It was so much fun photographing this lovely family again! I photographed them about a year and a half ago at when Quincy was just a little guy. Now he's two and half, and has the biggest vocabulary of any two year old I have ever met! It is so much fun to get to photograph multiple generations in a photo session, and it is so much fun to get to photograph a family that you've photographed before! Thank you so much to the Matthews family for a wonderful shoot!
So much thanks to this darling family for a fun, laid back photo shoot! So fun to be able to capture the entire family together!
This past winter, I donated a family portrait package to Greenwood Elementary School's silent auction. The mom of the girls I babysit for helps put it on every year, and I always love an opportunity to support a good cause. All of the money earned went directly to the school, which as a teacher myself, I am in HUGE support of that no matter what! I am looking forward to continuing to do this for years to come, especially because it allows me to meet families I may never have otherwise gotten to meet! It was SO much fun photographing the darling Brown family! Aren't these boys just as cute as can be?! They were SUCH troopers, and made my job a piece of cake! I was so impressed with their incredible attitudes, fun personalities, and charming smiles! Not to mention, how awesome is their yard?! Yes, you got that right ... we did these photos at their house! Can you say BEAUTIFUL!? It was such a pleasure to meet this family ... Thank you SO much for buying my auction item!
About a month ago I spent the day taking Holiday photos! I always wait to post about my holiday sessions until all Christmas cards have been sent out so that everyone can enjoy the cards without having already seen the pictures. So, here you go! Previews from my Holiday Minis that were oh so fun!
Up first, the O'Donnell family! I have been watching these girls since the oldest, Anna, was 3, and Emily, the middle one, was just a baby. And now the youngest, Caroline, is already 4! I can not believe it! I like to think that I'm part of the family :) This 30 minute session was filled with lots of goofiness and laughs ... oh how I love them!
Up next, the beautiful Lang family! I met Angela about a year ago when I started observing in classrooms for my Masters degree, and now I'm going to be student teaching with Angela come January! Not only is she a fabulous teacher who I'm so blessed to get to learn and grow from but she's an amazing woman who always brightens everyones' day! Thank you for letting me take your family photos ... aren't her kiddos, Sydney and Cayden, so sweet?
And last but not least, the Yovich family! I grew up doing gymnastics with Elizabeth, and we have stayed good friends through all these years! I was so happy that they came to me to take their family photos! I think they turned out great!
Well this post is a little late, but better late than never, right? As I lay around after just getting my tonsils removed, I am finally finding some time to catch up on my blog posts! I have a lot to catch up on including my fun Holiday mini sessions that happened a few weeks ago as well as some fun adventures I have been on recently, which I will blog about come later today or sometime this week so be sure to check back later! Anyways, in the beginning of November, Brandon and I went to California to celebrate his grandparents 65th anniversary! How awesome is that?! While we were there, Brandon's cousin, Chad, and cousin in-law, Cortney, announced that they were pregnant with their first baby, and asked if I would take a few pictures of them for their announcement. The photos turned out super cute, and the announcement turned out even more cute! After a lot of communication, editing, and revising, Cortney and I finally finished the movie poster announcement that you see below. Super cute, right?! Congratulations to Chad and Cortney ... I am so, so happy for you! Thank you so much for letting me be apart of all this!
And here is the fun movie poster announcement we created! I especially love how the puppies were included in it :) So cute!
It was so much fun photographing the Graden family! I first met Erin when she was a bridesmaid in a wedding I photographed in October. (If you didn't get a chance to see the beautiful wedding of Chase and Chelsie, you can view it here). I photographed the Graden family a couple of weeks ago, and along with family photos we also took some adorable pictures of her daughter, Crimson, who turned ONE the other day! It is always so much fun for me to get to set up a backdrop and lights, and take some fun studio portraits! Crimson had never had this much cake before, and goodness did she love it! Could Tannen (the 2 year old big brother) and Crimson be any more cute?! Thank you so much to the Graden family not only for a fun shoot, but for being patient with me through the editing process since I had to get my tonsils removed the other day! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Where to start? Let me just say that the Perry family made my job a piece of cake! I am always blown away by how much ... hmmmm what is the word ... easier? More compliant? Whatever the word, photographing a family with grown children is a cinch compared to what I'm used to. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely positively LOVE the little ones (afterall, it's the kiddos that made me want to become a teacher), but it's always nice to mix it up every once in a while. While I thoroughly enjoy chasing youngsters around trying to get them to laugh, smile, and stand still, I welcome the refreshing change of photographing a family where every member of the family does exactly what I tell them to do for every single snap of the shutter! It's always weird when I am going through the original 300+ photos I took from a session, and 99% of them are perfect. By perfect, I mean that all four of them were perfectly posed with perfect expressions on their faces. I will admit that as easy as it is to photograph a family like this, it becomes incredibly hard when I am forced to narrow down 300 great photos to a mere handful or two. Thanks to the beautiful Perry family for a fun, easy-going, refreshing photo shoot!
