Jakob was actually three weeks early. This handsome fella was ready to make his appearance into this world. Particularly, while his mommy was at work. I know that it was quite the surprise and experience for her. (No, she didn’t deliver her baby at her job!) His mommy is a former neighbor and friend of mine and I am so happy that I could capture these early moments for her.

Healthy, handsome, sweetly sleeping, Jakob. . . . .

So I’ve got a wicked special promo going on for newborns! As my business is taking a new and exciting turn, photographing newborns will become one of my main specialties of my biz, and I am very much looking forward to the new and wonderful changes! To bulk up more on my newborn portfolio, I am offering the special that you see below. I do have a few newborn portrait session in the books, but I’d like to book at least 5 more before I begin decreasing this special deal. So, please jump on this and contact me if you are expecting, or if you know someone else who is. You may inquire via my site or email me at: libra413@yahoo.com

Thanks!

(Yes – I realize “momma’s” below should have been spelled *mommas*. I am a victim of my keyboard’s mistakes. . .really)

I actually haven’t had many inquiries for newborn sessions. The majority of my work are weddings, families and children and that is what people see when they come to my site.  However, if given more opportunities, I can specialize in newborn sessions just as well, and more often! Over the course of a few years, I have had the privilage of photographing newborns only four times, and what I’d like to say to that is. . .  .we need to change that!  Seriously. Anyone who knows me, KNOWS how much I adore babies. . .and my hands are itchin’ to photograph them all the time. 

If there are any expecting momma’s out there, please swing my way.  Please don’t opt for a quickie cookie-cutter session at one of the chain studios. It doesn’t get more creative, personal and comfortable than of a full custom photoshoot of your newborn. . .with a professional photographer {ME! lol).  Book your newborn’s photo session with me this year before March 1st, 2012, and receive 15% off the session. Visit site for details: www.jenniferbullockphotography.com

I have so many ideas and plans in my head for great newborn-shoots and I can’t wait to apply them.  But I need your baby first.  :)  Pleeease help me get my baby fix? I promise you’ll love and cherish your wonderful, fine art portraits of your beautiful new bundle.

BTW – I haven’t photo’d a baby girl yet. Who’s going to be my first?

melting his momma’s heart.

One-third of the proceeds from every tutu sold is donated to the Children’s Hospital Boston:

“Maeley, and our family’s entire experience at Children’s Hospital Boston has become the inspiration for Tutu Pour Mon Deux.  So deeply indebted to Dr. Sitaram Emani and the surgical team at the hospital, we wanted to create a business that would bring smiles to little girls’ faces and at the same time, raise awareness about congenital heart disease.   If any place can make that happen, it’s Children’s Hospital Boston. I hope you will consider supporting our fundraising effort and the kids at Children’s.”

When you make a Tutu Pour Mon Deux purchase, you are *custom* designing and ordering a fun and stylish tutu shirt, putting a smile on a little girls face, donating to the Children’s Hospital Boston and raising awareness about Congenital Heart Disease. How awesome and amazing is that?!! If you don’t have a little girl yourself, the tutu’s also make wonderful gifts for other little girls.

I sincerely hope that you will stop by Erika’s website and take a look.

BTW – Tutu Pour Mon Deux has made local and national press! You can also check it out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jennifer-Bullock-Photography/66734007950#!/Tutupourmondeux

This mini photoshoot will need to take place this year before June 1st.

To enter the Mini Photoshoot Giveaway: You will first need to ”like” my business page on Facebook and invite all of your friends to “like” the page, too, so that we can reach 1,000 “likes” (we’re only 22 “likes” away!).  Once we reach 1,000 likes, those who participate will be eligible to enter the Giveaway and there will be one lucky winner. Or. . . . .if we can reach 1,500 likes, then perhaps I should give away TWO free mini photoshoots!

Here is the link to the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jennifer-Bullock-Photography/66734007950

**Important** How to enter:

1. Share the link to my page on your wall (or where ever else you are sharing it) inviting everyone to “like” this page.

2. Either allow me to see on your wall (or blog, twitter, etc) that you’ve shared the link, or – post a pic on my page’s wall showing that you have done so.

