Portraits by Angie Lane Celebrate Life Blog

It is so hard for me to believe (and accept) that Kynlee is already 6 months old! But this is one of my favorite ages for babies, so I guess that makes up for it a little. I took her out last weekend and took some pictures of her. It was a blast!

I’m embarrassed to see how long it’s been since I posted my last blog entry!! It’s been really busy around here and I have tons of sessions to post as well as some upcoming fall events! (Can you believe fall is just around the corner!!) Anyway, I posted these pictures on facebook a while back, but wanted to get them up on my blog as well. I took some pictures of my kiddos the last week of summer and there were several that I just loved. As you’ll hear many photographers say, it can be very difficult to get good pictures of your own kids. They’re immune to your jokes and other techniques that work like a charm on other kids! LOL. But I was still happy with what we got and I finally have an updated portrait of Kayla to put on the wall (I’ve had an empty frame hanging on the wall up my stairs for the past 3 months!)

Judging by the lack of posts on my blog, I’m sure everyone thinks I’ve fallen off the face of the earth — but no, I had a baby! She was born on St. Paddy’s day and was 5lb., 14 oz and 18 inches long. (And since she decided to come 2 weeks early, I still have a ton of sessions to post on my blog! I will get to them, I promise.) But in the mean time, here are a few of the pictures I’ve taken of our newest addition (more to come, I’m sure!) And on an administrative note, I will be on maternity leave until the beginning of June.

I can’t believe my little man is five today (and will be starting kindergarten in another week and a half!) (snif!) I took some pictures of him a few weeks ago to celebrate turning five, and when I saw the pictures on the computer, I couldn’t believe how tall and skinny he looked! I mean, I see him every day, but for some reason he looked so much more like a big kid in the pictures. Oh, how I love this boy!

Back in April when we went out to Utah, I took some pictures of Kayla and my nieces. It’s taken me forever to get to these pictures, but I finally did it (thanks for being so patient Min!) Kayla had so much fun with her cousins! She talks about them often.

When we were loading the kids into the car, I turned around and Kayla and Avery were doing little twirls. It isn’t the greatest portrait in the world, but I thought it was cute.

I meant to post these pictures FOREVER ago, but I just got busy. I took my kids to my hometown of Petaluma over spring break to take some new portraits of them together. I wish Petaluma was closer! (sigh). There are so many amazing places to shoot there. I always loved all of the old buildings when I lived there, but when I went back and looked at the town through a photographer’s eye, I couldn’t believe all the spots that I had never noticed before!

Anyway, here are a few of my kiddos:

Well, technically, he turned three 3 1/2 months ago — but this was the first chance we had to take pictures of him. I know I’m a little biased, but I think he’s the cutest little guy in the world!

I’m not sure what he was pouting for in this picture, but whatever it was . . .I’m sure he got it.

So a couple of months ago I thought it might be a good idea to give Kayla a haircut before she started kindergarten. Her hair was almost down to her waist and was pretty much messy all of the time — she wouldn’t let me do anything cute with it (or barely even brush it!) So we took her to Zoopaloop for her first “real” haircut. She did fine — I was the one who had to try not to hyperventilate as they took the scissors to her 11-inch ponytail. But I love it! (and a funny little story — we decided to give her hair to Locks of Love. So I was explaining to her a few weeks before we cut her hair that we were going to send her hair to a place where they would make it into a wig for a little girl who is sick and doesn’t have any hair. She seemed fine with that until a week or so later, we were practicing her letters and talking about kindergarten and she said, “Mommy, I don’t want to go to kindergarten and cut my hair and wear a wig!” )  :)

So here are a few pictures from a little mini shoot we did to celebrate her new haircut. (and a couple of Kaden since for once in his life he wanted me to take some pictures of him.)