Grayson!

Okay lets just be honest here....
#1- I think I enjoy buying props and little hats for pictures just a tad too much... I just can't resist myself! When I find a killer deal on these things I can't pass them up!
#2- I think I need another faux floor and backdrop so that all of my pictures stop looking the same!

I have been having so much fun taking pictures of the kids. Minus Asher since he wont let me take any of him unless they are candid. I think newborn/infant/toddler pictures are so cute. I only wish Grayson would let me capture a smile here or there. Anytime I put a camera in his face he stops smiling and when I take it away he starts up again.   I need Paul to be there behind me making goofy faces and noises so I can capture that sweet smile of his! I can't get over how big and chunky this cute boy is!!!!

Model Morgan

Photography for the past few years has been something I have really enjoyed playing around with. For my birthday this year my parents bought me this faux floor, I treated myself to a backdrop and Paul built be a backdrop stand. I wanted to be able to take cute pictures of my kids in a studio like setting, and also be able to take pictures of my etsy items so that they look way better and more professional up on the site. Here are some pictures of Morgan modeling the headbands I make. I can not believe how big she is getting and how absolutely beautiful she is. I know I am her mom and am biased to thinking so, but I really do think this girl has beauty to her. Inside and out. It has been so fun to be able to use her as my model and to see her get all excited for me to take her pictures. She loves to get  dressed up in her rompers, but on the "baby headbands" and pick the poses she wants to do.

While writing this Morgan says "Mom that picture right there with me sitting is SOO cute"

Asher was being so funny and wanted to be in the pictures but tends to get a little camera shy. I still for some reason though it was adorable of the two of them.

The one of Asher kissing Morgan on the cheek has got to be one of my favorites! It is so sweet and melts my heart. These two kids are the best of friends!

Surprise! I have a name

I know you all have been wondering why I haven't mentioned the baby's name in any of the previous posts, but that is because up until one week after he was born he was known as baby. Paul and I were quite the procrastinators and didn't come up with a name before he was born, nor did we have any ideas really. All of the ones I seemed to like he didn't and vice versa. The names Paul had mentioned that he liked before hand were Dylan, Mason, and Connor. I decided that I liked the name Ryker Tanner. A friend told me that Ryker means Richard in dutch which just seems so appropriate since my Dad and Brandon's names are Richard and the R in Tanners name stood for that. I thought it would be a cool way to honor their names without having to actually use the name Richard. Anywho, neither of us agreed on any of those 4 names. So baby boy was born and I was really hoping to have a name picked out by the time we left the hospital. Well to be honest I don't think we really even discussed it while we were there. When we got home Paul was working really really long hours that week and so we literally  had about 15 min to discuss names that we had though of throughout the day. Sad thing is Paul was too busy working to think of any and I was too busy taking care of 3 little ones to be able to sit down on the computer to look any up. Finally one night Paul suggested the name Blaine. I wasn't opposed to it, but it wasn't my favorite. For a few days I thought that maybe that is what his name would be. I was hoping for the name Grayson since I thought it was a cute and unique name but Paul wasn't in favor. So Long story short if the hospital would have called on Monday to ask what we were going to name him this little boys name would have been BLAINE CONNOR HOLGATE.... However Monday I found some time to look up names and came across the name Sterling and Paul said he liked that one for a middle name so we were pretty convinced it was going to be Blaine Sterling. Well that night around 11pm when Paul got home from work I asked can we please name him Grayson Sterling and to my surprise he agreed. I still don't know if its because he gave in or because he actually likes the name. SO there you have it. Our little boy was finally named 7 days after being born and his official name is GRAYSON STERLING HOLGATE. All I have to say is I will never go without naming my kids before they are born. It was so stressful and every time I would look  at him and then think of a name I would just think to myself that he didn't look like a this or a that. So now 3 months later we just need to bless our little boy!