Kristin Rachelle Photography » Child Photographer http://kristinrachellephotography.com/blog Blog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:14:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 san diego family photographer | family love http://kristinrachellephotography.com/blog/2011/12/san-diego-family-photographer-2/ http://kristinrachellephotography.com/blog/2011/12/san-diego-family-photographer-2/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:32:58 +0000 brown http://kristinrachellephotography.com/blog/?p=2523 NOTE: the images in this feed have been downsized or removed for copyright reasons. To see them in their unmodified state, please view the original post by clicking here.

Happy Monday everyone!! Christmas is almost here already and I have not started shopping yet. . .I also have not done my Christmas cards yet. So I’m a little behind in this situation, but I’m sure it will all come together at the end, right??? Cross your fingers for me!

You may recognize this beautiful family from prior years on my blog. I’ve had the pleasure of photographing them a few times now and it’s been awesome to watch their family grow and to be able to photograph their adorable kiddos. I really fell in love with so many images from their session so I had a hard time narrowing down the ones I wanted to show.I have a lot of beautiful families to show off, so I’ll hopefully get a chance to do that this week or next!

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These three little monkeys belong to me! I know it’s been a long time since I’ve share some pics of them, but you know how life gets. I’ve been dealing with a lot of stress this last couple of weeks and had to take a step back, breathe, and realize that my problems are so small compared to what other people go through on a daily basis. It’s okay to be stressed and to have a bad day, but at the end of that bad day, I’ve realized it’s important for me to take a look at my life as a whole and see just how really blessed I am. I have a husband who adores me, three healthy, rambunctious, beautiful children, friends who would go to the end of the earth for me and back, and a job that most people dream of having. The things that sometimes eat me up inside are things that can be worked out with a little perspective and prayer. Sometimes you just have to let go and let God.

So without further adieu, my three little monkeys jumping on the bed. No one fell off and bonked their head, thank goodness (enter courtesy giggle here). There aren’t many of my middle child because he was off playing and only came in at the very end to hang out with us. I hope these bring a smile to your face like they do to mine.

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I’ve mentioned in passing hiring someone to help me keep on top of some things in my business. So, I thought I’d introduce her. . . .only, she won’t let me take her picture. Only, she doesn’t realize I did snap one of her dancing with some balloons. That’s what she gets for not letting me take her picture.

Her name is Lisa. It’s a good name, one of my other very best friends is named Lisa.This Lisa and I so happen to share the same birthday. We kind of “get” each other and our personalities clicked right away. She’s quirky, she’s fun, she sings, she dances, she drinks coffee. . .she’s pretty much me. Except for her creativity runs in a whole different direction then mine. While she has some mad skillz behind the lens (she’s currently a hobbyist), it doesn’t stop there. She sews, quilts, knits, bakes, designs, creates, etc, etc, etc. She’s kind of a freak of nature. But a good one. Even if I have to enlist her services to cut hearts out that don’t look like my three year old did it. She did all of my branding for my Photoshop Actions and is helping me behind the scenes with some of my business tasks which is AWESOME and takes some stress off of me. My husband thanks her for that.

Enter Lisa’s niece.

My mission was to take two-year-old pictures of the birthday girl and some with her three cousins for grandma and grandpa. Pictures of the birthday girl were tough, but we managed some great ones of her. However, pictures of her with her cousins failed miserably lol. That’s ok, next time!!! With two-year-old’s, you take what you get! I did manage a few great ones of Lisa’s girls though so I’ll show you those first and then you can see Miss D’s sweet face!


Later balloons!

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First of all, here I thought I would be a better blogger this year and I’m already failing! :/ I so wish I was better at this, but life with three crazy kids tends to get in the way sometimes and right now they are my main focus, so I won’t make myself feel too guilty.

Second of all, I have been waiting to blog this great family for a couple of weeks and am finally getting a chance. I have watched Miss Sophie grow up the last two years and it has been so fun. She has grown from a teeny tiny newborn to an active adorable 2 year old in what seems like no time at all. For being two, she sure was an easy subject and full of adorable smiles as you’ll get a chance to see!!

