I waited and waited for this little sweetheart to be born so I could capture her cuteness! We are sorta-kinda- related, in a round about way. Her mom is the cousin of my niece on my husbands side. Confused? Me too! Who cares, I get to gobble up her sweetness now on a regular basis at family gatherings…..and Im so looking forward to documenting her first yr!

I dont think I’ve been to a more symbolic, emotional, beautiful wedding in quite a long time. It was a bit challenging to say the least to capture great images when your eyes are filled with tears! The joy and pride in Laiana’s  dad’s face, the feet washing durring the ceremony, Curtis’s mom seeing him on the front lawn from the upstairs window and yelling out to him how handsome he looked! You could certainly feel love in the air!!

The Season is upon us. The Season for Family pics for the Christmas card anyway! lol The first 3 families to book their sessions before the end of Sept will get a complementy set of 25 cards. Please email me for specific details.

I have been working on these for some time. Ive used images from some of my most recent shoots. I used images from a family shoot, a newborn shoot and my most recent Senior shoo, just to show how versitile these  cards are! I love them all!!

I met Erika a few years ago when I shot her sister Nikki’s Senior Pictures. Mom wanted me to do a shot of them together for their Christmas card that yr. so Erika tagged along with Nikki, and this yr. it was Nikki’s turn to tag along with Erika! We headed downtown for our session. first stop was a favorite back alley. Yes its a little weird being in a back alley. Yes workers come out the back doors for their cigarette break and  find us the source of entertainment! lol, its all good. This time we even had a dad and his kids riding by on bikes… “Who rides bikes downtown through an alley”? Let just say its a good thing Erika isn’t easily intimidated.

Here is this years picture of the two of them together for this years Christmas card! Stunning right? Thanks girls, you were a ton of fun to hang out with.

It seemed strange to me that we had never met when the Hansen’s lived in the same town as my family and me. We have a ton of the same friends, and lived very close by. I suppose at the time the hubby and I were busy with little ones and didn’t get out much. These days the Hansen’s live in North Carolina. So how did we finally met you might ask? Face Book of course! Olivia saw my pictures that I had shot for a friend that we both had in common and messaged me. I love how FB connects people! She and the family were planning on coming to town over the Summer, so of course we started planning for a family shoot!

Clapping games seemed to keep the girls from getting too bored! Remember “cey, cey, ol playmate, come out               and play with me, and bring your dollies 3, climb up my apple tree…… I rocked at clapping games! lol

And who can resist a few “Daydream  Blends”  of these sweet darlings?

Our origional location we had planned to do our shoot suddenly changed their hours, so I found myself        without a well thought out place to shoot. I confess as I pulled up and found the gates closed panic set in! I called     Olivia and said, “give me 10 mins to think of an alternative spot” lol I knew of this little spot but had never shot    here before….I decided to just go with it! I do believe it worked out just fine, and I know I’ll be shooting here    again. It was just magical at the hr. we were there.