Oh I haven’t been here for a while!

I am not abandoning this blog- definitely NOT! But the last few months of pregnancy demanded a lot of planning and attention that I simply had to pick between a photography blog and a pregnancy blog. Obviously the latter won!

But once we have our new baby and our new routine and I figure it all out, I’ll be right back here hosting Selfie Saturdays and posting adorable photos of Lexi and me and hubby and friends and everything that is going on. This will not be a blog about my life, though. You can read about my life on The Art of Making a Baby. This will be a blog dedicated to beauty and magic and light and photography and creativity. This won’t be a blog of day-to-day photography, but of special moments.

So the reason why I am posting here right now ( besides to give you an update for why I am missing from Selfie Magic) is because I finally took a few self-portraits worth of being displayed on this blog: Our Christmas Photos.

As most of you know, sometimes self-portraits are all about HIT-OR-MISS. This was definitely starting out as a MISS. Both of us weren’t in the mood, we were loosing light, business calls kept coming in in the middle of the shoot. BUT we did pick an amazing location, we managed to look acceptable and somewhat Christmasy and were in the kind of state of mind where we couldn’t care less about anything- it just needed to be done.

The cards went out right on time and this was officially our first Christmas card as the three of us. It was even more special to send out these cards to my friends in Europe and family in Russia.

So here are the photos themselves, all taken with a tripod and a remote, using my 50mm.

{I’m 34 weeks pregnant in these}

This is why I love knowing how to take self-portraits- being able to take family photos without hiring a photog or hassling a friend.