She wakes up and sits at the bar, and eats a chocolate chip muffin for breakfast. Jammie shirt, no pants, chocolate smeared all over her face. I love it all. And she does too
The yellow flowers that happened to be sitting there that morning framed these shots perfectly…

My sweet Tenley Rhyann…

Where is Tenley?

Peek-a-boo!

Happy Monday to you, and thanks for looking!

I always love having these two in front of my camera… this time was just as fun. I mean really, how can you not love this?!….

haha! I just love that shot

I am impressed by how high Jax can jump!

Serious…

..and silly!

Ginny, thank you for asking me to do these!

“The simple life, Country” that was our focus this time around over on Click of the Wild. And honestly, I kinda struggled with this one!

I had idea’s. But they weren’t easy to get. The timing and other things were out of my control. The first idea was a combine cutting a corn field. To me, this really says ”country” and it’s something that I see a lot where we live. But, most of the corn fields were cut by the time we started this focus, and the ones that weren’t cut yet, I never saw them out there cutting… Another idea was something I saw a couple of years ago; at dusk a pickup truck (lights on) with a trailer, and a couple of guys loading hay bales. The scene was gorgeous. But, I didn’t see that again while we were working on this focus.
And lastly, I did see this, but didn’t have my camera with me! Grrr…. I was driving down the road and got behind a guy wearing a baseball cap and flannel shirt driving a tractor. Yep, that’s country, and I loved it. But, I didn’t get to capture it
This is what I ended up with. Two silo’s in a soy bean field.

This next shot was only seconds after the one above…amazing what a little change in camera settings will do ;)

Head over to Click of the Wild to see what the other girls got. Enjoy! And thanks for looking.

Confession, I think the title “Miscellaneous Monday” is corny. But I can’t think of anything clever right now. And I really just want to share a post full of random pictures from the last few months. And, since I haven’t done a ‘Miscellaneous Monday’ post in awhile, well, here goes…!

I love this picture, even the mess…

Bristol Bee, always being silly!

Tenley sporting some Minnie Mouse ears…

This is what a Sunday afternoon often looks like at my parents house. Family, smoke from the grill making the sunrays look even more gorgeous, little ones playing and adults playing (cornhole) too… On this particular Sunday afternoon my brother and sister-in-law told us they are expecting their first baby

And here she is… Little Momma ;)

And little Mya… (my niece)

Cousin time…

This picture just feels so real. I love it.

Sister’s and their babies. And dress up clothes… Notice Kennedy has two babies in her stroller and two seats (with babies) hanging on the handles?! Whew.

Our favorite spot on our walk… we stop here and just play, or ride down the hill as fast as they can on their bikes

Hey Tenley, where is your belly button?

Tenley is a Momma’s girl. I snapped these pictures last month when she came up to me and put one hand on my leg while she sucked her thumb with the other hand… She also loves holding my hand, so I got a picture of that too. I want to remember these sweet moments. Because right now I may complain that I can’t walk without stepping on her, or that I just need her to get off my legs… I know it will not always be this way…

And really, who can resist that face?!

Thanks for looking, and Happy Monday!

Oh! I love fall…

Homemade caramel apples and trips to the mountains are just two of my favorite things about fall. We are actually off to the mountains as soon as my hubby gets home, and these caramel apples are freshly made this morning and will be going with us

And, to make it even better, it’s supposed to be coooold up there and we are having chili for supper. Oh yeah, I’m excited!

Now, before you start thinking I have it all together and everything is perfect over here let me admit that I just stuffed a few things further under my girls beds that they didn’t clean up. Now I feel better since I can’t see it hanging out, I’ll deal with that later.
I managed to mop the kitchen, but then Tenley ran across the floor and fell. Hard. (for the record, I didn’t laugh, not even a little bit!) Speaking of Tenley, she is still in her jammies. It is almost 3:00pm.
Kennedy and Bristol just now got dressed.

Ha. Just keeping it real ;)

Happy Weekending and Happy Fall Y’all!
I’ll be back from the mountains in time to shoot two sessions this weekend, I’ll try to get sneak peeks up on my Facebook page

My little sister Tressa Ann, and future brother-in-law, Matt.

We squealed and yelled and hugged when they told us they were engaged one Sunday afternoon. And soon, we were planning her engagement and bridal sessions. They love spending time in Virginia with Matt’s family at the “River Farm” so they chose that location for their engagement pictures. Tressa told me I was going to loooove it. And she was right! Our Mom went with us and we drove up on a Friday night. It was dark when we arrived but the next morning we woke and when I stepped out on the back porch - and when the fog finally lifted - I was in love with the view.

I snapped this picture with my phone…

We hopped on 2 four-wheelers and stopped and took pictures all the way down to the river. Once we got there we got in the river and had some fun. I can see why they love this place, it is beautiful…

I used my phone to snap this picture as we rode the four wheelers.. a little behind-the-scenes action for ya

Tressa and Matt… thank you. XoXo

And suddenly, she is five. My first girl, Kennedy Grace, is five years old today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEET GIRL!

She is spunky, funny, sweet, determined and stubborn. She is smart and beautiful. She is the best big sister to her little sisters and she is her Daddy’s girl. She loves frogs (and other critters) and lip gloss and baby dolls (and barbies and dress-up and shoes and climbing tree’s and riding her bike and skirts and leggings and so much more!) She is one of a kind, and I love her dearly. Now, if we can just get all that determination and stubbornness channeled in the right direction, we’ll be good

Here she is, as a newborn baby….

And here she is a few weeks ago…

a couple more newborn pictures…

and these were taken a few days ago…

These two were taken a couple of weeks ago, she is totally into playing baby dolls lately

I found this next one looking back on her baby pictures. This is her cousin Owen kissing her for the first time. This just melts my heart and makes me all goo-goo-ga-ga. They may live 6 hours apart form each other, but they are the kind of close that only cousins can be when they are together…

Here they are back in the summer…

Ah. They grow SO fast! Excuse me while I go into doting Momma (and Aunt) mode…

I did this little ‘survey’ with her today, (the day before her Birthday) and here is what she has to say…

Favorite color: pink and blue

Favorite food: tacos

Favorite drink: not sweet tea (tea without sweet)

Favorite dessert: strawberry pie with icing (strawberry cream pie)

Best friend(s): Tori, Sienna and Kourtnie

Favorite thing to do: having birthday stuff and helping you in the kitchen and washing dishes

Favorite place: Piper and Claire’s house and Tori’s house

Favorite movie: The Little Mermaid and Sleeping Beauty. But I’ve never watched Sleeping Beauty before

Favorite toy: Barbies

Favorite book: Purplicious

When I grow up I want to be: Babysitter and a Mom, and taking photo shoots like you

I think I am good at: Tag your it! (and swimming)

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Happy Birthday girlie! We love you so much!

Six years ago today, on a perfect fall afternoon, we said “I do”.

All images taken by Kelley Clayton Photography

Tonight, as three little girls run around I think about how much has changed in these six years. I feel incredibly blessed. He is my best friend, and I love living life alongside him.

Thanks for looking And if your interested in reading a little more about how we met, you can check out this blog post…

Lane is baby brother to cute little Ally (I blogged her session yesterday), we did a few pictures to capture his sweet little self at 3 months old.
Paulette (his Mom) is so good at making sure she keeps up with pictures for all of her kids. As a Mom of five, it cannot be easy. But she makes it happen.

Paulette, thanks for asking me to do these for ya! As always, I loved having your kiddo’s in front of my camera

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