One of my guilty pleasures after my daughter and husband go to bed is to stay up late at night reading blogs. I have several that I follow and read religiously and then others that I just stumble upon when clicking around.

Last night I found this blog called Four Generations One Roof. Holy cow. I can’t even imagine having that many people in one house!

I stumbled upon this site looking for wall gallery ideas.  This is probably the single biggest question I get from clients as they struggle with ways to hang up artwork in their home. Her blog post has 10 cool ideas to help inspire you! Click on the picture below to check out the ideas and her blog. I really love the idea of framing all of the kids art!

I LOVE Pinterest. It is another guilty pleasure.

I am working on adding to my Pinterest Board for Wall Galleries. I have been adding Kid’s Gallery Ideas to hang up the artwork that your kids create. With the school year wrapping up, they are all coming home with a year’s worth of creations!
Top on my list for Summer Projects is creating a display wall for Eryn’s Art.

If you aren’t already following the board … go check it out! —> Jeanine’s Wall Gallery Pinterest Board

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There a million aspects of owning a studio that I love. One of those million reasons is watching children grow right in front of my lens! The years go by so fast and I feel the speed of which time flies every time I photograph a One Year Birthday Session. This week I had 3 First Birthday Sessions. 3 children who I once held in my arms to try and get to fall asleep for their newborn portraits. 3 children whose parents have allowed me to be apart of their family while enjoying this journey with them. And 3 children who are now on the verge of walking and will be full blown toddlers in a few months.

I am addicted to what I do and I am addicted to these kids! The 80+ hours I spend working is all worth it when I see these smiles on both the children during their session and the parents when they see the final product!

Enjoy a few Then and Nows!

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What better way to spend the “Dog”- Days of Summer then by photographing dogs! This summer we will be featuring YAPPY HOURS! These are days set aside in the studio to photograph all of the “4 legged” children in your family.

These puppy portraits will be 15 minute mini-sessions of your dog that come with 2-5×7 prints and a key chain of your favorite image! We will have other fun products you can order from the sessions as well.

Here’s the best part … not only will you receive fun and amazing portraits of your best friend, but we will also be donating 15% of all sales to the Pasco Humane Society

Don’t get stuck with your tail between your legs …. Call the studio today at 813-994-4552 to get your appointment on our calendar!

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We are celebrating Mother’s Day in many ways at Cloud 9 Studios! One way is with our Mommy and Me Mini Sessions.

These Mommy and Me mini sessions feature a NEW product at the studio – The “I Love You” Mini Movie!!

If you are a husband and want to surprise your wife on Mother’s Day … call the studio today and we can make you a gift certificate to give her! Then she can call and book her session

View our special offer and sample of the Mini Movie below! How can you resist?

Mother’s Day Portraits from Jeanine McLeod on Vimeo.

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When is the last time you updated your professional portrait? For many of you I am sure the answer is (ummm I can’t remember the last time I had that done!). If you are a business professional in this day and age of social media, it is imperative that you stay current with your look! Don’t be embarrassed when you meet a client and they say to you “wow, you look nothing like your profile picture”. The worst thing you can do is take your own picture with your camera phone and use that as a representation of who you are. You want your clients to hire a professional, you should hire one too. Let us create a professional image for you that will impress your clients and those who you want to be your clients.

This week only, we are running a Professional Portrait Promotion.

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Mother’s Day! This of course is one of my favorite holidays of the year. Not only because I am a mom, but because I love to spend the day with my mother and celebrate the amazing relationship we have! I truly did not realize everything she sacrificed for me, all that she did for me and how much her world revolved around me until I too became a mother. Now I know and now I understand.

We are celebrating Mother’s Day in many ways at Cloud 9 Studios! One way is with our Mommy and Me Mini Sessions.

These Mommy and Me mini sessions feature a NEW product at the studio – The “I Love You” Mini Movie!!

View our special offer and sample of the Mini Movie below! How can you resist?

The best part of this session is we will have mom leave the room when we shoot the video. This way we will get genuine responses from the kids and when you receive the finished movie, it will truly be surprise!

Call the studio now at 813-994-4552. Have your credit card ready to reserve your session and start envisioning how amazing your Mini Movie will be to hold on to for a lifetime.

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One of my new projects for the website is a page featuring love notes and stories from clients. Many of my clients (especially the littlest ones) are at the studio 4 or 5 times throughout the year. That means I get to know a lot about the family! Some of the stories that are shared with me are priceless and I am going to start having the families share these stories with you guys who read the website! If you have a story you want to share and have it featured on the new page of my website along with some images of your child/family … send me an email at jeanine@photosoncloud9.com … If you just want to share a “Love Note” (why you loved your portraits) with us … that is fabulous as well!!

