Today my baby girl turns One year old! Honestly it is so hard to believe….   As some of you may already know, I started a ‘project’ when she was born to take a picture a week for one year of her. I wanted to do this so I could ‘see’ how she changed from week to week. I have picked out my favorite picture from every week and put them in a coffee table book (almost done with it, cannot wait to see the finished product!) Anyway, I wanted to share all 52 pictures with you here on the blog, so I have created a little slideshow with Weeks 2 through 51, and also a bigger picture of weeks 1 and 52… Happy Birthday Kennedy Grace! I love you!

Wow! It is amazing to me to see the changes in these pictures… I love it! I knew from the beginning that these first years would be fleeting, and I am so glad that I have managed to capture and save a little bit of every week with my camera.. And now that she is a year old I plan to take her picture once a month, so wish me luck keeping up with it!

I may not do weddings, but I LOVE doing bridals or ‘Day After’ sessions… A ‘Day After’ session is when a girl gets back into her wedding dress for more pictures (with or without her hubby). It can be the Day after your wedding, a month after or 10 years after – it does not matter! What matters is you get to put back on your dress (that you’ll only wear one time anyway) and get pictures that you may not have taken the time to get on your wedding day. Another plus is when you do a Day After session you are more relaxed, your not worried about getting to a reception or anything.

My good friend, Julie and I were talking the other day and decided we needed to get together and do a Day After session for her, she felt like she didn’t have any pictures of her by herself in her dress.  So we took care of that!

I have to say a HUGE thank you to Linden for taking us to the awesome location we used and to my Aunt Pamela for letting us use her chair! (Aunt Pam, I do love this chair, please don’t recover it as you are planning to! XoXo)

Today I have been married to the man I love and my best friend for two years… And so I thought I’d share a few of my favorite wedding pictures!  (All images taken by Kelley Clayton Photography)

2007 was a year of weddings in our group of friends… this is a picture of all of us who got married that year, and it is still one of my favorites! There are other pictures of us all looking and smiling, but I love this one because it is so real! I can still remember us all standing there laughing and having a great time!

 Lisa and Brent are expecting their first baby this month, so we got together for a maternity shoot… I had a ton of favorites, but finally narrowed it down to these!

Brent is such a nut! (can you tell from this picture below?!)

Wow. she definitely has that ‘glow’……

She does not know if she is having a boy or a girl! Yay!

Her due date is actually on Halloween; so we went to a pumpkin patch for the last pictures…. we got there after the sun had set, so we didn’t have a lot of light to work with But, we still got some great pictures!

Thanks again Brent and Lisa! Can’t wait to see if you have yourselves a little girl or a little boy!

Leg warmers! Seriously, how cute are these things?!

This is a picture from Kennedy’s weekly shoot… this week marked Week 50! Wow! Only two more weeks and she’ll be one year old!  Sigh. It is so hard to believe….

Happy Friday!

Meet Jax; the newest member of our family! He belongs to my cousin Ginny and her hubby Kyle.

Ginny is incredibly laid back and suggested that Kennedy and Kourtnie ’hold’ him (really Ginny held him on their laps) I was not sure about this and was a little nervous, (nervous that Kennedy would grab him or something!)  but Ginny insisted it would be okay and I have to admit that it made the most adorable picture!

Congrats Ginny and Kyle! He is adorable!!

Meet Beverly and Jeremy:

And their adorable kids Courtney and Corey:

Together they are a happy family!

Haha! I love this last one – they are making ‘pumpkin faces’ at their pumpkins!

This little girl has been on my blog a few times now, and she seriously gets more adorable every time I see her!    For this shoot we used a mirror for most of the pictures; I have always loved reflective pictures, and what could be better than seeing two of a cute little girl?!

She ate a little dirt…!

Thank you again Aja for allowing me to shoot your little girl… it is always an honor to have her in front of my camera! XoXo

I recently got some old luggage to use as props and tested them out last week when I did Kennedy’s weekly shoot… I love it!

Poppa, my grandfather, turns 75 this month. He means so much to us all; by ‘us all’ I mean his wife,  5 children, their spouses, 25 grandkids, (not counting spouses and boyfriends/girlfriends) and 3 great-grandkids… Yes, it is a big family! And yes, we all  feel lucky and honored that he is the backbone of our family. So, I wanted to share a few pictures from his birthday bash.

(these are going to be small since I have so many!)

Below, Ginny will be having great-grandbaby #4 in a couple of weeks!

Happy Birthday Poppa! I love you very very much!