Blue eyed babe!

Baby Liam was three months old when we photographed him for this session. How great is this age? The expressions are priceless-new smiles, grimaces, smirks and giggles. What could be better? It is hard to believe that he will be returning soon for his 6 month session in a few weeks. We are excited to see how much he has grown since this session and see him sitting on his own, interacting more and developing his own sweet little personality. See you soon, Baby Liam!!

Chloe.

How cute is Chloe?!? It is fitting that Chloe's owner, Erin, came to the session in her stylish rainboots since here in Minnesota, we have been experiencing a long stretch of rainy days! Chloe was a star and loved posing for Melissa. Maybe a future in modelling awaits dear Chloe?

Brittany & Max - Engagement Session at Target Field (stadium engagement session)

We think Brittany and Max just may be the luckiest couple around these days...not just because they found each other, fell in love and are getting married this fall - they also had the entire Target Field to themselves for their engagement session! How cool is that?!? (and does that make us cool by association since we were a part of it?) As you can imagine, we were super excited to capture these intimate, special moments for Brittany and Max - and they were happy to share this experience with Twin Cities Live as it they filmed the session for their recent segment, "Not Your Typical Wedding" which aired yesterday.

http://twincitieslive.com/article/stories/s1563199.shtml?cat=11215

Their images are beautiful and really captured their relationship-playful, fun and in love! And what could be better than to incorporate their favorite team-the Minnesota Twins! Imagine how amazing it will be for them to share these images with their children and grandchildren someday and tell them about their engagement session at the brand new Target Field?!?! For now, they are happy to display the portraits at home in Max's "man cave" for all to see!

We wish you all the best as you prepare for your wedding day in a few months- 9.09.10! Much love and happiness always!!!

Twin Cities Live Senior Portrait Contest!!!

Attention high school juniors! TWIN CITIES LIVE and Miroslavich Photography is giving one lucky high school junior a free senior portrait session! To enter, send an email and photo of yourself to twincitieslive@kstp.com telling us why you deserve to win. Make sure you put "Senior Portrait Contest" in the subject line. One high school junior will receive a complimentary senior portrait session with Melissa Miroslavich, a set of wallets, 3 gift portraits (1-8x10, 2-5x7s) and an image for Facebook. The total value is $583. This also includes a complimentary planning session (required), and a private viewing appointment in Melissa's studio about a week after the session.
Contest closes on Friday May 14th so enter soon!! See the link below as well:

http://twincitieslive.com/article/stories/g601.shtml?cat=10692


We are so excited to kick off our high school senior portrait season! Stay tuned for our lucky winner next week!!

Family of 3...(plus 1)!

Jackie and Jose came to the studio a little over a month ago with their 2 year old son, Jose, for a family portrait of the three of them before introducing Baby Jax into the family sometime in April! We were delighted! What a striking family they make! We were going to post these super cute family images next week but we received the great news this afternoon that Baby Jax has made an early arrival, we couldn't wait to share their images! Everyone is happy and healthy...and we simply cannot wait to photography Jax in the next few days for his newborn session! CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Tune in to Twin Cities Live Wednesday!!

Melissa has been asked to return to Twin Cities Live on Wednesday for another appearance! She is becoming quite the TV star (she will hate that I am saying that!)! Twin Cities Live has asked her to help them with a segment about taking photographs of kids...and Melissa is certainly a pro at doing that! Tune in at 3pm on Channel 5-KSTP to see Melissa share some of her photographing tips...and be sure to catch our special Miroslavich Photography-Twin Cities Live promotion that they will announce on-air during the show!

ZOOM Camp Art Show Tonite!!!

Yah!! Our camp artists have been anxiously awaiting tonight's Art Show!! They are so proud to showcase their art from ZOOM Photography Camp last week...and we couldn't be prouder of their accomplishments! The Art Show is open to the public and is at the studio tonight, so join us between 6:30pm and 8pm as we celebrate our young artist's success!!

