Very Dear Friends

Posted on October 25, 2010

I was SO SO excited to be able to photograph C and A and their precious boy’s!! C & C are too cute and so so very well-behaved. We go back almost 10 years with this family as we all met in a young married sunday school class. That class was just a blessing and we met some of the most wonderful people there. Tom(my husband), C and A all went to FSU, so there’s always big “Nole Talk.” For some reason we were really sad when they moved away, however, they really didn’t move away they moved to another town about 45 minutes from where we all were, to begin with. That must have been “small town” mentality that took over for a short time. Because it’s really quite ridiculous. Unfortunately, the young married class we were in kind of fell apart, everyone went their separate ways. We no longer go to the church where we all started out together and not many of us do. Funny, how God takes you in different and unexpected directions; and then you realize why, and all is wonderful again, and God always makes sure that those special friends stay in your life. The original group is scattered from Texas to Valdosta and various parts of Atlanta. C and A have always been near and dear to our hearts and for a short time C and A and us lost touch. Sometimes, just life gets in the way. It’s no excuse, I know, but it happens. Especially when everyone has 2 or three children. Both A and I, are self employed and that really makes for a crazy BUSY life, but a blessed one for sure! We both do what we love and still get to be Mommies full-time too. Tom and I plan to start getting together with C and A at least once every 3 months for dinner and play time with the kiddo’s!

These kids are just beautiful and little C’s hair is so deliciously red that I want to eat it! It is the most fabulous color of red ever! I could take pictures of him all day! A, has this awesome hair too, that I have always wanted. I absolutely love it! In fact, the whole family is just too pretty. They look like a “magazine family.” The kids are so so very sweet natured, which is SO much like A. C, you are sweet natured too! But not in the same way as A. (Thank goodness. I feel like I have rambled here, amongst my children running amuck and arguing because I am working, wanting this and that and interrupting my train of thought. It’s getting to be that time of day- arsenic hour. If you have small children you know what I mean! So I will get to the pictures!

We love you C & A and Little C’s and Little bean on the way!

By the way- Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the honor of photographing your family and for your patience seeing your sneak peek. This time of year I am so busy and slammed I tread water for a while until I can get up my momentum to get ahead and caught up. It’s definitely a blessing.

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10 lbs cuteness, 5 lbs energy, 10 lbs of love and 8 lbs curiosity= Sweet 3 year old A

Posted on October 22, 2010

Yes, that is the recipe for this incredibly precious little 3 year old A. She is about 30 pounds of all girl, all energy, all love, all curiosity for life, and all rolled into a package of cuteness. The love between this Mommy and little girl shows and glows in every picture! A bold kind of love that comes straight from God and straight from heart to heart. I connected with Mommy and Miss A immediately and we went on big adventures looking for bunnies, flowers, chickens, and all kinds of other treasures that we collected and put into a grocery bag that we snatched out the “It’s your Dooty” post at the park. We climbed fences, explored barns, a front porch, fields, and even an old yucky out house restored from the 1800′s; oh and she swang on a gate too! That was big fun! We had big adventures to go on and lots of magic leaves to put our hiney’s on. ;-) I was just tickled to get to know Mommy D and Miss A as they are certainly an extra special pair and I just love them! I certainly hope to have many more adventures with them like we had on this most fantastic day! I hope that I captured baby A just as Mommy sees her everyday in all her glory and zest for life and her love of adventure and contagious little or shall I say big spirit!

Here’s a peek from our adventures:

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Special-That’s what she is!

Posted on October 11, 2010

Well, I can’t believe it’s been 18 years. I can not believe Ansley is graduating from high school. It was only yesterday that she wanted to take me to show and tell when she was in kindergarten because I could “burp like a bear.” I have watched all of these girls grow up and it went so fast. Here it is 2010 and now Tom and I have three kids and they are older than what Katie, Ansley and Maddie were when I began keeping them. I’ve spent many many hours, days and months and years with this sweet family. They quickly became family. I loved them dearly from the start. I was there for many firsts, even first day of school(Kindergarten). I was there taking pictures when Ansley went to kindergarten and Katie was in 3rd or 4th grade. I also had many firsts with this family too. Katie’s third birthday party was the first place that I drove to on my own after I got my drivers license. There are so many memories and way way too many to list.

They are where I got my first hand experience with girls and drama. Yeah, I’m a girl too, but I never really was much a “girlie girl” and I was far from dramatic. I was the other end of that with being very quiet and shy. (Until God delivered my soul mate, Tom, to me. He gave me a lesson in living in a big family.) I was then forced out of my shell so to speak, or I guess you could say it was busted wide open.

Katie and Ansley still laugh and somewhat hold a little bit of the most loving kind of grudges. They say that I used to laugh at them when they got hurt, but I never laughed if there was blood, missing limbs, or a lack of fingers or toes. I couldn’t help but laugh, because they were so darn dramatic! God, has a really big sense of humor, because now I have two girls who are VERY VERY dramatic as well! Good thing I had so much practice with Katie and Ansley, and then there’s Maddie Moo, she was never dramatic. Just go with the flow Maddie. I am so very proud of the wonderful Christian young ladies that they have become. Danny and Lee Ann, you have done a most fantastic job instilling a love of the Lord and raising them to be such outstanding young ladies. They are amazing inside and out. It’s amazing to look back at some the baby pictures of these girls and to see that they haven’t changed a bit, they only grew up. I wish I could post more, but Lee Ann is telling me I’m driving her crazy. She’s been waiting all afternoon to see her sneak peek. Senior sneak peaks are extra special. It’s almost like the unveiling of God’s marvelous work, the end to childhood, the beginning to adulthood and a new chapter of life.

