I'm an aunt!

Well I've been an aunt before this actually, but by marriage...which is always fantastic. But now my own sister gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. I had the amazing privilege to be in the room too! So much going on in this household, but I wouldnt change it for anything. Don't tell my husband but this does horrible things with my baby fever hehe. 

Now to the good stuff! Introducing Serenity Nicole-Marie born April 20th 2011 weighing 5lbs 14.5oz and a whopping 17inches long!  



Thanks for looking! Pass me around to all your friends!

Sunday Peeks

I'm going to try to do something new, hopefully I'll remember to do this every weekend. If not then remind me please? I often take pictures of whats going on in my own house, I just always fail to show it. Well let me rephrase that I dont share with you all what I do at home. Hopefully this will change all that, at least give you a perspective what I do in a day.

We have a german shepard named Lulu. She's a spoiled baby hehe. She tends to think she can sit on the couch and take up all the room. I was booted off the couch and onto the floor, which kinda worked out cause i can get cool shoots like this.

My husband and I got bored and started playing with the boys' hand light thing, for the life of me I cannot remember whats it called. Anyway we turned off all the lights and just had fun with it. This is one of my favorites that we did.

Thanks for taking a sneak peek into my daily life :)

Cake Smash | Olathe Kansas Photographer

I have so much fun with first birthday cake smash sessions. Kids are hilarious anyway, but give them a big pile of sugar with full permissions and well it can only = fun. You really can’t guarantee much with it. Some kids love it. Some kids could care less. But you can guarantee that it’s me, mom and dad pretty much laughing for 45 minutes straight.

Here is a sneak peek from this awesome little dudes cake smash! Happy Birthday Caleb!



How they grow so fast...

your kids grow so fast, its quite insane. Here I am with an almost 6yr old and a 3yr old. My oldest is in Kindergarten. We took a shoot and did our own pictures. He decided he would talk to me throughout the whole process, lol. We talked about what kind of funny phrases we would say, stinky butt was his favorite. He couldn't stand still either lol, which is normal for him. He's non stop all day..he's been that way from far back as I can remember. He's like an energizer bunny..he keeps going and going lol. I love him though, he's a huge sweetheart when he's being like his daddy and a butthead(love you babe).

Well I feel like I've chatted enough, so here we go! Seths kindergarten pictures!

 

If you are interested in doing a session with your school aged kid please contact me. I do have packages just for school pictures. Check out http://www.photosbyrtripp.com/ or contact me on facebook/email.

Thanks for viewing,

Rachel

Birthday Pictures for my own!

We attempted them, he wasnt to into them this time. That happens though when you have a very active almost 3yr old though. I'm just happy he at least cooperated a little bit during the whole thing. It was a very short, umm.. session with him lol. I'll be doing more next weekend hopefully when we have more time, we're planning his birthday party Saturday so all week we've been extremely busy making sure we have everything we need. As moms know its a never ending job double, triple checking the list.

So without further ado...

This one is my favorite^^^ he was so into it.

He didnt care to much for this! We got a bit gutsy on the rocks, I dont think he cared to much for my idea.

Oh how I love my boy! Well I shall return sometime during the week with birthday party pictures and hopefully I'll get some more big 3 pictures from him. Then next month I get to do it all again with the number 6!! My kids are getting so big =(

Thanks for reading!

Rachel

Ps. if you're interested in a session check out http://www.photosbyrtripp.com/ for more details.

No matter the distance I'll always be there....

I'm trying to think of witty titles...sometimes I get it right...moving on folks.

On my way back home I stopped in Dallas to meet a long time friend who I havent seen in almost 2 1/2 years. This time she had an someone extra!  I was very stoked to finally meet Isabella. Before I came down I managed to make her an adorable tutu, which you'll see below.  I'm so excited she 'approved of me' being around her mommy, we both kind of hung out together, well as much as you can with a 9 month old. I felt like her other jungle gym besides mommy, made me feel very special. Isabella is just adorable, nothing else to it hehe.

I do sell tutu's, if you're interested please contact me.
Enjoy!!

Rachel from R Tripp Photography!

Every Princess has her Day! Part 2

I wasn't kidding when I said this was a big share! So many picture I'd like to share for a sneak peek I couldn't help myself and I figured since they are both separate events, I dont see why I cant get away with doing that..so here we are blog number 2. First part is with her cousin(I believe) they are close in age. The rest have the Princess.

I'll keep this one short! Enjoy!

Every Princess has her Day!!! Part 1

1st birthday that is!! Of course there are tons of days a pretty princess would have...lots of important birthdays. But we first need to get over the 1st birthday for us moms. I blabber, lol sorry! Let's move forward, as I posted on my facebook I took a trip to Texas! It was a mini vacation for myself but more so for business. I wonderful friend of mine paid me to come down to take her daughters birthday pictures in all aspects of it. So here I am today with quite a few pictures to show you guys, I'm proud of them though. Since this is such a huge photo share they will be in seperate blogs.

First lets start with the Princess' Party!! Who doesnt love parties?

Jessa's cake smash! Well after :)

The cake that mommy worked very hard to make for her princess.

Present time!!

Time for Birthday Cake!



"Families are like fudge...

mostly sweet with a few nuts" -Author unknown.

I found this quote online, I think it fits perfectly, you will soon see why. First a few things, I've been doing a lot of thinking, I think I'm going to revamp on how I do this whole blog thing. I feel that I'm boring to you guys. You will still receive your sneak peek, promise! But I'd like to chat a bit more with you try to think of some witty titles(which sometimes I feel like I fail). Come chat with me on FB, I'm a very talkative person sometimes too talkative. I do enjoy a nice conversation since most of the time my days consist of a 5yr old a 2yr old.

Lets get back to this energetic family! They we're a blast to work with, the boys were fun. C(the older one) was too cute, such a goof ball just like B(his little brother). B was a ball of energy, he would sit still long enough for the pose then say 'all done' and run off till the next one. So cute!


Real quick, apparently I'm having issues with my images now showing up as sharp as they are in person, pay no mind please! I'll be figuring that out soon hopefully. They are high res on my computer, in my file, the internet, facebook etc tends to degrade the way my pictures look. I'm sorry about that!

An outtake...by request! Who doesn't love funny photos?

Hopefully I'll see you guys again soon! And for the rest of you, I hope I'll be seeing your inquiry soon :)

Till next time,

Rachel!

p.s more so a note to myself, but I wish my watermark didnt look so funky online. :(