I will keep a record of those who participate, which will be the one’s who are eligible to enter for the drawing.

I sure hope that you will participate! It’s actually a pretty awesome giveaway! See you there? xox

OH — Look. Some cute little boy looks pretty excited about the Giveaway!

Whoa. Rewind!

(forgive me – this blog post is WAY too long!)

Seven years and almost two months ago, I gave birth to my second child - the most beautiful, amazing and scrumptious baby boy I had ever seen! The most AMAZING love at first sight (as with our daughter) and overwhelmed with incredible joy.

The not so joyful part?

 LABOR!

You could say that while I was in labor with my almost born son, I knew that my body could never physically experience such misery again and that the best solution was to have my husband get fixed. Yep. Vasectomy FIXED. I wasn’t going to give him a choice. It just HAD to be done (because, it IS easier for the guy to get fixed than it is for the woman). I really wanted a permanent solution that would prevent my poor (like seriously very, very poor from an accident many years ago) body. They say that pregnancy and labor gets easier with the next, but in my case – it was the opposite.  It was awful. So, so awful.  Including a few “minor” complications – but just plain AWFUL.  You know what else “they” say?  ”They”, also say that you forget about all of that pain.  And you wanna know what I have to say to that?

BWUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Just thinking about the pain I went through during my second labor makes me hurt again and wanna cry like a baby. Besides, I now have one perfect little girl and one perfect little boy, and TWO is the “PERFECT” number of children. . . .so there is NO need to have another baby. Everything is now so perfectly perfect, so let’s just please get the hubster fixed and move on! And by the way — it did have to take some convincing to get him on board with this. It’s not like he was feeling giddy over the thought of a stranger snipping away at his manhood. BUT, he loves me and knew that the pain of my second labor was unbearable, and that two healthy beautiful children is enough. So almost one year after our son was born, he agreed he do it.  And he did.

Fast forward a few years later. . . . .

I start craving babies.  A BIG baby appetite.  It must just be a phase, though.  Because I “know” I wouldn’t ever ACTUALLY want a third baby. Plus, we permanently made that impossible.  So, I’ll just babysit other people’s babies, photograph babies, oooh and ahhh at babies in the stores.  It’s simply just a phase and admiring other people’s babies, instead, will totally make do. Right?

Uh – No.

I think I went through this “phase” for about a year before I realized that this feeling isn’t just a phase — it is an actual desire. A genuinely true, deep, all that my heart could feel and all that my mind could think about, desire.  But how do I actually express this to my husband? It was *I* who practically begged him to get the vasectomy. It was MY idea. It was *I* who initially said that two children is more than enough. I am the one who convinced my husband that our family of four is just perfect and there is no reason to change that.  Because of ME, he had that vasectomy done. SO, how on earth could I even begin to express this deep desire I have to him?  And then what? Actually ask that he gets his vasectomy reversed???  Wait.  WHOA.  Hold on.  It’s almost as if I have no right to even say anything to him about this. Like, how dare I.  Shame on me. I’m feeling so ashamed. Shame, shame, shame! Well, OK. I got over all that and told him anyway. After expressing this baby desire to him, I then finally {sweetly} asked that he get it reversed. Of course, this did not go over well with him. Not only because of the obvious less than exciting procedure he’d have to go through {again}, but we’re also talking about $$$$$! Insurance doesn’t cover the reversal procedure and Dr.’s around here charge a disturbing amount of arms and legs for it.  I am feeling so bummed now.

To speed up what is already too long here, over the course of another year – I did a lot of internet research for Dr.’s around the country, a lot of asking around, and A TON of BEGGING to my husband to agree to having the vasectomy reversal.  After someone on Facebook told me about a super reputable and semi-affordable Dr. in New Jersey, and after a lot of cries and frustrating moments during the times of begging the hubster. . . . .he *finally* agreed to having the procedure done. It wasn’t that he was against the idea of having another child (because he really isn’t and never was), but that the biggest concern was having to dish out a bunch of $$$$ to reverse a procedure that *I* begged to him have in the first place.  And, again. . .he’s not too thrilled with having his “goods” under the knife again. Who could blame him?

