Megan Squires Photography » Sacramento Area Children Photographer, Roseville Family Photographer, Rocklin Portrait Photography, Orangevale Maternity Photography, Folsom Infant Photographer

How many new moms can say that they took a mentoring session and brought their own 9-day old baby to model for it? I’m always so impressed when clients are able to come to my studio during those first few days of their little one’s life, let alone drive all the way from Berkley and shoot right alongside me all day long! Elicia is a rockstar and we had a wonderful time photographing her little bundle of joy. 

As I sit down and look back at this past year I feel so incredibly blessed. The tiny little ones that I got to meet, all of the beautiful families and amazing people I now call friends–I pinch myself everyday knowing that I get to do something I love for a living. Last year I wrote a little poem that described what photography means to me and I thought I’d share it again this year for those who might not have seen it.

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‘Twas the Night Before Christmas
A Photographer’s Story 

‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a computer was plugged in, not even the mouse.
The orders were packaged and ready for mail, everything was processed–including that last final sale.
All sneak-peeks were posted and galleries shown, all prints and CD’s were on their way home.

A glass of wine in my hand and slippers on my feet, I had just settled down for an evening treat.
A night without levels and curves and raw files, no sessions to edit, no cloning in smiles.
My work was all done, all sessions completed. And now in front of the TV I was seated.

What show should I watch? What shall I do? It took me a moment and just then I knew.
Up from the couch I flew like a flash, and into the office I ran with a dash.
Onto the chair I landed with a flop, opened up that folder on my computer’s desktop.

Just one more image, just one more edit. I had to do it, I wouldn’t regret it.
“What are you doing? I thought you were done?” called my husband, wondering why I had run.
“I’ll be there in a minute, I have one thing to do,” as I opened up Photoshop I guessed that he knew.

A photographer’s work is never completed as was made evident by where I was seated.
The desire to design and drive to create is something that is every photographer’s trait.
So even though my “work” may be done, I’ll continue to snap and to edit for fun.

So here’s one more image for 2011, though I’m sure there will be more between now and then.
Because I love what I do and I’m blessed beyond measure, here’s my newest niece, such a sweet little treasure.
Merry Christmas from the Squires, it’s been a great year. Thank you to everyone who helped get me here.

Wishing everyone a blessed Christmas as we celebrate our Savior’s birth!

It was like on a television show when someone at the table literally drops their fork on their plate and looks up,

completely stunned at what’s just been said.

And at that moment I realized that he was more than just an extension of me.

He was more than just my six year old son.

He was his own individual person.

He was Jacob.

And I was his completely and utterly embarrassing mom.

When Jacob had told me a few weeks back about a little girl in his class (a second grader, at that) and how she was shorter than he was, had long hair, and that he “tried to talk to her, but she never noticed” him, it didn’t dawn on me that he was confiding in me. I thought he was just telling me about a little crush. So when I announced over dinner a couple of week’s later that I had talked to her mom on the field trip and she said how cute he was and that it was adorable that he liked her daughter, his reaction stunned me. His look of complete betrayal shocked me. And his statement, “I should have never told you that” absolutely broke my heart.

And at that moment I became the uncool, clueless, and embarrassing parent.

I’m sure I have many more years to wear this title. I know all the new parents who come through my studio hear it so much already, but I always make a point to tell them not to wish any stage away. The sleep deprivation. The endless feedings. The mounds of laundry. While it seems like an eternity while you’re in it, I promise it is so incredibly fleeting.

And apparently the window of “coolness” as a parent is also much more fleeting that I originally thought. Enjoy it while it lasts.

It’s not every day that you get to watch someone fall in love.

I’m blessed–I get to witness it every time I photograph a brand new baby. Nothing sweeter than a new parent’s love.

And this little gal’s mom and dad were overflowing with it. Easy to see why, isn’t it?