3 Great Examples on What to Wear for your Family Photo Sessions:)

I get this question a lot! Here are a few of my recent favorites picks for outfits. Bright coordinating colors photograph great. The denim and white in the last photo makes for natural sweet photo. Be bright, be natural, most of all be you!

read this before you do your newborn session

no matter how you look or feel, can I give you one piece of advice?  Choose to take some photos with your precious newborn. I have posted about this before, I just see it so many times.  Some mommies I manage to talk into taking a few, other refuse, but if I can tell you from my heart, be in at least a few! I would be very surprised in you ever regret it and I know your baby will never regret it. It is such precious time and then it is gone, and you can't get it back. So PLEASE be in your photos with your baby:)

Advice for a Great Photo Session

One of the keys to a successful session is relaxed parents. We all want the great shots, but when we try force our children to sit and smile when they clearly are much happier doing what normally make them happy, why not follow them.  My advice for this evening, to moms and dads that want great shots is to relax :) Love those babies, don't worry about perfection, just focus on the relationships you have with your children and I will capture it. Good night <3

couples and their babies

I LOVE family photos, I love photos of mommies and daughters and dads and their boys. All of you that know me know how much I treasure images with my children. But here is a thought I wanted to share, that I fall short on many times and in many ways, but when was the last time you took the time to take some beautiful memories with your spouse. Not only are you the foundation for your children, but we should value our relationships with our husband or wife. It is incredibly special and so are they. 

Oh and here is a book suggestion that helps you remember: The Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas. My beautiful friend put this book in my thoughts and I finally sat down to read it. If every person in a marriage would read it I think there would be more loving couples and less divorces. 

Giveaway!

GIVEAWAY

 I wanted to do another giveaway for the holiday season. This one is a bit different from the last.

I am incredibly blessed. I know how much I have and truly do count my blessings everyday. Here are a few from my list:


#431 health
#855 bedtime story giggles
#859 house littered with books, art and crumbs
#988 clean water
#925 rain at night, shelter and a roof
#935 prayer

and the list continues. I know there are people out there in need. I know some of them well and some from a distance.

For as long as I have been doing photography I have wanted to change something with my pictures. First I wanted to be a journalist and allow people glimpses into to other worlds, so they could help. Now, of course I am a wife and mother and I want to stay close to home. I do family and children photography because I feel like I am showing the beauty of love and relationships, and that fills my spirit.

This giveaway is for people in need. You can nominate yourself or anyone else. Please leave their story or yours below.

I am sure I will want to give the session to everyone, so I apologize in advance. This is for someone who needs some joy, something to hold onto, or for someone who is celebrating something amazing they have had to overcome.

Please tag and share this. Leave your story below in a comment or on facebook or in an email to me and share this post for your chance to receive a FULL SESSION (details on location and date must fit into my holiday schedule)

I will choose a winner on October 1, 2013

Smile

After a long break, I am going to try include blogging into my crazy life once again! So I thought I could just start you all out with a smile :)