Madison Claire Foundation

American Idol Finale Bash 2009

For the second year in a row, we have been fortunate to be involved with the Madison Claire Foundation's American Idol Finale Bash. (You may recall the images from last year's event on the blog). For those of you whom are not familiar with the Madison Claire Foundation, it was created in memory of Madison Millington who passed away at the age of 2 from Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) in 2004. We have had the pleasure of getting to know the Millington family over the past couple of years and have been honored to be a part of this event. Inspired by Madison's memory, a committee was formed in March 2007 with the goal of building a coalition of individuals and businesses to develop and build a universally accessible playground in Woodbury. Madison's Place will provide all children the opportunity to play together and look beyond the differences in one another, fostering friendships, acceptance and understanding as they grow into adulthood.

The American Idol Finale Bash was held at the Lake Elmo Inn this year and was a HUGE success! We had nearly 300 people in attendance....half of whom were kids!! As you can see from the video, there was lots of entertainment other than the main event, the finale, itself!! A kids' magician, karoake, a kids' raffle, silent auction, wall of wine...just to name a few!! What a nite!! And to top it off....Kris Allen won American Idol!!!

Madison Claire Foundation's fundraising goal to build this playground is $600,000. If you are interested in learning more about the foundation or contributing to the Universal Playground, please check out the website: http://www.madisonclairefoundation.org/

Stories Event!!! What a party!!!

What a party it was!!! Saturday was our Stories event at the studio and what fun was had!! We want to thank everyone who donated books to our event to benefit the Minnesota Literacy Council...we are still counting (as we are still getting books dropped off!) but we are well past the 350 mark!! Almost double our initial goal!! THANK YOU!!!

We had a great turnout to the event despite the sunny, warm weather outdoors! Kids (and adults!) were fascinated by Colleen from WonderWeavers who entertained the kids with stories and her puppets, a craft, and very detailed balloon figures! And Cindy, the facepainter, was quite the artist! You can see from the images in the video, the facepaint was phenomenal!

Thank you also to Jennifer Pogatchnik from doodleinvite.com who brought her latest stationery designs for people to view and order for Mother's Day and teacher's gifts! Tracy Morrison brought wonderful new designs from Matilda Jane. And everyone enjoyed our rain-themed cookies specially handmade for the event! It was an action packed morning!!

We are hoping to make this an annual event so if you couldn't make it this year, stay tuned next spring for our 2nd Annual Stories Event!!!

March Madness....Free Sessions....now accepting calls!!

Little Bo Beep She Found Her Sheep

Happy Halloween! Hope everyone enjoyed the festivities and LOVELY weather this weekend. Since Robin's boys have so graciously shared their pumpkin creations, I thought my girls might like to share their halloween fun. It's amazing to be able to trick-or-treat in decent, relatively warm weather. My youngest didn't want to quit ... even after 2 hours out in the neighborhood she wanted to keep going. She told everyone, "I am a sheep. Baa."
Not to be out done. These are our pumpkins this year. My husband and I have a yearly competition to see whose is the best. Only problem we both get to judge so there is never definitive winner!

Sibling Togetherness

Here is no doubt that this family has a busy household but you know that these siblings share a great bond. In the image of the three of them together, you can tell that they are playmates and friends for life! How much fun is that? Alex, the youngest, is "all boy" and must love driving his older sisters crazy at times! We so enjoyed the energy and delight that they all brought to their session and we can't wait to see their family wall portrait displayed in their home!

Girlie Session!

As a charter member of the "moms-to-boys-only" club, I am always excited for our girlie girl sessions (somehow I don't think my husband would be overly thrilled if I had Melissa do a photo session with Bennett, Blake & Max in tu-tu's!) and Allison's session was very much girlie!!! What a doll! Allison was insistent that she wear the multi-color tutu despite the fact that mom preferred the more subtle lavender tutu...however, this first image ended up being mom's favorite! Could she get any cuter?!?! Mom loved all of the images and she had the best line during our viewing session..."These images make me feel all pink inside!" I couldn't sum it up better!!!

Just had to share!

We have been having a lovely morning, and the girls are playing peacefully, beautifully together. Then it becomes quiet ... really really quiet. And the next thing I know my littlest is all smiles with her "makeup," which was so delicately appplied by her older sister. You can see the cuplrit sneaking in the background! Ha!Proud ... and if you look closely you can see that my oldest spelled her name on the right cheek. How thoughtful to sign her work of art!

Guilty as charged! Hope you all have a great day! And enjoy the little things that make you laugh!