Preschool pics

I've been promising to post these and have not done it yet. They are just too cute not to share though. :) Here are a few of my favorites.

Busy babies

Meet Addison and Ainsley. They are two busy 1 year old twins. We decided the best way to keep them in one place together was to put them in the bucket. We tried without the bucket but one goes one way and the other takes off the other way even with 3 sets of hands. I don't know how their mom does it everyday by herself. :)

Fall pictures anyone?

I'm trying to see if anyone would be interested in having fall pictures done. This is Linden my little guy in my set up. You could do it in costumes or just cute fall clothes. Email me if this is something you might want to do. staciacrafton@gmail.com

Too many of this cutie

I normally love b/w pictures but with all these cute costume changes I could hardly do black and white. This is little Sailor and her mom came prepared. How fun it was to have a girl in my studio. She tried on shoes and jewelry. I got to try out my new tutu and isn't she precious? Thanks Ashley of ellafaithdesigns.com!

As smiley as she seems in a couple of these pictures she really didn't smile until we got her in the bucket which I hadn't orginally meant to pull out. Sailor got in it after we were done and was so happy to bang on it we had to snap a few more. I think some of my favorites were the last ones I took. Go figure.

Aaron

This is Aaron. His mama was quite sad when she called the first time because she wanted pictures like the ones in my itty bitty gallery online. I explained to her that those pictures were mostly of babies in their first two weeks and Aaron was already 5 weeks old. I told her to bring him in anyway and we'd get some good ones of him regardless. Aaron was already 2 months by the time they came in and I thought it was a great age. He was generally pretty happy and we even got a smile out of him.

Blog Issues

Just in case anyone checks this blog regularly and thinks, "Okay, Stacia's eyes must be going bad because that baby looks a little grey," I'm having blog issues. When putting these exact pictures in my proofing gallery they look great but for whatever reason blogger isn't posting them in true color. Don't worry I'm working on it trying to figure out what's going on with it but for now you'll just have to look at incorrect color pictures and try not to judge. :)

Sorry Jaime

I just have to start this blog by apologizing to my friend Jaime. She brought her two boys over so that I could photograph Briggs for his 3 month pictures. Her oldest Beck is about Hadley's age so I thought it would be fun for the two of them to play. Of course, Hadley did NOT want to cooperate so instead of focusing on Briggs' pictures I was attempting to deal with discipline problems. I hope it was worth the hassle Jaime and regardless I think we got some cute ones of Briggs.

On to this sweet boy. He is quite hands on, meaning he didn't want to take his hands out of his mouth the whole time I was taking pictures. It doesn't matter, he was so laid back and generally happy to be here.

Cowboy Braden

Meet Braden. This little guy is around 7 months old and was pretty happy to have his picture taken. Can you believe born early at a little over 4 pounds he is now 20 pounds?!?! His rolls are precious. His parents are big cowboy people so Braden came complete with several cowboy outfits, boots, wranglers and even a pair of spurs just his size. Too cute!

Little Luke

Luke came to see me on Labor Day 1 day out of the NICU. He was only 9 days old when I took his pictures and I can't believe how little he was. You sometimes forget how perfect God made them even as tiny as they are down to their little fingernails. :)

The two P's

This is Paytan and Presley. Their mama is a good friend of one of my good friends and they traveled all the way from Midland for this shoot. Well, not exactly just for the shoot, their uncle and aunt live in San Antonio too but we can pretend I'm that good. :) These sweet girls are the same age as my boys and were great to take pictures of. Here are just a few to tide you guys over while I work on the rest.

Alexander

I begged my friend Christyn to come and let me take pictures of her third baby Alexander after he was born because I need practice on newborns. The only problem was, (yes, I'm big enough to admit my mistakes to everyone) I really messed up on her session. I cried over it a little and asked her to come back and she finally did. After sitting on 1604 for 1 1/2 hours due to a wreck her family got here at 8:30 last night. Thankfully we were able to get some good pictures. Here are just a few.

Fourth time's a charm

This was our fourth scheduled appointment to take Colten's pictures and the sun finally came out long enough for us to get them. Of course, we were all sweating but we didn't complain.

Meet Colten. He has the cutest walk you've ever seen and moves faster than most 2 year olds. I was running to keep up with this little guy. He is 100% a Daddy's boy and thankfully Daddy showed up and was able to make him smile by being silly. He is also a little stinker and would point and shake his finger at me and say, "No pictures."

The Wisely Clan

The Wisely's are some of my favorite people because Christy has been the biggest supporter of my photography business. This time even Ella and Jakob were into it. I think Jakob told me 50 times, thanks for taking their pictures. (Sweet boy) Today I actually got to take pictures of the whole family which I have not done yet. I've taken many pictures of Ella and Jakob but this is my first session with everyone. Here are a few from their session.

I'm a little partial

Meet Olivia who I'm a little partial to. She was born two days after my Linden, sucks her thumb and has great big beautiful eyes. I had the pleasure of taking her pictures today and once we got her out of her fancy dress and into her boots she was much happier. Just a quick few of my favorites until I get everything online.

These boots were made for walking

After rescheduling this session THREE times due to rain we finally had a nice day. Sweet little Ashlyn smiled pretty good when she didn't have to pose for pictures and was so happy to get M&M's when she stayed still long enough for me to take some. (We are so not above bribing in the photography world.) I just LOVED her pink boots!

First ever post

For those of you who want to see bits and pieces of my photography sessions this blog is for you. I will probably post a few of my favorites from every session on my blog. Sit down and enjoy. Since I'm just starting out I hope we'll see improvements throughout this blog.