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Photos that didn't make the "cut"...which seems so silly now...

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Bittersweet.

A year ago , I had the pleasure of photographing a very special family. I hadn't known them long, didn't know them well, but I knew enough to know this was a family you couldn't help but love. At the center of that family was a beautiful woman named Donna.

Donna had just started the fight of her life. 

Cancer. 

These photos were my way of helping...I fully felt the presence of God when I asked to take these photos for her...it's a scary thing, feeling like you want to do something to help, but what?  I didn't have money, or a miracle cure, but I had this. I could do this. 

I could give her something to hold on to. 

A reminder of life at it's most beautiful. 

And though I prayed it wouldn't be....a lasting fragment of her beautiful soul for her family. 

I didn't realize at the time what I'd done. If I had, I would've never left. I would have worn out my shutter and burned through memory cards making sure this family, this tightly woven, bursting-with-love-and-hope family, had what they needed. I can only hope I did that anyway. 

I didn't know Mrs. Donna long. I didn't know her well...but what I knew of her was beautiful...a very portrait of God in all his glory. He shined through her...truly shined. The family that surrounded her is the sweetest I've ever met. She was so brave, so strong. 

A year later. 

She has left us now, claimed the reward she worked so hard for. We are left here, wanting, remembering...and loving her from afar.  

We love you so, Mrs. Donna. To Mr. Larry, Travis and Traci, sweet Tradley, Chandler and Chase, and the rest of her dear family, my prayers stay with you.



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Fun little find

I forgot to blog these! They were Christmas gifts, so I needed to wait until after then....and then I just totally forgot about them until now!


These sweet siblings are some of my favorites. So stinkin' photogenic...and Mrs. C is carrying a sweet little girl that we all just can't wait to meet, I'm sure she'll be just as gorgeous as her Mama!


Enjoy!

I also adore this bunch because they pretty well pose themselves...they say it's because their mom T has made them have so many family pictures taken over the years... ;) 

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Fried Pies

I think I'm going to hire my mother in law to style all my future shoots. She comes up with the cutest ideas :D

Meet Lisa :) 

This is a styled session she designed to use for her quickly-growing food blog, Fried Pies and Fireflies  ( go check it out, her cooking is amazing!). Doesn't ever hurt to have pictures of you and your grandkids too, though ;)

Side note: Check out my cute family! ;) My MIL is getting good at my camera. Between her daughter the photographer and her daughter in law the photographer, she's getting lots of practice! :)

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Sweet baby M

I know it's been a while...since I closed my business in December, my photography has predictably slacked off. I'm having a sort of cleansing--getting back to my roots and rediscovering the epicenter of this passion that went awry. I'm rediscovering the fun.

I am taking pictures strictly on a "want to" basis now...accepting only if it sounds fun or intriguing. I never did scratch the itch to really dive into newborns when I was in business...and when I did try it, I walked away unsatisfied with what I was producing. I'm still learning a LOT about that niche, but a recent session left me far more fulfilled than I've ever been in the past (with newborns). Now that I've produced something I'm proud of, I of course want to try it again.


Meet pretty baby girl M, the 17 days new daughter of a dear friend. She made nary a peep while we played, and neither peed nor poo'd on a thing. :D

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Missed

I walked up the hill with Havoc and Daddy yesterday, and I was struck with sadness at all that my little boy missed with you. He would have so loved to follow you up the hill, as I did as a child, wondering at all of God's beauty with you. I know that you would have loved to see the sweet boy he is now. Would you have been able to teach him to have a green thumb like you? Would you have taken him on rides on the lawn mower? Would you have shown him the martins, and the butterflies, and all your gardens? I know you would have....and it makes me sad that you won't. I have hope, though, hope that he will grow up to be a Godly man like you were...that he'll make you and all of us proud of him. And then, when we're all called Home, we'll see you again, and he'll see you...and that makes me smile. I miss you so very much.

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Sweet Seasons Farms

Aren't you proud of me?? I'm blogging so much! :D


Internet, it was COLD today. I had no idea...The Poor Girl was a little underdressed today...EpicMomFail award, right here. I'm thankful Nicole let us borrow a hat for Havoc too...poor kiddo would've been freezing too. Thankfully I decided to sling him today instead of a stroller, which he might have frozen in...

Anyway, 54 degrees or not, we had a blast today. :D

 These are the best...Havoc LOVES him some roasted sweet corn...it was pretty good, I will say ;)

Oh! Gotta throw these in here too....the "official" Halloween costumes. You can see The Girl, completely in costume on her way to Trunk or Treat last night.

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Pumpkin Patch 2012

Brought to you by Instagram because, friends, I FORGOT MY CAMERA. Epic fail....

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As promised...

...The Girl's Lalaloopsy costume....

well, sorta. Excuse the lack of correct pigtail braids...this was slightly impromptu. You get the gist, though ;)

By the way, this shot is very Matt Clayton-esque to me, and that makes me happy :D

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