Archive for the ‘Babies’ Category

Ever since my daughter was born, almost exactly one year ago, I’ve been excited and sad at the same time about taking her one year photos.  I knew I wanted to do a cake smash type of session because they had always looked like SO much fun and I had wished I had done one with our son when he turned one.  So, I set the stage, baked a giant cupcake cake (practice run before our party on Sunday too!), and got my new studio all set up and ready to go for her.

Now, I must tell you, my little peanut…well…the girl can eat like no baby I’ve ever seen.  As soon as she saw my husband bring the cake into the room, she went NUTS!  We set it down, I started shooting…and…well, I’ll let these speak for themselves… :-)

Baby 1st Birthday Cake Smash Photography

We’ve been SUPER busy at our household moving into a new house, so I apologize for the lack of blog posts lately.  I’ve got a TON of fun sessions lined up for March and I can’t wait to share the images from those.  But in the meantime, I thought it would be fun to hold another contest to spice up the action on the blog!  This is our biggest contest EVER and our first Cutest Baby & Child Contest!!

What will we be giving away?  We’re going to actually have TWO awesome prizes for this contest!

First Prize ($900 value): 

  • Free Mini Session up to 30 mins either on location or at the studio
  • Disk of 10  images from your session with a print release
  • 2 5×7 prints

Second Prize: 

  • $200 Gift Certificate to be used on any future session or prints with us.

Here’s how our Cutest Baby & Kid contest will work and how you can enter:

  • Send ONE favorite photo of your child(ren), any past or current photo will do, anytime between today (March 2nd) and Tuesday, March 16th to our email amy@tentinytoesphoto.com  **If you have mulitple children, you can either submit a photo of them together, or separately, but you can only vote on one photo per day (they can all be a part of the mini session, even if entered separately).
    • Please add the following information to your submission email…(this information WILL NOT be included in the postings of your pictures! This is just information for us to use to contact you if you win and to send you special deals on your child(rens) birthdays!)
  • Parents Name(s)
    Phone #
    Email Address
    Name/Age/Birthday of child(ren) in picture

  • We’ll have two methods of voting each day
    1. The first will be here on the blog, where we’ll upload the photos with an assigned number and voting poll within the post and you and your friends and family can vote once each day. 
    2. The second way will be on our Facebook Fan Page, where you can vote once a day by commenting on the photo of your choice.  Your comment can be as simple as “This is my vote!”. 
  • Send EVERYONE you know to our Facebook page and blog to vote! 
  • Voting will begin on Wednesday, March 17th and will run through the 24th, so that gives you a full WEEK to get everyone voting for your cutie!

So, start sending your photos!  I can’t wait to see all of your adorable little ones faces!

I’m sure I’m not the only one that is SO sick of Winter already.  It’s always this time of year that I think we all start getting spring fever!  Warmer days (aka – 40 degrees!) begin to appear and the snow slowly starts to melt.  It won’t be long before those little crocus flowers are peeking through the last little bit of snow. 

March is already upon us and with that, our calendar has been filling up quickly with Spring sessions!  So, if you are hoping to get a session scheduled in the next couple of months, you’ll want to act quickly!  We only have one opening left in March and two openings left in April!  We’re also taking bookings in May and June now as well.

Worried about the weather?  No reason to worry now as we now have indoor, natural light studio space at my home in Rosemount.  Of course, we will prefer to stay on location for most of our sessons, but it’s a nice alternative in case the weather is an issue.

Of course since no post is complete without a photo, here’s a recent one of some snowflakes that were on my car window one morning. :-)
Flakes

Wishing you all a very happy Valentine’s day.  Here are my little munchkins :)   We hope your day was filled with lots of love!

Eagan Child Valentine's Photographer

Minnesota Kids Fest St. Paul Children's PhotographerWe’re gearing up for our appearance this weekend at the Midwest Kids Fest!  I’m so excited as this is the first time we have done something like this and we can’t wait to get our name out there some more and meet some new friendly faces!  If you’re family is anything like ours at the moment, you’re DYING to get out of the house after this awful snow we’ve gotten this week.  Well, this is the perfect opportunity to get everyone out and about to burn some energy and have some fun!  Be sure to stop by and see us as we have a special gift for everyone that stops by and we’ll be having a drawing for a free session for anyone that signs up for our e-Newsletter!

