Last Sunday I headed to one of my favorite places,  Huntington Beach, to meet the latest addition to one of my favorite families :-)   Eleven day old Shay was a true “dream” to work with – he slept pretty much our entire session, which is really all I ever hope for when going into a newborn shoot.  Shay delivered the goods!  He’s such a cutie pie and I’m very honored and excited that his awesome parents have chosen me to document the first year of his life.  I’m looking forward to seeing Shay throughout the year, but for now, let’s live in the moment and appreciate him for all his newborn goodness.  Meet baby Shay:

Love the little puckered lips:

One of the few times he opened his eyes during our shoot:

Nice and cozy. I wish I could sleep like that:

I offered Shay’s dad a job as a baby stylist in case his other gig as a cardiologist ever gets boring :-p  He gets props for this cute pose :

This post wouldn’t be complete without a photo of big brother, Rowan, who waited patiently and even helped out during the session. Thanks Ro!:

By Vanessa

A few weeks ago I received a quick email that went something like this, “What?  No pics of the boys??? xoxo Aunt Darlene” I was reminded of something that’s been nagging at me for months now – POST SOME PICS OF THE BOYS!  Of course, being the ever so lazy blogger that I am, I put it on my to-do list, hoping that I’d soon find the motivation to post .  Then last week I received this, “Where are more pics of the boys?  I would love to see them.  Hope you and the family are well.  xoxo, Aunt Darlene” Guilt began to set in – I mean there were relatives from across the country, heck, across the globe who were counting on me to give them updates on Christian & Aidan via this blog and dang, I was letting them down.  Shame on me!  OK, so maybe it wasn’t that serious (or maybe it was – we’ll let Aunt Darlene decide), but yeah, I’ve been slackin’ majorly with posting pics of my kiddos.  Truth be told, I don’t take many photos of them because they are undoubtedly my most challenging subjects and it’s a lot easier play with them than lug around my big beast of a camera in hopes of getting one good shot.  You don’t even want to know how many actual photos I’ve printed of them since their birth (hint: I can count them on two hands!).  Yes, I am that bad.  But enough about my incompetence as a mother blogger (or whatever you wanna call it!), time for the pictures.  Aunt Darlene, this post is for you!  I promise not to make you wait another 4 months for the next round of pics!

Pirates (we got our money’s worth out of these costumes):

Cheering their friends on at the school Trike-a-Thon:

Silly Aidan:

Making pumpkin bread:

This is the latest and greatest face they make (Aidan pictured here):

Christian on his first big boy bike:

Rock climbing birthday party:

Weeee!

Taking a break on an “adventure hike”:

Aidan:

Christian:

Their favorite place at Disneyland – the Fire House

Christian’s “Mom, I’m so over you and your camera” face:

My cutie pies: