Baby Sophia

Scott & Kristi Gessler are good friends of my sister Jessica & her husband Rob. I met them briefly at an event I shot last year and was excited when Kristi emailed me a few months ago to set up a family session when I was in Colorado. Scott works jointly with my youngest sister Jessica on a lot of political/legal stuff that is way too complicated for me to wrap my brain around. I feel pretty intelligent most of the time and then you put these two in a room and it is back of the class for me! Thankfully they kept me around long enough to meet Kristi and Scott's newest addition Sophia.

It was a step back in time when I first drove up to their home. I used to ride my bike past it almost everyday when I was in my early twenties trying to do the city/urban thing in Denver. It is such a gorgeous place with so much history and I loved shooting in their home.

Little Sophia is such a gorgeous baby and has two people that obviously adore her. Her blue eyes and black hair are quite a change from the white haired children in my family. She was so well behaved and kept falling asleep even through the flooding of the kitchen, okay so it was my idea to do the bath in the kitchen....the lighting was perfect, but not my fault the plug was not in the bath so I can only take half credit for any damage done. I never could figure out all those baby things and I ended up just putting them in the bottom of the shower in one of those plastic chairs (I am sure pelting water on their faces since birth is the reason for many of my kid's issues now, but heck they are not afraid of water so something good came out of it).

One of my favorite moments was watching Scott play the piano with Sophia on his lap. She was mesmerized by his fingers and kept putting her feet on the bottom of the piano. I am sure this is the start of a piano prodigy!

Thanks Kristi and Scott for letting me join your life for an afternoon! I look forward to seeing you all again soon.

You can view the Gessler's slideshow by clicking on the link at the bottom of the post.

Enjoy:)

I have some major hair envy...Kristi has got hair to die for!

Sophia kept falling asleep and would not put her feet up, but we tried.

Love how she stayed asleep even after being carried around.

She did wake up every now and then....

This is one of my favorites of Scott.

The start of great things...

To view the Gessler's slideshow click on this link~