Heather Cole Photography

It is tradition that every year I send out Christmas Cards and every year they’ve had my darling Olivia plastered all over them. This was last years card…

This year was super special because it was the first card that had both Olivia and Jillian in it. It turned out better than I expected. I can’t wait to see what each year brings with these two.

The front of the card…

Inside of the card

Happy Holidays from our family to yours!!

The Coles

As you can tell by my lack of blogging we’ve been a bit busy around the Cole household. Miss Jillian Hunter Cole was born on November 16th weighing 7lbs 11 oz and was 19 3/4 inches long. Life as we knew it has changed forever. She has brought so much happiness to our life that we seriously don’t know how we lived without her.

The day before Jillian was born, Olivia pulled off the LAST LINK! She was super excited!!

One last belly shot before I got “suited up”

Me and Proud Daddy to be, my hubby, Jake

12 hours later at 5:21 pm Jillian was born weighing 7lbs 11 oz 19 3/4 inches long

One happy family

Uncle Deano and Aunt Maria

Even Aunt Kelley came out to see Jillian and she took some amazing pictures! Check out her site to see them!

Here is a picture my friend, Josh Solar took of her about a week old. He has more from her first photoshoot (but they aren’t up yet..hint..hint..hee hee) but you can check his site out here.

Here are some pictures I’ve taken of her at the house over the past few weeks.

This is Jillian about 9 days old

hee hee

I love how her face gets all smooshed when she sleeps. SOO CUTE!!

This picture was taken just a few days ago. Almost ONE MONTH OLD! My how time flies. Love you baby girl.

What do you get when you have an awesome family + awesome light + AWESOME LOVE. I’ll tell ya - you get ONE AMMMAAZZZING photoshoot.

Oh Rylee..could you be any cuter.

Avery I could EAT YOU UP!!! She’s all about giving me a pose.

SISTERS!! I picture Olivia and Jillian doing this one day.

My favorite part of family shoots is when I get to shoot just the mom and dad. Love doesn’t expire and just because you aren’t a bride and groom doesn’t mean you don’t need pictures of yourself with the one you love. To me..that love over time gets even stronger. The sparks…they still fly!! Ow ow!!

Yes they bought this to hang over their bed. ME to the freakin OW!! LOOOOVEEE it.

Hollie - it’s a bit ridiculous how beautiful you are. INSIDE and OUT!

I know…I’m smilin too!!!

Thank you Johnny and Hollie for letting me photograph your family. Capturing your love for one another is a true gift.

Love you,

Heather

Halloween this year, ROCKED MY SOCKS OFF!!! First we started off with our annual carving extravaganza!! Neighbors and friends all gathered around for what I feel is like one of the best years ever!! Check em out!!

My friend Melissa offered to carve the one I WANTED to do but didn’t have the patience for.

Liv was pretty proud of her pumpkin…

Even Deano and Maria came for some Halloween fun!!

Maria loved Deano’s pumpkin…see below

Jake got a kick out of it too.

The final product…How cool are they???

Sorry I didn’t have my D3 around when I was photographing the kiddos at night so if you want to see the pictures of Olivia all dressed up you’re going to have to check out my FACEBOOK account with all the other pictures. And if you and I aren’t FACEBOOK FRIENDS..all I can say is…WHY NOT???

Now on to Olivia - and everything else in between…

As everyone knows, I’m due to have our second child in t minus 19 days. Yeah - 19 days. Wow. For some reason, that number has hit me hard today. If I go full term in 19 days I will have a brand new baby girl and our family of three is now going to be a family of four. The excitement I’m feeling can hardly be described.  I dream about the moment where my baby girl, Olivia, sees her sister for the first time and what that means for us. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a little sad that my time with it being just Olivia and I is coming to an end. For six and a half years - it’s just been the three of us and I know that in about 19 days that’s going to change forever. Obviously for the good, but still…our dynamic is going to change. So - yesterday it was my birthday, and I wanted to photograph her one last time before she herself changed from Olivia - to Olivia - Jillian’s big sister. All I have to say is Jillian is one lucky girl because Olivia is going to be the best big sister ever. Wow - to the cool things that are going to be going down….VERY SOON! We’ll keep you posted!!!

Until then - here are some pictures of Olivia that I snagged. My oh my how she has grown in FRONT OF MY EYES!! SPEAKING of eyes…..

Olivia, my love, thank you for blessing my life. You make me want to be a better mom/person each and everyday.

Love you,

Mom

Excuse the HORRIBLE mobile picture of me but I wanted to share a picture of my baby belly. Calling it a bump is a little far fetched at this stage in the game ha ha! Good news, I think this weekend I’m having a professional maternity picture taken (I know..finally) so hopefully I can give you something better to look at very soon.