Valentine's Mini Sessions!!!

After such a huge success, and many requests for more mini sessions I am launching another one! I realized while walking through Target (my home away from home) that they were gearing up for Valentine's Day. And then it hit me, I promised to do a Valentine mini session weekend!!! So, here it is.....
January 20th bring your Sweethearts for their Valentine's mini session! As usual, there is no session fee for mini sessions. There is now a $50 minimum purchase with mini sessions. I will be sending out e-vites again to set appointments, and if the demand is high enough I may open an additional weekend of sessions.
Ladies, this is also a good time to leave the kids at home and come for a session of your own to surprise that special someone.
Please feel free to email me with any questions or to schedule your mini session.

As I close I wanted to leave you with an incredible quote someone sent to me recently. I know mostly women read my blog, and I know as women we need to be reminded of how special we are. So, this is that reminder that you are beautiful. Ok, enough cheese...just read.

LIGHT
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are we not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you.
We are born to make manifest the glory of Our Creator that is within us.
It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fears,Our very presence automatically liberates others.

Merry Christmas!!!

Hi friends! I just wanted to pop in and wish everyone a very Merry Christmas! I hope you all have a wonderful holiday, eat lots of yummy food, and squeaze your loved ones tight. I am so excited for Christmas this year. Mason is 20 months now, so this year he will really get it. Reagan is super excited for Santa and eye-balling every present under the tree that looks like it should be his (which in his mind is all of them). They have been good (well, as good as a 20 month old and 4 year old boy can get) this year and Mom and Dad have worked their tails off, so Santa is bringing some good stuff I hear. I am so excited to watch my babies little faces as they come out of their rooms on Christmas morning, ready to see what Santa has delivered. It's more exciting than I remember Christmas ever being as a child. I love to see my kids on Christmas morning. We open presents, eat some yummy breakfast, sing Happy Birthday to Jesus. It just doesn't get any better than this.

As I look back over this year, I realize how blessed I have been. I decided a little over a year ago that I wanted to start my own photography business. With my wonderful husband as my investor, I was on my way. But equipment and hours of studying don't make a business, and certainly not a successful one. So, here I am a year later with a business that is booming better than I had even hoped for. Clients that I am so blessed to have, and so many friendships formed. I couldn't have ever imagined that my little thought of a business would be so good to me. And I never imagined I would make so many wonderful friends along the way. I so enjoy stepping into your lives for a moment to capture memories, then being able to stick around as a friend to see how these wonderful children change and grow. Someone told me recently that I need to learn to seperate business and personal. I thought about it long and hard, and know now why it didn't sound right. They weren't saying it in the nicest way to begin with, but I will never seperate the two. My business IS personal to me. My clients ARE personal to me. My work IS personal to me. It's my passion...my heart. When it becomes just business, I will know it's time to move on. So, thank you all from the bottom of my heart for making this journey that much enjoyable. Thank you for letting me into your lives for a moment, then inviting me to stay. Thank you for your patience in my learning process, support, kindness, and mostly for being the best darn clients and people a girl could ever ask for. I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas from our family to yours. Here's hoping Santa brings something good for you!

I finally posted the January Blog Special, it's updated in the last post.

Merry Christmas and a Very Happy New Year!

I am FINALLY updating the blog

I am a bad blog owner. Bad. But in my own defense life and business have been crazy busy. But I am so glad to say that I am out of the Christmas season for portraits. If you missed out on a Christmas session, sorry, but with the great specials to come you can surely make up for it. I had a wonderful Thanksgiving with my family. We went to Kentucky to see my family on my mom's side. It was great fun, but I ate WAY too much. I came back definitely looking pregnant! And of course with my dumb luck I had a dr. appt a week after Thanksgiving. So, I gained 4 POUNDS in between visits. ACK! I explained it all very well by telling the dr that I ate the whole turkey. :) My lovely neighbor even asked if I swallowed it whole. Thanks, way to make a girl feel good. hehe So, it was a good trip. I slept a LOT and wondered if the travel had really just taken that much out of me. I couldn't figure out why I was so stinkin tired. It was bad. I was going to bed every night at 8! I was beating the kids in the who can pass out fastest game. I know, such a show off. :P Well, it all makes sense now. My anemia is worse in this pregnancy than it has been before. It never stops amazing me how different every pregnancy has been for me. The bad part is that each one has had it's problems and complications, all of them being different. Why can't I just have a boring uneventful peaceful pregnancy?!?! And seriously, the women who LOVE pregnancy (no offense what so ever...I would love to love it, but the problems ruin it every time), but I am NOT one of those women. I don't particularly care for it. I mean of course I love feeling my sweet little baby move. I love knowing that my own is growing in there. But the toll it takes on me is not too cool. But this being my last one, I can say that I am appreciating it a lot more than ever. And even better, we had yet another ultrasound Thursday and the baby is doing beautifully. So, there you have it. The update on baby 3 I have been asked about a million times and keep swearing I will post about and haven't. That's about all I got for now except for my January special. Hope you all have a wonderful week and get that Christmas shopping done!!!

January Blog Special - Holiday Special Extended!
Half Off Session and Complimentary 8x10 with $75 minimum purchase.

January Reorder Special - From now till the end of January there will be no archival fee on reorders. That is a $25 savings! There is a $50 minimum for this special. If you have any questions, or to repost your session for ordering please email me when you are ready. Once you have requested your session to be reposted for reordering it will be online for 3 days for choices to be made.