 After a couple of years of badly wanting another baby again and begging my husband to agree to have the reversal, I am happy to finally say that we (he) is scheduled for this super stellar procedure in May this year. This is a HUGE deal! It took so long it seemed to make this first step towards *hopefully* expanding our family again! Which brings me to *one* of the reasons why. . . . .

I am taking some time off again this year from photographing weddings. In big hopes that we’ll be expecting late this year or sometime next year, I want to be sure I can focus on the pregnancy without being tied down with weddings. It’s just too much. But then I realized (after we scheduled this reversal appt. for May just a week ago), that I can still do weddings up until June, because obviously I’m not pregnant *yet*. Duh! lol. (I already announced I couldn’t accept anymore weddings this year).  Sooo. . . .if there are any “last-minuters” getting married before the end of June, I can still handle your wedding! The majority of my wedding inquiries were for the end of summer and fall, however, and I could not accept those weddings – as I am hoping I will be preggers around that time. I accepted just one wedding in the fall, which is about all I could handle around that time of year, *IF* I am preggers. . . .alongside another challenge I am dealing with. . .which I will talk about in another blog post.  Soon, the reasons will be more evident for why I have slowed down this past year (2011), and for this new year as well. 

Back to the start of this post. . . .my dearest, wonderful husband is getting the reversal done for the same reason he had the vasectomy done in the first place: Because he loves me. He loves me to pieces and is just so amazing.  I really don’t think there is anything he hasn’t done for me yet. I’m a super, duper lucky woman to have HIM for my husband, and our children are beyond blessed to have HIM as their father. I really do not know what we’d do without him. Because of him, we are SO blessed.

And because a photographer’s blog is always best with a photo (even if it’s a cell phone pic), this is how I got the very first ‘OK’ from the hubby that the reversal procedure will be a sure thing:

 (Yes, I still have typos, even when I’m actually writing. And in defense for our awful handwriting, this was written (and signed) in the palm of our hands)

If you’re looking for a fun, creative, personalized and relaxed photoshoot indoors (or even outside for some wintery fun, of course!) – I’d love to hear from you!

Accepting appointments now for January and beyond.

Come take a peek and meet their newest little bundle!

To peek at their first adorable session back in 2009 (and see how much my work has changed since then, lol), you can view it here: http://jenniferbullockphotography.com/Blog/?p=132

C + M – Thanks so much again! As usual, it was a pleasure to capture moments of your family and I am so happy for your new family of four! <3

I had been wanting to do something like this for a few months now, and my vision for this session was to create imagery with a little vintage + a bit of country chic – with an apple and love theme. Of course, this had to take place in an apple orchard. Since this was my first “stylized” photo session, I wanted to create this with a budget mind - putting together some things myself and purchasing  inexpensive items from local stores. I had this adorable apple station in mind, among a few other things for this session. The apple station couldn’t fit the apple pie that we had, but we worked that pie later into the session.   A couple of the shots that I put together were inspired from images I had seen on Pinterest and I kind of spun them into my own lil creations (I LOVE Pinterest!).  I really need to credit Michelle, though, for the outfits. I gave her an idea of what I had in mind for clothing (think “The Notebook”) and she went out and found just that! We exchanged emails with clothing samples and I was very excited to see what she was finding. And, she had her hair and make up done! Throw in a “paper boy” outfit for her good lookin’ other half and we have a styled photoshoot in the making!  There were a few ideas and props I had in mind that we didn’t have time for, but I still think it came together pretty well. One last thing — Michelle and Dan were total troopers. It was crazy buggy out with the nasty mosquitos as the sun went down — holding poses while billions of skeeters were feeding off of us. . . .all for the love of a great shot! They were amazing and super fun to work with!  Thank you, Michelle and Dan!

Here is a prevew:

(And, yes – I made these adorable cupcakes myself. I sometimes rock in the kitchen, too.)

Many thanks to Aktins Farms Country Market { http://www.atkinsfarms.com/ } in Amherst, MA, for allowing us to use their orchards for our photo session.  THANK YOU!