Santa Baby, Hurry Down The Chimney Tonight! ▌Sierra Vista Photographer, Arizona

Last weekend I found myself back in my make-shift studio for the last time taking Holiday portraits. Saturday was reserved for "Santa Paws"; let's take the challenge of photographing babies and add in the challenges of photographing pets, why not?! Santa and I finished up at lunch time and to my suprise I had some late afternoon clients who wanted a session even though the big man had headed back to the North Pole. I was just tickled to see this tiny Santa, just 6 months old and barely sitting up on his own, and his adorable and totally mellow canine companion, who, like the Baby, had a hard time sitting up on his own. "Um, Mom, I need the puppy sitting up and alert, not playing dead, dead dog doesn't translate to the camera... um, okay, alert puppy is licking the baby in the mouth...." These are just three of my absolute favorites from the mini session. Can a baby's first Christmas get any cuter?!