed we are to have such sweet and beautiful children. I know that I am biased, but it's true. ;) It is also hard to believe that Gabe will be 4 soon and Claire will be 3 months...crazy!