Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Lights at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens

I wanted to share some images I took while at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. If you have never had the chance to visit the gardens its not only beautiful in the summer but also in the winter as well. The lights were amazing! I highly recommend it!
This a image I did of Zander and Carter (my cousin's little guys). They loved all the lights!
Image of my cousin Courtney and my aunt Pat.
Image of my cousin Jodi and her little guys.

Happy New Year

Last year at New Years we were 3 months pregnant. We imagined how different this year would be at New Years and how life as we knew it would see change.
What a great New Year it was...we enjoyed an evening home and enjoyed the company of some friends. Much to our surprise we all made it to mid-night but of course headed to bed shortly after. The nights of staying up past midnight are something of the past. Crazy what a year can bring and how a child can change life. We are so blessed with little Max and all the joy he has brought into our lives.
New Years day we were able to celebrate with some family that we were not able to see over Christmas. Here are a few images from the day...
Zander and Carter helping Max open his present from them. They were so excited for "baby Max" to open his gift!
Kelly and her cousins
The boys hanging out and goofing off for the camera.
I wanted to post some images of a session I did of Max and his big cousin Callen at Christmas but forgot, so here are a few photos from the session. They are so cute!
I promise, Callen is not trying to eat Max, he was just giving him a smooch!

Monday, January 25, 2010

A Very Merry Christmas indeed


Yes we know it is the end of January and we are finally posting from Christmas. Life just seems to get the best of us. For those of you who follow...we are very sorry for the late postings. However, we are firm believers in: "better late than never"!
What a wonderful December we had. Lots of family get-togethers, which we enjoyed two of them at our home. Kelly is thrilled to finally have a home large enough to have family gatherings. This Christmas was a truly blessed one as we were able to share it with Max. The feelings you get when you live Christmas through a child. Max's first Christmas was very memorable and one we will treasure for a life-time!
Here are a few memories we captured along the way...
Picking out our Christmas tree
The tree after it was decorated. We actually had two trees (Kelly went a little crazy with the decorating) one real and one fake. This is the real one, you will see the fake one in later pictures.
Max meets Santa...he was brave and didn't even fuss, despite the look in the image below.

Kelly kept busy with the studio, Christmas always is prime time for the photography business.
While photographing a session for Kelly's cousin's little guys she was able to capture a few images of Max as well as the boys.
The Tessen Family Christmas at our home

Kyle celebrating his birthday
Grandpa and Grandma Tessen with the grand babies, Callen and Max
Max's first attempt at opening Christmas presents, courtesy of the Mengert Family, thanks guys!
Christmas Morning was wonderful, lots of snow on the ground and a visit by Santa Claus. Here are images from that morning. Max loved the wrapping paper and we were quite amazed how well he did for opening presents, of course dad and mom helped out.
Even Jersey enjoyed her present from Santa
Here is Kelly opening the gift from Kyle, notice the great wrapping job he did on her gift! Believe it or not there were candles inside that duck tape mess!
Despite the crazy weather Christmas day we traveled down to Nekoosa to Kelly's mom's house to celebrate Christmas. This was her parents first Christmas in their new home and we enjoyed the weekend with them.