A Step Back In Time
Posted on June 13, 2011
So, I did this session with 4 vivacious children. Cute as cute gets, and eyes bluer than the sky. This was a super fun session, for me anyway. I think that Katie would disagree as I think her feathers were a little ruffled at her children “being children.” But I know she did have fun too. However, that’s when I get the most memorable pictures, it’s when I get the ones that will be looked back on time and time again with thoughts like, “Oh, I could have pinched your ears off that day! But this picture is a total picture of you inside and out at that age” or “Of all the days you choose to be in a grumpy-smug, you chose picture day?!” and “Yep, that is totally 100% Gabriel” or “Wow, look at how much fun they were having.” These are my favorite kind of pictures. And I know for most of you they will be yours years from now. They reflect childhood, the pickiness, the grumps, the giggles, the dirty faces and the pure happiness and silliness of being a kid. Not a care in the world, not even for sitting and smiling all at the same time when you’re told to. And on behalf of all the children I photograph, it is rather hard to smile naturally on command without looking all posed and un-child-like. These are fun fun kids! I could have watched them and snapped pictures all day
My title of this post, A Step Back in Time, yes it was. These children are the grandchildren of my sixth grade teacher, Mrs. Farmer. Funny thing is, to this day I still feel the need to call her Mrs. Farmer. I really didn’t call her anything though the other day. I was feeling all moobly about calling her Ann. It just doesn’t taste quite right. She still seems like my teacher even though that was oh twenty something years ago. That sounds funny. I still think of myself as a kid.
These kids are also the children of a childhood friend whom I kind of grew up with. I can’t say we got together for so called play-dates, but we had a mutual friend named Leigh Ann who I am still proud to call my friend even though I never see her and I haven’t talked to her in many years. Katie was very very dear friends with L. I always admired this group of girls whom I really didn’t hang out with except for Leigh Ann, as she was my neighbor growing up. These girls were always at Leigh Ann’s birthday parties and such. But all of these girls, Leigh Ann, Katie, Twila, and another girl named Amy, could all sing like nobody’s business. I SO wanted to be able to sing like they did. I LOVED hearing them sing, and to this day I still wish I could sing, but I am content with the gifts and talent that God blessed me with on the other end of the art spectrum from the musical end. The quiet, reserved, behind the lens photography end. That is the end I was blessed with, which is my passion and my God called mission all at the same time.
I hope that I captured Gabe, Grayson, Sophie, and Grady! (I think I got all their names right!?)
It is still a little bit funny to me that Mrs. Farmer is Katie’s mother-in-law. It’s just a small world. This is a beautiful family! They definitely have something extra special as such a beautiful family inside and out.
I could not decide on which pictures to post and I may still post more! They are all so cute!!
There maybe more coming!
It’s Lamb Time! Come meet and snuggle with Kody!
Posted on March 22, 2011
Time changes!! Here we go with the new schedule!
Schedule
Union Grove Preschool Pictures with Kody- Friday beginning at 1:30pm
Location to be announced- April 2nd- 9:00-9:30- Ginny W? 9:45-10:15- Kristy Laser 10:30-11:00 Pam Fife/Sister 11:15-11:45 Jennifer Hogan Chewning 12:00-12:30 Taryn Wren 12:45-1:15 Tara Jernigan 5:00pm- Kim Cagle (her home)
Sunday April 3rd- Vines Park Loganville 4:30- Liz Jones 5:00- Alicia Colby 5:45- Heidi Beck
The rest of the times are to be posted soon!
Here are the packages-
Sweet Babies and Autumn Colors
Posted on November 22, 2010
I had the honor of photographing the C family last weekend. What a wonderful family and sweet sweet babies. Unfortunately, little M wasn’t feeling up to par. He was not so enthused to be taking pictures and would have rather been lying on the sofa watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. Sweet baby H is just so very loveable and just delicious with eyes bluer that then sky. Her eyes were a piercing and most fantastic blue, almost purple. M and H’s parents were troopers and very patient as I was looking for the perfect shot. I think we got some darn good shots considering M was not up to par and not up for my playing and silliness. However, I couldn’t stop taking their pictures, M is so so very creamy and looks soft as a petal and like a porcelain doll. It’s okay for me to say that for a few more years as he is only 2 years old, just a baby. H is also like a porcelain doll. She truly looks like one with her big round blue eyes and little rosebud mouth. I can’t wait to one day get my camera back on these sweet babies! C family, I hope you enjoy all of your pictures and I hope they are much more than what you thought they were going to be! Thank you for choosing me to capture your family!
Look at this first picture- look at M’s eyes, you can see the love in his face he has for his baby sister, but doesn’t yet know how to express it. So sweet.
Cousins Galore
Posted on November 17, 2010
Yep, cousins galore! All of them beautiful and all of them very very sweet. (Sorry A and A, you are very nice young gentlemen!) What a stitch of a clan here, and to think that next year there will be one more added to the bunch, and you never know maybe even more! This is just like my family. There are soon to be 10 cousins in our family just like this one, as my sister-in-law just found out they are expecting another precious baby. Boy is Christmas time fun! This was a busy busy photo session, you can only imagine. All I have to say is that the Daddy’s were all there too. We all know how men are when it comes to pictures. ;-) Let’s just say, I felt just like part of them family on this session. But, I like it that way. ”The Nana” of this family grew up with and was and is still big buddies with my mom. I know all of you M’s have been chomping at the bit for this sneak peek. . .you know who you are. *wink wink* Well, here they are, a few of them anyway. I hope you love them and I hope this wet’s your whistle until I get the gallery loaded. I do really appreciate your patience and I hope it was worth the wait!
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.
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:
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!!
Showers of Rain Brings Showers of Giggles
Posted on September 21, 2010
This was by far a session that I thought would not take place on this day. All looked fine and weather was sunny and HOT. But, that quickly changed; and when I say quickly- WHOA! It got dark, and darker. The kids were all in the car, car was loaded, DVD on, kids buckled in and Dad in the drivers seat. However, Mom- M, and I were in the house on the computer tracking a serious band of storms. This session had been in the plans for literally almost a year! The rain just couldn’t ruin these plans. So, we sat and watched the band of storms coming right over on the computer screen as well as hearing the thunder in the distance! MUD!!! No pun intended, but this photoshoot just had to go on. We decided to go ahead and make our way to the park where we were going to do the session. It was raining SO hard that it was hard to see right in front of you. I just figured, well, I guess we will do some “singing in the rain” pictures and jumping in puddles pictures. But, as we pulled into the park the sun began to peek out. So, off we went with our loads and loads and loads of stuff, toys, clothes, snacks, drinks, tractors, yes I did say tractors. We were going to play. And boy did we ever!
Man what a BLAST we had! Or I did anyway. This family was AWESOME, and so “wonderfully go with the flow” kinda fam. So many other people would have just called the session off seeing the weather. We had such a fun time, many many giggles, and lots of getting dirty in the wet grass, and mud. What better though? Muddy pictures of little boy’s are GREAT! We actually didn’t get that many muddy pictures, but we did get a bunch of great shots. I think that they captured these precious children’s personality perfectly. They were so fun and great at “just being” and not being so posey. I had a really hard time deciding what pictures to post because they are all so darn cute! I went with the giggle theme! I hope that M and M and their 4 C’s will treasure these memories forever. I know that I will treasure the memories and our playtime and giggles as I was trying to capture the 4 C’s that only mom and dad know so very well!
And the grand finale! SILLINESS!
Their faces just light up!