We love babies.  We love their little fat rolls, how they coo, how they stretch when they wake up, their teeny tiny little fingers and toes.  We love taking photos of newborns even more.  So, in the spirit of loving all things baby…we are offering 20% off our sitting fee if you book your baby session in the month of February.  The only catch?  The babes have to be under one year old.  :)

To make this offer more inciting, we are going to show you some of our favorite baby shots from the past year.

Are you ready to book your sweet little baby session?  Email us at bloomchattanooga@gmail.com or call us at the studio at 423-531-7923!

The Bloom girls were so excited about our booth this year at the Chattanooga Pink Bridal show!  We made sure to take a few shots of our booth being set up (which went so smoothly thanks to Momma Lyndi Blair).  And thanks to Skye’s crafty boyfriend Kevin we had walls made, which was something we were wanting so badly for this year.  Here is the journey it took to set everything up:

This is what it looked like when we arrived, then after the wall had been set up.

Miss Lyndi and Ryli hard at work!

Skye supervising!

the finished product (almost!)

Our handouts and our buttons that we gave out to brides.  They were really a hit! Our flowers provided by Veo Weddings and Events (more about them later!)

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the Bloom Gals are ready to meet some brides!!

Our neighboring booth B Sweet Cake Boutique offered up some super stylish cakes…we love those chairs too!

Our friends from Sunrise Farms had a BEAUTIFUL booth!  We are so lucky to be able to work with such great people.

And last but not least, the fabulous Veo Wedding and Event Planning.  Veronica graciously provided to flowers for our booth (which EVERYONE commented on!).  Thank you for helping us with our booth design and flowers!  We love you guys!

That about wraps up our coverage of the Chattanooga Pink Bridal show!  Thank you to all the brides that we got to meet!  We are really super pumped about this upcoming wedding season.  :)

We are so happy to announce that we are in the process of training a very valuable new addition to our staff here at Bloom.  Help us welcome Miss Ryli Blair to our little Bloom family!

Ryli goes WAY back with us.  She and Skye are sisters so really they go back as far as Skye’s birth…and that’s a long time!  Ryli and Dani have been best friends since they were 16.  Ryli has really been there for Bloom behind the scenes since it’s beginning.  Ryli is a 5th grade teacher and lucky for us she has the summers off!  Bloom has been so blessed this past year and we were able to book 18 weddings!  We have worked very hard to give ALL our clients only the very highest quality images we can possibly provide.  Since we work so hard at that and we are just getting busier we have decided that it’s in our best interest to hire a new employee!  We feel so very happy to have her join our team.  So, new clients…get used to this face!   

Richard and Brooke are expecting a baby soon. Brook is so cute! We think she should be a pregnant model! Don’t you think so too? Just adorable. She’s all belly.  You can’t really even tell shes carrying baby until she turns around. We just love it!

Richard and Brooke’s chemistry between the 2 of them just amazed us. We would direct them into a “pose” and then they just knew how to add their own touch to it and personalize it. It was so easy giving them direction during the session.

We can’t wait until Brooke delivers baby. They weren’t 100% sure on a name yet so that is why we haven’t  mentioned one in the blog so far. But when baby does arrive we just bet it is going to be the cutest little thing!

Drum roll please!  Meet the Schexhildre family. We think they are just one of the sweetest families.  Baby Ella joined their family in the begining of December so she really was a nice little early Christmas present. Her big sister Annabell was such a big helper through out the whole photo session. She really loves baby Ella!

Ella at first didnt want anything to do with this photo session but mommy and daddy managed to calm her little soul, Then the magic happened and we captured the beauty of  this little angel, Ella.

Meet the beautiful Anderson family. Erika and Scott which are mom and dad make a cute couple if we do say so are self, Then you add miss Isabella and Mr little Christopher and Wala! You have an adorable family.

Erika and Scott wanted to have photos taken for Christopher’s 2 year birthday. So we focused mostly on this little man! Isn’t he just to cute for words!? We just wanted to pick him up and squeeze him. His blonde hair reminds us of warm summer weather at the beach. He reminded us of a little surfer baby.

We also added in some family photos and gave Isabella some attention as well. She was all about jumping in the leaves at the park. Look at these smiles on her face. Isn’t she precious? Yup. We thought so too!

