Welcome, friend! I'm Kate. I married my high school sweetheart over 10 years ago and we have three curious and imaginative kids. You'll find motherhood stories and ideas here, along with gorgeous photos and videos!

A collection of the best newborn photography of 2016 by Dear Kate Studios, Loveland and Fort Collins newborn photographer.

Babies grow so quickly! That sweet little helpless newborn quickly becomes full of personality, sitting, and starting to crawl! These moments are so precious and fleeting! As a Loveland studio photographer, I love capturing a baby’s personality as they grow! Details of their crawl, sweet chubby hands and eyelashes for days! Norah came to the […]

Miss Charlotte is no stranger to the camera, her mom being a photographer and all. She did have a touch of PCS (photographer’s child syndrome) though. 🙂 My oldest has a severe case after over 3 years in front of my lens. It’s not so much that she is shy in front of the camera […]

The Hurley’s were one of the very first families I photographed when I was portfolio building for my business. We’ve kept in touch over the last couple of years and I even had the pleasure of taking maternity photos for Sara when she was expecting little blonde haired, blue eyed Lincoln 🙂 We met up […]

How adorable is this little ladybug? She is just a few weeks older that my own little one year old and we had a blast capturing her at this super fun age. She was just starting to walk around the time of our session 🙂 Her mama and daddy did a great job of keeping […]

I love newborn babies. The way they feel in your arms, how they just kind of melt into you all curled up with that sweet baby smell. I was so blessed to spend  the morning of Juliana’s  10th day snuggling with her and taking her newborn pictures in her home. Can you believe she kept […]

  FALL 2018 MINI SESSIONS AVAILABLE HERE     fort collins mini sessions The days are still hot but we are starting to get that occassional cool down that signals summer is coming to an end. Pumpkins are growing in my yard, school supplies are on the shelves (and Chirstmas trees too, what?!) and the […]

I firmly believe that babies have a mind of their own as to when and how they should come into the world. That’s part of the reason I only take a coupld of newborn sessions a month. You just don’t know when a baby will come early or be 2 weeks past due. Brody was […]

You know that pregnant mom that looks like she’s smuggling a basketball under her shirt? Totally Katie! We had a little bit of a crazy evening for Derek and Katie’s maternity session in Fort Collins trying to wrangle their pups, Russ and Dakota. I was so happy to have a shot where they are both […]

Growing Up Fort Collins inspired me to put together a summer bucket list today. Last year I shared some of my favorite summer activities in Northern Colorado in this post. While we’ll definitely hit up a lot of those again this year, there are few new thing we’ll be trying too! 1. Fairgrounds Splash Park […]