After seeing all those discounts on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, I decided to put a few things on special for the holidays!  Take advantage of these deals and you could have some really great presents under the tree for your family and friends.

Any client who had a session with me in 2010 can order during this sale, in which I will rehost your gallery for free to allow you to order from your session images once again.*  To place an order during this special, you will need to email me and let me know that you want your online gallery rehosted. I will then upload your images and you will be able to select from the sale products starting tonight December 1st through next Wednesday, December 8th.

Sale ends December 8th at midnight!!!

Without further ado, here are the products on sale:

#1. NEW PRODUCT for 2011!!! Wood-Mounted Storyboards!

To introduce this great new product for 2011, I have decided to offer it for sale now!  This is a great product, and makes a really great grandparent or parent gift for the holidays.  This storyboard is mounted on 3/8″ wood and comes ready to hang on the wall or sit on an easel!  It’s really sturdy and durable, and the 5×10 size would make a great gift for relatives!  As with any storyboard,  I can design this with any images of your choosing for a completely custom product!

#2. Small-format Canvas on sale!

If you have been drooling over a canvas, but haven’t bought one before (or even if you have but want more) then this is the time to get a small format canvas for the lowest price we’ve ever had!  These are a screaming deal at almost 50% off,  and these smaller canvases make an AWESOME gift!  Just imagine your family member’s faces when they open a gem like this for the holiday!

#3. Large-format Prints 25% off!

Any wall portrait 16×20 and larger is 25% off the list price! If you didn’t get all the enlargements you wanted from your session in 2010, now is your chance! All prints come mounted and sprayed for durability, and are ready to frame.

Happy Holidays!

-Laura

*The fine print: due to my purge policy, I cannot guarantee that non-ordered images will be available for upload. I will do my best to find them on my hard drives, but there are no guarantees they have been saved. Please contact me if you have any questions.

About a week ago, I got to meet this new little cutie on one of the most gorgeous fall days we have had here! It was almost 70 degrees that afternoon! (As I’m writing this I’m looking at the snow falling outside my office window..sigh).

Anyway, isn’t this just insanely beautiful fall color?

And my new favorite little bear hat. I love his little grin here…

Thanks again B family, you have a very snuggly and sweet little man, enjoy him!

Today was the first snow-day of the season here in Denver, so looking at these is making me feel all warm and sunny while I snuggle inside my house in my fleece! (Ok, so it’s not that cold but having grown up in Arizona I’m sort of wimpy). It’s hard to believe this session was just a short week ago, and that the weather was warm enough for short sleeves! (Heck it was warm enough for short sleeves on Monday! That’s Denver weather for you!)

Anyway, check out this cute little munchkin! Isn’t she adorable? She was one day shy of being 1 year old when we took these, and was so fun to photograph. We brought out my red chair at the end and she seriously loved that thing! She cried when it was time to leave the chair…I even offered to let them take it home with them!

This family has been waiting very patiently to see their images, so I hope it was worth the wait! O Family, It was lovely meeting you all, I hope you enjoy these!

Going into a family session with young children, I never quite know what it will be like, except that it will most definitely involve some running and chasing, and a little bit of laughter and playing around.

Last week I got to meet up with these two boys near Stapleton…aren’t they cute? (Ok, the big guy is handsome, is he too old for “cute”?) Anyway, what probably seemed a little chaotic to mom and dad resulted in some gems. Check out these cute boys. (Right after I took this shot, they came towards me and I captured the shot in the bottom set, fun times!)

We had some fun wrangling the kids, but managed to get some great family shots with gorgeous fall evening light!

I love the top left one and mom’s face while loving on her big guy. Such a sweet moment!

Last week I got to meet the sweetest little 6 day old bub. Isn’t he just the cutest? I love his chubby cheeks, and his back wrinkles too! He was bigger at birth than the last few babies I’ve photographed so it was fun to photograph his little chub.

Doesn’t he look like the cutest little elf in this hat?

His little dreamy smiles were so adorable

Check out those chubby cheeks! I was dying over his face in this pose and didn’t want to move him!

Love the back wrinkles here. So sweet.

It was lovely meeting you all, N family! You have a beautiful family and congratulations again on that beautiful baby boy!

Another sweet baby girl from last week! I’m having a lot of fun using my girlie headbands and hats on all these baby girls!

I just loooove when parents are game for taking baby outdoors. As I was driving to this session, there was this farm with a white picket fence and a HUGE oak tree right down the street. As I drove by the light was filtering down through the oak and it was so divine. I told them right away that I wanted to try some there at the end of the session. Of course by the time we got out there a little storm had blown in, and the light was a little less sunny than earlier, but I think we still managed to get some really awesome shots. I just love photographing babies out in nature!

How sweet is she? She had the perfect little pout…

And one more outside because I just love this set:

It was great seeing you guys again, congratulations on your beautiful baby girl!

I’m way behind on blogging and this family already has their gallery, but I just had to share a few of this little beauty. At 11 days old, she was the most calm awake baby I’ve ever seen. She was awake for much of the session so we just went with it, however, when she was awake she was very still and calm, and so interested in everything going on around her with her eyes wide open!  We did manage to get her to sleep for a little bit, but I think she just wanted to stay up and see what we were doing!

Such a pretty baby, look at those eyes!

Isn’t mom stunning after just having a baby?

Some sleepy ones

The whole family, isn’t big sister a cutie?

A family, it was great seeing you again. Congrats on your beautiful baby daughter and I’ll see you again soon!

I met up with the T family last weekend for some family photos with their cute little bundle of energy! He was 17 months old, and on the go! The family suggested holding our portrait session at Lair o’ the bear park up in Morrison, CO. I hadn’t ever been there, but we decided to try it out and it turned out to be a gorgeous location! The light was so beautiful, and the surroundings were so Colorado!  T family, it was great meeting you guys! Here are a few for a sneak peek, I will have the rest for you very soon!

This first one is so Colorado! I love it!

The light was so magical that evening…

One of my faves, love the mother/child shots:

This sweet little 13 day old was the cutest thing, and look at all that hair!  She also had the longest, darkest, curliest eyelashes I’ve ever seen on a newborn. So amazing. had a ton of fun snuggling her, and could really have done it all day.  Mom and Dad, congrats again, she is beautiful! Hope you enjoy your sneek peek.

I just love her little furrowed brow in the second one here, it looks like she is saying “hey lady, are you done with me yet?”

Ok, just one more. Love this one

Check us out! Yesterday we were featured on a local Stapleton, CO blog called “Stapleton Moms” talking about the top 5 things everyone should know when searching for a photographer for their family!   The owner and author of the blog, Liz, has been a Vibrant Life Facebook fan and twitter follower for a while, and will be having her family session in October, so check back in a few weeks to see her family images!

In the meantime, click here to check out the article!

And since I really can never post a blog post without a picture, here is what I’m working on right now. Isn’t she just the cutest?