A Cherry On Top Photography Blog

My baby brother called me up the other day asking if I would take pictures of him, his girlfriend, and his guitar.  I promised I would and we planned for Saturday evening.  On Saturday morning, I plugged my camera battery into the charger so it would be nice and juiced up….can you see where this story is going?  On my way out the door, I grabbed the charged battery, put the spare battery in the charger, stuck the charged battery in the camera (or so I thought) and left.  I got all the way to OKC, only to find that my battery was completely dead.  Ack!  I must have gotten the batteries mixed up!  I was horrified, but at least it happened to my brother and not a new client whom I was trying to impress.  We only had about an hour left of sunlight, so we jumped in the car and raced back to my house.  The shoot, which was supposed to take place behind old buildings in OKC, instead took place in the empty lots around my neighborhood.  And you know what?  I’m glad it did because I adore these pics!  I love that the couple seems like they are out in the middle of nowhere, even though there were houses all around us!  It was a really fun shoot and something I’ve been wanting to try for a long time….a young couple in love, out in a field of tall grass at sunset.  I swear I didn’t forget my camera battery on purpose, but this did work out nicely!    I’m doing a newborn shoot out there this afternoon and I can’t wait!!

According to the calendar, my baby turned three years old last week, but I don’t want to believe it!  I wouldn’t have minded if this sweet girl had stayed two forever!

We celebrated with a Hello Kitty party last weekend.

She picked out the cupcakes herself.

She was decked out in Hello Kitty from head to toe!

“Can you show Mommy how old you are?”

Note: I decided not to edit the scratch off of her little arm because it is proof of how clumsy she is.  She acquired that scratch while playing in the empty lot next door the day before these pictures were taken…tripped in her Crocs and landed on a pile of sticks.  Ouch!

Happy birthday to our sweet, pudgy, cornball-and-a-half, Maddie Lou Who!

Look who’s one year old!  Well, almost!  Her birthday isn’t until next week, but we went ahead and got some pics to show off at her party!  This shoot was supposed to take place outdoors, but Oklahoma was hit with an unexpected “arctic blast” yesterday afternoon.  Dark clouds moved in, the wind picked up, and the temperature dropped dramatically.  Instead of rescheduling, we decided to pull the ole’ studio equipment out of the garage and dust it off a bit.  Believe it or not, this entire session took place in my laundry room.  ha!  The nice thing about photographing little people is that they don’t take up a lot of space!  Except Miss Hadley is a busy little lady so the hardest part was confining her in the one-square yard of space we were trying to work with.  She did great though and put up with five outfit changes!  Her mama has awesome taste and we had fun dolling her up.

This baby has the best personality.  She is easy going, very social, and silly.  We have babysat her a few times and she hardly ever cries.  I’ve told her mama she is the easiest baby ever, but she doesn’t need me to tell her that.  I think she knows she got a good one!

She devoured this cupcake faster than you can say….”cupcake”.

Happy Birthday Miss Hadley!  We love you SOOOOOO much and we can’t wait to come to your birthday bash next weekend!

And because I know somebody is going to ask, here are the links for the places she found the adorable outfits!

http://www.vintagecoutureinc.net/mel/ – Vintage Couture outfit (brown/pink)

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tater-Tots-and-Fire-Hoses/240448689297 – Cupcake shirt and Monkey dress