In the spirit of launching this page, I thought I would share a series of images from one of our Baby Steps graduates. Lincoln finished our baby plan in the fall and has since joined our Small Wonders kids club! He has been so fun to watch grow and change. He is a very typical little boy … very easy to photograph for his first year … and then …. he learned how to walk. Well actually he learned how to RUN! To be more specific … learned how to run away from me! Now our sessions are an aerobic exercise for me and his parents! I keep promising them he will out grow this soon Luckily I am very quick with my shutter release and we still get adorable memories of our little speedster

I loved the Baby Plan, especially being a new mom with a post-pregnancy brain that was so wrapped up in everything that I often forgot to take pictures on my own. With the baby plan I got to capture my son’s first year of life. The first year goes by in a flash and I think it’s so important to have those memories preserved so you can look at them for years to come! – Jennifer (Lincoln’s mom)

Here are the milestone images from Lincoln’s first year.

3 Months

6 Months

9 Months

1 Year

A few months later they came for a family portrait …

Family Portrait

And of course … all of our kids (even those that run a lot) sit for a few duck portraits!

Lincoln's Ducks!

I look forward to getting your emails with fun stories and letters I can start to build my new webpage with!

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Recently due to some serious back issues I have been having I met with and am begining a training routine with Daniel from Impact Fitness. We chatted about how common it is for moms to neglect our health because we are so busy taking care of everyone else. In reality …. If we don’t take care of ourselves, it is our family that suffers. I asked Daniel to “preach” a little for me in today’s guest blog post….. Take it away Daniel ….
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It is extremely important for individuals in our society to exercise. The first step is to be mentally ready and not to be overwhelmed. Many mothers have so many activities going on with their children. However, you must find time to exercise. It is important that we start slow during the first couple of workouts and gradually work your way up. It is so also important that mothers understand after having a baby that the weight will not come off immediately. You must have Patience because it took 9 months to gain the weight but it may take 10 months to get it back off.

Strength training is extremely important to help tone up the skin and extra body fat. Research shows that training your neck and head can help eliminate wrinkles to make you look younger. We will make sure we strengthen your abdominal area and your lower back. Many mothers fail to understand how important it is to do strength training. It helps you burn fat and helps increase your energy levels. We also want to make sure we are strengthening small muscle groups to protect the larger muscle groups. After pregnancy abdominal and back areas become very weak. During the off days of strength training, it is important that you do some power walking and core exercises. This can be pushing your child in their stroller or any exercise that will increase your heart rate up and breathing.
 
Strength training, healthy eating habits and incorporating extra cardio exercises will help you gain energy, confidence and that desired look you have always wanted. I would to offer all moms at Cloud 9 to please come try a free training session with me and I will make sure that you get the results you are looking for. Remember, patience and being mentally ready will help you reach your goals.
 
Daniel Peterson
Impact Fitness
573-220-7311
danielpeterson1987@gmail.co
 
 

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First up is Zachary. Love this little guy …. each session is a new adventure as he is full of energy and you never know what he is going to do! He has however, ALWAYS loved my ducks.

2010 Duck Portraits

2011 Duck Portraits

2012 Duck Portraits

2013 Duck Portraits

And it wouldn’t be fair not to show Eryn over the past 5 years!

2009 Duck Portraits

2010 Duck Portraits

2011 Duck Portraits

2012 Duck Portraits

2013 Duck Portraits

Sigh … where does the time go? I am trying not to cry as I post this one!

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First up … Troy! He and Eryn are only 2 weeks apart. Crazy how time flies. I first met his mother in our maternity yoga class! So technically, Eryn and Troy have known each other since before they were born! HAHA

2009 Duck Portraits

Troy skipped 2010 … that’s ok. We will forgive him since he has been every year since

2011 Duck Portraits

2012 Duck Portraits

2013 Duck Portraits

Then we have Lily and her little sister Ruby! They loved the ducks so much that one year they had moved out of town and still flew back in for duck portraits!

2010 Duck Portraits

What you don’t see in the 2011 portrait is that dad was cut out of the picture and this was the ONLY smile we got in 30 minutes. HAHA … Except for my hard drive … there is no evidence that Lily didn’t LOVE the ducks that year. It does make a great story to tell though

2011 Duck Portraits

2012 Duck Portraits

2013 Duck Portraits

Tomorrow we will post some more! Isn’t this fun I hope you guys are enjoying this trip down memory lane as much as I am enjoying creating the blog posts!

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