introducing...

we love him so much!! and he's keeping us veeerrryyy busy! more on that later ;)

-love folks photography

happy 3 years, baby bump, and out of the office

first and foremost, i want to give a quick shout out to my amazing hubby! on May 2nd, we celebrated our 3 year anniversary together and it was amazing!! i home on friday evening to a surprise-- Matthew whisked me off to LA for an incredible weekend together. We stayed in a 4-star hotel, went to the LA temple with his mission president and his wife, spent some quality time at the Getty Art Museum (AMAZING btw!! Original Da Vinci there right now...just awesome) and then on Sunday after church before we came back home we made a quick stop at the Santa Monica Pier/Beach. It was so fabulous!

Thank you so much Matthew Donald Folks. You are my absolute everything and I am so incredibly blessed to have you in my life. You have made these 3 years unforgettable, and I can't wait to experience eternity with you...

here are some of the pics from our special getaway

Matthew & the Trasks. We LOVE them!!

me at the Getty standing next to my female pal. I've been trying to convince her to gain weight, like me. She's workin on it.

me and the hubs at the Getty gardens. I could have spent all day there-- seriously. Gorgeous.

MDF standing in front of the trees in the Getty gardens that i loved. love love loved. i can get these in my yard, right?

the beach. so nice.

yeah i could have sat at the beach all day. i hate how cold cali water is, but the sand. oh so very nice.

this pic is funny to me bc its of a COMPACT car in a compact spot and an extended cab pickup truck ALSO in a compact spot. Every time I look at this pic the rap from The Office ("Lazy Scranton") pops into my head-- "The compact cars go in the compact spot...spot, spot, spot..." Ok yes I'm an Office nerd. Next topic...

now onward to more news-- 

our little man is due this Saturday (May 15th!). Here's to hoping he's on time...or early ;) But I know we're going to be SUPER busy whenever he finally gets here, so I thought I'd hurry and get this post in!

heres a little slide show of the bump week-by-week-- well, when i remembered to take pictures :) Don't ask me how I'm a photographer-- I never take photos at home. Probably something i should work on...



and here's the latest on the bump-- my very own maternity pics taken by the amazing Gena! Hm, that kind of makes her sound like a magician. Well, she got ME to look FAB in front of a camera, WITH the tons of extra weight I'm packin around. So she pretty much is. Gena, thank you a ton. Seriously. Love these!

 

So I guess this leads us onto our last item of business-- I'm going to be MIA for a couple of months due to the new addition. We'll be back by July though, so if you have any shoots you would like to schedule, please feel free to contact us! We're still going to be taking any print orders, album orders, or scheduling any sessions that you may need! So if you need to contact us, feel free! We are really going to miss all of our amazing clients, but we'll be back so soon! See you in July!!

-Love M&M (and baby Folks!)

more BIG news!

this is another personal post-- I super dooper promise that I have some amazing wedding and family pics coming your way :)

But as for today...you get to hear about our little one! Today we found out what "it" is....and it's a... (drum roll please)...

B.O.Y!

Oddly enough, I already knew that-- don't ask me how. It's felt like a boy from day 1, so today wasn't too much of a surprise. I just got to actually see it! Here are some pics from the eventful ultrasound. We even got a DVD of the whole ultrasound session but me learning how to convert that into a little nice and neat uploadable file may take a bit of time :) There's a reason I do "still photography" and not motion pictures-- I'm just sayin...

Anywho here are some pics from our session today. AND I'll be posting new belly pics on here (as well as on facebook) because apparently my preggo tummy exploded this week (18 weeks, 4 days). Or so I hear from the hubster.

Meet our little Folks man:


Profile view, with brain and all :) I can already tell he's got my nose and chin. Ah shucks.

As if you doubted me, voila. Proof of our little boy. Imagine the camera from below, right side is the buttox. You get the idea :)

Unmistakably a foot with 5 little toes!

farewell teddy....helloooooo cletus!

so you know it's a bad sign when you walk into your hallway, and you see this....

poor little guy didn't even stand a chance....

And THEN you walk into your living room, and see the REST of the masterpiece...

Lucy, looking triumphantly over her work...

By the way, mucho mucho apologies for the poor quality photos above. Turns out, my point and shoot just doesn't cut it like the good ol' Canon. Hence, my logo is not on any of them....feel free to steal as you feel necessary. Although you stealing pictures of my dogs and their messes is kind of weird....but whatever......

in HAPPIER news! Those of you who are already friends with me on Facebook probably already know a thing or two about our new surprise (by the way, if you're not friends with me on facebook yet, you really should be. I'm a hoot of a buddy. At least I'd like to think so....Melissa Jennifer Folks-- add me today!). But I thought I should officially announce this on our blog now that we have PHOTOS! That's right. You know where I'm going with this one...

We've got a bun in the oven!!!

Say hello to Cletus the Fetus (artistically "named" by our dear friend, Sally Van Orden....)

This is the little one waving to the world. In this lovely photo, we see a foot and hand.

I'm not sure what the doc said he/she was doing here, but I think if you look VEEEERRRRRY closely, you can see he (or she) is sticking his (or her....man that could get old) tongue out at us. ANNND it kind of has a big nose. He or she got that from me if that's the case. Sorry little one!

And this is the last pic of the feet kicked up and just relaxin...we got the hearbeat here-- 170 bpm.

So for the record, I'm just now getting out of the first trimester. I'm about 13 weeks this Friday (WOO HOO!). And to answer some questions-- YES I am deathly ill with morning sickness. Hence, the lack of blogging lately. Very sorry about that. Turns out getting sick 6 times a day just doesn't lend me much time to do anything. And NO we're not actually planning on calling the baby Cletus. Although Matthew still kind of thinks Rocky is in the running. After the infamous Rocky Balboa. I thought it was cute and clever at first....I'm not so sure anymore. We'll update you more on that later...

BUT YES WE ARE STILL DOING SESSIONS! Please do not hesitate to book a session with us as soon as possible. Our dates are filling up very quickly due to the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, and we would absolutely love to come and capture whatever event you feel needed. Click here to reserve your date or to see some of our past work!

Oh, and we'll probably know the sex of the little one in about 6 weeks, so we'll keep ya posted! Hooray for good news!

Have a good rest of the week everyone!