Happy Valentine's Day

2.13.12: Before and After

Happy Birthday Sweet Babies! You are such joy! One year in a whisper....

Mommy's Little Carnies

Let the One Year Festivities begin! A little carnival-styled shoot in Austin to celebrate the soon-to-be birthday boys!

Namesakes

We wanted to honor our fathers and commemorate that the boys are proud to bear their grandfathers' names as their middle names.  We gave each grandfather a copy of this photograph and the tie that his namesake was wearing in the picture. We love you Big Daddy and Grandpap!

Imagination

Train

We took a little train ride with Shepherd and Sawyer in the Fall, and we wanted to document the fun day! choo choo!

Train from Courtney Sprague on Vimeo.

Up and Up

We hope your holiday season was wonderful and spent with those you love the most. Much love! The Spragues

My Sweet Babies

Sometimes something in life is so overwhelmingly beautiful--so awe-inspiring--that trying to capture the spirit and feeling of it with words is just too impossible. Blogging about the miracle of the two precious lives that have joined our family has seemed a little like trying to funnel a roaring waterfall of emotion through the eye of a needle. So, I'll just simply announce that my sweet, precious boys made their grand entrance on February 13 (at 38 weeks, thank you very much). [Given the space of time that has passed since my last post, I was hoping it didn't appear that I had a pregnancy with a duration that rivals that of elephants....though I could have given an elephant a run for her money on pure poundage, there at the end. :)] Shepherd Max and Sawyer George are pure light and love. I am just so, so thankful.

Rest assured that these guys are in a constant state of being documented by their crazy mother. (Last count was six thousand plus pictures at six months....someone help me. and them.) I just find myself wanting to remember every single detail. I realize how fleeting this sweet season of babyhood will be, and (to borrow a phrase from the ever-poetic Mr. Tyler) I don't want to miss a thing. Shepherd's crooked grin that breaks across his face when he makes eye contact with someone he loves. Sawyer's sweet, gentle singing voice. (I can hear him singing in his sleep right now, in fact. melting!) Shepherd's four (FOUR!) arm fat rolls. Sawyer's hipster hair do. Their crazy-weird Noah's ark toy that sometimes randomly plays Christmas music. (?) I love it all so much. so much. Again, we are just overwhelmed with gratitude and thank God for the undeserved blessing of getting to parent these two little men.

Here's a little video of the boys at play. (I use the word "little" loosely. At 7 minutes, it's definitely the extended, director's cut version. We knew our parents would be willing to watch hours, so there it is.) ;)


Play Day from Courtney Sprague on Vimeo.

Joel Jeffrey: Austin Newborn Photography

Hello blog! How I've missed thee. Please don't be offended by my absence...lots of big things going on in the Sprague household. But, the blog is back with a bang: sweet baby Joel! Love this little man.

I was so excited to be able to shoot sweet Joel's first official photographs! He is such a precious baby and a true blessing! These were taken on Joel's 9 day birthday. For those of you who'd like to schedule newborn photos, just wanted to mention that it's best to schedule those to be taken when your sweet baby is 10 days or younger (when they're at their sleepiest, very bendy, and before any baby blemishes set in).