Our New Family Christmas Tradition

I know this has nothing to do with photography but here is a little Christmas fun from today. As Christmas is coming near I wanted to do something that would commemorate my sweet baby Blakely's first Christmas as well as I wanted to create a tradition with her that we can do each and every year. I chose to do salt dough ornaments with Blakely's sweet little handprints and foot prints.

This was honestly the easiest recipe I could find... For the salt dough I used a 1+1+2=dough approach. Here are my step by step instructions.

1 part water. 1 part salt. 2 parts flour

For my self I used 1/2 cup salt, 1/2 cup water, 1 cup flour

I used my Kitchenaide mixer to mix up the ingredients. I Mixed the flour and salt first and then added in the water. 

The dough will be a little sticky

I kneaded the dough for a minute

Be sure to use flour to control the stickiness

My lovely daughter thankfully was very cooperative. I put a small hole in the dough so that I will be able to thread a ribbon through so that I will be able to hang it on our tree for many many Christmas's to come. 

How sweet are her little foot prints?

After I was finished getting the hand and foot prints I needed. I placed the ornaments on to a pan and placed it into the oven to dry. I'm a little late in doing this so I need them to be dry faster than just air drying them. 200 degrees for about 4 or 5 hours should do the trick! 

I'm so excited to see how these turned out and to have a new tradition in my new little family!

Mike & Heather Lee

I was so excited to finally work with Heather. We had to reschedule a few different times but finally we were able to get together! Heather and her husband Mike were great to work with! It had been some time since they had had their pictures taken. Here are the images from her shoot! Enjoy <3

 I'm so excited to finish up this session! Please let me know how you all like them. <3

xo
Callie

Chandler and Heidi's Christmas Shoot

So I had an idea in my head that I wanted to try and thankfully Heidi and Chandler were good sports to help me out with it! This was my first little stylized shoot. Nothing fancy but something sort of Christmas themed. We went to Jensen's Christmas Tree farm in Payson which was pretty sparse for my liking but I think it still worked out.

My small set up. Nothing fancy. 

Such a cute family!

Amy Boardman's Sweet Family Session

I found this location while on a drive with my husband and I was dying to use it! Luckily my Sister-In-Law was just as excited and convinced her mom to come down to utilize it. There is seriously so many places to choose from here. Eureka might be a forgotten ghost town but I absolutely love it. Thank you Amy for letting me work with you and your amazing family! 

Check out this amazing session!

Sweet Gage!

How gorgeous is she?!

My cute Brother and Sister-In-Law