Carrie and Josh. Oh how we love thee. Let us count the ways. From Carries bubbly fun personality to Josh’s shy demeanor around us they just make us feel all warm and fuzzy inside! They really, really do!  All jokes aside. We Promise!

We actually met Carrie and Josh at the wedding of Katie and Andy Giffin that we shot this past summer of 2011. Carrie was a brides maid and of course Josh was her date. We we already feel like we know them.

We met with Carrie and Josh at the beginning of Fall end of summer this past year and talked all things weddings. Luckily with our fingers crossed they booked us for their big wedding shabang. Wahoo!

The slang “Wedding shabang” includes not only the wedding coverage and festivities but also the engagement photos which is what we shot  in early November.  The weather was perfect. Carrie looked adorable as usual and Josh was starting to really warm up to us. By wedding day, We will probably feel like one big happy family.

This year we decided to have a Christmas mini session. Only 1 month after the Fall mini sessions.  So you may ask, were we a bit insane doing this? Yes and No. Yes because November was a very very busy month for us. 2 weddings, engagement session, and regular sessions. We were busy bees. But we did it and we did it with our usual class and style. It was pretty fun too, we might add.

We decked our studio with Red, Green, and White. Threw in some Candy Canes, Christmas lights,  presents and props galore. Christmas mini session time was ready to rock around the Christmas tree!

There were about 19 families who attended the Christmas minis of 2011. Which means we will probably be having another Christmas mini for 2012. We really love our mini sessions. They are great for families who have young children and don’t want to waste money on a whole session that they will only get to use half of  because of an unhappy little camper.

Our families who came to this years Christmas minis just warmed our hearts.  Each family was dressed so cute and  made the Christmas spirit really come alive even though these were taken before Thanksgiving. Some of the kidos were very confused as to why the Christmas tree was up at the studio and not at there house, They wanted to know why the presents weren’t for them and why some were empty. They also asked us if we forgot about Thanksgiving. We really got some good jolly laughs at these sessions.  Kids say the darnedest things.

This families got a whole lot of love going on. In this session there was Jane and Jeff, Anna, Graysen, and baby Parker, Scotty and his wife Karen, Then Amy, Phil and Drake. They are kind of like a modern day Brady Bunch.  It was taken the day before Thanksgiving and they really were so greatful to have these taken because not everyone lives in town and Scotty was home from Iraq for the Holidays.

We all drove out to a special location also known as Red Clay. When we first arrived Anna, Graysen and baby P were already there. It is a bit of a drive so naturally we had to use the rest room. When walking into the bathroom an orange stray cat  jumped out at Dee and about scared her half to death! This cat proceeded to assist us through out the WHOLE session. It was very fascinated by Parker and Parker was very fascinated by the kitty.

Can we just say, Thank the good Lord for Photo Shop, because if not in almost every photo you would see the that darn orange cat. But with your little eye can you spy in what photo its in out these? We had to leave the cat  in just one to remember our little orange friend.

The ole tabby really did help us get Parker to smile. Parker thought it was just hilarious when we held the furry feline over our heads and made him dance a little jig! I believe everyone else thoroughly enjoyed it as well. Good times!

We are so glad that Jane asked us to do these for their family.  We feel very lucky to have been able to catch these family memories for them, especially around the Holidays.

We are waaaay over due for posting this blog. We have been swamped this
Fall and Winter season. First off we just want to say a big thank you to everyone who attended the 2011 Fall mini sessions. Yall are what make us get up and out of the best every morning because you let us love our job.

This years 2011 mini sessions were a bit different than 2010 Fall mini sessions. We had planned out what we were going to do in August and by October we were roaring to get started. We actually had little “stations” for all of our clients to go to during shooting time. There were 5 different areas that all incorporated a Fall theme to them.

We had been looking for over 2 months for inspiration, collecting old crates and palettes to really give it a country Fall theme feel. When the day of the first round of sessions had arrived we felt like we were awaiting a special babies arrival!

We usually only have “Mini Sessions” for 1 weekend but the first weekends spots went like hot cakes so we decided to open up another weekend and it also got completely booked. Again, We just love our clients!

Like we said before these are way over due but we just had to write a blog about all your wonderful families that came out to the 2011 Fall Mini Sessions. We hope to see you this year at the 2012 Spring and Fall Minis!