For Drew... so he stops bothering me.

Molls and Mel! Class of 2011

Its 4:46am to be exact! I love my house at this time, my husband's alarm hasn't gone off 50 million times, the baby has sweetly fallen back into a deep sleep, the dogs are asleep and not bugging me to go outside and I can just sit for a minute and stare out my dark windows. Of course, I do get the pleasure of looking across the street at the woman who I am pretty sure never sleeps. She is often awake when I am which is different every night. I am trying to get Jay into a good sleep schedule but its much harder then I thought it would ever be. In the meantime yesterday I got to photograph a session I have been dying to shoot for months! My Molly, I have babysat for her since she was in 2nd grade! Now she is a senior at Ursuline Academy, an excellent soccer player and all around fun girl! She also brought her bestie Mel, who will soon be babysitting little Jay for me! I can't wait! Mel is also super active at Ursuline playing basketball and lacrosse and she was so sweet! I loved spending time with them and their mama's... its amazing to be a mama and watch mama's who have raised their babies so WELL! I love it! With out further ado here are my beautiful girls!

Number 1 Man...

So I decided that I would get a little more personal with my blog and despite my uploading issues I would come back because to be honest I miss it! Now that I have my own little man I want this blog to be a mix of him and my work because all those he is most important, the company is right there behind him. So meet Lil Man! He is 4 1/2 months old and already tearing though my house, he is scooting like crazy and sitting up on his own. Often he makes these CRAZY faces, expressions you would only see on an old man. Yet, here they are on the sweetest most lovable face I have ever seen! He is my holiday baby, he was born on Easter, 3 months on the 4th of July and hits all the fabulous photography milestones as he reaches his own. I plan on tying everything in together here, what I am learning, what I am scratching, what I am thinking and where we eventually hope to be going. I will post questions and hope for responses and comments and I look forward to interacting with all of you as my little web world grows!

Check out our FACEBOOK PAGE!

I am still having major issues uploading images here and business is booming! Catch up with us on our Facebook page which I update daily with new sessions, special offers and new products! We are in the process of a major overhaul of our .com site and it will be amazing when its done! Our goal is to launch that on August 1st! But, in the mean time keep checking back and click the link below to see our Facebook page! Thanks! Kate

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Still having uploading issues!

I am still having terrible uploading issues and its so frustrating! I am going to keep working on it but if you do not see any text it is because I am having issues with that as well. It's so frustrating! Thanks for looking though and feel free to contact me if you have any questions or check us out on facebook!

June & Tim's Engagement

Meet June and Tim! I love them! They are such a great couple and you can totally tell they are madly in love and I am not sure it gets any better than that! There wedding is this October which is perfect for them as they are HUGE baseball fans in fact they met waiting for World Series Tickets just a few years ago! Thank goodness the Cardinals went to the World Series or where would these two be! I am so excited they chose us to photograph their wedding and can not wait for their special day!

Abbie & Brennan

I've watched these two grow since Brennan was just a little bean! They are so much fun, they keep my creativity flowing and they certainly keep me on my toes! I look forward to their session every year!

Love Light Kristi & Andy

Oh man! Am I addicted to these sessions! They are at night and in low lit area's and you receive an all black and white session! They are such a great date night for you and your special person to sneak away for dinner and leave the kids at home!

barton sneak peek

Byas Wedding

June 27th Mini Sessions

Love Light

Book your Love Light session, it is an awesome opportunity to sneak away with your husband/boyfriend/fiance, go to dinner and then meet up with me to do a session! We play around Kirkwood, Kimmswick or Main Street St. Charles and end up with magically photo's that represent the love you and your significant other share!

UGH! I can't upload images!

Please don't think I haven't been busy... I have been slammed! I have been photographing sports teams and girl scout bridging ceremony's and families and children and even doing night shoots! There are so many amazing things happening for me and the company and we are so excited to share them with your visitors! However, blogger or this site has decided to not let me update with photo's! So...please go to our facebook fan page and check out our most recent sessions! Also if you are on facebook please add us as a page you LIKE to keep up with our specials and our sessions! As soon as I can get this back up and working I will update on here! Thanks!

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Life is Busy!

S0... most Mama's take off 6-12 weeks, but not this Mama I have been back to work since James' was 2 weeks old! So much for taking it easy... but its not really in me to be that way! I am going to dropload 3 sessions on here quickly as my time is limited before little man decides to arise again! Enjoy!



This first post is the Byas Wedding - They were awesome! They even let me run around do some of my more crazy ideas and locations! It was so much fun! I am sad they are moving to California but I hope they enjoy the 24/7 summers! Jealous!

One of my girls is almost all grown up...

A few months ago, actually it was awhile ago I photographed the senior pictures for one of my girls! I say she is one of my girls because I have babysat for their family since she was in 4th grade! Now she is graduating high school and I feel like time is passing by me so quickly. I really home James doesn't grow that fast but as I hear they all do! This past Friday night however she let me tag along with her and her friends and photograph them for their prom! It was so much fun!

It's my baby now!

Well, although it may appear as I haven't been working I have! I promise, I swear. But, my little family of two has recently become a family of three! On April 4th at 12:26 we welcomed our little bundle of joy into the world, James Andrew. We could not be more excited. He is absolutely perfect and as sweet as can be! I have been busy photographing him as everyone knew that I would. We had an amazing session in my mother in law's garden and with my father's motorcycle... he slept like a dream and it was everything I could have ever wanted it to be!

Little Miss Sis...

I could babble on and on about my amazing session on Sunday but the picture's say so much more!!! Miss Ava is finally here and I was so excited! She was the best sleepy baby ever and though I worked hard she slept beautifully while I (37 weeks pregnant) ran around! She is gorgeous!

The M Family

Alright, I have a great nephew, not may 26 year old people can say that but I do and I love him! Alot!! This past weekend his mom asked me to shoot her family and of course that included him, we went to the Jewel Box and the Spanish Pavillion because the weather has been so touch and go. It was awesome! I had such an amazing time with them, they said all the funny things I wanted them too and Dad was a really good sport! I can't wait to shoot them again when the weather is nice this fall!

1 Year Already....

Just as I celebrated with Mark and Jody for little Ms L's one month session, I was also able to photograph my god daughter's 1st birthday! Her 1st birthday... where the heck has the last year gone?!?!? I really thought she wouldn't grow as fast as she did but it flew by! Here are just a few of cake eating pictures!! It was so fun! I can't wait for my little man's 1st birthday... I mean I can but I can't!!

Seriously 1 month already....

Oh how fast these babies grow! I can't stand it! It makes me fear my own little one's growth, I look at the little girls I used to babysit for who were 8 and 7 and the time and they are now 18 and 17. They are taking trips to Portugal and planning for college, it is nuts to me. In the mean time I got to hold little Ms. L and love on her again! L's mommy and daddy are very good friends of my family, and her Daddy although he is about 10 years older than I am we grew up together. Its fun to be having babies and little ones at the same time! I am so glad we are having babies together because its giving me an opportunity to catch up with them and we are definitely making it up with Ms L!

Baby to be Ava

Well Ms Ava is not here yet but I did get a chance to hang out with her mommy and daddy! They were such troopers in this cold weather and we had such a good time!

A little behind...

Last weekend my new little friend L came along alot earlier than we had planned she was due to arrive on the 22nd and came on the 7th! I gotta love a girl with her own plans! Jen and I went to their house and photographed the whole family as well as Dad is not only a fireman, but a policeman and an EMT and mom is a police woman! They had so many great props for us to work with it was so fun! L also has a brother named R and he just turned 4 so he could not have been anymore fun to photograph with his new little sister!