Busy busy!

We've been so busy! Oh my god!

We did our first ever wedding on Saturday the 1st of September. It was a big day! We were out for about 10 hours and we filled up about 60GB of memory just taking hundreds...and THOUSANDS of photos!

They'll be uploaded to Facebook every now and then to give the lovely bride a sneak peek!

 We're about 70% through all the photos, and she's looking to get 300+ from us!

I think we did well for our first wedding and we couldn't have asked for a better wedding to have covered! Mai was a lovely, cool, calm and relaxed bride...even when she rocked up almost an hour late to the ceremony! Haha "fashionably late"....

 We also covered our first party.
For Katie's 21st, we set up our lights and camera to make a simple photo booth so she and her friends could come on over and get their photos taken together.

 It was a fun evening, and we all had a giggle going through some of the awesome photos that we took!

A few weeks ago we took some lovely maternity shots for Amanda, who was expecting her little girl to be born in a few weeks.

Well! Amanda JUST managed to sneak those maternity shots in because little Charlotte came along 3 days later!

She's a total sweetie and I love the photos that we took. I'm about halfway through editing them and there will be a couple up on Facebook soon.

 And of course, my little man, Max, turned 1 on August 31st. I had a birthday party for him the day after the wedding, so our weekend was exhausting!

KC did a fantastic job capturing some cute moments of Max, especially that bottom one where he is TOTALLY lapping up all the attention as everyone sang happy birthday to him!
I cannot believe I have a 1 year old already!

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Have a great weekend guys!

Families

 We've had the pleasure of working with two amazing families over the past few weeks.

I've finally finished editing all the photos for the White Family, all 50 of them! It was a big task, but there was bound to be a lot of pictures with such a lovely big family!

Here are some of my favourites from the shoot. :)

And yesterday, KC and I worked with Natalie and her children Kayla and Alex. They were fun kids to work with and Mum was awesome.

KC has these photos to edit, so I've just added the few that I took on my camera. There will be more to come soon.

Unfortunately our next few weeks are pretty empty. We don't have anything new planned until mid August! I took a lot of bookings over the past couple of weeks, but they're all for September!

Hopefully we will get some business going. I am very keen to take some more lovely photos and meet some new families!

I hope it comes across in our photography, just how much we ENJOY what we do. We don't do this for the money, that's for sure! This is the inverted pay cheque, we spend more money on our business than we earn! We're not very good entrepreneurs haha. But we do love what we do!

This week so far.

We've had a nice and busy week here! 

A Tumblr mama meet up on Wednesday,  a family shoot in Noosa with an amazing family and lots of Max time in between. By Max time I mean, chasing my incredibly energetic 10 month old around while he gets into everything!

Here's a sneak peek of our shoot from Thursday, there will be more to come soon!

We shot the beautiful White Family. 7 kids plus Mum and Dad meant we got a lot of experience and SO many photos! Meeting this amazing family was lovely and I would love to work with them again.

And here's a snippet of what Max, Na and myself got up to on Saturday!

Hope you all had a fantastic week! :)

Bath times.

The boy loves his baths!
When I walk into the bathroom his slow crawls turn to excited gallops as he follows me in.

He stands at the edge of the bath and chats and squeals away as I run the water and put some toys in.

Forever trying to dive right in, I have to stop him as he cocks his leg up to get over the edge.

Once he's in, so begins half an hour of splashing, squealing, chasing toys and examining the plug.

I love sitting with him and just watching him. He is so amazing.

Baby Expo and Skeletons!

 On Saturday, KC and myself took the boys to the Brisbane Pregnancy, Babies and Children's Expo at Southbank.

It was packed! And we had two great big prams! Note to us; Next year, NO BABIES! Haha.

It was nice to look through all the stalls and check out the baby items, KC bought a few things and I discovered the wonder of Baby Mum-Mum rice treats. Max chowed down on the samples that I got and loved them so much that I had to go back and buy a heap of them! Haha.

After the Expo we took the boys and had a nice wind down at the Southbank Parklands.

We had a burger and chips each and watched the boys interact. As usual, Max was a bully to Byron and made him cry.

I also found out Max's skeleton PJ's the day before and was delighted to find that Max fits them! They're a size 1 on his 00-0 body, so a little baggy, but still damn cute!

I think he looks so adorable in them! :D

Afternoon Sun

Hanging out with the boys in the backyard.
Max has Hand Foot and Mouth, so the boys were kept well apart from each other.

You wouldn't think he was sick, judging from those smiles!

Lazy Sundays

 I always call them Lazy Sundays, but when you have a VERY active 9 month old, there's really not much time to be lazy!

With Max on the move, I'm constantly looking for ways to entertain him before he wrecks the house!

At bath time we tried out some Crayola Colour Bubbles. Great big purple bubbles that spray purple dots everywhere when they pop, they make bath time very entertaining!

Max enjoyed popping each of the bubbles as they landed on the water, and painting in the purple goo on the side of the bath tub.

Earlier in the day we did some experimenting with Play Dough! I had bought some the week before and secretly, I was more excited to play with it than Max.

He loved tearing off little pieces of the dough and studying them carefully, inspecting each piece and squishing them between his fingers.

Of course he had to taste the dough, but it only took one taste before he decided that it was gross!

I look forward to many, many more of these "lazy" Sundays. They are the best days for me to spend time and bond with my son. There's no stress on Sundays.

I bought a new camera today, a Canon 60D. Upgrading from my faithful 500D. I'll miss my 500D, she served me so well for so long!

I am in love with the 60D. It is fast, efficient, boasts a great image quality and just feels better in my hands.

Max and I spent bath time playing with bubbles this evening and I couldn't help but grab a few cute shots of my cheeky boy!

- Karissa