Christmas Card Special

Amazing! I noticed last night that the big haunted house downtown is open for business. Thus begins the HOLIDAY SEASON! Yes, that's right, Christmas will be here before we know it! From now until the middle of November I will be booking Christmas Card mini-sessions for a discounted rate.

For $50 you will have a 30 minute location mini-session

and receive 20 photo Christmas Cards*,

2 5x7s of your chosen card photo,

PLUS 15% off any other prints/cards purchased from your session!

Book your Christmas Card Mini-session TODAY! jaymeaustinphotography@gmail.com

*Additional cards will be available for purchase.

Devin & Sawyer, very photogenic little boys

Sometimes little ones just "know what they are doing" when it comes to having a camera pointed at them. These two little guys had so many awesomely sincerely beautiful frames from their photo sessions!

Better Late Than Never!!!

So, this is as late as my car payment this month! 

Drumroll please!

Rock the Cradle Winner from Jayme Austin Photography is LIZ with "not being ready for the responsibility of a dog" just the day before they found out they were preggers! LOVE IT! 

Rock the Cradle Winner from Trucks & Tutus Boutique is AMY with the "anatomy lesson". 

We'll be in contact with the winners to help them collect their prizes! 

xoxo

A Family Affair with the Bagwells

Though I have been a photographer for the better part of, well, my life, it was only just over a year ago I started taking newborn portraits. It was the experience with my own children that gave me the confidence that I wouldn't break these babies or somehow traumatize them. I hit the ground running and haven't looked back...until now. The first babies that I photographed days after their arrival just turned 1!! I'm so happy that I got the opportunity to photograph this milestone too! These are just a couple of my favorite shots from Avery's session. In all honesty, as picky as I am, I can't pick just a few favs and I know it has been hard for her parents to decide which prints to get! All I can say is "Thanks, beautiful Avery, for making my job so easy!"

Ruby & Elvis, sibling portrait

Oh, my sweet babies!  This is still about the only way I can get Ruby to take a picture with 'baby brudda'! I've been thinking about taking a photo series to hang in their bedroom and this is my first attmept. Poor Ruby woke up sick, so I thought maybe with her being super sleepy it would be easier to get her to stay asleep while I posed her. She actually WANTED to take pictures while awake today (she saw me bring the camera into their room before nap time), but that only lasted for about 5 minutes.  If I had had an assistant with me I probably could have eeked out a few more minutes! Elvis was super cooperative, as usual, but how could a 4 month old not be? (Today is exactly 4 months for him!) I can't wait to get back to taking pictures of other people's children. . .I'm just more focused on the photography when the little ones aren't mine! I am now accepting appointments for newborn/maternity/sibling sittings! Email me with your inquiries! 

Portraits, Baby Elvis and the Terrible Twos

A few days after her birthday we took Ruby and her "baby brudda", Elvis, to the lakes for their very first photos together.  What went down we had no preparation for!  Ruby went ballistic! Granted, I do usually take a more 'creative' approach when I shoot pics of Ruby (or any other toddler for that matter), but I just wasn't prepared for the torrent of emotion that she let loose. You would have thought that the baby was a carrier of the black plague and Ruby was the only one who knew it.  We tried bribing her with candy, we tried reasoning with her, we even tried bribing her with "you can hold baby brother all by yourself" (we were so desperate), but all we got back from her is "baby brudda is YUCKY" (something we had not heard before or since).  I was completely gobsmacked by all of this.  I have NEVER had a problem with other children, but shooting photos of your own is a whole other beast all together!  Alex had to keep reminding me of that because my confidence as a photographer was really waning.  Poor little Elvis slept through the entire ordeal, so I got a few good ones of him all by his lonesome! Here's hoping that I didn't buy their little coordinating outfits in vain (b/c I have about a years worth of them)!

Ruby's 2nd Birthday!

Ruby's 2nd birthday was last weekend.  Let me tell you, the realization that your baby is growing up is a hard pill to swallow.  I find myself just staring at her in complete disbelief at how BIG she is. Now, she's no bigger than her friends that are her age, but my goodness she seems like a giant compared to her little brother!  I also can't help but let my mind wander to what she'll be like when she's 5, 10 . . . 50!  Are we doing right by her?  Are we raising a wonderful future adult? Argh, parenting is confusing and totally stressful! Though, outweighing the stresses and confusion are the most wonderful things anyone could imagine!

Ruby's party was awesome! All of her best buds were there. . .Owen, the boyfriend; Grady & Brookston, buds forever; Nana Becca, the best aunt ever; Camryn, lil' sis from another mother; not to mention grandparents galore and Mommy & Daddy's friends!  It was an art party with painting, sidewalk chalk, lots of messiness, and cake & CHOCOLATE ice cream to top it all off! 

We are so fortunate to have our amazing 2 year old Ruby!  We love every day with her, but wish it would slow down a bit!