Well, it’s been about a year since my last family photo shoot and it was about time for another one.  I had such an amazing time doing the wardrobe styling for this shoot.  I mixed some vintage items with some new pieces, along with pulling together all three looks for my husband, son and I.  I am so excited with how the images turned out.  We shot with my dear friend and amazing photographer, Andre Rowe.

This Adorable hat was custom made by: Get Stitched Designs

Here is a link to last year’s photo shoot.  It’s wonderful to see how much my son has grown and changed in the past year.

http://babykellogg.tumblr.com/post/2527053372/about-a-month-ago-we-had-a-family-photo-shoot-with

Thank you so much for your kind words :)  Muah!

Kelly

We laid my best friend and companion, Pepper, to rest this past Sunday.  The cancer had become too strong and our sweet girl was now suffering horribly. We spent the morning out in the yard as family as Pepper soaked up the sun rays. This was always her most favorite this to do, sun bathe. It was a beautiful and sad passing.  We were blessed to have our vet come to our house and put her to sleep where she was the happiest. The sun was shining and there was a wonderful breeze. It was like God had made everything perfect for her final moments, just the way she would want it. I am at a loss for words as my heart is broken. I know she is out of pain and much happier. I am thankful that heaven just got another angel. I love you Pepper, you will always be my #1!

I took Addison to see Santa and let’s just say it was an experience. Addison is usually a super happy and friendly little boy, I don’t think I have ever seen him scared until now.  We entered into Santa magic wonderland and he immediately began shaking.  I am guessing it was the overly loud and obnoxious music and huge snow characters that did it.  Quite honestly the music was killing my ears it was so loud.  My kiddo latched onto me like a monkey.  He was holding on for dear life.  Finally I got him chilled out he started to explore everything.  He made his way to Santa and freaked out again.  “Who was this weird old man in a costume.”  So, once again we went back to playing and exploring.  He then made his way back to Santa, this time he was super excited until I put him on his lap.  Let’s just say all hell broke loose.  The moment I took him off Santa’s lap he was smiling and giving him high fives.  We went through this a few times until I decided to go ahead and snap the picture.  In all actuality I find the picture to be hilarious and beyond memorable.  I can’t wait to tell ACE about his experience and share the photo with him when he is older.

Addison loves to brush his teeth.  We introduced him to the tooth brush as about 12 months old, since he finally got in a few teeth at the point.  He has been a avid tooth brusher ever since.

Addison’s best impression of Macaulay Culkin Home Alone!

A little video of Addison doing: Can you, where is…

I was finally able to capture a bunch of the new stuff ACE has learned on video.  I can’t believe how much he is doing an learning at 17 months old.  It is crazy to think my little boy is going to be a 1 1/2 years old next month.  This first video is of ACE saying some of his favorite words.

Despite all of the chaos going on in life lately, I found time for Addison’s 1 year old portfolio shoot.  This was one of the happier moments in the last month.  I really feel that these images captured the true Addison.  He really is such a happy and delightful little boy.  I am so blessed to be his mother.  These are some of my favorite images. 

(Photographer: Shaina Leigh, Image editing: Kelly Egloff)

Some of you may know that my sweet hound dog Pepper was diagnosed about 2 months ago with Stage 5 Lymphoma Cancer.  Pepper was my first child.  I rescued her while I was in college from the pound.  She has been my better half for the past 10 years.  We have gone on so many journey’s together, unfortunately our journey seems to be coming to an end. After many unsuccessful attempts with Chemo therapy it seems as if the cancer is to strong for her body to fight off anymore.  Recently a photographer Oscar Rabeiro was kind enough to do a photo shoot of my sweet Pepper and I along with my other dog Thumper.  These beautiful images are being used by and for Mutts and Models.  This is a great group of Models who have a passion for animals and raising awareness on rescuing.  These are some of favorite images from our photo shoot.

Pepper

Thumper