Princess in Training // Stavanger Children Photographer

I had this lovely canadian family in the studio the other day. This little girl was full of life, attitude and just the right amount of sass. 

In between the family pictures we snapped a couple of shots of the princess only. This is my favourite one. I love the candid, in-between moments. 

Happy easter everyone! 

Paternity Leave // Stavanger Photographer

I feel ridiculously lonely without my family. 

They are in Korea enjoying bulgogi, cheap beer and cherry blossoms.  

I feel so lucky that my husband has such a great relationship with my parents and my daughter that he can go over there all on his own. 

My husband had hardly ever held a baby before the birth of our daughter. Ironically he was the first to hold her and spend time with her during the first hours of her life.  

The midwives were working on me to try stop the bleeding for hours and although I was pretty out of it I could swear he hardly moved a muscle the whole time in fear of dropping her. 

Fast forward to this year January he suddenly got in charge of her primary care. I started back at work full time whilst he started his paternity leave. 

It has been really amazing to see how much they have bonded in these months that they have spent together. She has become a proper daddy´s girl and I love to see them together. 

Wouldn´t you? 

Det nærmer seg jul

Juletreet er pyntet og pakkene pakket og fint plassert under juletreet. Det er siste søndag i advent og alle lysene er tent.

Jeg sitter her alene og stirrer på herligheten og tenker at jeg er jammen heldig. Heldig som har så mye; et koselig lite hus, en sjønn hund og en herlig familie.

I morgen etter jobb drar jeg ned til Vigrestad for å feire jul sammen med mor og far, besteforeldre, søsken og søskenbarn. Det er den lille prinsessen sin første jul og det skal bli så kjekt!

Rosa sprudlende vin er innkjøpt og jeg er så klar for en avslappende feiring sammen med min fantastiske familie!

Før prinsessen og mannen min tok avgårde sørover i kveld så måtte jeg få et bilde av henne, treet og alle gavene :)

Bellas first tummy turn

It was our national day celebrations and we were home just for a little while between parades. Little Chloe Isabella was laying playing on her baby gym when I suddenly hear a shriek of joy. I turn around and what do I see?? My baby is no longer laying on her back where I left her, but now to her joy she was actually on her stomach. It may have been a fluke, but she was at least very pleased with herself. Just look at that facial expression :P

By the way the dress and the little jumper was mine when I was little. How precious :)

Turn your dreams into plans!

I am in many ways an untraditional person. I do not like the saying you can't have your cake and eat it too. Seriously whats the purpose of cake if you cant eat it? Thats just torture!! I believe in designing your life in accordance with your dreams and wants. All it needs is a little bit of planning. I foresee that it will be a challenge continuing to run my photography business, my full time job and being a good and present mommy. But that's all it is, - a challenge. My first priority is my little girl, - whats best for her and my husband is the most important. Then secondly, my work and hobbies.  I don't want to give up neither my job or my business so I will need to be smart and in order to manage it all. Planning is the key! I have decided that I will have 2 set days that I photograph each week, wednesdays and sundays - and an occasional saturday if I decide to switch it with the sunday. IN that way the family has predictability, my customers know when I am available and I believe it will work !!!

I love this quote, by Kobi Yamada, found in this amazing book sold here (I really want this one - hint hint - if you wanna buy me a pressie :P ) 

 

Dåp i Varden kirke!

Dåpen har alltid vært viktig i min familie, men det var ikke det letteste å organisere for Chloe Isabella da halve familien er i australia og mine foreldre i Korea og en bror offshore. Heldigvis ordnet det seg slik at far skulle på et møte og vi klarte i hui og hast å organisere barnedåp 10 februar. Siden vi hører til St Johannes kirke kontaktet vi dem men det viste seg at på grunn av vinterferie skulle denne ukens gudstjeneste holdes i Varden kirke. Det var en kirke vi aldri hadde vært i (og noen av gjestene faktisk ikke klarte å finne frem til) men presten Atle Moe gjorde en kjempe jobb og det var en kjekk dåp! 

 

Etterpå bar det til studio øst for mat og masse kaker! Jeg kan fortelle deg at vi har kaker i lange baner igjen her i heimen :)

Little Chloe Isabella...

Everyone is telling me that she seems to be changing everyday, but for someone who sees her all the time this is not very noticeable. 

I am planning on doing a proper shoot in the studio but she is often very awake AND very suspicious of what I am doing when I drag out the camera but today whilst we were waiting for the midwife coming for a homevisit I managed to snap up these shots. 

The little cap was a lovely gift from my friend Theresias mom! She is sooo cute, - she has not even met me but still took all the effort and knitted this lovely cap and some socks and has even sent some other pressies! So sweet!!! Thank you so much Edelgard Pauls! 

danke schön!!!!

And this little duck is hanging on the crib that both me and my brothers used as children :) I feel so fortunate to be able to continue the tradition :) 

Album Inspirasjon

Sitter her å ser på ulike album design på nettet og blir kjempe inspirert.

Problemet er som alltid tid til å sette seg ned å lage slike templates men åååh jeg vil!

Det er flotte eksempler på baby album, bryllupsalbum, familie fotograferingsalbum - ååh tenk så koselig å hatt ett album hvert år mens ud vokste opp sammen med familien???

se her, noen eksempler:

Endelig hjemme igjen!

I går kom min lille, lillebror hjem fra to måneder i Afghanistan. Det er litt rart at denne broren min endte opp som en som jobber i hæren rettelse - Forsvaret / luftforsvaret, da han var aldri en til å være noe særlig interessert i lekekriging eller andre gutteting som barn. Han var en liten tekno wizz, det var det han var.

Men tilbake til poenget. To måneder gikk kjapt for meg,  - på en måte, - for jeg prøvde mest mulig å ikke tenke på hvor han var hen. Klart han var ikke i felten sånn sett, men det er jo like vel en liten risk.

Så det var godt å få han heim. Og det var nok et ganske stort temperatur drop for han, - reiste i fra 40 grader til tja 2?

Det var jo selvfølgelig kjekt for oss å se han men det var nok aller kjekkest for hans kone at hennes kjæreste mann kom hjem...

Og Coco og Geremy ble jo og med på turen. 

Her har CoCo tatt seg en liten tur ut i sjøen for å ha seg en slurk sjøvann (heldigvis har jeg ikke bilder av når hun spydde i bilen :O ) 

 sparkles! 

Og så skulle jeg prøve å ta noen fine bilder av det forelskede paret men jeg må innrømme at mine fingre var så kalde at jeg kunne ikke skru kameraet på noe annet enn grønn! Den der vinnfaktoren gjorde at jeg hadde svømmehud og lyseblå fingre!