Love these kids! I met them for the first time when we did this shoot, we just hung out in their backyard, in the house for a few shots and then drove over to the playground at their school for a few more. Kassidy is such a sweetheart, Colton is all boy and so funny, and baby Cayson is just precious

Stephanie, Thanks again for asking me to take these for you

Meet precious little Jesse Ray.

Congrats Emily and Stacy… I know you waited awhile on this little bundle of joy, but I am sure he was well worth the wait

Cleaning out and organizing the girls closet last week (I finally got around to doing it after putting it off for far to long…) we found a play camera of Kennedy’s. She has since taken up photography in her world of pretend. And I love it and encourage it every chance I get! (of course!) One of her favorite subjects is Bristol; at one point I heard her say “Say ‘cheese’ Bistol!” I glanced up and saw Bristol take off across the room yelling “Cheese!” the whole time. It was hilarious! And the best part? Kennedy chased after her firing off pictures the whole time! I loved it! No since in making her sit still…just chase her and get the ‘real’ shots..thats my girl!

She also loves to say “Momma, dance!” then she fires off a few frames while I dance around. Yeah, we are cool like that

She even had to sleep with her camera at one point….

Happy Monday!

I am bad about calling people by the wrong name as I shoot… I just don’t pay attention and often get lauged at because I’ll be going on and on, running my mouth, and the whole time…. using the wrong name! Well, I did it especially bad on this shoot. I called Susan ”Lisa” so much that I was annoyed with myself! Sigh… I am sorry Lisa Susan! (heehee, you know I just had to do that!)

I met Todd and Susan and their 3 kids downtown Monroe one weeknight and we just wondered around taking pictures. These are some of my fav’s:   

I could not get enough of this little guy..he is so cute and funny!

Thank you guys for asking me to take your pictures – and for a fun night

He has been in front of my camera many times now, but each time he starts out a little shy. He gives me this look that I just love, and so I capture it. (because his Momma loves it too!)

But he comes around, and is soon offering me flowers

This was his Easter shoot, so his Mom had some Easter-ish props…

Love this!

So… how was your weekend? If you are a Momma, I hope you had a wonderful Mothers Day! But no matter who you are, I hope you had a fabulous weekend

I am happy that I got The Pioneer Woman Cookbook(Thanks Mom!) Oh my goodness, I think I want to try every recipe in that book! Having new and delicious things to cook makes me happy. I sometimes feel like I cannot think of a single thing to make, but I have a book full of yummy idea’s now! And, she takes pictures of the recipe as she makes it… I love that! And, the book also has lots other pictures she took too. Yep, this book makes me happy

Speaking of happy, this picture makes me happy. I took it last weekend while doing a family shoot, and I am completely in love with it!  I have had it in my head for awhile now, just been waiting for the right people, time and place for it. I think these sisters, Lauren and Brittany, pulled it off perfectly!

And while I love the color in the above image, I love the ‘feel’ b&w and sepia gives it also…

Girls, ya’ll are just gorgeous!

Happy Monday everyone

This shoot just feels like spring, and I love it! Here are a few of my favorite shots of sweet little Ally

I think this may be my favorite. It just feels…beautiful. I love the way the light is washing over her, and the way she is looking right into the camera….

Happy Mothers Day to all of you Momma’s out there!

Have a great weekend everyone!

A beautiful baby girl. Meet Harbor Ann:

I think she liked my cozy basket

Congrats Megan and Andrew…she is precious!

I just returned from Walmart. It was quite the trip. If you were there this morning and heard a one-year-old little girl screaming and saying “Na!” (her way of saying “No”) that might possibly have been me. And Bristol, the one doing the screaming. And Kennedy, but she was not screaming. Lets just say, people were staring, I just wanted to be done and leave, but instead had to run back to the same aisle about 3 times because I was so flustered I would forget things. Then remember 5 aisles over. Then they only had one box of Sure-Jell, and I needed more than one box in order to make my strawberry jam this week. So off to Harris Teeter we went, thank goodness for the free cookies they offer kids, that kept her quite for a little while, but I was not fast enough and soon had to deal with fighting over balloons, jumping up and getting the balloon when Kennedy accidentally let it go. And then more screaming from Bristol.

Ah… it was a morning! Motherhood… it can be demanding and frustrating. But oh-so-wonderful, no matter what.

Our weekend….was fabulous! It included these:

Ohhhh yes! I have a real weakness for Krispy Kreme Doughnuts    We also spent a lot of time outside…planting flowers and playing. (these next few were actually taken a few weeks ago. But since it is the same thing we did this weekend, I figured I’d just work them in here!)

Aunt TC…

Here she is looking a bit more normal!

Happy Monday ya’ll!

On a blog we can tell what we want to tell, share what we want to share, and in a way, be who we want to be. Today I’m just gonna keep it real….Not that I am normally fake, but you get what I’m saying…(right?!)

First of all, Friday has snuck up on me two weeks in a row now!  Before I know it Friday rolls around and I haven’t prepared a blog post. Not that I am on a blogging schedule, but when I have shoots to be blogged, I try to blog about every other day. And lets be honest, blogging takes time. So I normally blog the night before and schedule the post to publish the next morning. So, when I realized it was already Friday (again!), there was no way to throw a blog post together this morning. It was all I could do to get myself and my girls out the door on time to get to my shoot (adorable newborn shoot..ahhh!) And Kennedy generally has some sort of meltdown as we try to leave. She doesn’t want to wear those shoes, she wants to take something with her, she wants to walk, she wants to be held, I didn’t do something exactly right, the list goes on. Anyway, I am finally getting around to blogging today – while they are napping

So, that brings us to Cetarium. An awesome band made up of  five guys; Chad, Rodney, Chip, Rodney and Levin. Now, still keeping it real… As I waited for these guys to arrive at our location I sat in my car and called up Stuart (my husband, for those of you who don’t know) and was all like “Babe I am so nervous!” Not sure why I was nervous, maybe because I had never done a shoot that included 5 guys, maybe because I had never done a shoot for a rock band (or any band for that matter) and I was just feeling a bit extra nervous. How would they do in front of my camera? How would I do directing them? How could I make them look ‘cool’ and rock bandish? Yeah, maybe I was overthinking, but that is how it is with me and my photography sometimes. It means a lot to me, I want to love my work and I want my clients to love it.   Anyway, Stu said all the right things “it’s gonna be okay, your gonna do great….it’s good to be nervous, keeps you humble….just go out there and do your thing….. have fun….”  He was right. As soon as I stepped out of the car I didn’t think about my nerves. I didn’t think about the ‘hows’. I just did it. And I have to say, this shoot was SO much fun!

Thank you guys for rocking it out (pun intended!) in front of my camera!  Seriously, I had a great time

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