Here’s a few pictures for your enjoyment. I hope you giggle as I have!

You can already see that mischievous look gleaming in her eyes. I would tell some really good stories, but I will refrain. I will hold my tongue and save her some embarrassment. LOL

She had no fear then and to this day she hasn’t found it yet. Except she was questioning me about where I was making her sit the other day and was wondering about “critters.” For real Ansley, this coming from you is hilarious. After all, you have gone hunting, and traveled to foreign lands for mission work, and then you worry about critters?! Still the drama sneaks out.

LOL I know Lee Ann you are pursing your lips at me right now! Oh, how I know that look and I see it right through the screen. As you say, “I can’t believe she posted this picture of me!” Don’t worry, I’ll tag you too when they go to facebook! Just because I love you though.

You’d never know this was her picture in between two year old and three year old preschool. She didn’t grow hair until she was almost 4 and then when she did, she chose the worst time to decide and cut her own hair. Maddie was only about 2 weeks old and it was Halloween and Ansley decided to go ahead and wack the hair that she had grown, right off.

I was hoping for one of these faces in her senior pictures. Just one!

Oh darling Ansley. This was before the time when non-posed pictures became all the rage; and actually letting your true colors show in the pictures. We will just say, I was the pioneer in that idea! LOL just kidding. But with Ansley, every picture was and still is so very special and every picture shows the amazing, silly, happy-go-lucky, determined, persistent, and wonderful young lady that was inside.

And now- what 14-16 years later is like- Boy, does that sound amazing.

Hello beautiful! You are amazing. . .

Take a look a those shoes! CHEEEETAAHHHHHHH so very Ansley. A little wild, a little quirky, a lot beautiful, and I love it how she is still the same Ansley as in the baby pictures above! So much FUN!

I love you Spinks family!!

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Red Sugar in Buford

Posted on October 7, 2010

So, I had the honor of photographing one our “Moe’s Friends” here recently. We seemed to always see them at Moe’s and my little girl took a strong liking to Red Sugar. They would make eye’s at each other and other times pretend they didn’t even see each other for a few seconds. I call him Red Sugar because he is just as sweet as sugar and funny; he almost “hit’s you like a sugar high” all energetic, animated, and very funny! Then all of sudden you realize, boy, am I tired! It was hotter than TWO H-E double hockey sticks on this day. I thought surely I was going to die from the heat. If I hadn’t been photographing such a precious boy, and been enjoying the session so much, then I probably surely would have died. We even trespassed and went on somebody’s beautiful property. Oh, it was so marvelous. It was shaded and breezy and just gorgeous. We decided to take some pictures there around their big front porch as well take an opportunity for an outfit change too. The owner of house came out and Red just felt compelled to run over and hug his knee and then proceeded to tell the man that he loved him. We hadn’t even broken anything! LOL But, I do believe it melted the man and he did say that it was perfectly fine that we were all up around his house and porch and petting his cat and basically exploring every nook and cranny we could find in his nice SHADED yard and porch. I really could take this little boy home with me. He would fit right in at my house as he is VERY MUCH like my three year old and my seven year old. They would all have a big time! So, Red was SO EASY to photograph because he didn’t have any problem “just being” and by saying that I mean by just being Red and having fun, playing and exploring like little boy’s of three years should do. Mom and Grandma were also great sports and tolerated the heat, and romping explorations, and playtime for almost 2 hours. We even enjoyed opening every mailbox slot we could find and stick our faces or noses in to get a burst of AC! LOL They were all positioned perfectly right at Red’s height, so I think we hit every one of them! I had a VERY hard time deciding which pictures to post for the sneak peek because there are so many good pictures that are priceless. When you look at these pictures you will see that Red Sugar was a good sport despite the flaming heat, and humidity and after a long day at preschool and play ball camp too. He was awesome! I hope that S and hubby(I didn’t get to meet him) and Grandma, love these pictures as much as I do; and I hope to be able to photograph him in the future; sooner rather than later! I think after looking at Mom’s facebook page we may have even gone to high school together! Small world! What great memories I have of this session and I hope that Red and his mom and grandma also have wonderful memories too!

What a nut!!

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S-E-R-I-O-U-S Little Pea’s in a Pod

Posted on October 5, 2010

This was the PERFECT day for pictures! Weather was awesome, perfect temperature, perfect light, perfect park, and some really really serious babies. They were not easily amused. I find this so very funny. It may only be funny though to those of us that were there at the session. I will be doing a play by play of what they may have possibly been thinking. hehehe And no, for those of you who don’t know this family; it will not in anyway be offensive to them. I’m sure they will find it quite funny! I can’t believe that these sweet girls are already 6 months old! They used to fit in my hand, right in the palm of my hand. They have beefed up alright and they are so VERY snuggly. I know that these babies are going to be a hoot! They are going to have the best personalities and sense of humor. Mom and Dad are awesome and so laid back but so funny too. I love this family!

“Oh no, it’s already been three months!?”