Have you ever seen a happier baby!?! Remember when I did her six month session this summer?  Still just as happy!! But I have to be honest.  Hadley is an amazing eater.  But cake?  Um. No way!  Would not touch it!  Now this is the one year old that will eat steak and bang her […]

Thank you! What an amazing first year in Charlotte North Carolina!  I feel so blessed to have had such a successful launch of Renee Stengel Photography here in the southeast after our moves from Northern Virginia and Kansas City! And, thankfully, now that I have finally built my dream pool, the Stengel Family has no […]

Mom reached out to me to say that her baby girl was about to turn one and her big boy about to turn four ~ and she wanted to celebrate with an Underwater Mommy and Me session! How fun is that?!? We are big on experiences over stuff for birthdays in our house, so I […]

Our Sweet Boy… Oh our sweet baby Jacob ~ our most precious gift we didn’t know we needed!  My third baby boy celebrated his big happy birthday yesterday.  THREE!  Oh how this tiny six pound peanut wrapped feels like a lifetime away.  Yet, these three years feel like they have passed in a blink… Meandering […]