“Those who cherish a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in their hearts, will one day realize it. ”
– James Allen

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
– Marianne Williamson

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good a model he really is J  Capturing beautiful photos of toddlers is sometimes a challenge and this is why we have to go into it prepared, make sure your lighting is set-up correctly

and then just have lots of fun with them.  Instead of telling kids how we want them to “informally pose” we show them exactly how it’s done.  This also gets us down on their level which they absolutely adore.  So if you want to have beautiful photos like these taken of your little angel make a booking today!

Toddler Portraits

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“When you have brought up kids, there are memories you store directly in your tear ducts.”  ~Robert Brault,

“It was the tiniest thing I ever decided to put my whole life into.” ~Terri Guillemets

“Parents have the glorious opportunity of being the most powerful influence, above and beyond any other, on the new lives that bless their homes.”
~ L. Tom Perry

“The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.” ~ Elaine Heffiner

“Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be.” ~ David Bly

“It’s not only children who grow.  Parents do too.  As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours.  I can’t tell my children to reach for the sun.  All I can do is reach for it, myself.”  ~Joyce Maynard

“The quickest way for a parent to get a child’s attention is to sit down and look comfortable.”  ~Lane Olinghouse

Newborn Baby Photography

“A hare meeting a lioness one day said reproachfully, “I have always a great number of children, while you have but one or two now and then.”
The lioness replied, “It is true, but my one child is a lion.””

“Babies are such a nice way to start people”
~Don Herold

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In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She’s got a construction zone going on in her belly.
Al Roker

Ruth Bell Graham
As a mother, my job is to take care of what is possible and trust God with the impossible.

Susan Sarandon
Children reinvent your world for you.

“Think of stretch marks as pregnancy service stripes.” Beautiful pregnancy quote by Joyce Armor

Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be.
–Carrie Fisher

When I was pregnant … I was a woman. No deadlines or curtains to meet. Whenever I thought of what was growing inside me [I felt that it was] a miracle, the height of creativity for any woman.
–Barbra Streisand

To be pregnant has been for me each time the supreme joy … I was doing the greatest thing in the world without having to do anything — all I had to do was be.
–Gloria Vanderbilt

maternity photos

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“Babies are such a sweet and nice way to start people.” – Anon

Always kiss your children goodnight – even if they’re already asleep.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. ”
James Matthew Barrie

“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.”   
Franklin P Jones

“You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around – and why his parents will always wave back.” ~William D. Tammeus.