In celebration of the wonderful cooler weather, I’ve decided to offer a special. Any session booked thru the end of Sept. will be a free session. No session fee! Woohoo! The session must take place in Sept. and be at an outside location. There are many great locations to use, and I’m always up for trying new ones. Don’t hesitate, book now!! Christmas is coming and photos make great presents. Email me  melissa@melissadphotos.com or call 817-915-3689 I’ll leave you with a not so great image of my boys enjoying the cooler weather today. These days I’m very lucky to get them both sitting still next to each other. Much less both looking and smiling. But since there’re mine, I love it anyways.

It was time again for another photoshoot with Maya. She’s 9 months old now, crawling and pulling up on everything. We decided to try a few theme pictures this time around and decided on Princess and the Pea and a Beach theme. Both turned out great. I’m having lots of fun with these theme photoshoots and can’t wait to do more. I have a good feeling Miss Maya will be walking by her next session at one year. I can’t wait to chase her around and watch her smash her first cake.

My oldest son’s imagination is really starting to expand these days. He wanted to borrow one of my boxes to play with and this is what he did with it. He turned it into his “new tv”. He set it up and put his best buddy behind it and was laying there watching his tv. We asked him what show he was watching, he said it’s called Monkey Travel and then told us what the show was all about. He kept moving it to different places and adding different toys for new shows. Brax even joined in lining up cars to go on next. It was fun to watch and got me to remember when I was little and the things I would do and imagine.

Last Sun. I was invited to photograph a Jewish naming ceremony. It was held at the Brookhaven Country Club in Dallas. Timothy was 2 months old and getting his Jewish name. They celebrated the event with readings from family and friends followed by a wonderful meal. His big brother was alot of help too. I’m glad I got to be a part of the event and document it with my photography.

My niece and nephew in my version of Alice in Wonderland. I’ve had this idea for awhile and finally got to make it happen. My sister wanted some updated pictures of her kids and I suggested the idea and she said sure, sounds like fun. And fun it was. Devon was much more into it than Miles, but what can you expect from a 19mo old. But we did get a few cute shots with him. I had so much fun shooting this session and then editing the images. If anyone else is interested in a themed shoot let me know. I would love to do it again.

Meet Ember. She finally decided she was ready to come out almost a week after she was due. Here she is at 6 days old and oh so cute! Her parents were so in love with her, it was a pleasure to watch. She was so good and slept thru almost everything. I’m sharing ALOT……I had so many favorites it was hard to narrow them down. I was just so excited to finally have a baby girl to capture. It was alot of fun.

Meet Melinda, her adorable belly and her hubby. They came to my studio to document her pregnancy with some classic portraits. We had fun and stayed cool in the studio. She’s having a girl and I can’t wait to meet her. Woohoo for another little girlie to photograph. Her hubby was alot of fun at this session. I can’t wait to see how fun he is at her newborn session.

Mr. Asher is back and full of smiles. He’s 6mo and the happiest baby I’ve worked with in awhile. We braved the heat at the Ft. Worth Botanical Gardens for a morning session. Asher was so good. He loved everything we put him in. Don’t you just love that scrunched up smile. He made that face alot, apparently it’s new. And so cute!! Thanks for braving the heat with me and helping me tote around all my stuff. Looking forward to his one year session and the much cooler weather then too.

Mr. Eli is back for his 3rd session of his baby plan. He’s 8mo and still very happy and full of smiles. He showed of his new skill, crawling. Had some daddy and mommy love, and ended the session with a  few pictures outside. I can’t wait to see him at a year and watch him smash his 1st birthday cake.