I know it's been a while since I've posted on here, but boy, have I been busy! Between grad school, volunteering in schools, studying for and taking huge tests, working, photography, and visiting friends in Boston (blog post to come soon of this short trip!), I can not seem to find enough hours in the day to get everything done that I'm supposed to! So now here I am trying to get at least one photo shoot posted before I have to hit the hay to wake up early tomorrow and start my not-long-enough day all over again. I know I said I would have a few shoots posted by today, but sorry to break it to you, that is not going to happen. Hopefully I can post a few tomorrow between class and work, but we will see! I'm not making any promises! Anyways, a few weeks ago I photographed the White twins and their good friend CC (you might recognize all these kiddos from family sessions I did last Fall) before their First Communion! It was a special morning to say the least, and I am so glad that I got to be apart of it! The girls were excited, happy, giggly, wild, and oh so beautiful in their big, white dresses! It was also very special to get to include their sisters and Mom's in some of the photos as well. Reese couldn't have been any more cute than she was in that stylish blue polka-dotted jacket, and little Charlotte was so happy to get to be apart of the action in her pretty dress as well!
A couple of weeks ago I was honored to meet and photograph the Tinniswood Family! Mom, Dad and big brother, Landon, welcomed perfect little Westin into their family a few weeks ago so, of course, this photo shoot was centered all around him! Westin wasn't a big fan of having to pose for these photographs all by himself, and was much more happy and comfortable in the arms of his loving Mom. I mean, what two week old wouldn't be, right? He was also a little apprehensive about the flash as well, but I think we ended up with some precious moments for sure! Could he be in more adorable?
I recently had a fabulous family portrait shoot... but it wasn't any ordinary family portrait shoot. In fact, it was one big family portrait session consisting of three families smooched into one hour, and what fun it was! I photographed these three separate beautiful families who are all related, and then also photographed the entire family as a whole! It was very special to get to capture the entire family together, since it doesn't happen very happen as three of them live in England! Also, congratulations to Anthony and Andrea who just welcomed a perfect, beyond beautiful little baby girl into the world a few weeks ago, and it was the first time that all of them all got to see her! As well, it was so great to get to photograph Grandma Kathleen with her three absolutely adorable grand children! What could be more remarkable than that?! I was very honored to be able to photograph this family!
Last weekend I was so incredibly blessed to get to meet the adorable baby Sawyer. At two months old, she is one little bundle of joy! Her Mom and Dad, Ashlee and Ryan, are two very lucky, blessed parents. It was so great to get to meet Ashlee, and you might remember Ryan from the Heifferon family shoot I did in early November. Unfortunately, Ashlee and baby Sawyer could not be apart of that shoot, which is why I took their pictures this past weekend instead. Of course, I was more than honored to get to take their first professional portraits as a family. I know that the weather in Colorado has been uncanny for this time of year, and up until last weekend it was actually extremely warm here, but, of course, as it always seems to happen, the day before this photo session, the weather finally turned a bit colder, and since Sawyer is such a little one, we decided to do most of the session inside where the baby would stay cozy and warm. It ended up being an extremely cute, Christmas-themed shoot, and I enjoyed every minute of it! We also ventured outside for just a few minutes to catch a few outdoor pictures.
Thanks so much to Ryan, Ashlee and Sawyer! You were all a joy to photograph, and congratulations on your little baby girl!
