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Together – sc children photographer

February 17, 2011 – 2:18 pm

Why are my children so ridiculously adorable??!!!

And why do they seem almost more adorable (is that possible???) when they are snuggled up together on our bed? Oh man it just melts my heart to see the two of them together and imagine what awesome times they will have as brother and sister. Hudson loves to touch Avery’s “soft” head, and hold her hand. He also shows her everything and then says “nice!” He’ll even show her stuff when she’s sleeping and then act as if she saw him :) It seriously hurts to love two little kiddos this much!

We did this photo shoot as neither Tyler or myself could feel okay having a picture as the background on our phones that wasn’t of both of them! Although we did need some pics of them together anyway!

I love Hudson’s expression in the one on the left. He’s such a little sweetie.

Bahahaha! This kid cracks me up! He did this little hand on the chin pose on his own! He kept telling me “hand! chin!” Simply HILARIOUS.

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Avery. A little bundle of awesome. – sc newborn photographer

February 7, 2011 – 9:59 pm

I can’t believe I’m writing this post. It seems like just yesterday that I was writing a post to introduce Hudson to the world and here I am writing to introduce our sweet little Avery. Our perfect little princess. Our second child. What?!! I’m a mother of CHILDREN. Like, as in more than one! I have KIDS. Wow.

The last [almost] two years with Hudson have been amazing and have flown by. We try to make a conscious effort to enjoy each moment, even the hard ones, because these moments don’t last forever. I don’t ever want to forget what he smells like, what his hugs and kisses feel like, what it’s like to have him say “uv mama” (translation: love mama). And I feel the same way about Avery. I don’t want to forget how soft her hair is or how it feels to have her grip my finger in her tiny little hand. Or how precious it is to see her father, my wonderful husband, be unbelievably head over heels in love with his little girl. I don’t want to forget how little she looks in his arms. I don’t want one tiny little piece of this to fade from my memory! So I cling to each moment. I try to smile through the sleepless nights, because all too soon I’ll be wishing for them back. And of course, I take a lot of pictures. It’s these moments with my own children that make me believe in my job. I believe that what I do is important, because I’d be devastated if I didn’t have four million pictures of my beautiful children to refresh my memory of all those things I so do not want to forget.

All that said, it makes me so happy to introduce precious little Avery. Born on January 25th. Thank you to all of you who prayed for her through my pregnancy. She stayed put until 39 weeks! Praise God for a healthy little baby girl…who happens to be ridiculously cute. :) We are so blessed.

Baby toes!

She crosses her ankles like this all the time – so cute!

I love that smile :)

Too much. Just way too much beautifulness. (It’s totally a word….maybe.)

Me and my sweet girl.

I adore this one. But then again, I adore them all.

Ha! This expression is great! :)

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luke and sherie – greenville sc portrait photographer

January 15, 2011 – 11:34 am

Over Christmas week my sister and her husband got to see each other. That might be normal for most husbands and wives. Ordinary. Even taken for granted. But for Sherie and Luke it was an event they looked forward to for months. You see, Luke is in the Air Force and Sherie isn’t yet able to live where he is stationed. So for them, this was a “dream week” (as Sherie called it).

Sherie and Luke wanted to take some pictures during their dream week, and I was honored to do so. So we got up early one morning. We were all sick and sniffling. And cold. And one of us *cough, cough* was super pregnant while laying in the middle of the road to get a cool shot. But we laughed and drank tea. We tip-toed through muddy fields and danced in the street. They kissed and snuggled. And it was so totally worth it.

Luke and Sherie, you are a constant inspiration. I love you.

Hey Luke, we told you these boots shots would be cool :)

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more snow! – greenville sc child photography

January 11, 2011 – 9:47 pm

We got more snow! Like 9 inches! Hello awesomeness. Hudson had a blast playing in the snow – he rode his four-wheeler, got pulled all around on his “sled” (which is really an indoor ride-on toy, but it works perfect in the snow!) and of course, ate lots more snow. We made snow cream for when we were inside and craving some snow too :) Here’s a few pictures:

I love these photos of Hudson and I in the snow! Thanks Tyler :)

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snow!!!! – greenville sc child photographer

December 27, 2010 – 6:57 pm

We had a white Christmas this year! Yay! I’ve heard people say it was the first white Christmas here since the 1960s! It came at just the right time as my little man has been asking to hold “th-no” (snow) since he first saw the snowy Christmas decorations at Home Depot this year! He was so ecstatic to play in it (and eat it) for the past few days. Here’s some pics of my precious little snow man.

LOVE this last one. He’s too much.

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Oh summer days how I love thee.

April 11, 2010 – 3:30 pm

This shoot with our good friends (and Hudson’s best friend forever!) was so summery and perfect… full of cute little baby shorts and dandelions (some dandelions may have been eaten….HUDSON!) and laughter and scrumptious light! I just love the feel of all of these and even more I love the people in them. awww. :)

Sarah, Michael and Anson:

and…..anson’s outta there!

Gotta get some mowing done!

This is too much cuteness. Just way too much.

I love these next two! The lip pull is awesome.

This is Dillon. He rocks. But that’s obvious.

I thought I’d end with a very Anson-ish look. Don’t you just love him??!

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CAKE!!!!

March 29, 2010 – 9:11 am

Here’s some pictures of Hudson getting crazy with his birthday cake!!! This is actually his second cake (lucky boy!) that we got him for photo-taking purposes. Ah, the joys of being the child of photographers :) You think he likes it???

I can’t believe he’s a year old. What a amazingly awesome year it was!!!! People tell you how fast the time with your kids goes by, but I don’t think you really understand until you’ve got a walking, “talking”, cake-eating, dirt-loving, big-boy toddler who seemed to be a little tiny baby just yesterday! And that is why I remind myself each day – DON’T BLINK, ENJOY EVERY SINGLE MINUTE.

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Happy Birthday to Me!

March 26, 2010 – 3:18 pm

Today is my birthday. Woot woot! Yes, I still get excited about it. Especially when I buy myself a sweet lens! I got a new macro lens this morning and am in LOVE. Here’s some photos I took around my yard testing it out:

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Bath time!

March 8, 2010 – 10:30 pm

So in love with this little man!

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My Squishy Little Man

November 19, 2009 – 10:04 pm

Hudson stood in for a photo shoot the other day so I could get my lighting set up and I grabbed some cute shots of him in the process. Isn’t he the squishiest thing you’ve ever seen??? LOVE.

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