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river jeshua, 7 day old baby boy

Cori Derksen — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:07:01 +0000

This little boy is a special one. He belongs to my cousin. He was only eight days old when my sweet cousin drove up to Fresno from Orange County. Yes, I said that right, they drove from Orange County to Fresno (that’s a four and a half hour drive by the way) with an 8 day old baby. That’s dedication. Oh, did I mention that this was their fourth child? Oh yes, and they brought the other three little ones with them on their road trip for photos. Really, how amazing are they? I know. Seriously. Angie, it was so wonderful to see you. I’m impressed with you, as a mama and as a woman of God. Loved seeing you and loved catching up. Okay and your little boy, River, is super sweet too. :)

family photos and fabulous evening light

Cori Derksen — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:37:13 +0000

A family …at the end of their day… being together…
In some end of the summer evening light. Awww…

baby boy wyatt, 7 days old

Cori Derksen — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:18:15 +0000

World, meet Wyatt. He’s a precious little soul.

gorgeous baby lila, 7 days old

Cori Derksen — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:00:52 +0000

This is gorgeous little baby Lila. Isn’t she a beautiful, fresh new baby? Love her dark new hair, her perfect baby skin, her gorgeous lipstick lips. Love it.

end of the summer sun

Cori Derksen — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:02:25 +0000

Goodbye summer. Goodbye slow evenings with late night sunsets. Welcome September. Welcome Fall and pumpkins and family photo shoots. I’m excited to get creative with my family photo shoots this Fall. Here’s a sneak peek from my family shoot this week. More soon…

little boy luke, 6 months old

Cori Derksen — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 03:49:28 +0000

This is Luke. He’s awesome. He’s happy. He’s sweet. He’s chunky. He’s a blessing. Love everything about his little simple self.

Do you have a baby or little ones? Well, for you mamas out there…. do you remember those times that your baby was so very happy that when he or she smiled, it wasn’t even a smile, it was just a big open mouth? Sometimes so big that his tongue got in the way? Sometimes so big that he’d lose his balance and fall backward because he was smiling so big and for some reason when they smile big, they smile up? Right? :) Well, here are some of those smiles. Like I said…. Luke is Awesome, with a capital A. :)

friday faves…

Cori Derksen — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:06:31 +0000

Friday… what a week…we started kindergarten for the first time. Here are my favorites from this week:

Seeing my little Kyle and his excitement for his first day of kindergarten… awesome!
Making yummy chocolate peanut butter cookies with my little boys. Deeelish!
Eating the dough from the chocolate peanut butter cookies. Mmm, mmm (the dough’s the best part you know)
My husband. He’s an amazing, awesome man. I am so grateful to be attached to him.

Not so faves (I know, should be positive, but really…)

Getting up and getting my kids out of the house for school, every day. Really? It just keeps going every day? Really? Even if my kids are tired. Hmmm…. this is new.
The super duper heat. Not a fan.

My favorite images from this week:

I found this one when I was editing the twins I photographed last week. Love it.

Just blogged this one yesterday, but I love the sweet excitement from the big sisters. So precious…

baby boy bennet, 7 days old

Cori Derksen — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 05:53:32 +0000

World, this is Bennet. Bennet…..world. I’m loving the little chunky rolls that appear when I squish this baby boy all together into a ball. Lovely. And I think this little man is going to be well taken care of by his two big sisters. Right? :)

last week’s photography workshop

Cori Derksen — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:00:37 +0000

We had a photography workshop last week where some sweet ladies came over and brought their fancy cameras. We all sat down and put them on manual and learned, played, and shot all day.
There’s just one more workshop for 2010. It’ll be on Saturday, September 18th. You can see some details on my bruises and bandaids blog and you can sign up using this registration form.
Here are some of my shots of our sweet little models…

And our lovely afternoon models, three sweet sisters…

ella june, one year old

Cori Derksen — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:00:48 +0000

Oh, Ella, you are so beautiful already and growing up so fast. I’ve been blessed to be able to photograph this little miss a few times already. Here she is as a fresh little newborn babe in the hospital, then again at about 6 days old, and at about 6 months old. Now she’s such a big girl at one year old already. She’s a sweetie, that’s for sure. Thank you Dibuduo family. It has been a blessing getting to know your little family. You are wonderful people all the way around. :)