Last weekend I was blessed to meet and photograph the wonderful Duran family. I have to give out a big kudos to this family for not rescheduling their shoot due to two unfortunate circumstances.... The first being that Cecilia (the oldest of the two sisters) broke her arm a week before our photo session, and two, it was 25 degrees outside with snow on the ground the day of our shoot. Fortunately, Cecilia was able to cover up her cast pretty well, and Adrian (the Dad) has an incredible office in downtown Littleton with really cool brick walls so we were able to take some indoor pictures instead of having to stand out in the freezing cold for an hour. We did, however, venture over to the Littleton Historical Museum to take a few outdoor pictures, and I was amazed and impressed that not one of the members in this family complained about the cold, especially since they didn't even put their jackets on. I, on the other hand, was all bundled up in my North Face fleece and giant scarf). Only when Reese (the youngest of the sisters) tripped and fell did we have a few tears shed, but she cheered right up with the promise of a cup of hot chocolate if only she smiled for a few more pictures. This shoot turned out much better than I could have ever imagined, and all the credit deserves to go to the Duran family! Thank you Mandy, Adrian, Cecilia, Reese and we can't forget Otis, the adorable model-savvy pup!
I have known Brittany for a very long time now, and she is one of my dearest friends so, of course, I was thrilled when she asked me if I could take family pictures of them. This entire family is so fantastic with two beautiful ladies and three handsome men! This family photo shoot was one of the easiest shoots I have ever done in my entire life. They were so willing to do whatever I asked of them even though they probably felt really cheesy, and Ryan even fell into the stream to try to help me get across it. All five of them contributed to an extremely fun and outgoing shoot. I'm sorry to Phil who broke his phone while jumping through the trees, and I'm sorry to Ryan who had to have been hurt after that fall, but I really appreciate your guys' enthusiasm and willingness to help make this a fun and exciting shoot! The yellow leaves and beautiful Fall colors made this shoot beyond exceptional, and I couldn't have asked for a better family to get to know and photograph. Thank you all for such a great time!
On Sunday I photographed the Cirelli family. It was so nice to meet this wonderful family, and I was honored that they asked me to take their family pictures. This beautiful family of four recently welcomed Liam into the world so congratulations to all of them! These two brothers couldn't be any more cute. The two year old, Owen, is so photogenic and fun! He loved getting to run around the park while Liam was so content and happy the entire time... I think he may have even enjoyed getting his picture taken.
On Friday I photographed the beautiful Johnson family. Could they be any more picture perfect, especially with all of their matching Chucks? JUST WAY TOO CUTE! Elijah and Avari are two of the most adorable kids I know, and I was honored to get to photograph them. I just love all of them so much ... they are an incredible family, and I am blessed to be good friends with them!
Last Saturday I was privileged to get to photograph a dear friend of mines Grandma's 90th Birthday party. The party was at Littleton United Methodist Church, where Martha has attended for the past 70 years. Can you imagine going to the same church for 70 years?! It was so much fun getting to see Martha celebrate this very special day with all her friends and family, and I was blessed to get to capture it.
It's that time of the year again when everyone wants their family photos taken. Here is a much needed blog post of the three family portrait sessions (and the Mom-Daughter session) that I did this past weekend. All four shoots were so much fun. I was honored that these four incredible, beautiful families asked me to take their family portraits. First up is the O'Donnell family. Although we couldn't get the little one in this family to have a serious smile for any of the pictures, I think these photos definitely show off her spunky attitude. What do you think? Could she have any more great faces? And how about the other two munchkins? Super cute, right?
Next is the Hicks family ... this shoot was so much fun with all the leaves and fabulous fall colors everywhere. Not to mention the cute, stylish kids and the beautiful parents! Thank you all for making my job SO, SO easy!
And finally, we have the Lamar family. I have been blessed to know this family for many, many years now, and they just welcomed a new baby girl, Frances, to their already stunning family. Congrats!!
And last, but not least we have adorable little Evie. Poor Evie did not particularly want or enjoy getting her picture taken, but she definitely had a cute pout, and think the few that we did get were worth it!
On Sunday, I was blessed to get to photograph the White family. This incredible family was so much fun to work with. With the beautiful parents, charming 7 year old twins, and an adorable baby girl, they sure did make my job incredibly easy! The girls are so full of life, wild and fun, and I tried to get their great personalities to shine through these images. The colors on the trees, and the fallen leaves couldn't have been more perfect for these Fall family photos. Thank you so much to the White family for such a fun shoot!!