While most of you have already seen these pictures from our Christmas card this year, I thought I would share these pictures anyway because I just love them so much! This little man melts my heart every day. We laugh because even when he is sleeping, we sit and scroll through pictures of him on the computer….to say we are obsessed would be an understatement! 
Happy 2013!!!!
We are waiting until the birth to find out the gender of the baby, so what is a husband to do when bringing home flowers? Bring home all three colors of course!!! Just one of the benefits of not finding out the gender of your baby – the hubs didn’t want to leave anyone out!!!
Beautiful Mom, beautiful baby, can’t think of a better way to spend a Sunday!
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More to come!
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This was one of my favorite pictures taken during Isabel’s 3-month photo session. It used our beloved 35mm Nikkor at f/2.8, ISO 640, 1/80.
Last weekend, I had the pleasure of photographing this beautiful 3 month-old, darling named Isabel. Isabel is just the sweetest little girl with two totally adoring parents. Thanks Bri & Jacob for letting me come capture your beautiful bundle of joy!
As posted previously, last time I went home to visit, we took some pictures of Riley for use on his birthday invitations. Now that his invites have gone out, I can reveal the rest of the shoot. And just in case you really want to see more of this photoshoot, click here for slideshow.
For the invitations, we decided to do a postcard style photocard using Photoshop. With Melissa’s poetic skills and the book editor skills of my mom, they came up with the poem and I did the design.
Sorry, but the crying pictures are just too cute to not include – crying with a party hat on! Man, I can’t wait until this little guy is in college and this gets sent around to the frat brothers!!!!
Brady is a crawling machine, loves when his daddy tosses him in the air, points at almost everything, loves to give kisses to his mommy and best of all, he celebrated his first birthday on Sunday! Ryan and I couldn’t be happier to celebrate this little guys birthday with his parents, Joanna and Chad, and I couldn’t help but to snap a few pictures of this lovable little one year old. For a slideshow to view a few more click here.
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I can’t believe how quickly one year goes by. One year ago, Ryan and I had just returned from our wonderful honeymoon, we were celebrating Melissa’s baby shower, and Joanna was still pregnant and about to bring little Brady into this world.
Fast forward to today and little Brady turns one on Sunday, and Riley is almost about to celebrate his first birthday in November. Being that Riley’s mom is my very best friend, Melissa, we get the chance to shoot Riley as much as possible.
It is just amazing how quickly they grow in the first year and since I am in LA, I hate that I don’t get to see this little guy more. At two-weeks old he was just a little, squeezable ball of love, and at 5-months old he was a calm, happy baby just learning to sit and smile. Now at 10-months old this guy crawls, eats, laughs, cries, and sure knows how to go through those diapers!
Here is the first set of pictures of this little guy.
I was so lucky to spend last Friday with one of my favorite people and her cute as a cupcake, 5-month old son, Riley. If you recall, back in November, Ryan and I did a little Riley-Man Photoshoot when he was 2-weeks old. Boy has this little guy grown a lot since then! Melissa and I spent the day hanging out like old times, going to Chevy’s in Folsom (which is now Q’bode), window shopping the home stores, and enjoying a nice glass of wine in the park (although this time, we are actually old enough to buy and drink it).
While we were in the park, I took advantage of the fabulous weather and lighting to take a few pictures of Riley.
I have too many favorites, but this one might just be it – that pacifier just cracks me up!
Seriously, is there anything cuter than this little guy! Thanks for the fun day guys, miss you already!
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While up north for Thanksgiving, Ryan and I got a chance to finally see the new addition to the Scheffel family, the Riley-Man. Riley is 14 days old and is already a trained model pro — must have been all those pictures his mama posed for while he was in the womb. After a quick feeding and diaper change this guy was ready for his close up. Ryan got a chance to use his Sigma 30mm lens to snap these totally adorable pictures of the little guy.
At one point, we decided to try and sit him up for a few clicks of the camera. As you can guess, it was a bit pre-mature for this pose. As his Dad held his head to keep his body upright, poor Riley was left looking like a little old-man that had a few too many beers. While this had us all dying laughing, we quickly realized the poor guy was not having any of this pose.
Here’s the poor little drunk:
Still laughing , just thinking about it!!!!!!! I guess we all have a bit of learning to do!
Love you guys and can’t wait to see you at Christmas!
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