Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you are enjoying your day with family and friends. We have a pretty low key weekend planned.
Since it’s the season of family photos and I’ve never shared these I thought it would be kind of fun to do a throwback Thursday and share some photos we had taken as part of Lex’s one year pictures. It’s hard to believe that was two years ago already!
Like many moms, I had been dreaming of the perfect first birthday pictures for Lex. However, as we got closer to the session, it was pretty clear to me that we weren’t going to get the perfect smash cake in tutu shots I was dreaming of and had to come up with something else.
Lex wasn’t always the most cooperative person to photograph when it came to professional pics. If you missed her nine month and one year sessions (yes we did one year twice if that tells you anything), you and see them here and here. Spoiler alert, crying is a theme in both.
A few days before her (first) one year pictures, I emailed our photographer Marnee and asked how she felt about me brining some props – a cozy coupe and a small tree and lucky for me, she was on board right away. I love these pictures and am so thankful to call these two mine.
photos by Marnee at Marriott Photography
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We love Huntington Beach so it’s quite fitting that these were taken under Huntington Pier. I can’t wait to print them and hang them in our new home. Speaking of the new house, we went from a slab to a fully framed house last week!
