Here are some tips for how to get good family photos outdoors: (Big thanks to our photographer friend Kristine Herman and makeup by Bay Area Beautiful)
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How to Successfully Travel With A 4 Month Old Baby
We took our first real trip with baby to Montana for 4th of July week. He’s a pretty easy baby so we expected it would go well, but we did plan a few things to hopefully make it easier. I think we packed pretty well, but below I’m going to share the items we brought and think were TOTALLY needed and some items we learned we need to for our next trip to Kauai.
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3 Month Item update For Fischer
How To Successfully Take "Newborn" Family Photos At Home
Our first family photos as a family of 4 were at our Atascadero house. I wanted to share some tips for doing photos at home and having a successful photoshoot!
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What We've Needed In Fischer's Life So Far
It’s been 8 weeks now with Fischer, and I wanted to share all the things we’ve needed so far. Some of these things we got at our baby shower, some I bought before baby arrived, and some I bought after he was here as we discovered more things we needed. There are just so many baby products out there, so I hope this is helpful!
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Nursery Tour at the Atown Aframe
I’m really excited to share Fischer’s nursery! Our decor plans changed a little from the beginning to the end, but always had the same vibe. We didn’t want a theme, as we aren’t really theme type people when it comes to decor. I wanted his room to feel like an extension of our house, design wise, and not feel like a “kids” room. As you know our vibe is Mid Century Modern, Palm Springs, desert, so that’s what we did for his room too. We brought in greens and oranges, mid century modern furniture and lighting, and put up desert photos I took on our first trip to Palm Springs a few years ago. Nursery items can get pricey, but I found some great deals while still being able to stick to the look I wanted.
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Our Desert Inspired Co-Ed Baby Shower
We decided to have a co-ed baby shower for a few reasons, which I’m going to talk about below! I think it’s a great option for everyone :) When deciding on the location and theme of our shower, we picked our friends parents house ( they were nice enough to let us have it there) because their backyard is super pretty with a pool and vineyard views. Sadly, a big storm decided to show up the day of our shower forcing us to be indoors. Thanks to my bffs and our moms, we moved things inside and made it equally as cute! As far as the theme goes, desert vibes was the OBVIOUS choice. I didn’t want a gender related theme or a baby related theme, I just wanted something that made sense with our style. My good friend Jess and my sister in law Jenae put together this amazing cactus balloon sculpture which I wish I could have taken home with me and kept forever haha.
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Our Desert Maternity Photos
I knew I wanted our maternity photos in Joshua Tree from the moment we found out we were pregnant. I realized we would be there mid December for a Palm Springs wedding, so we should make it happen on that trip. I also was totally fine doing our photos while I was still on the smaller side (I wanted to have these photos and our baby shower done before I was huge and uncomfortable). For reference, I’m 26 weeks in these photos. So we met up with Carmen Santorelli the day after the wedding and did our photos. We luckily were able to bring Sawyer down with us too!! I mean, I probably wouldn’t have been able to do our maternity photos without him haha. I see a lot of bad maternity photos online that are just too cheesy, and I wanted to stay away from that. I wanted these photos to just capture this moment in our life and for us, it was just our yearly photos.
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Our Gender Reveal Party
In early September we had a gender reveal party at our house. I love any excuse for a party, so I wasn’t going to let this moment slip by without a celebration! We went in to find out the gender via a blood test around 9 weeks, but the only person who knew was our friend/photographer Tina. She emailed the confetti seller on Etsy, Once Upon A Party Co., with the gender and kept our secret for us for about 2 weeks! It was so fun getting to find out the gender of baby Poff with our friends and family. And in case you’re wondering, I had a strong feeling it was a boy, so I wasn’t surprised at all haha.
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Feb 2. Weekend Update + Links!
If you followed us on Instagram stories over the weekend, then you know that we put together our guest bedroom and a lot of the nursery. We had to finish laying some floors before we could bring things into the nursery, but we got it done!! We also had to clean up the guest room and get some things out of there before we could start. After that, we put together the bed frame and brought our old nightstands downstairs (if you’ve been following for a while then you know about this nightstand issue we had haha). Basically both rooms started as blank slates yesterday, so by the end of the day we felt very accomplished because the rooms look so good now!
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