Tara Parker Photography | NC Wedding Photography | Holly Springs NC Photography | Raleigh NC Photographer | Cary NC Photographer | Fuquay-Varina NC Photography | Children's, Newborn, Family, Engagement, Maternity and Wedding Photography » Cary NC Family Photography http://taraparkerphotographyblog.com Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:09:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Happy Mother’s Day & Congratulations to our Winner! | Holly Springs, NC Photography http://taraparkerphotographyblog.com/2010/05/09/happy-mothers-day-congratulations-to-our-winner-holly-springs-nc-photography/ http://taraparkerphotographyblog.com/2010/05/09/happy-mothers-day-congratulations-to-our-winner-holly-springs-nc-photography/#comments Mon, 10 May 2010 01:03:42 +0000 admin http://taraparkerphotographyblog.com/?p=498 Happy Mother’s Day to all of the mothers who are reading this post this evening! I hope that your days were calm, restful, lots of fun with a lack of stress! My second Mother’s Day started at 430 this morning with a run to the ER with Griffin. Add to that a doctor who proceeds to tell us that he thinks that our child who is running a 203.4 degree temperature has Kawasaki’s disease BEFORE running any sort of tests…. and it makes for the beginning of a lovely Mother’s Day!! :) Needless to say, the doctor was wrong and caused us an unnecessary three hours of worrying during which three nurses had to hold my 19-month old son down to take his blood. Yeah… thanks Doc.

During those three scary hours, I thought a lot about being a mother. I thought a lot about all of the time I waste in my life doing things that don’t really matter, when I could be spending more time with my son. I thought about all of the things I stress about on a daily basis when I should be thankful for every second I have with my family and I should make an effort to enjoy every single second of it. Life is so short. My life is so busy. I need more time. I need more time with my son. I need to cherish these years as they are already passing so quickly. I don’t think that I have ever felt the sense of relief I felt when the doctor on the next shift came in and told us that Griffin’s blood panel was fine and that it must just be a virus. Even though it was a HORRIBLE way to start off Mother’s Day, I am thankful because it made me so thankful to be a mother to the most beautiful boy in the world and it caused me to re-evaluate my priorities.

With that said, Happy Mother’s Day to all of you wonderful mothers! Enjoy EVERY second! The moments pass so quickly and you never know when life can happen and everything changes in an instant. In honor of capturing and treasuring memories, I would like to offer a $50 print credit to all mother’s who book a session for their children before the end of the month. Email me for details! :)

And I suppose some of you are waiting for the winner of the contest right? To select the winner, I had a random number generator randomly select a number (it selected 12) and then I counted down the comments and found the winner.

Drum roll please……………………………………….

Nichole Olbertz come on DOWWWWWWWWN!! :) Nichole shoot me an email whenever you want to set up a session!

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]]> http://taraparkerphotographyblog.com/2010/05/09/happy-mothers-day-congratulations-to-our-winner-holly-springs-nc-photography/feed/ 1 The Marsh Family | Cary, NC Family Photographer http://taraparkerphotographyblog.com/2009/12/03/the-marsh-family-cary-nc-family-photographer/ http://taraparkerphotographyblog.com/2009/12/03/the-marsh-family-cary-nc-family-photographer/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:36:56 +0000 admin http://taraparkerphotographyblog.com/?p=257 This session definitely prompted me to step out of my comfort zone! :) I typically allot 1 to 2 hours for each session that I shoot. That way, it gives me a little time to get to know the family, for the kids to warm up to me, and for my creative juices to get flowing. When the Marsh family arrived at the park where we were shooting, Mrs. Marsh jumped out and informed me that the males in the family were not too excited about getting their picture taken. Poor Mr. Marsh had just had surgery so he was a champ even coming out! I was quickly informed that the session would have to be time limited to 20-30 minutes. We had to throw warming up periods to the wind and jump right in! I was excited to see, that even though we had so little time, all of the disgruntled boys in the family (big and small) were up to getting some great shots in! We gave new meaning to 1/2 hour photo!

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Thank you guys for hanging in there for a speed photography session! It was a lot of fun! :)

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