i have known sydney since before she was born :) she is like my *third* kid…i don’t see her daily anymore…and we miss her….isn’t she the cutest???

the holidays are coming! the holidays are coming! how do they sneak up on us each year??

if you have received your gallery password already, i wanted to remind everyone that orders for christmas delivery MUST be placed by november 18th. if your gallery has yet to be released, don’t worry - i will extend the deadline for you until the 26th.

if you’re planning to order albums, coffee table books or canvas gallery wraps please contact me right away for the estimated delivery date.

….and now for my own baby girl! i just ordered this as a gallery wrap canvas yesterday - i can’t wait to see it!

Haven’t shown my babies in a while….here is the Jake sporting his oh-so-stylish bed head look! Seriously - he usually looks all cute and surfer-kid - but this crazy hair just had to be permanently recorded! Harvey (a very loved member of our household) has a bit of a hair (fur?!?) issue too….

I love these guys! This is my third year photographing them - it is so much fun to watch my *little friends* grow up…

Then we headed out to the beach in Santa Monica for a little stroll…

I was loving the flare!

I had some fun playing with different textures - I have more of a *clean and clear* style but this is a rather popular trend that I haven’t dabbled in much and it was FUN!

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…i know, i know…i am HORRENDOUSLY behind on posting on the blog!! right now is my crazy-busy time of year - i’ve been focused more on getting everyone’s photos proofed, ordered and back to them! BUT - I am turning over a new leaf and issuing a PROCLAMATION: (my buddy Lisa *loves* it when I make proclamations!)

I, Jennifer Wilson, do hereby declare that I will post on my blog EVERY day for the next 21 days! If (and it won’t happen so just forget it!) I should somehow FAIL in my mission - please feel free to call me out in the comment box here on the blog. I will give some sort of super-duper prize to the person who calls me out on it!

….and now on to some long-awaited photos@! Here are some of the cuties I photographed in las Vegas this fall…

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aren’t they sweet? 5 months can be a tough age to photograph, since babies aren’t yet sitting on their own….but we had so many cute shots of these two!

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ha! I meant for this sneak peek to be one or two photos…. But - how to choose? I LOVE so many images from this session - and 5 minutes into it it looked like it would be a disaster! Seriously, we hadn’t been there 5 minutes when one of those adorable little girls face-planted into a wave! Luckily, she was a trooper and the whole family were great sports - so we just carried on…and I am SO glad! We laughed a lot, splashed a lot - and had a heck of a good time :)

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It was such a joy to photograph SO MANY cute kids last week at Pottery Barn Kids! I am such a natural light photographer usually - so it is fun to break out the studio lights a few times a year! These are such classic kids portraits - I hope all the parents love them as much as I do! I love how their little personalities shine through…

Stay tuned for a couple of mini-session dates to be added in October and November… I’ll post more details on the blog tomorrow! I only have one more regular session available in October and only a handful in November, so hoping the mini-sessions will be a way to be able to shoot everyone! I felt so awful last year when I had to turn folks away:(

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Time to post some photos! My poor blog has been neglected as I have been trying to get caught up on proofing a gazillion sessions! I am about to have a blogapaloooza weekend and post LOTS of sneak peeks - so stay tuned!!

First up is Jennafer’s (yes - that IS the way she spells it!) gorgeous family! I know, I know - she doesn’t look old enough to be the mom of all four of these beautiful girls! We had a great time - each girl is just as sweet as she is beautiful and the little ones had SO MUCH FUN splashing in the waves - they were truly a joy to photograph!

The black and white photo of those sweet eyelashes and freckles has moved to the the very tip top of my *current faves* list! I **heart** freckles….

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How adorable are these two little boys??? I photographed Tucker when he turned one - now it was little brother Brody’s turn! They are just the perfect picture of quintessential California beach boys - so so so cute!!!

I have been meaning to post photos of these gorgeous gallery wrap canvas products - I love these so much! My favortite part about them is they are ready to take home and hang on your wall- no framing required! Plus, I just ADORE the way they look :)

Here are a few photos (with, of course, my customary disclaimer that I have NO future in product photography!)

(haha - and see how I snuck a gratuitous photo of my little models in there!- love them!)