We’ll also be offering a special discount on any sessions booked at the event, so if you’ve been meaning to book, stop by for this fantastic offer and book your Spring session!

The Midwest Kids Fest is running this Saturday and Sunday from 10 am until 5 pm each day at the St. Paul River Center.  Admission is free for little ones one and under and we have ax exclusive coupon for all of the big people too!  You can get our coupon here: Midwest Kids Fest Coupon  Feel free to share with anyone else too!

They have some pretty fun stuff going on for little ones of all ages and lots of neat vendors and companies for parents and grandparents too.  You can even enter for a chance to win a brand new SUV!!  They will have appearances from all sorts of characters and the Teddy Bear Band!

Hope to see you there!

Prepare yourself for the cuteness!  There’s nothing I love more than a sweet little girl to get all dressed up and girly.  I LOVE these kinds of sessions where we bust out fun props and backdrops.  Sweet Miss A’s family contacted me to have a 9 month session for their little peanut and she was as cute as could be!

She had the most gorgeous sparkly blue eyes.

9 month old baby photographer

And we had SO much fun with her in the tutu!

Baby girl in Tutu photograph

I just couldn’t resist her adorable little toes.  This is one of my favorite shots.

Cute little baby toes with tutu

Is she not just the sweetest thing ever?

9 month old baby photos

And I love that mom and dad wanted to do some shots in her room with her favorite book. 

Baby with book

And we braved the outdoors in one of the snowiest winters I can remember in a LONG time and took a few outside.  She had the most adorable little fur coat and matching boots!

Baby standing in the snow

B family, thank you SO much for choosing me to document and capture this fun time in your daughter’s life.  I hope you enjoyed your sneak peek!!

I can’t think of a more precious gift to have right before Christmas than a new baby.  The {S} family welcomed baby A into their home just over a week ago and I got to photograph him when he was just 6 wee days old.  He was wonderfully adorable, with his strawberry blonde hair and his bluish eyes.  He also was a fabulous little model for us and gave us some fun little poses to capture.

Mom & Dad were up for just about anything I thew there way, so we used some fun new props.  We couldn’t pass up at least one Christmas photo too being he was born so close to Christmas.  :-)

Thank you SO much for allowing me to capture your new addition.  He’s absolutely perfect!  Enjoy your sneak peek!

I try not to post too many photos of my kids on here, I leave those to our family blog.  But, I just couldn’t resist sharing our Christmas card photo with you all.  These two are the reason that I fell in love with photography and they are the ones that drive me to get better and better and to do what I love. 

So, from our family to yours, we wish you all a very Merry Christmas!  Thank you for a WONDERFUL first year for Ten Tiny Toes Photography and I know 2010 will be even better!  We hope that your family and friends have a wonderful holiday season!

I have been counting down the days until I got to photograph this little guy.  He’s the new baby of one of my bestest friends from high school and he’s about as cute as they come.  Remember this beautiful mommy?  Well, her wait is over and little {J} couldn’t be more perfect.  He was just nine days old yesterday when we had his session and he was a rock star for us and slept right through without making a peep the entire time.

M & D, I had such a wonderful time meeting and photographing your little man.  D, here’s the baseball one especially for you.  Love you guys!

Shakopee Newborn Photography

Twin Cities Newborn Photographer

This little guy melted my heart from the moment I met him.  He was full of smiles and laughter and was such a joy to work with and had THE most gorgeous blue eyes!  Even though it was a bit chilly out, we had a great time hanging out indoors to get some fun shots of Mr. {K} and mom and dad.  We did manage to get a few shots outdoors before we got too chilled though (thanks for tolerating it, guys!).

6 months is one of my favorite ages to photograph.  {K} was so fully of energy and was anxious get moving and crawling and even showed me some of his Yoga poses!

P Family, I had such a wonderful time meeting you guys and photographing your adorable family.  Thank you for welcoming me into your home to capture your memories.  I hope you enjoy your sneak peek!

Karl1KarlPreview2

This site is protected by WP-CopyRightPro