Some familiar faces around the blog. This was my last session for Evan’s first year. Luckily, his big sister and I are scheming to go to the movies together so I’m sure I’ll see them all again sometime soon. :)

What a difference a year makes! Cass was 6 months when I first met him and a year at our second session.

Now he’s TWO! A little man. A little more serious, a little more wary and a lot more independent! We went back to the same Woodbury park for their session this year.

Cass is also a big brother now. But Mom and Dad are waiting until the little guy gets a bit older before he gets his own photo session.

Yikes. I was off the blog-grid for a bit longer than I intended to be. I have lots to share!

Vanessa is the niece of someone I know through roller derby, Orange Ruffy (the Mother of the Bride at the roller derby wedding!) We’ve been talking about a session for Vanessa for quite some time now but this little girl has gone through a lot in her one year. She was born with Hydrocephalus and a hole in her heart and has undergone surgeries and feeding tubes and stints and I’m sure all manner of things that I can’t even imagine. But she’s still a happy, smiley, determined little one year old, despite it all.

She was also very intent on sucking her thumb, sometimes both at the same time. I’d pull one gently from her mouth and she’d have the other one in there in a blink until I eventually acknowledged who won.

Another session I recently donated was to the Twin Cities East chapter of Mothers & More to offer as a door prize at their open house. The timing was perfect as the winner’s daughter just turned one so we set up the session quickly and I got to go meet them right away. Such blue, blue eyes!

I met Brynlee’s mom at an expo last year and we talked about doing photos of their new baby then…a Great Dane puppy. Because of some puppy health issues, that never quite panned out but when they contacted me this year, they had a new baby to photograph. A people baby! Isn’t she cute?

I’ve been anxious to post photos from this session because I love them! I was contacted by Grandma to set up this session. She had photos taken of her with each of her children when they were babies and wanted her daughter to have photos with her new grandson, too. Grandson, Kellen, was a little over three weeks during this shoot and what a difference a week or two can make! He was pretty wide awake for most of the session. Still, we were able to make some gorgeous images of him with his model-like mom.