Let’s face it, everyone loves to watch one-year-olds destroy their perfect little cakes and smash them all over their faces. The messier the better, right? Particularly this year, in the age of the coronavirus, zoom birthdays have been a sight for sore eyes, watching these tiny humans cover themselves in cake and frosting. When determining how to plan for your cake smash session, here are some considerations to think about.

By having health and safety built into the foundation of my photography sessions, I can focus my creative energy into making kids laugh through verbal queues and documenting the same joy and deep emotional connection I’ve always strived to capture, even before the Coronavirus came into our lives.

Here are my top 5 tips for a DIY Fresh 48 newborn session in quarantine. I hope it helps to take off some of the pressure! P.S. All of these tips work just as well with an iPhone! And remember, the iPhone photos you take right now will still be beautiful memories until we can meet again safely and I can photograph your whole family enjoying new babyhood together.

Since I can’t be with you in person to document your family right now, I want to help you to feel empowered and confident to capture this moment in time yourself! Enter: my DIY tips for at-home family photography while we’re all quarantined.

Last week I shared some parenting resources and ideas for indoor activities with young kids during the stay at home order, so this week I thought I’d focus on outdoor activities. A lot of these may seem super obvious to you, but I always welcome reminders of what works, so I thought I’d list everything I could think of in case you appreciate reminders too!

For those of us who are parents of young children, as well as the pregnant mamas, the is a list of indoor ideas and resources. There have been so many amazing ideas posted on instagram and other social media accounts, and I definitely do not take credit for coming up with all of these! Here are a few to get you started.