Thank you S family for choosing me to capture you all this last couple of years! It’s been so fun to watch Sophie grow!!!

xoxo,

Kristin

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My sweet baby niece is already past the 6 month old mark! I can’t believe how fast time is flying.She is just oodles of cuteness and smiles and I love her to pieces!

xoxo

Kristin

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More gorgeous clients I just HAVE to show off! Meet Theresa and Allison, so incredibly beautiful and sweet! I had a blast with them and they left me hoping to do a session like this with my little girl someday soon. Another huge share, I don’t always get the time to show so many!

Thank you Theresa and Allison for choosing me to capture your fabulous mother/daughter bond. I had so much fun with you both!!!

xoxo,

Kristin

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Bray turned five yesterday, I can’t believe how fast time flies!!! He’s such a good boy (most of the time) and I cannot imagine life without him. We are celebrating his birthday pretty much all week. . .lucky little dude!!!

Yes, I missed last week.Boooo. Oh well, I’m still truckin along!

xoxo,

Kristin

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Ok, so I am not sharing only one this week obviously. I found some beautiful flowers close to home and decided to try and get some shots of my kids in them before they die off (the flowers, not the kids). It takes A LOT of energy to take pictures of all three of them together. Mostly because of the little one. . .he’s not a fan of staying in one spot unless it’s on his own terms. But we had fun and I’m loving a lot of the ones I got of them. I hope one day they enjoy these pictures. . .not sure they will being that there will be 5 million of them, haha!

I had the opportunity to take some of my grandparents in these same flowers the next day and I hope to share some of those with you soon too. My grandpa just turned 90 last week and they have been married for over 60 years. They are a huge, huge inspiration to me!

This one makes me giggle.

And just to show you one of the many, many shots like this I got. It is usually takes a small miracle to get them all looking my way.

xoxo,

Kristin

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Week 5! I decided to get one of the three of them together similar to one I did of them together when my little destroyer was only a few months old.

Also, I have some very exciting news! We are moving and the new place we will be has a fabulous, large room perfect for a studio!! I am so excited to be able to have this as an option, especially for my newborn client’s. Stay tuned for pics in the next few months!

xoxo,
Kristin

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Those of you who follow my blog, know I lovingly refer to my almost 2 year old as “The Destroyer”. He’s into EVERYTHING you could possibly imagine (and more!) and he LOVES to keep me up at night. So we decided he needed to go in the big boy bed and maybe, just maybe, that would fix all of his sleep issues.

First night he falls asleep swimmingly (isn’t that word awesome?!?!) without a ba-ba, which was another goal of ours. . .don’t judge. We are jumping up and down with excitement. But alas, 2:30 am comes much too quickly and he’s up and at ‘em with a VENGEANCE. Hysterical wailing. So instead of bringing him into our bed like usual. . .don’t judge, and after repeatedly attempting to lay him down and him not having any part of that, I sit lovingly (HA!) at his door. He flops down like a fish and after a looooooooooooooooooong 45 minutes, falls back into a sleep slumber. SWEEEEEEEEET!

I’ll try and shorten the story. The second night he wails at bedtime, wakes up twice in the night and makes me sit by his door for over an hour. Good times people, good times. I’m EXHAUSTED and kind of a not-so-nice person in the daytime (aka monster mom/wife). I was scared for what the third night would bring. BUT alas ladies and gentlemen, the destroyer (never one to be predictable), goes to sleep without a peep and sleeps allllllllllllllllll through the night. I woke up after 7.5 hours of sleep bouncing from the walls and singing “The Hills are alive with the sound of sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeping”. Yea, I don’t get me either.

I leave you with an image of my angel snuggled up like a bug in a rug with his favorite blankie and in his new big boy bed. Let’s hope tonight was as good as the last!

P.S. This is not my 2/52 week picture. . .I have another one in mind for later this week!

xoxo
Kristin

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