I've been MIA =(

I've definitely been missing in action lately because ... we got married!  =)  With final details, meetings, the wedding itself, the honeymoon, and work, I didn't take many photos the past few months.  The couple of things I did photograph will be up in the next few days, but for now I'll share a little tidbit of our wedding photos for your enjoyment.

We had Lilly Photography document our wedding and they are AH-MAZE-ING.  I could seriously look at the photos all day long ... for like a week straight.  They make my heart happy, and I hope you enjoy this small look into our day.  (again - I did not take these photos, Lilly Photography did)

First ... this is my oh-so-handsome husband  =)

 Below is one of my favorite images from the day ... but my favorite really depends on what day you ask me because I'll probably have a different favorite tomorrow.  They are all just so stinkin' good!!

 If you've read this before, you might have seen the photos when we first got engaged and know that we met at our CrossFit gym.  So, the gym is a pretty big part of our life, so it clearly had to be part of our day in some way.

Lilly Photography is so amazing.  If you or anyone you know are getting married, I recommend them as highly as anyone possibly could.  I can't imagine working with anyone else.

In the next few days I will post some photos of our honeymoon to Greece and some photos I took of my niece (or what was supposed to only be one of them, but the other got curious and I snuck some cute images of her in too).  This weekend is also her 1 year photos and cake smash ... so be on the lookout for some cuteness from that too!

Cole part 2

After WAY too long (unfortunately, life gets crazy sometimes), I finished Cole's photos.  He is too stinkin cute.

I probably shouldn't, but I LOVE this little frown!

Cole

I've been crazy busy with the holidays and wedding planning and then we got a new puppy (some photos of him to come!), so it's been a while since I took more than a just a few snapshots and today I got reminded why I love photography.

The last post was Jeff and Nicole's maternity photos and today I had the privilege of taking some 2 months photos of their adorable little man, Cole.  This is just a little teaser of my favorite 2 photos (so far) from this morning ... so more to come of this adorable little guy!

Jeff & Nicole Maternity

Jeff is my best friend's big brother, so I have known Jeff since I was five.  He and his adorable wife Nicole are only weeks from meeting their little boy (who's name remains a mystery).  I was very excited to photograph them during such a special time in their lives and I can't wait to meet the little guy!  These are my favorite from their session this weekend.

Since they are having a little boy and we were at Cantigny (named after the battle), they wanted a portion of their photos to be Army themed, which was super cute.

Changes

I am really excited because there have been some changes with my photography.  Starting with the fact that I got a logo made =)  I think have all the kinks worked out (it was grey at first but it didn't really show up, so I got it updated to be white).  But I can't figure out quite how to size the logo to make it the title of the blog all together, so I'm gonna keep working on it.  In the mean time I wanted to put it up because I think it's adorable! ... and *I* like to look at it because I had the logo made with what will be my married name even thought it's not really mine until May ;)

Payton's One

As a surprise to Payton's parents, Payton's Aunt Sara and Uncle Travis had me take some photos for her first birthday.  She was surpsingly much more interested in the little "1" candle than the cake itself, but she still managed to get pretty messy.

On a side note, I got a logo and corresponding water mark so I tried it out on Payton's photos.  As you will see, there are some kinks I still need to work out regarding it's size and why it seems to change - even though it's a preset function ... =\  Either way, I'm pretty excited about it!  The name change means that the url for this site will soon be jillprebolaphotography.blogspot.com  =)

Here's Payton:

Emma Lynn

On July 25th I got another niece, and when she was the ripe old age of 4 days, I got to document her adorable little face.  (Yes, it's been almost a month since then but it's a long story about the death of our computer the day after I took the photos - of course).  This was my first attempt at newborn photos and I am pretty darn proud of the photos I got.

Supposedly, at 4 days old, babies are super tired and sleep through anything ... not this baby.  I was at my sister's house for about 4 hours and Emma was not in a sleep-through-anything state for ANY part of that time really.  If you thought about moving her, she was awake.  We worked with it though and she's super cute just the same.  Here she is ....

This one is probably my favorite

One of the times she was really asleep she wouldn't close her mouth so save my life ... but she's a cute little cod fish (haha did I really just make a Mary Poppins reference??)

This last one is for her dad.  I think I like it better in black and white because the icky logo in the left corner doesn't stand out as much ;)