Family Shoot in my own backyard

Due to being in the middle of the week and my husband being at work (no help with my 3 little ones). I needed to schedule this family photo shoot here at my house. I often run out of creative ideas when it's my everyday surroundings. Being this family is from California, this is a whole different landscape than what they are used to. So with that in mind we had an awesome photoshoot.

My Best Client EVER! If you followed this Blog or have looked at many of the photos. You will see that this pretty blonde girl along with her handsome husband make periodic appearances in front of my camera. She is my sister. She has shown her confidence in me to photograph the major milestones in her life. Her engagement, christmas, couple, gender reveal party, and now her materenity photos. She has expressed that she would have used me for her wedding...but it would have been hard for the "Maid of Honor" to have that responsibility. And I was totally fine with that. She and her husband are easy to photograph and only make me look good.

Gender Reveal Party

This is probably one of my biggest posts to my blog. Why? Because my little sister is having a baby. I wish now I had thrown a "Gender Reveal" Party for our most recent birth of our bouncing baby boy, but I didn't have the will power to plan and be patient like my little sis. Gender Reveal parties are a growing trend and after being part of this one I can see why. It was so much fun! She and my mother put a lot of work into the planning and prep and I think the whole family was just as excited to be a part in this process. She and I have discussed going into business together to plan parties (such as this) and to take the photos for families to enjoy for years to come. So much work goes into these types of things and it really is about the details and catching every exciting moment. So, scroll down the page and watch this "baby story" reveal itself through pictures. Enjoy!

The beautiful momma to be!

The colorful Rag Banner that the Mommy made. This color scheme is what shaped the party's bright colors. A nice break from the trend of your typical pink and blues.

The Daddy & Mommy

Flowers & fruit are always so pretty together!

A nice little way to accessorize the party and keep with the Gender Reveal Party theme.

The colors continue!

The AWESOME gender neutral cake (but within it's pretty exterior a gender will be revealed).

The Monkey Cake Pops! They were a HIT!!--especially with my 2 year old.



The table display.



AND how NICE of this adorable, Sock Monkey to keep with the colors of the party!

What will "it" be? The crowd seems to think "boy".

GET READY!!!

You would think this was a Press Conference. Everyone is so EXCITED!!

Let the cake cutting begin!

I think they see it!

Yup!

BOY!

She is happy! I promise!



A first time Grandma!



Another Grandson!!

The inside!

Who knew people could get so excited about cake??



I guess majority of the family was right!



I was so busy taking photos I failed to notice she'd eaten like 5 of these!

I think the whole family was just a tad excited!



The end of a fun filled evening.



The Blue Sash--A BOY!