Tis the season right now for family photos whether you get them done annually for your family Holiday card or you just love to have them each year to document how your family has changed and grown! This is also the season where everyone is crazy busy. I don’t know about you but we’ve entered the season of what I like to call “the taxi cab driver”. Long gone are the days where we have ample time on our hands to hang out together and just relax. Whether you are like me and my family where we are driving around from sport to activity; or your working and chasing a busy toddler around while trying ..read more

Happy Summer everyone! Gosh we are in the thick of it, yea?! Why is it that summer always feels like it takes FOREVER to get here and yet in the blink of an eye we are already in July?! I mean honestly, where do the days even go?! I can tell you where my days are: IN THE CAR! We’ve entered the stage of taxi driver in our house. Are you there yet friend?! We’ve transitioned from the days of trying to “fill time increments” ( Ok, this activity will take up 30 minutes, this one will take up maybe an hour, then snack etc) to “OH MY GOSH, what time do we need to be there?! Get in the car!” activity ..read more

There is a famous quote… it’s even on my website. I believe it’s that important. I believe it speaks directly to all of us mom’s out there: ” One day, all your children will have is pictures of you. Make sure you’re in them. No matter what your hair looks like, your make up or your body, they won’t care about any of that. They’ll just want to see you.” Anonymous Sometimes I have to read that twice, and then let the power of the words soak in. The words like “all my children will have left of me is the pictures that I am in” (cue the sharp breath in). It doesn’t matter to them what I look like ..read more

If you are a mom that is anything like me, you are already planning your summer (and excited to be doing so). So what’s the best mama hack (fun advice) I can give you as a busy mom and photographer and taxi driver to a little I can give you? Go ahead and BOOK YOURSELF FUN FAMILY PICS NOW! Look I know this might send waves of panic through your bones for some of you. I promise, it does the same for me when I think of having to get in front of the camera for my own family pictures! But if right now you find yourself sweating in places you don’t want to mention, we need to sit down and chat mama ..read more

It’s no secret I love all things magic! I’m a big believer in fairies and pixie dust and flights to never never land! I have a big imagination and just like Walt Disney said ” Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever”. Our children are the BEST kinds of dreamers! They dream when they are sleeping of course, but they dream while they are wide awake. Their whole day consists of magic and wonder and it’s my belief that children ARE in fact magic! Have you ever just sat down for a moment and quietly watched your kiddo play? It’s pretty awesome! They are completely engag ..read more

Anyone who has had a session with me or HECK anyone who has ever even MET me, knows how I feel about PLAY and silliness and laughter! You know that I don’t believe true family photography can’t exist without a good sense of playfulness! It’s the magic behind every GOOD and wonderful family session. It’s the magic of what makes YOUR family special! Play is at the heart of everything we do with each other! If we aren’t having fun and being silly… why are we here?! We are here to ENJOY each other and goodness gracious we better enjoy these babies while we can because time moves so fast! And my bi ..read more

Happy Monday Friends! I can not believe how fast summer is flying by! Maybe it’s because my kiddo is getting older and I’ve entered the uber driver stage of life, but I mean WOAH! I feel like I blinked my eyes and summer is half way over for us here in Hampton Roads! Where does the time go? We all know that saying time is a thief and boy do I feel that something fierce right now. I feel like summer is that time when I actually take a moment to stop and really SEE my kid (maybe it’s all that free time they get to spend at home). Summer is the time when you pause and realize “wow, when did they ..read more

Happy Wednesday Everyone!  Yesterday I shared Part 1 of this incredible families big exciting news and today I am super excited to share part 2 and reveal that part 2 for the Upham family was the journey from moving out of their dream house to:  dun dun dun… what they call, their dream BIGGER home! Everyone has dreams!  Some are small dreams that we get to accomplish every single day.  Those are the dreams that turn into small victories and each night when we lay our head on our pillows we get to breath in a sense of “I did it” and that is more important than I could ever e ..read more

I am so excite to share with you this TWO part Lifestyle family session!  If you’ve been following my blog or instagram for a while now, you for sure know this family and their little man Cam Jam!  They are almost always popping up in my 9 squares all the time!  They are the sweetest, kindest and probably the most INSPIRATIONAL family that I’ve been blessed to meet! Yep, I’m talking about the Upham’s!  Most recently, I was able to take some pretty incredible lifestyle portraits for them in a two step process.  You see a few years ago, they purchased their dream ho ..read more

OH HEY there ya’ll!  It’s been a while there and I have to say it FEELS GOOD to take a break guys… like real good!  Sometimes you just need to do that:  take a nice good long break from things!  That way when you come back you feel refreshed, grateful and ready to be BACK!  I feel like we need to do this in ALL areas of our life, not just with social media things (but like especially with social media things) but other things that sometimes we get “stuck” in or make us feel competitive or not bring us joy ALL THE TIME. Lately, in our little corner of the world we are ..read more