The Hurley Family

With my spring fever running rampant, it feels good to get out and do some shooting despite the lingering cold, and Sunday actually turned out to be a nice day to do get outside and photograph this fabulous little family and their sweet little bug.

Jeff is my husbands best childhood friend and they just recently re-connected through facebook. I've had a great time getting to know them and it's been great to see Evie make friends with Victoria. Jeff and Andrea, thank you so much for allowing me the honor of capturing some treasured moments for you.

Sorry if the photo quality seems a little low. I keep reading about other photographers who have discovered that their images are being taken off their blogs and claimed by others as their own work, so I uploaded some smaller files this time. I'm not sure that it really makes much difference because if someone wanted to steal and claim my work, they would find a way to do it.

*Post Edit- I couldn't stand the low-res quality so I re-uploaded some slightly larger files.

A few outtakes...

Seriously. Jeff's expression here makes me crack up!

Give to Hope for Haiti

I have experienced an immense amount of personal tragedy in my life, but I cannot feel self pity. I feel blessed because I have never been buried alive, been without food or water or without a home. Please, if you can, go here and give whatever you can afford, even if it's only $5. They desperately need it.

This is the official website featured on the Hope for Haiti live show which was broadcast this evening. The point is, the site is legit and you can feel confident that your $$ will get to the people of Haiti.

Evie's Party

Here are just a few images from Evie's birthday celebration. Some of the images were taken by my sister.

I just can't believe how fast she is growing. Every day I look at her yummy little face and her delicious little body and I hope that I remember everything about that moment because I know how much I'm going to miss this time. Every giggle, laugh, the cute way she walks. Even the way she has an entire conversation with me in her own baby language. I'm going to miss it all!












This is Evie's good friend Spencer (holding the vacuum). We met his parents in a natural birthing class and we've been fortunate to become good friends. He was so spellbound by this toy vacuum that we sent it home with him for a while :)

First Birthday

First let me apologize for the hiatus. The weeks leading up to the holiday were busy and its been difficult finding the motivation to get back into the swing of post holiday life. I fear that this will be a continuing trend and that I'll need to develop some skills for managing it all; let me explain.

My sweet baby girl turned ONE on the 18th! One is a big birthday so it commanded some time in planning the celebration and since her birthday is so close to Christmas, its important to me that her day doesn't get lost in the usual hustle and chaos of the season. Her birthday landed on a Friday this year so I slaved into the wee hours on Thursday attempting to create a perfect little fondant cake that I had been so nostalgically dreaming about for weeks in my head. Trust me when I say that its much harder than it looks and I give many props to all you professional bakers out there. Needless to say, my little cake turned out perfectly imperfect...

Saturday was the big birthday celebration where I traded in my fondant creation for some more traditional, yet still made from scratch, cupcakes.

So, Evie's Stats:

22.5 Lbs, 30 inches
Favorite Foods: Mandarin oranges, pears, gerber graduates corn puffs, yogurt and ham
Favorite Activity: Bath time with Daddy
Favorite Words: Oh Wee, Oh Yeah, Wow, Cat (more like gat), What's this? (imagine it all slurred together)
Favorite Object: Her minky dot blanket, although balloons would be a close runner up
Favorite Pet: Our cat whom she refers lovingly to as either 'be' or 'bye' rather than cat

This was nearly the one and only shot I could get of her before she was off to explore. She is not the cooperative little darling that I was hoping she would be, but I wouldn't have her any other way.




The little blue bottoms are a g diaper and I really wanted her to be wearing pink, but I never had the chance to got out and buy a pair, just in case anyone was wondering why she is in blue ;)

Dear Santa,

Dear Santa, by amyannephoto featuring Anthropologie

What do you hope to find under the tree this year??

Maddi's Bat Mitzvah