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Kristen’s baby shower

Monday, February 8th, 2010

This Saturday, I went to Kristen’s baby shower. Kristen is one of my best friends and we’ve actually been friends longer than Kevin and I have known each other. Her shower was a lot of fun and it was such a special day to celebrate with my good friend.

Kristen and her mom loved this gift. It was a cute toy that had soft music that Kristen wants to play when they pray with their son before bed.

Kristen is opening one of the gifts I bought her. This is a frame with an ink set that you can stamp the baby’s hand print and footprint on and then hang on the wall. I also bought her a prenatal massage from Body Center Therapeutic Massage. She is looking forward to getting pampered before the baby comes in a little less than a month.

This is Kristen and our friend Carla. Carla, Kristen and I had all met while in the same Sunday School class at Valley Church. We had also been in Bible study together. The three of us still like to get together to go out to dinner or for a coffee.

Even though Kristen and I have been friends for a long time and been a part of many of each other’s big life events (we were both each other’s bridesmaids), we have very few photos together. I started thinking about it before the shower and I think maybe we have about 6 or 7 photos total with each other. So on average, about one a year for every year of our friendship. So I made it a priority to get a photo together at the shower.

Kristen ended up getting a lot of cool things for her new baby and she says her nursery is complete now. I’m excited to meet her new son in mid-March.

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Best of 2009

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Here is some of our favorites from 2009.

What is your favorite photo from Barber Photography this year?

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Mother and Daughter

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Had to sneak one more photo from this session on. I love this sweet moment.

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Christmas in Omaha

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

On Saturday, we spent Christmas in Omaha. Chris and Christy, my brother and sister-in-law, had been snowed in during Christmas at Sioux City so it wasn’t until this time that we all got a chance to get together. Christmas with Kevin’s family is always fun and relaxing.

Chris and Christy had just bought a Wii and brought it along. In this photo, Mike and Chris are having a boxing match.

This is Kevin’s parents, Mike and Jackie. They have one of the strongest marriages I know and I think they really showed their sons a strong example of how to be a great spouse and just how great marriage can be. I know Christy and I both feel blessed to have such great husbands as a result of having such great parents as role models to Chris and Kevin.

We loved this one of Drew.

Mike and Jackie had taken down their Christmas decorations since it was so far after Christmas but they decided to decorate their plant and put the presents under that.

Here Drew is listening to the Christmas story.

A rare thing. Kevin and I actually getting a photo together. Since we’re photographers we usually only get a couple of photos taken together each year. We were glad that Chris took this of us and he really did a nice job with the composing it.

This was one of my favorite that I photographed that day. Just love that Kati was in this shirt that day.

Such a sweet moment.

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Photo a Day 2010: Day 3: Loveable!

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

As I’m sure happened with many others’, our Christmas plans were delayed due to the massive amounts of snow we’ve gotten in Iowa. So the other day we went to Omaha for the Barber family Christmas. We were fortunate to be able to get some great photos of our new niece.

Kindra also wanted to contribute to “Photo a Day” today and since I had forgotten that Kindra took this photo, I think it is welcomed.

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Mandy and Zack’s Wall Portraits

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

Kevin and I have decided that something new we will blog about is showing how our client’s portraits look on their walls. Wall portraits really personalize your home and can enhance your decor. We have started offering Wild Sorbet Frames this Fall and our clients love them. They are hand crafted and hand painted and come in over 100 colors.

Earlier this week, we went to Zack and Mandy’s house to hang their wall portraits in their hallway. They had chosen the Triplett frames, which come in a set of 3, and chose 1 photo of each of their kids and one family photo. They chose to have them hung in their hallway where their loved ones can see them as they enter their home or when they go up to the second floor.

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We love the colors that Zack and Mandy chose! Don’t they look great?

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Zack, Mandy, Vincent and Lila

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

In October, we photographed this family’s photos in their home. Vincent and Lila are in our kids club, the Grins and Giggles Club so we’ll have fun watching them grow over the next 2 years. Vincent is one of the most photogenic children we’ve ever seen and Lila is so adorable. We photographed the children playing in their backyard.

Zack was throwing a football to Vincent.

Kevin and I love this photo. We think it looks like a children’s clothing ad. Did I mention how cute Vincent is?

Lila made such cute expressions for us. I love how with babies they change so quickly so something they may do something new for a couple of weeks and then they move onto to some other new discovery. For this session, Lila’s cute new trick was sticking out her tongue. Can’t wait to see what new thing she’s doing for the next session.

This was my favorite photo I took at their session. The Bunkers ordered a wall portrait set of 3 photos in fun colorful frames with this photo included. Can’t wait to hang it on their wall for them in a couple of weeks.

Such a sweet moment.

This was ours and Zack and Mandy’s favorite family photo. I love how Lila is looking up to her big brother. Also want to give props to their dog, Deacon. He posed for us wherever we laid him. He is a very sweet, easy going dog. He’s been one of our favorite dogs to photograph. This photo is another one that is going to be in their wall portrait set.

I love this little shy look. Zack and Mandy, we laughed so much during your session and just fell in love with your kids. We’re looking forward to another session with them in a couple of months. What is everyone’s favorite photo from this session?

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Warren, Laura, Joe, Ellen, and Pete

Monday, October 19th, 2009

A couple of months ago we met this family out at Greenwood Park for their session. The kids made us laugh so much throughout the day. They are definitely a family of comedians.

This was Kevin’s favorite that he took from their session. I love how Ellie looks like an angel. So sweet.

They brought their dog, Toby, along for the session. This was such a cute moment.

I love Ellen’s smile when she laughs. Her whole face lights up.

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Charlotte: Grins and Giggles Photos

Monday, October 5th, 2009

I had a very hard time choosing photos for this post because we had so many good ones from this session. Charlotte is at such a fun age right now and we enjoyed photographing her doing some of her favorite things.

I love this family photo. The expressions are great and I love the color of the sky.

We went down by the downtown library so Charlotte could play in the water play area. She had never been there before and had so much fun splashing. I love the look of pure glee in this photo.

The whole time she was in the water, she had this big smile on her face. She loved discovering all the things she could do with the water.

Next we went to Snookies for some ice cream. This is one of the family’s favorite places to go.

Every time we photograph Charlotte she’s doing something new. Waving is one of her new favorite things. Can’t wait to see what she’ll be doing for her next session!

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What a Difference Five Months Makes!

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Its amazing how quickly children grow! During Charlotte’s first Grins and Giggles session in October we photographed her on this red armchair in her nursery. Shortly after this last session, Charlotte started walking, too.