Elicia Graves Photography

About a month ago, a good (and very talented!) friend of ours came over and did a photo shoot for Elijah. Elicia has her own photography business and is amazing! She came to our house and took these pictures of him in our kitchen, even though it looks like we are in a remote location with the flooring. She had a really neat mat that she rolled out to make it look like we were somewhere with that great wooden deck and put up a background to create a studio right there in our home! I cannot put in to words how great this experience was for us.

A while back I had taken Elijah to Super Target to get some pictures made. In the end, the entire experience was an utter failure. He was about 4 months old at the time and were not on an exact schedule as far as naps went (and we're still not completely predictable). We had an appointment for 12:40 pm, which just so happened to fall right at his nap time, which meant I would be dealing with a not so smiley baby. I called and tried to change the appointment to a better time for us (and this was during the week so I didn't think they should be too busy) but the phone just rang with no one answering. So, we adjusted. I got Elijah bathed, fed, and there on time, even though he was due for a nap. I got there and to my surprise he was being super happy and smiley. This is great, I thought to myself! However, when I got to the studio there was only one person working and she was in the back taking pictures with another family. No one was at front to check us in or tell us how long it would be, so we sat and waited. Of course Elijah was just smiling and being so cute...where was the photographer?! I waited for about 20 minutes (which is a long time when your baby is about ready for a nap) and then the girl finally came out and said that she was the only one working that day and would be running behind. After taking the pictures for the family ahead of us they had to go through the whole process of viewing the pictures and picking which ones they wanted to order. As you can imagine (if you have kids anyway), by the time this wrapped up we had missed our happy window with Elijah. We got in there and my smiley happy baby was not so happy. He took a few pictures and was doing okay, but then the photographer basically cut us off and told us to just come back another time. She said that maybe I should come back when he was in a better mood so we could get good pictures. As you can imagine, I was not so happy and left feeling frustrated by the whole experience. Not only had we made it work to be there on time and waited for them to finally get to us, but then to get kicked out of our own photo shoot made the whole experience a total waste. Needless to say, I did not go back.

I told Elicia about our experience and she said she would be happy to take pictures of Elijah. I cannot tell you how amazing this experience was compared to the previous one. She came to our house right when he woke up, so he was happy and comfortable in his own home. She was great with kids since she has a beautiful one year old little girl, Lily. And, on top of it all, she is an absolutely incredible photographer! Ethan and I were both SO impressed with the pictures. I will post them below for you to see (surprise, surprise). :) We are so excited to have found such a great photographer and recommend her to any and all of you out there who want to have pictures made and are in the Dallas area. Finally, I am including the link to her website. She has pictures of Elijah up that you can see directly from this link, and you can also look at her other work.

http://www.eliciagravesphotography.com/?p=73

Thank you so much, Elicia! We love our pictures and thank your for your hard work in making these look so good. I also thank you for redeeming the whole photo shoot experience for me! You are the best and we hope to see you guys soon!